Water Shapes Rock; Outdoor Butoh Improvisation

In this moment, our planet, our species, our nation are all facing great peril. We are being challenged in unprecedented ways, both individually and collectively. Therefore, it is imperative to dance. To dance for joy as well as sorrow, to dance for both grief AND hope, to perform the dances of sanity, of empathy and of will. After all, dance articulates all of that for which there are no words.

Indeed, dance is a mystical language, non-verbal and somatic, and yes, Butoh is the dialect of the inexpressible and unspeakable.

Let us explore this powerful moment together.

As part of Bay Area Dance Week, Mary Power and the MPOWERDANCE Project are offering FREE outdoor dance classes in San Francisco, CA:

'Water Shapes Rock; Outdoor Butoh Improvisation'
Monday, April 28, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
12 pm to 1 pm PDT
Class size is limited. Please Register through Bopsidy by clicking date of event.

These “Bay Area Dance Week” offerings and the film festival journey of “Butoh Changed Everything” epitomize MpowerDance Project’s “GDP 2025: Cloud Woman Calls the Dance.”

San Francisco Theosophical Society - World Peace Meditation

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees and I felt like I was in heaven.” - Harriet Tubman

“The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.” - H.P. Blavatsky

SPECIAL EVENT

WORLD PEACE MEDITATION

Our "World Peace Meditation" starts on Wednesday, March 5th, 6 p.m., continues Monday through Friday at 6 p.m., ending on Friday, April 18th. 

During the meditation, one of our members will read aloud from either from the "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" or the "Diamond Sutra of Hui-Neng."

This event is intended to bring the San Francisco Bay Area community together, in person, to relax, breathe, sip tea, to listen and drift. (NOTE: We don't talk politics at the Theosophical Society.) 

In these times, it is vital to show up in person and set our intentions together, for 33 days, focused on vibrations and consciousness that promote peace for all beings. 

Friends who can't attend in person but wish to want to join online, here is the zoom registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VR0_sD1pR1y5dIMJEOQiVA

You will receive e-mail with confirmation and instructions.

If you are attending in person, there is easy street parking that opens at 6 p.m. on the south side of Pine St. Just steps away from us.  

For more information, e-mail us (sftslodge at gmail.com) or inquire via Facebook Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/sfts.lodge)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO - MARCH-APRIL 2025 PROGRAM

"Written down in accordance with Tantric teachings & hidden away amidst a cache of precious things. May this book be read by those blessed devotees of the future. Samaya Gya Gya Emaho." - Yeshe Tsogyal 
Dr. W.Y. Evans-Wentz - "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" Oxford University Press, 1954

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO 

MARCH-APRIL 2025 PROGRAM 

ON-LINE: Sunday, 3/16/25, at 6 p.m. - Elaine Santos presents "Healing Flowers Imagery" (For more information on Elaine's work, visit https://wellnessasart.com)

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 3/30/25, 4 to 6 p.m. - Lodge Library Hours

ON-LINE: Sunday, 4/13/25, Jeff Curtis presents "Recent Developments in the Fields of AI and Quantum Computing; Thunderbolts"

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 4/27/25, 4 to 6 p.m. - Lodge Library Hours

Our monthly Sunday in-person events start at 4 p.m. and end at 6 p.m. Our monthly Sunday on-line events start at 6 p.m. All are free and available to the public. 

SPECIAL EVENT

WORLD PEACE MEDITATION

Our "World Peace Meditation" starts on Wednesday, March 5th, 6 p.m., continues Monday through Friday at 6 p.m., ending on Friday, April 18th. 

During the meditation, one of our members will read aloud from either from the "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" or the "Diamond Sutra of Hui-Neng."

This event is intended to bring the San Francisco Bay Area community together, in person, to relax, breathe, sip tea, to listen and drift. (NOTE: We don't talk politics at the Theosophical Society.) 

In these times, it is vital to show up in person and set our intentions together, for 33 days, focused on vibrations and consciousness that promote peace for all beings. 

Friends who can't attend in person but wish to want to join online, here is the zoom registration link:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/VR0_sD1pR1y5dIMJEOQiVA

You will receive e-mail with confirmation and instructions.

If you are attending in person, there is easy street parking that opens at 6 p.m. on the south side of Pine St. Just steps away from us.  

For more information, e-mail us (sftslodge at gmail.com) or inquire via Facebook Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/sfts.lodge)

San Francisco Theosophical Society - World Peace Meditation

“I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees and I felt like I was in heaven.” - Harriet Tubman

“The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.” - H.P. Blavatsky

The San Francisco Theosophical Society (SFTS) is holding "World Peace Meditation," Monday through Friday at 6 p.m., starting on Wednesday, March 5th and ending on Friday, April 18th. During the meditation, one of our members will read aloud from either from the "Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation" or the "Diamond Sutra of Hui-Neng." 

This event is intended to bring the San Francisco Bay Area community together, in person, to relax, breathe, sip tea, to listen and drift. (NOTE: We don't talk politics at the Theosophical Society.) In these times, it feels vital to show up in person and set our intentions together, for 33 days, focused on vibrations and consciousness that promote peace for all beings. 

For friends who can't arrive in person but wish to attend, we'll post a zoom link on our web site, sftslodge.org, and in our social media. 

If you're arriving in person, there is easy street parking that opens at 6 p.m. on the south side of Pine St. Just steps away from us. 

- Mary Power, President, San Francisco Theosophical Society (SFTS)

For more information, e-mail us: sftslodge @ gmail.com

GDP 2025: Cloud Woman Calls the Dance

GDP 2025: Cloud Woman Calls the Dance

Reposted from mpowerdance project

Listen. Together.

Talk. Together.

Dance On. The Tightrope.

Defy Gravity.Noticing my feet, my ankles, where nerves retract out of fear, curling my toes away from the outer wall in my shoes. Shoes that speak of great support for the model foot without housing one. I am one of the lucky to have shoes, to run and skip turn in. Undeniably the real sense of relief, bare feet in the soft green not-yet-spring grass, feeling energy move my toes, flow right through the tassel of my ankles. The ground reaction force softly circulating bones and viscera, connecting this earthling body to the source, earth contents, to extracellular matrices, interstitial pressures. I connect like mycorrhizae fungi connects over and through the sensual greens. Fresh, air, after the cloud shed tears. Sun puts on a Van Gogh show. Color, light vibrates harmonics on oak moss and madrone bark. Trees breathing above and below the Earth to which it stands, holding the moment, indivisible from human insanity.

Where I stand or dance or walk or play. More humans join me. Wild air, ocean air, sand crash surf. Here I must admit, truthfully, and see myself as human among humans looking up, we cannot fly without wings. I cannot stand for centuries like granite boulders. I cannot grow like ancient trees that sing slow vowels to heaven and earth, in an intimate lock of breath and life and death and life. I am human full of hope and air, and error to learn from. I dance to live until I die.

Cloud Woman calls us to the dance with gentle rhythm and life. Mpowerdance choreography, costume and set design. Performer Sasha Silveanu Camera work Bart Frescura Director Mary Power

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO: JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2025 PROGRAM

The Great Dilgo Khyenste Rinpoche Surrounded by Candles on the Lodge's Buddha Room Altar.
Om Mani Peme Hung. Om Mani Peme Hung. Om Mani Peme Hung.

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO

JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2025 PROGRAM 

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 1/27/25, 4 to 6 p.m. - Emily Shurr presents ELEUSIS, EPIDAURUS & ELYSIUM, PART 2: EPIDAURUS

ON-LINE: Sunday, 2/9/25, at 6 p.m. - Jeff Curtis presents "Some Thoughts & Updates Regarding AI, Consciousness & Death"

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 2/23/25, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy

Our in-person events start at 4 p.m. and end at 6 p.m. 

Our on-line events start at 6 p.m.

All are free and available to the public. 

For more information, e-mail us (sftslodge at gmail.com) or inquire via Facebook Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/sfts.lodge)

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2024 PROGRAM

   

Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Welcoming Protector at the top of the Lodge stairs. 

THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2024 PROGRAM 

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 11/17/24, 4 to 6 p.m. - Conversations in Theosophy: FOUNDERS' DAY 2024, Homage to H.P. Blavatsky, H.S. Olcott & W.Q. Judge 

IN-PERSON: Sunday, 12/15/24, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. - Solstice Holiday Season Celebration 

ON-LINE: Sunday, 12/29/24, at 6 p.m. - Elaine Santos presents "Winter Imagery for Peace & Rejuvenation" (For info on Elaine's work, visit https://wellnessasart.com)

NOTE: Our Solstice Holiday Season Celebration will have extended hours - 2 pm to 6 pm. Pot Luck & Food Drive. For more information, see SPECIAL EVENT below

SPECIAL EVENT

SFTS LODGE YULE SOLSTICE HOLIDAY CELEBRATION 2024

The great wheel turns. Solstice Blessings! Feliz Navidad! Feliz Año Nuevo!

The Theosophical Society of San Francisco (@SFTSLodge) will hold its 2024 Yule Solstice Holiday Celebration on 12/15.Join us for fellowship, merriment and a delicious Pot Luck. AND for the launch of our Food Drive on behalf of San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/).

We will be open from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (Please note we will start two hours earlier than usual.) 

SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK GUIDELINES

DOs and DON'Ts

Please contribute only items that you would eat yourself, and only items unopened and still within their 'use before' date. No glass jars. NO perishable items.

MOST-NEEDED ITEMS

• Tuna, Chicken, Salmon in pop-top cans or tear pouches.
• Low-Sodium Soups, Chili, Stews.
• Nut Butters (e.g., Peanut Butter)
• Whole Grain Rice, Pasta and Oats.
• Canned Fruit and Vegetables.
• Low-Sugar Cereal

For more information on what to bring for the Pot Luck, or the Food Drive, or both, just contact us either through .gmail (@SFTSLodge) or FB Messenger (https://www.facebook.com/sfts.lodge).