This on-going Adult Enrichment group meets every week on Tuesday evenings for one hour of meditation including a reading.  Come, sit, listen, and meditate with us.

Yoga is a multipurpose tool for improving a lifetime: the essence of Yoga is nonphysical inner development. To varying degrees for each individual, Yoga brings inner quiet, peace of mind, character strength, and spirituality. We each relate to it and its many physical and inner benefits in ways that suit our individual needs and personalities.

This Mindful Yoga program cultivates the abstract benefits. It encourages a quiet, mindful awareness while doing a full range of classical postures. Postures improve health through strengthening, purifying, and toning of the body, as well as of the nerve, and energy systems. Improved health, self-confidence, and a feeling of well-being, foster the inner results. Although the postures are a valuable tool, their improvement of the body is a byproduct, not the goal of Yoga practice.

Appropriate for a range of students, the approach is sufficiently safe, gentle, and even-paced for new students, while providing depth, variation, and practice options for experienced students.

Led by Beck Anamin
Meets Thursdays, weekly
An Adult Enrichment Program

This service offers a time for meditation, reflection, and  renewal through music, brief words, and silence. Come sing, light a candle, and nurture your spirit during this nontraditional worship experience - and bring a friend! There will be a rehearsal from 6 to 6:45 pm for singers who would like to learn the harmonies to the chants we will sing.

We are also looking for instrumentalists interested in participating, but would need to know in advance who is able to come. For more information, please contact Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger at 603-410-4830 or michael@concorduu.org.

The Dances of Universal Peace are based in mantras from many world religions. Walking practice, prayer, sound current vibration, and gentle full body movement create an atmosphere of heart centered peace. The Dances of Universal Peace are lead by Sarah-Elizabeth Whitcomb and Jane Jenaabi Finlay. We have musical support with guitar, harp, flute, recorder and drum. Bring your beginner self. All mantras and dance movements will be shared with interpretation. 

The Chapel will be open a half hour prior to beginning in order to allow for centering time for the leaders and musicians. All are welcome to join us as we connect and create space together. Bring yourself, an open heart and a friend to the circle!  

For more information please contact Sarah-Elizabeth Whitcomb at sarah_elizabeth@me.com or 603 365-0852 cell or Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger at michael@concorduu.org or 603 410-4830. 

Days are lengthening, minute by minute.  Imbolc is the gentlest of pagan holidays, celebrating the signs of spring that are just beneath the surface of the frozen earth. Join the ECSG as we honor the Goddess Brigid and the growing light, with candles, song and dance.

Stay afterward for snacks, and bring something to share if you'd like.

Greetings from the Ethnic Diners, an Adult Enrichment opportunity.  We meet the third Fridays of the month at 6 pm, September through June with the exception of December. The dinners are informal pot luck affairs. You’re invited to come with or without food & beverage. Join us for dinner and conversation at your convenience.

The following is this years’ schedule of countries:

September: Vegetarian Local Fall Harvest, USA

October: India

November: Spain

January: China

February: Russia

March: Chile

April: Poland

May: Mexico

June: Syria

Any questions feel free to “ask Bob” at 228-6264.

Inner Vacations.  Do you wish you could turn off all the hustle and bustle, the issues and problems, the stress and worries in your mind, if only for a short while?  Through this Adult Enrichment offering,  instructor Mary Surprenant offers relaxation through the use of progressive relaxation and guided imagery.  Come and take one hour for yourself, to let go of the stress, and worries and negative feelings within you.  We will offer four sessions of relaxation--come try one or all four.  The only thing you have to lose is some of the stress you have been carrying!

“Cultivating Trust”

Home Nguyen

For authentic connection to thrive there needs to be trust. Relationships depend on trust. What does it mean to trust something or someone? How do we learn to trust ourselves? How do we recover trust after it has been misplaced or lost?

Women are constantly making sure that everything around them is in order, whether it’s at work or at home taking care of the kids, the house or their extended families, so their personal financial well-being sometimes takes a back seat to everyone else in their lives.

Do you have questions about life insurance or long-term care options? What concerns do you have about your financial situation?

Leading with Presence, Sunday, January 8, 2012, 2-4 pm

As our personal and professional environments become ever more complex and chaotic, many of us are experiencing stress and even hyper-stress.  Uncertainty and ambiguity easily creates anxiety in our minds.

Research has shown that while a certain amount of stress can be a motivator, excessive stress leads to distraction and performance anxiety, stifling our creativity, our productivity, and the quality of our decision making.

The good news is that stress can be reduced, and mental wellness improved through mindfulness practices.  It is possible to handle leadership challenges effectively with a relaxed and positive mental attitude.

This session will draw on neuroscience research and experiential exercises based on Eastern mindfulness practices.  Participants will have a useful “tool kit” for application in their personal lives, at church and at work.

Join us for this enlightening session with mindfulness instructor, Home Nguyen who will have preached the sermon during the morning service.  He will guide us through exercises that have been instrumental to the leadership development of his life coaching and executive coaching practice.

Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

with Reverend Michael Leuchtenberger

Sunday, January 15. 2012

12:30

 This course will offer an overview of our Unitarian Universalist history, our theology, and our evolving identity as a religious tradition. We will discuss how the way we govern ourselves is an expression of our faith, and we will talk about worship, religious education, and the rituals and symbols you are likely to encounter in our churches.   Everyone is invited to attend although the course is particularly geared to people new to the church who want to learn more about our faith.  

“Letting Go, Moving On”

Lyn Betz, Linda Williams, & Rick Mitchell

“Finding Your Oasis”

Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger
It can be easy for life to get in the way of the life we mean to live. It can be easy for our dreams to remain just that: dreams. Church is about connecting our dreams with the reality of life. Church is about making connections so our dreams can come true. Today is bring-another-family-to-church Sunday. Take a look around. Who might be yearning for connection, for a way to deepen their spiritual journey, for a way to make service to others a part of their family culture? Be the one to open the door. Extend the invitation that could change a life, many lives, the world.

“The Heart of Religious Humanism”

Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger
Religious humanism in the 21st century embraces both reason and reverence. It offers a vision of how to live fully in a complex world with wonder, honesty, and hope. It celebrates human embeddedness in the natural world, emphasizes joy in human community, and affirms our commitment to a cause that transcends the self. Religious humanism offers a nontheistic life stance that “exults in being alive in this unimaginably vast and breathtakingly beautiful universe.”

Yoga is a multipurpose tool for improving a lifetime: the essence of Yoga is nonphysical inner development. To varying degrees for each individual, Yoga brings inner quiet, peace of mind, character strength, and spirituality. We each relate to it and its many physical and inner benefits in ways that suit our individual needs and personalities.

This Mindful Yoga program cultivates the abstract benefits. It encourages a quiet, mindful awareness while doing a full range of classical postures. Postures improve health through strengthening, purifying, and toning of the body, as well as of the nerve, and energy systems. Improved health, self-confidence, and a feeling of well-being, foster the inner results. Although the postures are a valuable tool, their improvement of the body is a byproduct, not the goal of Yoga practice.

Appropriate for a range of students, the approach is sufficiently safe, gentle, and even-paced for new students, while providing depth, variation, and practice options for experienced students.

Led by Beck Anamin
Meets Thursdays, weekly

Sermon Title: These Are Our Stories

Guest Preacher: Reverend Michael Walker