Oh yes! it is a reality that the Economic and Social Conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continue to improve significantly. According to the World Bank, the economy grew by 5.3 percent in 2012, and 5.6 percent in 2013. The bank predictions state that, the Continent's long-term growth will increasingly reflect interrelated social and demographic changes creating new domestic engines of growth. The bank's researchers highlighted that, urbanization, an expanding labor force, and the rise of the …

We are a group of green/sustainable entrepreneurs and startups working to build our businesses and strengthen a new economy for the Los Angeles area. By co-working we are able to collaborate to exchange ideas and find new ways to solve problems the way entrepreneurs do.

Have you ever wondered what Reiki, or energy healing feels like? Are you feeling stress in your life and need a relaxing break from it all? Then join us to experience Reiki Tummo! Reiki Tummo is a gentle, yet effective, form of energy healing based on the heart. Our spiritual heart is the key to our connection to the Divine, the Source of Love and Light. In Reiki Tummo we rely on our heart connection to channel Reiki, Divine Energy, to ourselves and others. With thousands of practitioners worldw …

Meet local alternative health and holistic practitioners as well as other Southern Californians who want to live healthy and green lifestyles. Check our calendar for events of interest to al!.  While our Meetup zipcode is in North Hollywood, our HHMU members and events occur throughout Southern California -- from Orange County and the South Bay through the Westside and Santa Monica to Ventura and Santa Barbara along the coast, as well as throughout the San Fernando Valley to the Inland Empire. T …

Welcome those interested in Healing through Reiki. Reiki is a hands-on healing technique that balances, realigns energy, and activates your own healing powers. It reduces stress, increases energy and focus, and enhances creativity. We will offer classes, healing circles, one on one sessions and distant healing circles. We all have the opportunity to allow more love in and expand our joy! Please join us! WWW.MarlaMervisReiki.com Check out the Reviews- “ Marla is amazing...her style of reiki is …

Welcome to Santa Monica GMCKS Pranic Healing Clinic Come and experience PRANIC HEALING®, whether you're stressed, in pain or just in need of inner peace, PRANIC HEALING® can help. PRANIC HEALING® is an advanced form of energy healing developed by Master Choa Kok Sui. It utilizes "prana" or vital force to balance, harmonize and transform the body's energy processes. This energy can be used to promote well being as well as in alleviating and treating physical, emotional and psychological conditio …

This group is Greentech Live/LA and covers all of California until new groups are formed. How it all works 'Greentech Live/LA' is now forming our core group of 100 GX3 ( Greentech Gapathon Group ) Leaders and Members that will be provided with valuable training and guidance from our GX3 Team to research, analyze and provide information to the group about Funders and Founders on Finding & Filling the Funding Gaps that exist in our industry. ( More details coming soon ) GX3 Members and Leaders wil …

Community Animal Acupuncture LA (CAALA) is  for any holistically minded humans that wish to get acupuncture for their animal companions!! We are offering a practical,  animal acupuncture healing experience in a community setting. This is about healing our animal companions, and bringing the community  together in order to foster an environment in which true healing can take place.   When people (and animals) come together with the same intention, there is the potential for great things to take p …

Come and hang out and heal with a group that is consistently bettering themselves and in support of each other in an unconditional loving way of being! When We Gather Together To Heal Ourselves We Heal Our World! Michael Brian Baker (The Breath Center) is a spiritual teacher as well as an international healer who helps people shed and let go of pain, anger, resentment, disease, and any other toxicty affecting one's life. He is a mind, body, soul and spirit healer, and a divine mirror and guide. …

Are you looking to connect to your destiny and life path or find more meaning, abundance, happiness and balance in your life? Did you know that as women, our feminine essence is our greatest source of power to manifest our destiny and all that we want in life; including a successful career, passionate relationships, beauty and good health? In this meet-up, we will incorporate Eastern and Western methods and take an integral approach to reconnecting to our feminine essence and passion for life an …

This is a group for those that are interested in Meditation, Rakkenho (Japanese Yoga Massage/Easy Health Method) and Reiki (Energy Healing). Other workshops on other topics will also be conducted here, such as Essential Oils workshops, Natural Yeast Bread, spiritual practice and holistic health. Please join our group if you are interested in learning how to live a holistic lifestyle.

This is an invitation to those who are attracted to the Healing Power of Sound & Vibration from majestic PAISTE PLANETARY GONGS, sacred TIBETAN SINGING BOWLS and other divine vibrational instruments that will touch our hearts & spirits and help align us on a cellular level... WELCOME to our "SOUND BATH" - a Sound & Vibrational Healing Meditation Journey... An otherworldly sound experience - many describe the feeling of a sound bath as traveling through outer space, deep sea or the womb... It' …

dear friends, why did i start this meet up? i just returned from india and had very powerful experiences working with the sex trafficked women and their children in the red light district of calcutta. as i stood in the brothel streets with my heart racing and feeling sick as i looked into the blank faces of the young women, i could not help but imagine how many of them had been brought there sold by their own families or had come to sex work because they felt they had no alternative in society. …

This group is open to all who have an interest in the Healing Arts, Alternative Health, Shiatsu Anma, Massage Therapy, Body Healing, Energy Healing, Alternative Health, Meditation, Yoga etc. We will post education programs and workshop such as Shiatsu Anma, Pain and Orthopedic Evaluation, Sports Massage, Injury and Rehabilitation workshop, Hot & Cold Therapies, Scar Tissue Massage, Weight Control and Detoxification, Pregnancy Massage, Thai Massage, Acroyoga etc. We are a group of dedicated hea …

Women meeting mostly in West Los Angeles, 10 mins over the hill from Sherman Oaks by the 405, but occasionally in other areas of Los Angeles & the San Fernando Valley. Meet others in this group while learning different health, wealth, healing, holistic, energy techniques and visualizations to enhance your health, healing, wellness, motivation, confidence, abundance and success. First half intros and networking and questions about visualization. Second half will be a visualization/guided imagery/ …

The Reiki Training Institute is dedicated to teaching Reiki and encouraging individuals in their own unique healing process. We offer Reiki treatments, distance healing, beginners Reiki circles and practitioner Reiki circles. Join us in discovering more about: Energy Healing, Improving your Health, and Balancing Mind, Body and Spirit. Thea Parsons, founder of the Reiki Training Institute, has been a Certified Reiki Master practicing in the U.S., Europe and Asia for over a decade. She is 12th in …

The question many people may or may not ask is, "How can I improve the overall quality of my life now rather than wait til something goes wrong later?" What if I told you that the main culprit to all our life's challenges is our inappropriate response to the multitude of day-to-day stress compiled over years and years? Such stressors like cell phones, computers, L.A. traffic, air pollution, job-related pressures at a dead end and thankless job, time constraints, polluted foods and poisons, fea …

Let's get together and connect with a small group of women who desire to get healthier and celebrate life again. Let's share what's going on in our lives and how we can make things better. Stress is a reality that never seems to end. We got so used to dealing with it that constant stress became a part of our way of being- always on the go- running ourselves into the ground. But it doesn't have to be that way. It's enough to feel perpetually exhausted, sleep deprived or trying to force things to …

To study the many application methods and therapeutic benefits of essential oils, the group will gather to share experiences and information. Those interested in health and wellness, alternative and plant medicine should join.

Aligning your 7 Chakra centers and energizing Life Force is truly a life-changing Balancing Act! We intend to enable you to do just that. Through monthly classes and meetings you will learn how to use essential oils, Yin Restorative Yoga, Native warrior sets, Five Element Tai Chi, Sound Healing with Crystal Bowls, Reiki Attunements, Focused and walking meditation, seasonal herbal remedies, and more. This is through the collaboration of Nancy Allan, Master Herbalist, Acupuncturist, Reiki and Ener …

Welcome to the Heart-centered Toastmasters homepage! Heart-centered Toastmasters is part of Toastmasters International, a world-wide organization that fosters development of communication and leadership skills. HCTM is unique in that we offer a spiritual, non-denominational club culture of unconditional loving and infinite positive regard in our mutually supportive, non-competitive atmosphere. Many of our members are students or graduates of USM (University of Santa Monica's Masters program in S …

Come join our Reiki Share! This share is open to anyone interested in Reiki. Shares are for Reiki practitioners/students looking to practice...but anyone curious about exploring Reiki is welcome. Build your community on the west side! Our share has healthy snacks, Chinese tea, and each week we open with a new meditation. Sometimes indoors, sometimes outside...in the sunshine! Hope to see you there.

You will meet other local people interested in improving their experience of life with Neuro Linguistic Programming, a tool for self-improvement and interpersonal communications. You will join us on the second Tuesday of each month and occasionally we may announce other meetings on related topics. We host this common interest meeting in Playa del Rey (in the Los Angeles South Bay area). NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves a trail of techniques At each meeting, you will experience so …

What We Do: • We come together as like hearted friends in community to expand our consciousness, share our joy and innate gifts, and put into practice our latest epiphanies. • We share tools of how to expand our consciousness and do exercises in a group environment to physically lock the lessons in. We become more conscious of how our thoughts, emotions, and definitions work together to create our reality so that we can more consciously choose the reality we prefer. • Most importantly we have FU …

This group is for people who is looking to heal themselves of anxiety, panic and depression via the path of spirituality. This group is for you if you have been doing everything that you could to heal yourself spiritually but you still have been stuck in constant fears, anxiety, worries and depression about various areas of your life. If you have specifically been diagnosed with (GAD), phobia, agoraphobia, panic and depression disorder and you have been seeking God and healing with all of your h …

This is a community group that promotes holistic approach to wellness. We are not limited to one specific way for the body and mind to heal but open to exploring together many techniques for healing such as food, relaxation techniques, and physical activity. Our goal is to create a support center where people that are trying to make healthy lifestyle changes can create friendships and bonds with others that are in their neighborhood and have the same goals and directions and to make the path of …

SCHOOL OF INTUITION AND LIFE - "Awaken to Your Complete Potential." *** No previous experience is necessary*** Welcome to the Blissful Living Series meditation class in downtown Vancouver. This workshop is a great introduction to meditation, as well as for those wanting to rejuvenate their practice. Learn to feel grounded and aligned in your body with clarity in the present, here and now. And discover how to awaken to the cosmic ocean of pure unconditional love. In this workshop, you will …

This group is about learning Theta Healing and Changing Your DNA, Instantly Changing Your Life™. Sick and Tired of your own Life and how things are? Life taking you for a ride and you're just the passenger? Are You Ready to Empower Yourself and Empower Your Life? Learn from a Theta Healing Master how to become the Master of Your Life and Your Destiny. Become the Driving Healing Force in all that You Can Be and Generate all the Success that You Want and know deep down that you Deserve. If …