Permaculture is a system for designing human habitats which emulate the diversity and stability of natural ecosystems, providing the material and non-material needs of humans and all other living creatures. The purpose of this group is to encourage the practice and spread of permaculture in our lives. For more information about permaculture, please visit The Permaculture Research Institute: http://www.permaculturenews.org/

MASTERMIND! The power of a group dynamic is incredible. Time to experience and unleash the power! Bring your intentions to the table and we will find and open doors.

We're a social group of people who are interested in getting together to chat about honeybees and other pollinators, share books and ideas on the subject and establish some cooperatively managed honeybee colonies around town. Right now “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD) and other diseases threaten our honeybee population. We need to discover more about how we can help them, and make sure they are here to pollinate the flowers and fruits of future generations. While there is limited consensus about …

Welcome to the San Antonio Lesbian meetup group! It’s an opportunity for lesbians to meet new friends in a fun and safe environment. The main goal is to have fun, intelligent, down-to-earth women get together and have a great time. Social activities will include restaurants, game night, movie night, outdoor adventures, bowling,bookstores, coffee... really anything! Membership policy: Membership is restricted to females only, but members may bring guests to events. The age range for this group is …

Hello everyone, we hope you have a few minutes to read through what our meetup is about: Why? This group is created for the sole purpose of playing tennis and having fun with players of all levels, in and out of the court. When? A few times a week, check out previous meetups, that would give you an idea. Where? It depends on time and season. Who's attending? Depending on the kind of meetup, tennis players of all levels, genders and ages, but who don't take the game -or themselves- too seriou …

No matter if you are an Amateur or a thirty year professional photographer, we all share a passion to create photographs. So lets get together and share this passion. The intent of this group is have photographers of all skill levels to get together, socialize, share our interest, learn from each other and just get out and have fun taking photographs. We want this group be very active by having multiple photo shoots each month. So if you like to take photos please join us. It doesn't matter if …

The intention of this group is to create an inclusive space for a diverse group of women seeking  community support around the universal experience of loss.  Forming an interdisciplinary approach to loss, Laura Shook, a Somatic Psychotherapist and Ellen Whealton, a Music Therapist with a background in Transpersonal Psychology, have teamed up to create an environment where women can enhance their understanding of the mind-body connection in relation to healing. Meetups include, but are not limit …

Heart-Centered Culture. What is this? We unlearn our orientation of living in our  heads and move into more of a balance of living in our Hearts with our minds. Our world needs Healing. The way to heal all of this, in my experience, is to drop deeply down into our Hearts and connect with others from this Heartspace. To be fully in and to live from our Hearts. Heart-Centered Culture is about speaking our truth from our hearts. It is about creating an safe, sacred space, one without violence, wher …

(this meetup group was formerly known as "Shamanism, Energy, and Sound Healing - Austin"). Come join us in 2013 for an energetically safe and open circle for inner exploration to the sound of the didgeridoo.  The didgeridoo is an ancient musical instrument that provides a deep, primal sound current for your personal shamanic journey. We'll gather in circle together, create an intentional sacred space, and ride the wave of our group energy together to wherever Spirit takes us. Afterward, we'll re …

The Austin Blind Cafe meet up is for those who love The Austin Blind Cafe event and the idea of eating, connecting with others and experiencing music without vision. The Austin Blind Cafe is concert, a community discussion with the Blind servers and a dinner that is held in total darkness that happens 3 + times a year in Austin, TX. The intent of this group is to help connect The Austin Blind Cafe goers and explore further how this event or others like it can open people's hearts and 'eyes'. Fi …

Austin Urban Sketchers was formed as a way for artists to get together and draw our city. This group was inspired by Urban Sketchers.org, an international organization that gathers people to draw and tell the visual stories they observe on location. Artists of all levels are welcomed in the group. The group is organized by artist/instructor Laurie Mann of LZM Studio and I am available during our drawing sessions to teach, give tips and help beginners. It is my intention that we all grow and lear …

Are YOU Looking for a way to easily make more friends and dates fast?? Are you new to town? Kinda shy? Need a ice breaker? Want to meet more people around town? If you are, This is the way to do it!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Why pay Speed Dating 35$? When Speed Friending Events provide you with all of the benefits of speed dating with the added benefits of making friends and dates at the same time. Speed Friending Events are a lot more relaxed and fun for much cheaper than Speed …

Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in Austin wher …

This group is being formed because there are many adults on the autism spectrum who need a way to find more friends. This group will meet at local aspie-friendly places or schedule outings. The intent is to help folks develop a broader social network. Members should be on the autism spectrum. If an individual needs support, that support person is welcome.

We're a social organization dedicated to helping liberal women find one another in areas of the country where their liberal values are not respected.  Our intention is to educate, support, and have fun.  We hope grass roots movements will grow from our good times around the table. Go to Meetup and look for a chapter in your town or email us, and we'll start one for you.

In this group we are all about Streaming! We believe that today's human potential and experience is filled with untapped creativity, intimacy, love and joy. When these untapped energies are streamed we can change our connections, relationships, society and our world. We teach how to integrate the Streaming practice in ourselves, our lives, with our families, friends, lovers, partners and our society. We introduce Streaming and teach the practice by offering access to events, clinics, gatherings, …

Austin Women's Network celebrates the collaboration and success of talented, smart and innovative women and the collective role they play in and around our community. It focuses on multi-faceted women in various roles and business organizations. Austin Women's Network was built upon the hope and intention of bringing local women together in a collaborative way. It's a place where "seasoned" women help and mentor those who may not be as "seasoned." This is not the place where "I know more than yo …

This group is all about providing the sacred space of individual evolution by developing our intuitive abilities through a safe environment of sharing life experiences, accomplishments, and learning. We are drawn together in the interest of becoming more conscious in our every day lives, individually and collectively, through meditation, getting in touch with our Spirit Guides, working with Angels, and sharing messages from Light Beings from the highest spiritual realms.  We are, in essence, a s …

Over 35, and tired of watching t.v.? Join us for community, friendship and fun! We're a welcoming, inviting group intent on making everyone feel involved. Whether you're married, single, or alien, you'll like it here and we'll value you as a partner.  We started this group so that all of our Austin neighbors would have a comfortable place to hang out and mingle.  You don't have to live in South Austin, but you may want to move here after visiting-Join Us! We host: happy hours * dinners * dancing …

This free, weekly meditation group meets with the intention to be a space for relaxation, mindfulness and awareness. The group is open to new meditators as well as those with an ongoing practice. Each week’s 30 minute guided meditation explores what it’s like to relax the body and surrender all doing so that our natural states of calm abiding awareness can arise. A short discussion follows for the opportunity to connect in community with like-minded people and explore ways to incorporate meditat …

Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in San Antonio …

Welcome to Build your "Jazz Standards" Repertoire. My name is Alex Bohrer and I have worked in Austin as a full time jazz piano teacher since 98. One of the things I love most abut jazz theory is the ability to explore and experiment with new harmonic possibilities over previously stagnant chords/voicings played over common favorite tunes. This meetup requires a comfortable knowledge of seventh chords and basic harmonic theory. It's intent as stated in the Meetup title is to simply build one's m …

An active community of those who support and work toward Expanded Awareness, Higher Truth, Unity Consciousness, Self-Discovery, Personal Development, Spiritual Growth, Healing, Sustainability, Vitality, Abundance and Empowerment while living a life of Purpose to encourage Right Action toward Higher Self, Humanity and the Environment. Join us to learn how to shine your bright light even brighter to help rid the world of darkness and negativity and inspire others to live with more love, peace, joy …

Welcome to the Austin Chapter of eWomenNetwork, Inc., a widely recognized Premier Women's Business Network in North America, with a dynamic and diversified culture that celebrates the brilliance of women entrepreneurs, business owners and corporate professionals. Are you seeking a networking group with high calibre business women truly interested in connecting with you to help build each other's businesses by sharing resources - influential connections, game-changing insights, legendary advice, …

As Deliberate Creators, we are committed to creating what we want through our intentions and our choices. We know that the Law of Attraction is constantly in action and continually showing us, through our emotions and circumstances, whether we are truly in alignment with our source, our desires and our purpose. We meet to better understand how the Law of Attraction (LOA) works and how we can use it more deliberately to attract what we want. We practice ways to incorporate LOA in our daily lives …

The intent of this group is to connect with 10 individuals who are dedicated to learning the art of manifesting opportunity and are willing to share your results in a published book. Initially this group may be more or less than 10 and over the next 30 days, the intent is to connect with 10 of you who really want to create change through the concepts being taught in this meetup. Most law of attraction books talk about "how to manifest" and once you learn how to manifest, Level 2 is focusing on M …

The purpose of this group is to bridge the gap between the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine and technological advantages of modern medical science. Simple explanations and logical comparisons are made as a wide range of topics are examined with the intention of bridging gaps between mind and body, theory and practice, therapy and self-care, practitioner and patient, ancient and modern, convention and invention, East and West.

We are a group of writers of crime fiction, both short story and book length. We are all seriously writing for publication and most of us have been writing for many years. Our goals as a group are to polish our manuscripts before sending them to our agents or editors; keep the pages flowing; improve our craft, especially by learning from each others' strengths; and above all, support each others' goals as writers. We are keen and attentive readers, but we are also congenial and considerate. No m …