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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.
Instead of the Special Friends program, this year we will hold an “Everyone's Birthday” party during Social Hour. There will be 12 tables, one for each month. Kids and adults with birthdays during the same month will be welcome to sit at a table and decorate cupcakes together. They'll also find out about a famous UU who shares their birthday month, play some games, and get to know each other.
The intent of the “Everyone's Birthday” party is the same as the Special Friends program, just a different format. We hope this new way will encourage more adults to participate who might not sign up for Special Friends. We hope both kids and adults will feel more comfortable in a group setting, and spend a little more time getting to know each other and having fun together.
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!
Annual business meeting for the members of the Concord UU Earth-Centered Spirituality Group.
Yoga Is About Your Evolution, Not Your Body
Free talk and potluck dinner
6:30 Pot-luck dinner- Non-veg, Vegetarian, or Vegan - please label it
7:15 Speaker - Beck Anamin, Yogi
Sign-up is optional, but it would be helpful.
Call 776-3525 or email to beckanamin@hotmail.com
Informative handouts will be provided.
Many wonderful Yoga-enhancing postures exist, but they are not mandatory to a full Yoga life. In the modern versions of Yoga, the emphasis on postures has veiled and distracted from the rich and amazing underlying philosophy, the heart of Yoga. In plain, easy to understand language, Beck will describe key aspects of that enduring 4000 year-old philosophy, documented at 250 BCE as the Yoga Sutras (Union Threads).
In 1972, when Beck arrived at the Integral Yoga ashram for teacher training, Swami Satchidananda sent a message about the Yoga Sutras. “This is Yoga. Study it.” Beck accepted that charge and has been studying translations for forty years while teaching Yoga, having a family life and career, retiring, and earning additional teaching credentials. Finding great variation across ten translations, he returned to the original Sanskrit to obtain a uniquely accurate view, now in a yet-to-publish book.
Jane Berlin Pauley, our choir director, will teach a free workshop entitled "Introduction to Singing." This workshop will provide information about breathing and physical preparation for singing as well as beginning vocal exercises for the breath and vocal production. If you are interested in participating or have questions, please email jane@concorduu.org
Sermon Title: These Are Our Stories
Guest Preacher: Reverend Michael Walker
An afternoon community outreach for the children at the the after school program held at the community center for Jennings Drive, one of the child care programs that Merrimack Valley Child Care Services offers. We will make and decorate chocolate dipped pretzel sticks and create lovely Valentine’s Day cards with the children. This project is perfect for adults and families with children who are old enough to be helpful. Please go to www.concorduu.org/volunteer.php to sign up to participate.
“Growing a Generous Heart”
Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger & Kristin Nelson
Generosity can be learned. Generosity needs to be modeled. A generous heart is a healthy heart. A generous heart is a growing heart. We need to grow generous hearts.
“The Strings Attached to Power”
Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger
All relationships are defined by power and the difference in power between those in relationship. Power is the ability to impact relationships based on the choices we make. Power is necessary yet power implies responsibility. Both are proportional to each other. To act morally good, those with power need to act responsibly. To act responsibly and as a force for good, we need to embrace the power we have.
“Leave a Light On,” Rev. Misty-Dawn Shelly
Unitarian Universalism is a faith of abundance. What do we have to share with the world as faith communities? When Sunday worship, coffee hour and committee meetings have ended, do we shut the lights off and return the following week, or do we keep a light on for the weary traveler? Let us explore the abundance of our faith and what keeps the light of Unitarian Universalism burning for the weary traveler in need.
“Listening to the Sages,” Rev. Michael Leuchtenberger
Our society is obsessed with the ideal of youth. Yet age has much to offer. If you had one life lesson to pass on to a younger generation, what would it be? Come find out what wisdom our more seasoned members have to offer.
At the first "visioning" conversation our topic will be "Who Are We Now?" Child care will be provided. For questions or more information, call Barbara Keshen 496-8184; bkeshen@comcast.net
Anyone who has been to at least two of our rituals in the past, and would like to help with the planning and presentation of our Ostara (Spring Equinox) Ritual, is welcome to join the Earth-Centered Spirituality Group for this planning meeting. The ritual itself will be at the church on March 20, 7:00 pm.
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