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

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Come join us for a celebration of first harvest and community building.

In honor of harvest, we will be collecting non-perishables for the NH Food Bank - bring a donation or two, and trade them for a chance to win some fabulous hand-crafted items, made by our artsier members.

Come a few minutes early to compete in games of skill at our pre-ritual Lugnasadh Fair, then stay after ritual for a pot-luck harvest feast.

Weather permitting, we'll be outside in the grove, eating on our laps, so plan your pot-luck dish accordingly. You may also want to bring some bug repellant and a chair.

“Looking at the Gray and Seeing the Answers!”
Amy Wright

Adult Education and Enrichment Summer Offering: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week program that teaches participants how to consciously and systematically apply mindfulness, in order to connect with what is genuine, true and healing within each of us. Practices of meditation and gentle yoga will be learned, to cultivate a sustained, awake way of being. Benefits can include reduction of stress, fatigue, anxiety and physical or psychological pain, and can include an increased sense of aliveness, joy, connection and well-being. There is a required commitment of 45-60 minutes of home practice each day during the program. The class will be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning with an orientation on July 3. Please contact Margaret Fletcher at mfletcher@well-aware.org for further details or to register.

Adult Education and Enrichment Summer Offering: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week program that teaches participants how to consciously and systematically apply mindfulness, in order to connect with what is genuine, true and healing within each of us. Practices of meditation and gentle yoga will be learned, to cultivate a sustained, awake way of being. Benefits can include reduction of stress, fatigue, anxiety and physical or psychological pain, and can include an increased sense of aliveness, joy, connection and well-being. There is a required commitment of 45-60 minutes of home practice each day during the program. The class will be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning with an orientation on July 3. Please contact Margaret Fletcher at mfletcher@well-aware.org for further details or to register.

Laughter Yoga combines Unconditional Laughter with Yogic Breathing. It does not rely on jokes, humor or comedy. Laughter begins as a group exercise, and soon becomes real and contagious. Multiple health benefits include increasing the supply of oxygen, boosting the immune system, and energizing metabolism. There are no physical limitations. You need only to bring yourself. Adminssion: free.  Leader: Marcia Wyman. 
(Minimum participants for class: 3; max 20).  (Adult Enrichment)

“The Teachings--a Look at Native Justice"

Linda Williams

Traditional Native American and Native Canadian people take a very different approach to dealing with crime and wrongdoing.  The focus is not on punishing and shaming the offender.  Rather the community as a whole seeks to heal the wrongdoer and lead the person back to the path of living in harmony with the Earth and all people.  As a society with extremely overcrowded prisons, what can we learn from this approach?
 

A worship opportunity for members of the Earth-Centered Spirituality Group.  In the grove if good weather, and in the Parlor if raining.

"Habits of Mind,"  Rick Harkness

Habits are beneficial in that they save us time and effort in dealing with repetitive situations. We don't have to think through how we make coffee every morning; we do it just as we did it yesterday and the day before that, freeing our minds for other tasks. They are great for multitasking. But situations change and sometimes operating on autopilot is inappropriate. Habits of mind are important parts of our characters, and it is useful for each of us to recognize our own good & not-so-good habits.

Setting Ourselves Free: A UU Theology of Liberation
Jennifer Kelleher, Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry

Society can trap us. We are born into systems and structures of which, sometimes, we feel we have no control--especially when it comes to issues of race and ethnicity. How do our Unitarian Universalist values play into our day-to-day lives as we live within these constraints? How do we break free?

Jennifer is a life-long UU, a recent graduate of Meadville Lombard Theological School, and just completed a ministerial internship with the Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ. Jennifer begins a residency as a Chaplain at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia this fall and hopes to enter congregational ministry in the near future. Prior to professional ministry, Jennifer held a decade-long career in pharmaceutical marketing and has also worked in public relations and as a television news reporter. She was raised in Plymouth, MA and has family in the Concord, NH area.

Adult Education and Enrichment Summer Offering: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8-week program that teaches participants how to consciously and systematically apply mindfulness, in order to connect with what is genuine, true and healing within each of us. Practices of meditation and gentle yoga will be learned, to cultivate a sustained, awake way of being. Benefits can include reduction of stress, fatigue, anxiety and physical or psychological pain, and can include an increased sense of aliveness, joy, connection and well-being. There is a required commitment of 45-60 minutes of home practice each day during the program. The class will be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning with an orientation on July 3. Please contact Margaret Fletcher at mfletcher@well-aware.org for further details or to register.

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