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Shamanism Wednesday & Springtime Offerings
March 13, 2012
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Greetings!
If you live in the New York City area, you are in luck. This Spring you can join us to learn about Shamanism, participate in our ever expanding Passover Seder, learn about the meaning of liberation in mystical Judaism, and come over to shake off your worries in a Bollywood night extravaganza. That is if you RSVP for each of these events! So, we suggest run and bring a friend, a lover, or a family member and dive together into these NYC experiences! If you don't live in the New York City area, you are in luck too. This Spring we have started a Faith House video channel with our Living Room hosts and interfaith friends. Over the next six months, we want to make a concerted effort to serve the larger Faith House community around the country and the world. Our growing Twitter account (with 1,000 followers!) is getting more active as Bowie, Frankie, and Samir contribute updates, resources, etc. We also want to learn from you, so join the online conversations! The world is getting more religiously complicated, from acts of violence, to legislation, to presidential politics. Now, more than ever since we started Faith House, experiencing other people's faith to deepen our own and make the world a better place is becoming a foundational religious practice and critical for out future together. That's why we are here and that's why you are where you are. Together, Samir Selmanovic
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Living Room
Shamanism: The Path of Direct Revelation
Wednesday, March 14th
Doors 6 PM
Program 7-8:30 PM
Followed by Snacks
Charlotte's Place
107 Greenwich Street
btwn Rector & Carlisle St
With Stephanie Alston-Nero
RSVPs Welcome Free & Open to the Public
Donations accepted online or at event
Join us for this joyful, hands-on introduction to shamanism, the oldest form of healing on Earth. Shamanism is a path of direct revelation - requiring no outside authorities or beliefs. Through the shamanic journey, a universal practice of shaman throughout the world, you will learn to tap Divine realms of the spirit world accessible to all. Dive into an inexhaustible wellspring of healing, guidance, and insight to deal with the everyday struggles of life.
There has never been a time in human history when shamanism was not practiced. It is an ancient and ever-evolving spiritual practice with worlds of wisdom enough to help us through the 21 century. The evening will include shamanic drumming, singing, and journeying into spirit world.
Stephanie Alston-Nero, artist-performing poet-healer, has a private healing practicing in Harlem. She has written two books of poetry, Kiss Me On My Face of God and In Wild Violet Shrine. She is a faculty member of International Women's Writing Guild, where she has taught at annual conferences at Yale, Brown, and Skidmore College for nearly a decade. As a shamanic activist, she facilitates Healing History Workshop: Transforming the Wounds of Social Oppression. This unprecedented spiritual-educational workshop is designed to help release the wounds of slavery, racism and oppression for people of all races, blending the wisdom of the arts, contemplations on history, and shamanic practices to cleanse the soul of oppression. In her private practice, Stephanie specializes in chronic pain and emotional suffering, ancestral healing, and the healing of artists. Malidoma Patrice Somé, Ph.D. (author, Of Water and the Spirit, Initiations of an African Shaman) says: "Stephanie is a descendant of shamanic power. She is healing the past to stabilize the present and future with more light." www.Healing-History.com
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4th Interfaith Passover Seder with Rabbi David Ingber at St. Francis Xavier Church
Sunday, April 1
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Hurtado Hall
St. Francis Xavier Church
55 West 15th Street
Btwn 5th and 6th Aves
Led by Rabbi David Ingber Music by Shir Yaakov Feinstein Feit & Nadav Lev
RSVP by March 28
Please let us know if you can bring Charoset to share.
The Passover Seder is a ritualized meal commemorating the Exodus. The Seder expresses the universal longing for freedom, justice, and transformation in our lives in our world through ritual, readings, song and a shared meal. People of all faiths and no faith at all are welcomed to this free event.
This wonderful evening is free and dinner will be served. Consider sponsoring a Seder Plate, Musicians or the Meal (see Eventbrite RSVP options). Donations are also welcome at the door.
For further questions contact Luz Diaz lmdiaz@sfxavier.org
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Living Room
Liberation in a Mystical Key: Passover in the Kabbalah
 Wednesday, March 14th
Doors 6 PM
Program 7-8:30 PM
Followed by Snacks
Charlotte's Place
107 Greenwich Street
btwn Rector & Carlisle St
With Rabbi Or Rose
RSVPs Welcome. Free & open to the public. Donations accepted online or at event.
Join us as we explore various medieval and early modern Jewish mystical teachings on the festival of Passover.
*How do the kabbalists understand the relationship between spiritual and physical liberation?
*What do they believe is the relationship between the human being and the Divine in these processes?
*How are classical figures like Moses and Pharaoh treated by the mystics?
This session is intended as both an introduction to Jewish mystical thought and as an opportunity for reflection on the values of freedom, personal and communal responsibility, and religious pluralism.
Rabbi Or N. Rose is the Director of the Center for Global Judaism at Hebrew College (HC) in Boston. He also serves as Co-Director of CIRCLE: The Center for Inter-Religious &Communal Leadership Education, a joint venture of HC and Andover Newton Theological School. Rabbi Rose is the author or editor of several articles and books on Jewish spirituality, social justice, and inter-religious cooperation. He recently co-edited Jewish Mysticism & the Spiritual Life: Classical Texts, Contemporary Reflections (Jewish Lights), and My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Inter-Religious Encounter, Growth, and Transformation (Orbis).
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In faith,
Samir Selmanovic, Founder & Director for Strategic Planning and Community Engagement
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Bollywood Night
at Samir's
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Saturday, March 24th5:30 - 10:30 PM
Come join us for Indian food and a Bollywood movie (3.5 hrs, with intermission) at Samir's House. Jodhaa Akbar features Bollywood's leading lady Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and music by A. R. Rahman in an epic about one of India's greatest emperors, a Muslim Mughal who married a Hindu princess and ushered in a Golden Age for all faiths, culture, art and politics.
Please bring a drink, dessert, salad or side dish to share (Indian cuisine preferred!) RSVP to attend and for address (near W. 116th)
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