Are you a firefighter or an Architect? Would you like to build a new life and a new YOU? We are getting together to make serious lifestyle change with nutritional counseling, personalized health and wellness, weight management coaching, lots of encouragement, and steady accountability. YOU will have the potential to look and feel better than you have ever imagined!

We offer community-wide free nutrition classes, personalized health and wellness and weight management coaching, lots of encouragement, and of course our fun weight loss challenges for healthy competition and accountability! YOU will have the potential to lose more weight than you ever imagined.

ChicagoVeg Cooking is all about tasty plant-based food, sharing knowledge and cooking experiences between members, educating each other about the many benefits of veg*n cooking and how to make it fun, and of course about making new like-minded friends! While we have a broad scope including Vegetarian, Vegan Cooked, and Raw/Living Vegan Food, we will mostly focus on a general whole food vegan diet as the source of tasty food and a healthy lifestyle. It has been shown by numerous research studies …

Welcome! This group is designed to guide you in making most important life decisions and assist you in effortless conception, harmonious pregnancy, and raising healthy, creative and co-operative baby. Our goal is to help FUTURE MOMS to: Understand and eliminate barriers to your successful conception and pregnancy Resolve any previous relationship traumas, including childhood and relationship issues with parents and significant others that often present major barriers for successful conception, …

This group is for any woman or man interested in a more healthy & alluring body & lifestyle. Activities in this group include but are not limited to the following; educational seminars, healthy dinning, skin care, yoga, aquatic fitness, Zumba, fashion tips, preventative health, weight management, stress reduction, meditation, lakefront walks, aromatherapy, seated massage events, shopping for success, nutrition, and more! All members will receive a monthly informative email on one of the various …

Healthy Rogers Park Community Network is a collaboration between community groups and organizations. Our mission is to engage all sectors of Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood in making systems, environmental, and policy changes that improve the health, well-being, and overall quality of life for children living in the community. This Meetup group for located within Rogers Park or serving Rogers Park residents, it is by invitation only.

“What Dennis Genpo Roshi has done is not only the most original discovery in Buddhism in the last two centuries, it is unbelievably simple, quick, and effective. In Zen, this realization of one’s True Nature, or Ultimate Reality, is called kensho or satori (“seeing into one’s True Nature,” or discovering Big Mind and Big Heart). It often takes five years or more of extremely difficult practice (I know, I’ve done it) in order for a profound satori to occur. With the Big Mind Process, a genuine ke …

This group is for like-minded people who want more out of life, a successful life filled with dynamic health, happiness, loving relationships, an abundance of money, a thriving business, freedom to do as they please and fulfillment of their dreams and desires. What are your dreams...your desires in life....your purpose in life? How wonderful would your life be if you could fulfill your heart's desires? If you have dreams and desires and are ready to take responsibility to make it happen, you w …

Meet professional holistic travel enthusiasts near you! We represent a unique travel meetup group that promotes good health and big fun. Get first-hand recommendations on new exotic destinations that are designed to pamper the soul. Find fun, laughs -- and maybe even a new travel buddy!

Maum Meditation is a simple 7 step method that allows anyone to become free of the limitations imposed by past experiences.  Maum means original mind, soul and spirit in Korean.  The past is recorded and stored within the body and mind as pictures.  These pictures, or images, dictate thoughts, emotions, desires, conceptions, behaviors and health.  Although these pictures are illusions, humans unknowingly live within the illusions thinking they are real. Due to the collective whole of these pictu …

This is a group for people who: are interested in raw, vegan, gluten-free, and organic food; have an appreciation and love for the Earth; are passionate about holistic health and wellness; love to be part of a community of like-minded, kind, and generous people; and enjoy learning about healthy cuisine and doing activities together.

This is a group for anyone interested in restoring their health, happiness, and peace with healthy eating, yoga, and meditation. We can meet to discuss best ways to lose weight, control blood sugars, and high blood pressure. Many other medical problems can be controlled or cured with healthy eating and living. We can also do light yoga stretching and meditation training to increase the flexibility and awareness of our body and emotions. I am a registered and licensed nutrition specialist working …

We are a group of Students, Alumni and prospective students enrolled in, graduated from and/or is intersted in the Institute of Integrated Nutrition. This is a great way to Network with each other and get together to explore ways that we can help each other succeed in powerfully helping others heal and live their best lives! What is IIN? Teaching the Future of Nutrition Are you ready to transform your mind, body and career with a world-class education that supports you on every level?If it …

This is a group for anyone interested in discussing and experiencing the benefits of essential oils. We will meet twice month a focus on a different oil each meeting, so we can all discuss the benefits of essential oils for our health. I'm looking forward to hearing more about peoples experiences with oils and the changes that they have had with their health.

A peer led group for people in mental health recovery, who wish to share wellness tools, recovery action plans, and get support as we learn and grow. I am a person in recovery myself and a certified Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) facilitator. We can explore offering a (WRAP) class in the community if there is enough interest. In the meantime we can offer online support and shared lessons learned from our own lives.

Did you know your home could be making you sick? Discover how turning your home into a Wellness Home can create an environment that supports your health and happiness. We will do our best to provide a fun, relaxed environment that promises to be informative, educational and worthy of your valuable time.

Yoga & Ayurveda – ancient Vedic sister sciences together, the way to Self-Healing and Self-Realization. Healing workshops with Ayurveda,  Yoga classes,   Meditations,  Ayurvedic cooking classes,  Ayurvedic wellness consultations. Truly Relaxing Environment at the House of Ayurveda, every Class is very special - fusion of Mind & Body, not just Athletics. Find more about North Shore Yoga Ayurveda at www.ayurvedichouse.com

Thanks for joining. Trying to help build a community for other holistic practitioners. We try to meet up occasionally and be a support network for the healing community.

Group members are taught the essentials of mindfulness and how the process relates to their feelings. The technique teaches them to be aware of what they are feeling in the moment, which allows for a deepening of the way they relate to their thoughts and patterns. Unwanted patterns of relating and behaving discovered during the sessions can then be shifted. Using both avenues of psychology and mindfulness allows patterns to shift more rapidly as cognitive work helps people to understand the issu …

Meditation, Yoga, Community, Healing, Fun

Women living with the chronic pain of vulvodynia wil find support, encouragement, comradery, and information at our meetings. The meetings are run on the guidelines provided by the National Vulvodynia Association (see nva.org) and we meet in the Evanston/Skokie/Rogers Park area. I organize the group but the group's leadership and agendas are run by its members. I started organizing vulvodynia support groups because of the unmet need I see as a licensed clinical social worker in private practice. …

Monthly workshops on Sugar Addictions and Cravings. Strategies and information to help overcome these and other potential challenges regarding healthy eating

Are you interesting in creating a positive, eco-friendly change in Chicago, but need a few more people to join your environmental cause? You have come to the right place! This group's aim is to provide a support network, where we can objectively discuss ideas for green living and create an action plan to put these sustainable ideas in motion for our community.

Spiritual Nourishment is here to support you in ‘digesting’ the aspects of your life where you may feel limitation, pain or sluggishness. In skillfully digesting, your attention and energy is transformed AND directed toward what truly nourishes your innate essence of Love, Aliveness and Joy ( that we all do have within!) Join us if you are willing to be, act on and become (more) the transformation you want to to see in our world. In this place of Spiritual Nourishment, we embody and share an ess …

Welcome to Everybody Yoga - a free program started by Moksha Yoga Center to share yoga’s immense benefits with the entire community. Throughout the year, we bring free yoga classes to parks, beaches, festivals, and beautiful places in Chicago.

The Chicago Chronic Pain Meetup group aims to provide a safe and supportive place for people to interact with others and share anything related to living life with chronic pain. People in chronic pain share a common experience that is hard to communicate with others. I hope we can all benefit from meeting others who truly understand. Meetings will provide members with an opportunity to learn from each other, and hopefully we can all benefit from sharing our experiences. We are open to anybody wh …

AARP Chapters are nongovernmental, nonpartisan community service organizations. Chapters get involved in making our communities better places to live by organizing and participating in a variety of community service projects. Chapters make a difference in state and national issues as they receive state legislative alerts and information to influence policy decisions. You will make new friends by meeting with people with similar interests and areas of concern.