Monday Meditation
2025-01-13 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-20 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-01-27 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-03 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-10 17:00 - 18:00, 2025-02-17 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Northbrae Sacred Hoop Garden or Chapel, depending on weather
We invite you to join us to meditate together in spirit at 5:00 p.m. on Mondays. If you are not able to join us at that time, please join us whenever you are able. Namaste.
The Northbrae Meditation group meets every Monday at 5:00 pm. We meet for one hour in the Parlor in the winter or in the Sacred Hoop Garden in warm weather. The Meditation Team (Jay Miyazaki, Judi Cochran and Carol Anne Fusco) rotates leadership and content. The readings and chants are chosen from the diversity of spiritual paths and religions and teachers that light our way. Each meditation starts with a breath awareness exercise or guided visualization for approximately seven minutes followed by the chosen reading that leads into a 20–25-minute meditation to soft music. Participants are welcome to do walking meditation during this period. We end our time together with a chant, song or vocalization led by Carol Anne Fusco. On Sunday evening Jay Miyazaki sends out an email with the content. If you would like to be added to the email list drop Jay a line: jmPE0314@gmail.com

Gentle Yoga
2025-01-16 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-01-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-01-30 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-06 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-02-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
This class is gentle movement to improve flexibility, strength, and balance using a combination of standing and chair (sitting) yoga. Wear comfortable clothes that you can move in and grippy socks if you do not want to go barefoot. Bring a yoga mat if you have one. It will help to steady your chair and provide a base on which to stand. There will not be floor yoga.
Betsy Daley, your teacher, is a long-time yoga and palliates teacher.
The class is free, but donations will be accepted with all proceeds going to Northbrae.

Sunday Service
2025-01-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-01-26 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-02 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-09 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-02-16 10:30 - 11:30 | Northbrae Chapel, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
Come and join in the service – all are welcome!.

Coffee Hour
2025-01-19 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-01-26 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-02 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-09 11:30 - 12:00, 2025-02-16 11:30 - 12:00 | Northbrae Haver Hall, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
Join us after Sunday Service for coffee and fellowship.

Third Tuesday Study Group
2025-01-21 10:00 - 23:00 | Zoom
The Tuesday Group meets via Zoom on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10:00 AM. We read our books together, discuss them and share our lives as it relates to them. If you are interested in joining, contact Kathy Oldham at jkoldham@sbcglobal.net. You do not need to have the book to participate. We are currently reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Crafts and Conversation Group
2025-01-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
CRAFTS and CONVERSATION is a group which meets the second and fourth Wednesday in each month from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
You can bring a project or join in a conversation, or do both. No need to have a project. If you would like advice on your project, there is generally someone who would be willing to help.
If you need any further information, please contact Norma Shah at norma_shah@yahoo.com.

Martin Wagner Workshop
2025-01-26 12:00 - 13:30 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
Sunday, January 26th – Martin Wagner Workshop
Immediately following Coffee Hour in the Parlor
Being alive and awake on Earth today is hard. If we pay attention, we are confronted daily by environmental, social, political, or personal crises that break our hearts, enrage us, or both. Facing these realities can wound us morally and spiritually in ways that undermine our well-being and interfere with our ability to offer our gifts and service to the world.
Despite this, we often avoid acknowledging our grief and pain, fearing it will be too painful, will interfere with our ability to function, or will cause others to reject us. But such avoidance requires emotional numbing that can lead to cynicism, despair, burnout, or worse, and that blinds us to the beauty the world continues to offer.
This workshop will include a brief discussion of how personal, societal, and planetary pain can wound us spiritually and emotionally. The bulk of our time will be devoted to exercises and rituals, inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, to help us support one another in honoring our experience of the pain of the world and building a foundation for hope for the future.
A little about Martin:
I came to chaplaincy after 35+ years as a human rights and environmental lawyer, the last 28 of which were as the managing attorney of the International Program at Earthjustice. This work gave me first-hand experience of moral and spiritual wounding caused by daily attention to the brokenness of the world. Other experiences I have with this work include:

Over 15 years of study with engaged Buddhist Joanna Macy
Study of the spiritual needs of social change movements
Training as an interfaith spiritual companion (certificate expected in 2025)
Over a decade of study and facilitation of anti-racism and white caucus work, as well as of conscious communication techniques (T-Group)
A lifetime of dedicated spiritual exploration grounded in Christianity, Buddhism, and the Sacred Feminine
Extensive experience as a ritualist

Sunday Night Book Group
2025-01-26 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Sunday Night Book Group’s next selection is Stolen Pride by Arlie Russell Hochschild. The American ideological divide may feel impassable these days, but digging into the core of Appalachia, Arlie Russell Hochschild offers new, critical perspectives on how poverty and alienation play out on the national political stage.
For a link, contact mcnennyd@aol.com

Northbrae Community Song Circle
2025-01-28 15:30 - 17:00 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
Northbrae Community Song Circle is held every 4th Tuesday at 3:30pm in the Parlor. No experience necessary. Masks are optional, but please be vaccinated. We will sing songs of Spirit and community from many traditions. We will honor the seasons of Earth. We will sing silly songs, serious songs. Familiar as well as new to you songs. Contact: Carol Anne Fusco for more information or to get on the email list: earthdiamond4@icloud.com

Civics Conversations
2025-02-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Email Dianne McNenny for Zoom link.

First Tuesday Study Group
2025-02-04 10:00 - 23:00 | Zoom
The Tuesday Group meets via Zoom on the first and third Tuesdays of each month at 10:00 AM. We read our books together, discuss them and share our lives as it relates to them. If you are interested in joining, contact Kathy Oldham at jkoldham@sbcglobal.net. You do not need to have the book to participate. We are currently reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Crafts and Conversation
2025-02-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States

Trivia Night
2025-02-16 18:00 - 21:00 | Northbrae Parlor, 941 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA, 94707, United States
Trivia Night – How many sides does a hendecagon have?
