We often love to share Indian Vegetarian Cooking with friends. And thought a wonderful meetup would create fun and memorable culinary experiences by creating deliciously Indian cooking classes. Our hope is to create a theme menu and together we will prepare the meals. This will be a great opportunity to meet new people and expand your repertoire. We will meet at a home in Santa Barbara, and enjoy appetizers while preparing the meal. Ingredients and equipments are provided and after we have finis …

Welcome to the Santa Barbara Board Game Night Club. We are an active gaming group with weekly game nights at local venues in Santa Barbara and Goleta. The club is free to join and people of all ages are welcome. We play a large group of games from the newest to the oldest games released. A typical night could include Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Bang, Ticket to Ride, Forbidden Island and dozens of other games. You can also bring your favorite game and often find people to play it with you. We …

Welcome to these Santa Barbara and Montecito guided mindfulness meditation sitting groups.  The purpose of these groups is to create a warm and supportive community, to learn a skillful practice of mindfulness and Shamata meditation, the introduction of new ideas and building of community.This group lead by Radhule Weininger, MD PhD offers one hour guided mindfulness meditation and loving kindness meditation with the goal to cultivate emotional balance and inner happiness. We meet Tuesdays at 6p …

Learn about tea. Create community through tea. Support local tea businesses. We are a group of tea enthusiasts who enjoy building community around the shared experience of tea and tea culture. Tea offers us a way to take time out from our usual routines to recharge our energy, clear our minds, meet with friends and share our knowledge and experience. We are tea enthusiasts who meet at cafes, restaurants, hotels, parks or just about anywhere that sells tea, serves tea or that allows us to prepa …

We have so many AWESOME events launching NOW- weight loss and 'get fit' challenges, FREE SPX Fitness classes, FREE beach workouts, Sunday hiking, and maybe a little wine every once in awhile. ;) This is your place to get fit and get friends along the way! Get an accountability partner and meet friends who have the same goals as you while most of all... HAVING FUN!

We are about FUN effective fitness programs and modern wellness education for our community. Looking better in a swimsuit and having pain free mobility are the only side effects! As therapist and trainer in our 3rd decade of helping people reach their goals in health, fitness and mobility, we use CST to enchant your fitness experiences, stave away boredom of old style training and put you on a corrective course in wellness. We share with you mental and physical preparedness using CST, as the on …

Hello Welcome to the Santa Barbara Meetup Group “The Minds Potential: Buddhist Meditation for Everyday Life”. We are a group of friendly, sincere, warm-hearted Buddhist practitioners studying Mahayana & Vajrayana Buddhism. We are dedicated to providing both newcomers to Buddhism as well as established practitioners an opportunity to study, learn, & practice the Buddhist teachings. We are seeking to create more meaning in our lives. To see each moment as precious, and to use each moment to culti …

Santa Barbara Meetup welcomes anyone who is interested in investing from beginning to advanced. We are dedicated to teaching the CAN SLIM Investing System. You do not need to be an Iinvestor's Business Daily subscriber to join and membership is free. Each month, we will discuss the current market outlook,  watch list stocks and elements of the CANSLIM strategy.

This is the local Group of the National Sierra Club. We have organized hikes four days a week, nearly every week of the year. This MeetUp is focused on our hiking and social activities. You can find out more about our other activities on the web at: www.sbsierraclub.org Our complete hiking schedule is posted there under Outings. www.sbsierraclub.org/outings

www.SantaBarbaraREIA.com www.SBREIA.com Providing Education and Networking Opportunities For the Local Community and Beyond Active volunteers get into our meetings FREE & earn Commissions! Call Dan Ringwald 805-967-6595 for details RSVP here or at www.SantaBarbaraREIA.com/purchase for all SBREIA meetings. If you are not currently a Meetup.com member please look to the upper right side of this page and click on Join us! Fill out your profile and then RSVP for meetings.  Meetup.com does not give …

Double Dating - a Fun Restaurant Meetup for SB Singles Ah, the dating game - a fun and delightful experience for some, but trepidatious for others. As one solution for those who might like to date without the need to size up one’s dinner companion as a potential sexual conquest (nor to be thought of as one yourself) I’ve created this fun and delightful group! The plan is for a small group of us to visit Santa Barbara restaurants, each paying for our meals separately, while enjoying each other’ …

Contacts N Coffee is a rapidly growing network that gives Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Oxnard, Ojai, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Camarillo, Conejo Valley, Simi Valley, Woodland Hills, Santa Clarita, Valencia, Santa Monica, Burbank, North Hollywood, Pasadena, Orange County and Carlsbad-area businesses a simple, stress-free way to make connections and build business relationships within our community. Everyone is welcome, and there are no formal members …

Are you an atheist, humanist, skeptic, freethinker, or religious nonbeliever? Would you like to interact with more people who share your worldview? Then welcome to the Secular Meetup Group! We are a supportive and compatible group for all people who choose rationality over myth and superstition, evidence-based knowledge over faith-based dogma, and science over paranormal and pseudo-science nonsense. Join us for good discussions about our personal worldviews and experiences, how to best further t …

Running  group with an emphasis on FUN.   This group is open to all ages and paces. We will be training for various half and full marathons. This is a FREE group, no cost to join.   Goal Race 2013 - Santa Barbara Half and Full Marathon on 11/9/13. Our participants have various goals ranging from getting in shape to running a  full rmarathon and beyond. You will have fun and meet other people just like you to exercise with and help you accomplish your fitness goals. You may even make new friends …

Are you 60 years and older, active, and interested in living a successfully aging existence? Do you want to meet like-minded seniors for hikes, luncheons, yoga classes, cultural & community events & evening soirees? Are you seeking new purpose & people in your life after retirement?   Are you neither single, nor a senior, but believe in the value of inter-generational relationships? If so, join us for the many exciting adventures ahead. Most of our activities are facilitated by a professional ev …

This is a group for artists in Santa Barbara County interested in life drawing and other fine arts. I'm a professional artist and I started this group to meet other artists (and aspiring artists) in the area. Santa Barbara is full of good places to draw: State Street, the pier, the farmer's markets, strip malls, and the Sunday arts & crafts show on Cabrillo Blvd. Meetings for these areas are somewhat sporadic, so there is also a general "drink and draw" meetup on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each m …

R is a free, open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization, and is increasingly used in both industry and academia. The purpose of this group is to bring Santa Barbara R users together to exchange information and ideas. Depending on the group's interests, we might also want to expand our focus to talk about other topics related to data analysis, such as Python, GIS applications, and d3.js.

If you are a business owner who wants to learn how social media can help expand your business through the use of proper marketing techniques, then this group is for you! I will show you some tips and tricks that I have been using for many business owners that will get your business found, more leads, and how to effectively convert those leads through the use of social media. And why posting infrequently on Facebook could be hurting your brands image. I am also doing free online assessments for t …

AcroYoga is a playful form of partner yoga that also incorporates acrobatics and Thai Massage. While this group is led by Arianna Thorne, a certified Yoga teacher and Personal Trainer, the "jams" will be informal rather than formal classes where the focus is playful flying, acrobatics, and community building rather than rigid structure. The basics will be provided for newcomers and safety will always be a priority. Whether you're a seasoned acro yogi, practitioner of yoga, or just like the idea …