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Sunday's in June
Our Weekly Gatherings are at the
Same time: 10:30 AM, and
Same place: Locke Hall Student Lounge,
With the same great music!
June 3--Tony Jackson, speaking on "Answering the Call."
June 10-June 24 Wisdom of the Tao in Stories.
Hear great stories, and useful practices! Let's take a look at our spiritual possibilities using ancient wisdom with a contemporary perspective! |
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Join us as we start our next 4 week book study class on:
You Can Create an Exceptional Life
Louise Hayes and Cheryl Richardson
June 6 - 27
Wednesdays at 10am and 6:30pm
Unity Center
Based on a series of conversations between Louise and Cheryl, we can consider what they have to say about the importance of loving ourselves and ourbodiesaging consciously; bringing true porsperity and abundance to the world; manifesting positive relationships-both with family and friends in the workplace; and facing death in a dignified and peaseful way. This class will be a "discussion" class, with lots of solid, classic Metaphysics!
Marylee will be leading this class, and like all Unity classes, this offered as "Love Offering" or playfully the "karma method"! |
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Minister's Letter
Dear Friends,
As spring slides into summer, we near the halfway mark for the year 2012. Wow! This is a good time to pause and take a look at the first half and plan and readjust our vision for the rest of this year. Summer is also a good time for "special projects". Our Unity summer focus is on "Deepening our Spiritual Practice".
Part of our Unity of Stockton Vision is to deepen personal spiritual understanding and practice in our lives and as an organization to provide a place and activities to enjoy and explore together in a way that invites our greater Stockton community.
We were pleased to have Gary Springfield in May with 15 people participating. We were excited to have a packed workshop with Mary Keeney exploring Yoga Nidra (an ancient form of meditation over 5000 years old) resulting in a new weekly practice class on Tuesday evenings. It will be limited to only 12/week so sign up early!
Continuing this path, this month we have Lori Wong with Qigong and Vipassana Mindfulness Meditation after our Sunday Gathering June 24 as a workshop, and in July, we will add Yoga for stretching and exercise with Merry Ann Kain.
These activities are added to our Wednesday Unity classes, Unity prayer and meditation times, and our Healthy Eating group that meets every 3 weeks.
All activities are offered as ways to develop your spiritual sides, confident that this deepening will add to your happiness in all areas in your life! You could choose to do everything, but I imagine that you will pick the things that work best for your spiritual nature.
Enjoy!
Light, Marylee |
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Yoga of Meditation and Self-Inquiry!
A 4 Week Class with Mary Keeney
Tuesdays, June 19th -July 18,
6:30pm - 8pm
Unity Center
Many of you have taken the workshop already. Now it is time to delve a little deeper into our own healing. These classes will provide an intimate exploration of yoga nidra, one of the very ancient forms of yoga. This is a deep relaxation class with guided meditaion throughout enabling you to reach that inner space within us all where true transformational healing can begin.
These classes are done sitting or laying down, there is no physical exercise involved. If you have a yoga mat to bring or share, that would be great.
Class size will be limited to 12 participants, so please pre-register by contacting us at 209-466-5569 or e-mail us at office@unityofstockton.com
There will be no class on Tuesday, July 3rd.
Cost will be $45 for the 4 week session(always free for veterans of the Iraq/Afghanistan wars).
Mary brings 50 years of experience and study to this very special practice called Nidra Yoga. We are so pleased to have her join us for this class session.
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Qigong Workshop with Lori Wong
Sunday, June 24, 1p.m.
Potluck Lunch after our Sunday
Gathering and before the Workshop.
No special attire required!!
Qigong (pronounced "chi gung"), or Chinese energy exercise, is a powerful, gentle movement practice suitable for all ages and physical conditions. It relaxes and strengthens the connection between body and mind, helps us tune into the experience of flowing energy, releases stagnant energy, revitalizes our inner life-force, and touches the deepest sense of our well-being. Mindfulness meditation is a practice in which we pay attention to ordinary experiences: mental states of mind, internal talk and thoughts, physical and emotional body sensations. In doing so, we find that these experiences can be known energetically in the body and the skill that develops in not becoming reactive to our experience cultivates well-being. These two practices support and complement one another. This workshop will introduce mindfulness meditation and Qigong practices and how they can bring greater well-being in our lives.
Lori Wong has been practicing mindfulness meditation since 2003 and is a Community Dharma Leader in training through Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. Her mentor teachers in the program are Gil Fronsdal of Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and Eugene Cash of SF Insight in San Francisco. She has been a student of tai chi and qigong since 2009 - her teacher is Neil Thomas of the Kung Fu Institute in Modesto. She is a former board member of the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City and is currently on the board of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and is a founding director of the Buddhist Insight Network. She leads an Insight Meditation sitting group on Tuesday evenings at the Unity Church in Modesto and is also a volunteer in the Buddhist Pathways Prison Project, bringing mindful meditation to California state prisons in the Central Valley.
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Healthy Eating/Lifestyle Group
Friday, June 15, 2012 at 7:00 P.M.
Unity Center
Karma of Breakfast. What is Karma?
Eastern philosophy knows it as stuff we carry around for lifetimes. In the west, here, it is simply Cause and Effect. If we know what's Causing us to have unhealthy bodies and ultimately minds and souls, then we can Effect change to help us live Healthy Happy Lives.
In this workshop we will explore, "Breakfast for Health." Many people on the move in our busy society eat breakfast on the go or not at all. Breakfast is an important meal to get us energized and get's us going in the morning.
See and taste several excellent breakfasts at out June 15th workshop at 7PM in the Unity Office Center. As always, here's to your health!! |
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Coming in July!
More Great Classes and Workshops
Mark you Calendars Now.
More Information Coming Soon!
- Gentle stretching yoga with Merry Kain.
- Yoga Nidra Continues
- Healthy Eating Continues
- Vipassana Meditation Weekly??
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New Books in our Bookstore!
- "A Mindful Nation" by Tim Ryan
- "The Second Book of the Tao" by Stephen Mitchell
- "Tao te Ching" A Pocket Edition by Stephen Mitchell
- "The Lazarus Blueprint" by Mary-Alice & Richard Jafolla
- "Living in Gratitude" by Angeles Arrien
- "Why Walk When You Can Fly" by Isha Judd
- "Mindfulness for Beginners" by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- "Do Greater Things, Following in Jesus'Footsteps" by Felicia Searcy
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Map for Locke Center in the Student Lounge.
Services at the same time, 10:30 AM.
From I-5 North or South:
Take the March Lane exit East.
At Pacific Avenue Turn Left.
Turn Left into the main entrance to Delta College.
To access "C1" Lot: At the entrance bear Right and turn Left into the first lot.
Stay Left and turn Left into the Child Development Center Lot.
To access "L5" Lot: At the entrance bear Left and turn Right into the first lot. This lot is for those more experienced with moving around Delta college.
Check the arrow on the map for our location and see our Greeters at the C1 lot to be pointed to the room!
From Highway 99:
Turn onto Highway 4 West and go to Interstate 5 North.
Take the March Lane exit East.
At Pacific Avenue Turn Left.
Turn Left into the main entrance to Delta College.
To access "C1" Lot: At the entrance bear Right and turn Left into the first lot.
Stay Left and turn Left into the Child Development Center Lot.
To access "L5" Lot: At the entrance bear Left and turn Right into the first lot. This lot is for those more experienced with moving around Delta college.
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