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Schedule At a Glance
All Events
are sponsored by
and/or take place at Spirit United
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THIS SUNDAY
Mystery School Sunday
March 22, 2015
10:30-11:30am
Exploring More Deeply the Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin
with
Rev. Ron Moor
Details at right.
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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
March 22, 2015
10:30-11:30am
The JOY Path
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
March 29, 2015
10:30-11:30AM
"Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings"
with
guest speaker
Ted Bowman
Details at right.
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LAST SUNDAY
March 15, 2015
"Skinfully Yours"
with
guest speaker and musician
Claudia Schmidt
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Spring Equinox Ceremony and Celebration
with Jorges Villanueva Castillo and the Sol Fire Team Fri, March 20 7:00pm
Details at right.
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Resilient Grieving - Reasonable Hope Class with Ted Bowman Sun, March 29, 2015 12:30pm-3:00pm
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~Deep Compassionate Listening:
A Gift of Awakening
with
Dr. Mark Umbreit
Sun, April 12
1:00pm-2:30pm
Details at right.~~~~~~~~~~ A Cabaret of Consciousness with Gina Citoli
Sat, April 18 7:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.~~~~~~~~ Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium in collaboration with the MN Pachamama Community Sun, April 26 1:00pm-5:00pm
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events at Other Venues
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Music
at
Spirit Unitedfrom
Music Director
Bettie Seitzer
Details at right.
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Interested in being a member of Spirit United? Orientation Sun, April 19 11:30-12:30pm
Sunday Service Reception Ceremony
May 17, 2015
Details at right.
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SU's Music Director Wants Your Input Details at right.
Enhanced Prayer Ministry
Details at right.
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Create Community Connections
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The Community Corner Needs You.
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Newsletter Submissions
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Support SU the Easy Way. Details at right.
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March 19, 2015
Greetings!
Yet here we sit, with our souls tucked away in this
marvelous luggage, mostly insensible to the ways
in which every spiritual practice begins with the body.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Spirit United 2015 Theme:
Twelve Ways of Spirit March Theme: The Practice of Wearing Skin |
New and exciting events are happening in our beautiful Spirit United community!
Take a look at the articles below and put the dates on your calendar.
More importantly tell all your friends and acquaintances!
Make these events a huge success to help our community thrive!
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THIS SUNDAY
Mystery School Sunday
Going Deeper
March 22, 2015
10:30am-11:30am
Explore More Deeply the Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin
with Rev. Ron Moor
What does the emerging "new story" that Charles Eisenstein calls "interbeing" mean for our own personal relationship with our physical body, our self, each other, our planet and our spirituality? How is it different from the "old story"? How do we more fully live this new story and let go of the old one of separation? Join us for this month's Mystery School Sunday as we explore more deeply The Spiritual Practice of Wearing Skin. Ron will share luminous images, inspirational quotes and sacred chant.
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 KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
10:30am-11:30am
2014-2015 Theme:
The JOY Path
"When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
~ Rumi
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NEXT SUNDAY
March 29, 2015 
10:30am-11:30am
"Following Metaphors: Spiritual and Everyday Meanings" with guest speaker Ted Bowman
Metaphors are common, especially for spiritual matters. Metaphors can contribute to clarity or understanding AND metaphors can be confusing and misconstrued. Perspectives about our own metaphors and for following the metaphors of others will be discussed. Scriptures, and literary resources will be included.
Ted is staying after the service to teach his class Resilient Grieving/Reasonable Hope. See below for details.
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LAST SUNDAY
March 15, 2015
"Skinfully Yours"
with guest speaker and musician Claudia Schmidt
Claudia from her creative connection to Source brought us a unique way to look at how we wear and honor our body, our skin, our soul from the perspective of our skin. Humorous, deeply touching and fun. To listen, click here.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Spring Equinox Ceremony
and Celebration with
Jorges Villanueva Castillo,
The "Sol Fire Shaman"
and
The Sol Fire team:
Guillermo Leubbert and Melanie Metz
Friday, March 20, 2015
7:00pm Donation requested
Experience the Light and Sound of Oneness
as we experience the Power of
this Powerful Spring Equinox
Join the "Sol Fire Team" for chanting, drumming, mantras and more. Major astrological events combine with this equinox including a New Moon and Total Solar Eclipse. Bring your drums and rattles to join in the celebration.
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 Resilient Grieving - Reasonable Hope Class
with Ted Bowman
Sunday, March 29, 2015
12:30pm - 3:00pm
$15
Metaphorical shipwreck may occur with the loss of a relationship, violence to one's property, collapse of a career venture, physical illness or injury, defeat of a cause, a fateful choice that irrevocably reorders one's life, betrayal by a community or government, or the discovery that an intellectual construct is inadequate. (Parks)
However named, grieving such losses may be essential for a fuller grief experience AND beginning to dream and hope again. In this interactive session, participants will be presented with distinctions of altered assumptions and expectations. Further, ways of practicing resilient grieving and reasonable hope will be addressed.
Bio: Ted Bowman is a grief and family educator. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Saint Thomas. He is the author of numerous chapters, articles and books, many of which address themes of grief and hope.
After Ted led a Sunday service in 2014 he was asked by Spirit United to offer a class because of the outpouring community members asking for more from him.
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Deep Compassionate Listening:
A Gift of Awakening
facilitated by Dr. Mark Umbreit  Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:00pm-2:30pm $20 Register: Click here to contact Mark. Deep compassionate listening is a mindfulness-based practice grounded in our heart, not our head. It goes far beyond the more common active listening that by definition keeps us in the head. By working with breath and silence, taming our ego, deep listening is truly of a gift of awakening for both the practitioner and the recipient.
The workshop will provide opportunities to learn and practice centering/breath work, deep compassionate listening, and cultivating the power of presence through mindfulness. Mindfulness, deep listening, and stories are the spiritual core of peace building within and among others.
Course Objectives:
1. To understand the healing power of deep compassionate listening
2. To learn and experience the practice of deep compassionate listening
3. To understand and practice the combined power of mindfulness, deep listening, and stories as the spiritual core of peacebuilding within and among others.
Presenter Biographical Information:
Dr. Mark Umbreit is Director of the Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking at the University of Minnesota and a Visiting Professor at the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee. Mark is also on the faculty of the Center for Spirituality & Healing at the U.M. His most recent book is Dancing With The Energy of Conflict & Trauma: Letting Go - Finding Peace. Mark has been working with colleagues in Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine on peace building initiatives.
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A Cabaret of Consciousness
Saturday, April 18, 2015
7pm-9pm $30 (Please purchase tickets ahead of time.)
Combine a Broadway Deva with an Inspirational Speaker. Add the wisdom of the ages and universal truth. Then deliver it with the energy and presence of a Rock Star and you have Gina Citoli and her Amazing Cabaret of Consciousness.
This show is more than a concert or a workshop yet has qualities of both. Experience the Wonder of Awakened Entertainment a magical journey into new vistas of reality! Click here.
About Awakened Entertainment Links:
The Edge - Click here.
Gina Citoli - Click here.
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Want to be part of creating a whole new world? The first step is attending the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
AND Potluck.
Join us as we bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet.
 Spirit United in collaboration with the MN Pachamama Community will facilitate dynamic group interactions, leading-edge thinking, and powerful multimedia, to inspire you to connect with your deep love for our world and empower you to make a difference. This event is designed with some of the finest scientific, indigenous, and activist minds in the world, the Symposium explores the current state of our planet and will connect you with a global movement to reclaim our future.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
1:00pm to 5:00 pm$20-$50 sliding scale donation at the door (Proceeds shared by both organizations.)Bring a dish to share for the potluck.
Register on line (and learn more about the MN Pachamama Community) by visiting their Facebook page. Click here. Direct questions to Holly by clicking here.
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Music At Spirit United
Hello! I am excited to be coordinating the music for us here at Spirit United; and thank you for all the support and encouragement that you have given me. I want to share with you some of my thoughts about music programming and my goals. (The goals are not listed in priority order.)
First, I want to continue booking a variety of musicians, including bringing new performers to our rotation. I welcome feedback that will help me to understand what we like (and maybe what we don't like). If you know of musicians we have not engaged but should, please let me know. I will pursue those leads! I am also reaching out to my friends and contacts to find good fits for us.
Second, I would like to schedule three or four concert events each year. These events can coincide with an album release or another event such as the Solstices. I have several goals for these events: These events will be an opportunity for us to gather as a community to support some of our favorite artists in a very comfortable setting. These events will attract new people to our community. And, these events will contribute to Spirit United's general fund!
Third, I would like to form a community choir! I know that some of us love to sing and would be willing to lead the congregation in singing our gathering song, chants and songs on Mystery School Sundays. Since there is no budget for this, we would all be volunteers. What I can offer is for this group to meet once a month at my house - we can define the parameters of the meeting - to sing together and prepare the music we will have available. When we are successful, we might even be the music at a Sunday service.
Fourth, I would like to start a music program with Kids With Spirit (KWS). This is a special shared wish from my dear friend Shannon and myself. There is absolutely no budget for this program; I am working on creative solutions to make this happen without a budget. But - I we develop a program our congregation likes, the kids would provide music once or twice a year, which would give us a little budget to work with. The music has to be relevant to the young people and I will work with Shannon (and the kids) to develop the program. Music provides so many developmental advantages that this has become a personal goal for my husband and myself.
Finally, I am your humble servant. All of my goals are about providing the music programming our community wants. I know I cannot please all of the people all of the time; but over time, I hope I can please everyone!
Joyfully,
Bettie Seitzer
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 New Members will be received in a ceremony
on Sunday, May 17, 2015
during the service.
An Orientation Meeting is scheduled for
Sunday, April 19, 2014
after the Sunday service.
If you are interested in becoming a new member of our Spirit United Community, please contact Rev. Ron Moor. Click here to connect to his email.
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Spirit United's Music Director Wants Your Input
Bettie Seitzer wants your thoughts, feelings and ideas about the music on Sundays and within our community.
- What do you enjoy about the music at Spirit United?
- Name musicians or types of music you would like to be brought to Spirit United.
- Share anything you want me to know about the music at Spirit United.
Thank you for your participation.
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To use this enhanced prayer service: Fill out the request form and place it in the wooden prayer box on the pillar next to the meditation room OR click here.
Your prayer requests will be held in community meditation with sacred intention everyday for one month to enhance the power and intention of your prayer.
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CREATE NEW CONNECTIONS
Members can advertise an  d network at Spirit United with your business card.
Put your card with a small holder on the Members' Table located to the left of the Meditation Room.
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... poem, story, book review, picture, photograph, joke, restaurant review, interesting snippet, film review, favorite quote to share with your community.
Items must be properly attributed to the actual author or creator of the entry. Your original creative items are encouraged and may contain an electronic picture, if available. You may submit items to be considered for publication in the Community Corner by clicking here. Please insert the words "Community Corner" in the subject line. Submitted Items are not guaranteed publication.
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