HAI Global: North Bay

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈𝐧-𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 - Emeryville
𝐀 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐕𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲

Want more love and connection in your life? Discover the possibilities when you open your heart and let go of judgment and shame. Spend a few hours with us to get a taste of HAI Global and our life-changing workshops and programs.

In this safe, fun, supportive and friendly environment you will begin to discover ingredients for happy, healthy and loving relationships.

The Connection Experience: A Guided Event in Vulnerability & Authenticity provides an experience of community, belonging, and connection that people tell us is unlike most anything else out there. We look forward to sharing time with you.

HAI's The Connection Experience: A Guided Event in Vulnerability & Authenticity (TCE) is an intimate gathering led by highly trained leaders to give you a taste of the profound work that HAI Global offers in our weekend workshops focused on the delicate terrain of love, intimacy and healthy sexuality.

We'll share some thoughts and guide you through a series of gentle exercises designed to open your heart and bring you into connection with others. TCE is an experience of community, belonging, and connection that people tell us is unlike most anything else out there.

As a thank-you for participating in this event, you'll be offered a discount to attend one of our longer workshops. As with any true invitation, you can accept or decline with no pressure. We honor your choices.

Please note that in keeping with HAI's COVID-19 Attendance Policy, masks are optional. You will be asked to sign a COVID risk waiver and have your temperature checked. Please read the full policy before attending the event.

Register: Here on Meetup or on Eventbrite at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hai-globals-the-connection-experience-sebastopol-jan-14-2026-tickets-1979003289111?_gl=1%2Ana62d3%2A_gcl_au%2ANjU2NjQ1NDgxLjE3NjE5NTI2Njk.%2A_ga%2AMTIzOTg0MDA2NC4xNzYxOTUyNjcw%2A_ga_6G59DPY6YG%2AczE3NjY5NzM1OTgkbzMkZzEkdDE3NjY5NzM2MTIkajQ2JGwwJGgw

Start your HAI journey with Connecting in Love, an immersive weekend workshop that is designed for you, exactly as you are now. In this workshop you will have profound opportunities for deeply connecting with yourself and others. We gently invite you to let go of the layers of defense that have kept you safe in the past, but now may just be keeping you separate.

The workshop is designed to be a safe place for you to explore your inner world, as well as your connections with others. Our focus on Love, Intimacy and Sexuality provides fertile ground for self discovery, and true intimacy with others in a non-sexual context.

Food and some basic lodging options are included in your workshop ticket price. If you would like to upgrade your lodging or add high-protein meals, you will have the opportunity to do so once you are registered.

HAI is adding a mandatory $15 surcharge to in-person weekend workshops to cover COVID testing and other COVID related expenses until they are no longer necessary.

HAI Global is committed to the safety of its participants, volunteers and employees. You will be tested for COVID onsite at registration.
Mandala Spring offers organic plant-based food as part of a wholesome vegan/vegetarian diet program. They do not allow the cooking or consuming of any animal products on the property, which includes meat, fish, and eggs. The sole exception is that some dishes prepared by their catering may use milk, cheese, butter, or ghee.

“There must be something more than this.”
For some who come to their first HAI workshop, they may not be able to identify anything specifically wrong with their lives, but just that something’s missing. You come to your first workshop full of who you have always been, and for most of us there is a sense that “there must be something more than this.” There must be a deeper, richer something—but it is elusive. We catch glimpses, whiffs and moments. We bring with us our hopes, our pain, even our undoing, and our very real sense of knowing underneath we feel there is something more.

We come and we listen and then we begin to share, answering questions we have perhaps not spoken out loud into a truly listening ear. We begin to listen to others in a way that makes little inroads into our own possibilities—something inside has a new, stronger voice—sometimes it cries, sometimes it laughs and sometimes it comes with a shiny new idea about how we might live. Perhaps it is true that there is a miracle inside the decision to love and we begin to follow a thread, a rope, a path, and then a road.

Along this road we find others that have sought something more. We begin to explore that elusive longing and find ourselves in the embrace of other like-minded humans. Then, we grow in the warmth of a community coming together to be the loving human family we all long for.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Discover you are beautiful and lovable, just as you are.
• Let go of fear and shame that can block love and intimacy
• Practice speaking and listening from your heart
• Accept and love your body, as it is today
• Change habits and patterns that no longer serve you
• Feel the support of loving community
• Take risks, have fun, change your life

Come let your guard down, let your heart be touched, and come home to yourself.

“I learned at HAI workshops that I really am lovable and valuable, and I now believe people when they tell me, ‘I love you.’ As I have opened to loving myself, it has made my relationships so much richer, deeper and real.” ~K.L.

starts with Connecting in Love, an immersive weekend workshop that is designed for you, exactly as you are now. In this workshop you will have profound opportunities for deeply connecting with yourself and others. We gently invite you to let go of the layers of defense that have kept you safe in the past, but now may just be keeping you separate.
The workshop is designed to be a safe place for you to explore your inner world, as well as your connections with others. Our focus on Love, Intimacy and Sexuality provides fertile ground for self discovery, and true intimacy with others in a non-sexual context.
Food and some basic lodging options are included in your workshop ticket price. If you would like to upgrade your lodging or add high-protein meals, you will have the opportunity to do so once you are registered.
HAI is adding a mandatory $15 surcharge to in-person weekend workshops to cover COVID testing and other COVID related expenses until they are no longer necessary.
HAI Global is committed to the safety of its participants, volunteers and employees. You will be tested for COVID onsite at registration.
Mandala Spring offers organic plant-based food as part of a wholesome vegan/vegetarian diet program. They do not allow the cooking or consuming of any animal products on the property, which includes meat, fish, and eggs. The sole exception is that some dishes prepared by their catering may use milk, cheese, butter, or ghee.

“There must be something more than this.”
For some who come to their first HAI workshop, they may not be able to identify anything specifically wrong with their lives, but just that something’s missing. You come to your first workshop full of who you have always been, and for most of us there is a sense that “there must be something more than this.” There must be a deeper, richer something—but it is elusive. We catch glimpses, whiffs and moments. We bring with us our hopes, our pain, even our undoing, and our very real sense of knowing underneath we feel there is something more.
We come and we listen and then we begin to share, answering questions we have perhaps not spoken out loud into a truly listening ear. We begin to listen to others in a way that makes little inroads into our own possibilities—something inside has a new, stronger voice—sometimes it cries, sometimes it laughs and sometimes it comes with a shiny new idea about how we might live. Perhaps it is true that there is a miracle inside the decision to love and we begin to follow a thread, a rope, a path, and then a road.
Along this road we find others that have sought something more. We begin to explore that elusive longing and find ourselves in the embrace of other like-minded humans. Then, we grow in the warmth of a community coming together to be the loving human family we all long for.
In your Connecting in Love workshop, we invite you to be both empowered, and naked. Naked in both your body, and your emotions. What if there were truly nothing in the way? See more on why we invite you to be naked.
The openings are some extravagant mix of inner looking and soft landing places. We begin to breathe deeper and our hearts quiver on the edge of true tenderness and understanding. At first it feels just vaguely familiar and then this openness begins to feel like where we truly want to live.
You will have the opportunity to:

• Discover you are beautiful and lovable, just as you are.
• Let go of fear and shame that can block love and intimacy
• Practice speaking and listening from your heart
• Accept and love your body, as it is today
• Change habits and patterns that no longer serve you
• Feel the support of loving community
• Take risks, have fun, change your life

Come let your guard down, let your heart be touched, and come home to yourself.
“I learned at HAI workshops that I really am lovable and valuable, and I now believe people when they tell me, ‘I love you.’ As I have opened to loving myself, it has made my relationships so much richer, deeper and real.” ~K.L.

To register or learn more:
https://checkout.hai.org/checkout/connecting-in-love-level-1-in-person-norcal-jan-23-25-2026?_gl=1%2a1ulltt1%2a_gcl_au%2aNjU2NjQ1NDgxLjE3NjE5NTI2Njk.%2a_ga%2aMTIzOTg0MDA2NC4xNzYxOTUyNjcw%2a_ga_6G59DPY6YG%2aczE3NjY5NzM1OTgkbzMkZzEkdDE3NjY5NzQ0OTkkajUwJGwwJGgw