Collecting Groups San Francisco

New to SF Chinatown Street Food Crawl

**RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/TIglYn2ncXEkYvAhYGQl?utm_source=meetup&utm_content=b **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later** Use code "NEWTOTOWN" to get 50% off (First 5) Hey newcomers, If you are new in town or eager to explore Chinatown with friendly company, come meet me at Portsmouth Square tonight. The plaza is buzzing at dusk, and we are diving straight into the neighborhood's best street food together while building an instant community. We kick things off with quick, one-on-one mini chats right in the square. The Gist IRL app handles the rotations automatically, so you can show up solo, feel immediately welcomed, and meet everyone without any awkwardness. After an hour of easy conversations, you will team up with the folks you bonded with most, form a small crew, and head out into the vibrant streets for warm dim sum, skewered bites, and boba. The Plan: - 6:30PM: Check-In. Follow the link to set up your quick profile on your phone. - 6:40PM - 7:45PM: One-on-One Rounds. The app pairs you for focused chats. We'll find out who shares your go-to boba order, favorite street eats, and Friday night energy. - 7:45PM+: Form Groups & head out into the market together to grab street bites and boba. You'll reconnect with your favorite matches, form a small group of 4-6, and head right out into the market together to hunt down the best street bites and boba. It is the easiest, warmest introduction to the city's food scene, and you can stay in touch with your crew directly in the app to plan your next San Francisco adventures. Bring a light layer and a hearty appetite—I cannot wait to show you around and share some great food tonight. 🏮 Chinatown Food Crawl Challenge Your crew has one mission: eat your way through the Night Market together. Before the night ends, find and share: 🥟 Something steamed — dumplings, bao, dim sum 🍜 Something savory — noodles, spring rolls, skewers, etc. 🧋 Something to sip — boba, milk tea, fruit tea 🥧 Something sweet — egg tart, sesame ball, pastry, tanghulu 🎲 Wildcard — something nobody in your group has tried before! Last time we tried the stinky tofu!! **RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/TIglYn2ncXEkYvAhYGQl?utm_source=meetup&utm_content=b **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later**

Lunchtime Yoga in the Park: Willard Park Yoga Collective

Join the Willard Park Yoga Collective every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday at Willard Park in Berkeley! Friday online! Integrated Hatha Flow classes are based on classical Hatha, mixed with the specializations of each teacher. We flow thoughtfully through poses taking time to notice the nuances, and match movement with breath. Chrissy, Carmen, and Jess integrate somatic modalities and the eight limbs into the yoga practice to increase body and breath awareness, and regulate the nervous system. Finding all of this in the present moment, we aim to foster agency, gratitude, peace, and joy. Teaching outside further deepens the practice by connecting to Nature and the elements. All levels are welcome and will be accommodated, judgement free. *"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness"* **Thich Nhat Hanh** \*We work on a donation-basis, making yoga more accessible to all. Come as you are, pay what you can. Your teachers: Mondays 12:30pm Jess Tuesdays 12:30pm Carmen Wednesdays 12:30pm Chrissy Thursdays 12:30pm Carmen Fridays 5:30pm Chrissy (Online in the late fall-winter. Got to event for link) Sundays 10:00am Chrissy **Meet Chrissy:** Chrissy is a 500HR-RYT, Yoga Therapist, and Thai Yoga Massage Therapist. She came to teaching yoga with a 25+ year personal practice in vinyasa and kundalini, and training in modern dance, music, and theater. She also holds certification in ECE(12unit) and Social/Emotional Learning Facilitation. Her classes are integrated Hatha flow, influenced deeply by yoga philosophy and functional strength. With an emphasis on breath and accessing the present moment, she delights in walking the line between play and prayer. Chrissy strives to honor the origins of yoga while making it accessible to every body. She acknowledges her position as white, able-bodied, and cisgendered, aiming to be inclusive and trauma informed. Her classes are donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds. Private clients are sliding scale. In lieu of a studio, Chrissy teaches on line and outside in parks on the sovereign land of the Lisjan Ohlone. *Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu* May all beings be happy, healthy, and free. May we contribute to that. [https://chrissyyoga.com/](https://chrissyyoga.com/#home) **Meet Jess:** Jess is an artist and an athlete. At the beginning of her ceramics trajectory, working as a studio tech at a college clay studio, she realized she needed to be strong to load kilns and make large batches of clay. The physicality of her art became a driving reason to care for her body and its functional strength and mobility. Strength, agility, balance, flexibility and injury prevention (and recovery) were all things she found her personal yoga practice improved. In 2015 she became a certified 200 HR-RYT through Core Power and in 2021 she received a second 200 HR-RYT from Purusha Yoga. Jess guides a vinyasa flow based practice, with an emphasis on linking breath to movement and being in the present during practice. Jess teaches yoga in Willard Park and on the SF Bay on stand up paddle boards. She owns her own stand up paddleboard company, 510-Waterline, in Richmond, CA. [https://www.510waterline.com/](https://www.510waterline.com/). And she currently makes pots at her home studio in Berkeley, CA. teaches adult ceramic classes, workshops and has exhibited her work internationally. What she says in her artist statement about her pots also applies to her yoga practice “Strength lies in the fluidity of opposites – of line and mass, contraction and relaxation, tension and softness, push and pull. Ultimately, I want my pots to be graceful, elegant, and straightforward. It’s all about strength and beauty.”[ https://www.jesspots.com/](https://www.jesspots.com/) **Meet Carmen:** Carmen has long believed in the body's innate wisdom and capacity for resilience. In her work as a Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner she helps this wisdom to emerge and transform. She completed her 500 hour (RYT) Yoga Therapy training at Purusha Yoga in San Francisco, a three-year professional Somatic Experiencing® training at Somatic Experiencing International®, is a certified Veterans Yoga Project teacher, as well as a trained wellness coach with the Kresser Institute. Carmen is currently teaching group yoga classes and offering private integrative somatic therapy and somatic wellness coaching sessions. Her mission as a yoga teacher is to create a safe and supportive environment for her students to explore the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, while cultivating resiliency and a deeper connection to self. Carmen also co-facilitates wellness retreats, and works individually with clients offering integrated somatic therapy sessions. [https://carmencasado.com/](https://carmencasado.com/)

Coffee & Kites -- Re-Opened to Everyone

Sunday Yoga in the Park: Willard Park Yoga Collective

Join the Willard Park Yoga Collective every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday at Willard Park in Berkeley! Friday online! Integrated Hatha Flow classes are based on classical Hatha, mixed with the specializations of each teacher. We flow thoughtfully through poses taking time to notice the nuances, and match movement with breath. Chrissy, Carmen, and Jess integrate somatic modalities and the eight limbs into the yoga practice to increase body and breath awareness, and regulate the nervous system. Finding all of this in the present moment, we aim to foster agency, gratitude, peace, and joy. Teaching outside further deepens the practice by connecting to Nature and the elements. All levels are welcome and will be accommodated, judgement free. *"We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness"* **Thich Nhat Hanh** \*We work on a donation-basis, making yoga more accessible to all. Come as you are, pay what you can. Your teachers: Mondays 12:30pm Jess Tuesdays 12:30pm Carmen Wednesdays 12:30pm Chrissy Thursdays 12:30pm Carmen Fridays 5:30pm Chrissy (Online in the late fall-winter. Got to event for link) Sundays 10:00am Chrissy **Meet Chrissy:** Chrissy is a 500HR-RYT, Yoga Therapist, and Thai Yoga Massage Therapist. She came to teaching yoga with a 25+ year personal practice in vinyasa and kundalini, and training in modern dance, music, and theater. She also holds certification in ECE(12unit) and Social/Emotional Learning Facilitation. Her classes are integrated Hatha flow, influenced deeply by yoga philosophy and functional strength. With an emphasis on breath and accessing the present moment, she delights in walking the line between play and prayer. Chrissy strives to honor the origins of yoga while making it accessible to every body. She acknowledges her position as white, able-bodied, and cisgendered, aiming to be inclusive and trauma informed. Her classes are donation based with no one turned away for lack of funds. Private clients are sliding scale. In lieu of a studio, Chrissy teaches on line and outside in parks on the sovereign land of the Lisjan Ohlone. *Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu* May all beings be happy, healthy, and free. May we contribute to that. [https://chrissyyoga.com/](https://chrissyyoga.com/#home) **Meet Jess:** Jess is an artist and an athlete. At the beginning of her ceramics trajectory, working as a studio tech at a college clay studio, she realized she needed to be strong to load kilns and make large batches of clay. The physicality of her art became a driving reason to care for her body and its functional strength and mobility. Strength, agility, balance, flexibility and injury prevention (and recovery) were all things she found her personal yoga practice improved. In 2015 she became a certified 200 HR-RYT through Core Power and in 2021 she received a second 200 HR-RYT from Purusha Yoga. Jess guides a vinyasa flow based practice, with an emphasis on linking breath to movement and being in the present during practice. Jess teaches yoga in Willard Park and on the SF Bay on stand up paddle boards. She owns her own stand up paddleboard company, 510-Waterline, in Richmond, CA. [https://www.510waterline.com/](https://www.510waterline.com/). And she currently makes pots at her home studio in Berkeley, CA. teaches adult ceramic classes, workshops and has exhibited her work internationally. What she says in her artist statement about her pots also applies to her yoga practice “Strength lies in the fluidity of opposites – of line and mass, contraction and relaxation, tension and softness, push and pull. Ultimately, I want my pots to be graceful, elegant, and straightforward. It’s all about strength and beauty.”[ https://www.jesspots.com/](https://www.jesspots.com/) **Meet Carmen:** Carmen has long believed in the body's innate wisdom and capacity for resilience. In her work as a Yoga Teacher, Yoga Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner she helps this wisdom to emerge and transform. She completed her 500 hour (RYT) Yoga Therapy training at Purusha Yoga in San Francisco, a three-year professional Somatic Experiencing® training at Somatic Experiencing International®, is a certified Veterans Yoga Project teacher, as well as a trained wellness coach with the Kresser Institute. Carmen is currently teaching group yoga classes and offering private integrative somatic therapy and somatic wellness coaching sessions. Her mission as a yoga teacher is to create a safe and supportive environment for her students to explore the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, while cultivating resiliency and a deeper connection to self. Carmen also co-facilitates wellness retreats, and works individually with clients offering integrated somatic therapy sessions. [https://carmencasado.com/](https://carmencasado.com/)

Weave Your Own Ribs Style Foraging Basket (Berkeley)

**\*\*Register [here](https://forms.gle/khFPU5JZiwGxfKi5A), NOT on Meetup:** [https://www.forkinthepath.org/schedule](https://www.forkinthepath.org/schedule)[**](https://www.forkinthepath.org/schedule**) Join storyteller and basketweaver Jerry Falek and learn to make your own 8-inch ribs-style foraging basket made from reed in this half-day workshop. Designed with a sturdy oak frame and comfortable handle, this classic style is perfect for gathering mushrooms, berries, or garden herbs. You will walk away with a functional, hand-woven basket to bring on all your future foraging adventures. No prior experience necessary; all materials are provided. Oct 18th 10am-3pm (with an hour break for lunch) All registrations must be completed on our website [here](https://www.forkinthepath.org/registration-baskets-1) **More Important Details** These programs are very popular and often fill up very quickly. We encourage you to register right away if you'd like to attend! If you are reading this, the class is not full. Space is updated daily. **About Fork In The Path** Fork In The Path offers transformational foraging experiences in California for the adventurous of all ages. You can check us out on Instagram [here](https://www.instagram.com/forkinthepath100//).

Doubles Beach Volleyball - (Saturday @10am)

Dim Sum & New Pals: Chinatown Night Market

**RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/TIglYn2ncXEkYvAhYGQl?utm_source=meetup&utm_content=a **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later** Hey weekend starters! 🏮🥟🧋 Kick off your Friday night in the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown with new friends, incredible food, live music, and all the energy of the famous Chinatown Night Market! We’ll start with quick, fun 1:1 conversations guided by the Gist IRL app. No awkward guessing who to talk to next. The app pairs you up so you can relax, chat, and see who matches your Friday night energy. Then comes the best part: we’re taking our new friendships straight into the Night Market! 🥢 Reconnect with the people you clicked with, form a small crew, and eat your way through Chinatown. Think steaming dim sum, vegan spring rolls, egg tarts, milk tea, and tanghulu while we wander beneath the lanterns, catch live music and street performers, shop local vendors, and explore the market together. THE PLAN 🏮 6:30 PM — Check-In Set up your quick profile and check in. 6:40–7:45 PM — Speed Friending Fun one-on-one rounds to meet your fellow foodies. 7:45 PM+ — Night Market Food Crawl 🥟🧋 Form a crew of new friends and head into the market for food, drinks, music, and exploring! Come hungry, come curious, and come ready to meet some new people. 🥟🧋🏮 🏮 Chinatown Food Crawl Challenge Your crew has one mission: eat your way through the Night Market together! Before the night ends, find and share: 🥟 Something steamed — dumplings, bao, dim sum 🍜 Something savory — noodles, spring rolls, skewers 🧋 Something to sip — boba, milk tea, fruit tea 🥧 Something sweet — egg tart, sesame ball, tanghulu 🎲 Wildcard — something nobody in your group has tried before! Last time we tried the stinky tofu!! **RSVP via:** https://app.gistirl.com/event-details/TIglYn2ncXEkYvAhYGQl?utm_source=meetup&utm_content=a **Early Bird Discounts | More $ Later**

Richmond Library Cleanup

Meet at the Richmond Library ([351 9th Ave](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+%2F+Senator+Milton+Marks+Branch+Library/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x16b095dae03b1f88?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111 "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+%2F+Senator+Milton+Marks+Branch+Library/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x16b095dae03b1f88?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111")) at 3:30pm where we'll to grab our supplies and form our crew. Then, cleaning will occur around the neighborhood until 4:30pm. Sign up on Meetup, this [Civic Joy Fund Mobilize](https://www.mobilize.us/civicjoyfund/event/756695/) page, or email info@refuserefusesf.org with the event name. \*By participating or registering in a cleanup or volunteer event, I acknowledge and agree to the Civic Joy Fund and Refuse Refuse volunteer waivers: [https://civicjoyfund.org/volunteer](https://civicjoyfund.org/volunteer) - [https://refuserefusesf.org/waiver](https://refuserefusesf.org/waiver)

Treasures of the Pharaohs Guided Tour @ de Young

When was the last time you played catch?

Toss a baseball, softball, football, volleyball around at Marina Green while meeting good people. No pressure. No teams. Just catch and conversation. Bring yourself and if you have a glove the more the merrier. **Play Catch. Catch Up.**

Western Addition Cleanup

Meet at Western Addition Library ([1550 Scott St](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Western+Addition+Library/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x40139d14e3c90e5c?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111 "https://www.google.com/maps/place/Western+Addition+Library/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x40139d14e3c90e5c?sa=X&ved=1t:2428&ictx=111")) to grab our supplies and form our crew. Then, cleaning will occur from 11:00am to 12:00pm around the neighborhood. Sign up on Meetup, this [Civic Joy Fund Mobilize](https://www.mobilize.us/civicjoyfund/event/756109/) page or email info@refuserefusesf.org with event name. \*By participating or registering in a cleanup or volunteer event, I acknowledge and agree to the Civic Joy Fund and Refuse Refuse volunteer waivers: [https://civicjoyfund.org/volunteer](https://civicjoyfund.org/volunteer) - [https://refuserefusesf.org/waiver](https://refuserefusesf.org/waiver)

Puzzles & Pinot

Join us for Assemble Puzzlery’s event at Best Friends in Albany. There will be pairs and teams speed puzzling as well as free, drop-in casual puzzling and puzzle chess. If you want to compete be sure to register at Assemble Puzzlery's website. https://assemblepuzzlery.com/collections/puzzles-and-pinot-at-best-friends-10-11-26 Don't forget, Best Friends is a 21+ venue