Shelter in Place Resources: Including links to AA meetings, virtual museum tours, yoga classes etc.
AA/AL ANON Meetings/Resources
Al ANON Meetings via Zoom
You can have your camera off, change your screen name, have complete anonymity and just listen in to check it out.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1znbPbHC493WrwxmFEvTrNViWSOWfMtCz3B9ZJVOFd-w/edit
AA Meetings via Zoom
https://sites.google.com/view/bayareazoomaameetings
Ongoing Online AA meetings that were already online before CoVid:
link: https://aasfmarin.org/online-meetings
SLAA (Sex & Love Anonymous)
https://slaafws.org/onlinemeetings
OA (Overeaters Anonymous)
The Buzz is the newsletter that will keep you up to date with what is happening in AA in both SF & Marin. They are covering the virtual shift in meetings and making announcements.
https://aasfmarin.org/the-buzz
Youtube’s infinite resource of AA speakers
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=AA+speakers
Al Anon Speakers
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=al+anon+speakers
Recovery Dharma Online Meetings
Guided meditation in Buddhist fashion (“May you be free of suffering…etc./dedication of merit). You can show up as anonymously as you like, with no video and no name. Free. Many daily meetings.
https://recoverydharma.online/
Meditation Resources
At-home meditation with San Francisco Dharma Collective:
https://sfdharmacollective.org/
Tara Brach Meditation
https://www.tarabrach.com/facing-pandemic-fears/
Some favorite podcasts
Virtual Yoga
https://jivaniyoga.com/home-yoga-video-series
https://www.glo.com/– 15 day free trial
https://dannipomplun.com/practice-online/
https://www.yogajournal.com/practice-section/in-these-times-webinar-series
Ayurveda
https://rasa-ayurveda.com/blogs/lifestyle-support-blog
https://tiffanynicholson-smith.com/womens-ayurveda-tantra-online-immersion/
Breathing Exercises
https://www.healthline.com/health/breathing-exercise
Virtual Concerts
Virtual Dance
https://www.rhythmandmotion.com/social-distance-dancing
Virtual Field Trips
Museum Tours
Stroll the Uffizi Gallery from your armchair! Also at the bottom of this link, the Metropolitan Opera is offering opera performance streaming.
Other Museum Tours
Virtual tour of the Boston Children’s Museum https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/museum-virtual-tour
Tour the Louvre
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Monterey Bay Aquarium feeds (jelly cam is the coolest, with “spa” music!)
https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams.
Visit a Place on Earth You’ve Never Been:
Globe genie: http://www.globegenie.com/
360 citieshttps://www.360cities.net/
Air panohttp://www.airpano.com/
Live stream nature… such as the Northern Lights:
https://explore.org/livecams/aurora-borealis-northern-lights/northern-lights-cam
Free Adult Education
Yale: The Science of Well Being
Itunes U
https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/coursemanager/
Some Writing/Creative Ideas:
Write a letter to your future self
Write your story, start your autobiography
Collage, draw, paint, practice an instrument Express yourself and your internal landscape.
Parenting Programs
www.practicesanfrancisco.com/online-programs
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
Kids Schooling/ Academic Games
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/
https://www.khanacademy.org/?fbclid=IwAR1KhePddahtPGBmg-Ozohog73iZZaFwqFFDTxy6RianCq3_3U2IatAfm10
https://www.turtlediary.com/?fbclid=IwAR2vk707Rv8AATvNsOQTHMBXgcpC6toFyDUgpJb3iHbxOEI9OJ8C11bxxiU
Most of this content was developed by Dr. Tonya Dowding, PsyD, Registered Psychological Assistant, Adjunct Faculty, California Institute of Integral Studies