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Schedule At a Glance
All Events
are sponsored by
and/or take place at Spirit United
unless otherwise noted.
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An Update From The Community Meeting Last Sunday Regarding
Our Move
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THIS SUNDAY
MYSTERY SCHOOL SUNDAY
January 24, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
Spirit United Emerging through Presence, Practice and Play
with
Rev. Ron Moor
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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
January 24, 2016
The gift of Bravery
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
Jan. 31, 2016
10:30-11:30am
Living Our Spirituality: Presence, Practice and Play
with
guest speaker Bernie Saunders
Details at right.
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LAST SUNDAY
January 17, 2016
FIRE STARTING with Dr. DEW Rogers
along with musicians
Meg Miura and David Chapman
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Blossoming Hearts ~Meditations of Peace and Healing Ourselves and Our World
EVERY Wednesday
7:00pm-8:30pm
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Yoga with Maria
EVERY Monday
4:00-5:30pm
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~
MN Holistic Nurses Association Gathering
Healing Health Disparities with Food/Agricultural Justice
with
Karen Clark, FN, MP, MN State Legislator
Sat, Jan. 23, 2016
9:00am -12:00pm
Details at right.
~~~~~~~~~Spirit Walkers Full Moon
Celebration
with
Sol Fire Shaman,
Jorge Villanueva Castillio
along with
Special Guests
Sat, Jan. 23, 2016 2:00pm-5:00pm
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~Healthy Connection Healthy Boundaries with Rev. Ron Moor
11 Week Class begins
Tues, Jan. 26 7:00-9:00pm
Details at right. ~~~~~~~~~
Book Gathering The Grace
of Ordinary Days with photographer and author Bernie Saunders
Sun, Jan. 31, 2016 after the Sunday gathering 12:00pm-1:00pm
Details at right.
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Building a Movement with Energy Solutions- The UN Climate Change Talkback Tom Goldtooth will be here to share his experience. Sat, Jan. 30, 2016
10:00am-4:00pm
Details at right.
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Visit our Meditation Room the Sacred Sculpture Altar Awaits You
Dr. DEW Rogers shares this in support of our Shero's Journey
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Judy Trautner dies with her family around her.
Details at right.
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Healing Prayers for Illana Christyna Livstrom
Details at right.
~~~~~~~~~ Spirit United's Notification Process for Canceling due to the Weather
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January 20, 2016
Greetings!
"Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
~ Will Rogers
Spirit United 2016 Theme:
Living Our Spirituality
Through Presence, Practice and Play
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Let's keep the candle burning for SU's metamorphosis & ascension into what we are becoming. Thank you DEW Rogers.
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An Update From The Community Meeting Last Sunday Regarding Our Move.
About 30 people stayed
for the discussion.
The Council of Stewards reported what they have been doing since they heard the news. They shared their vision of finding a space that allows Spirit United to be a center from which our space can be shared and rented to multiple groups with the hope of having more than one event happening at the same time.
The meeting group discussed the vision, ideas they have had about property, creative financing, our needs as a community and what needs to be done to be ready for the move.
Stay tuned for more updates and watch for emails stating our needs and a call to action will be made known.
Every friend and member of Spirit United has a vital role to play--financially, physically and spiritually--for us to make this move.
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THIS SUNDAY
Mystery School Sunday
January 24, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
Spirit United Emerging Through Presence, Practice, and Play
with Rev. Ron Moor
How do we align ourselves with the forces that are calling us to change? What does it take to bring about meaningful, positive growth? How much control do we have over our own destiny? What spiritual practices will support us as we seek to secure our new home? Right now we have more questions than answers, but there are teachings, old and new, that we can help light our way.
With inspirational quotes, luminous images, sacred chant, and updates on our search for a new home. Saleem Adam Wolter will lead us in a sacred dance of Universal peace.
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Kids  With Spirit
This Sunday
January 24, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
The gift of Bravery.
This year's theme:
We create beauty in our lives
and our world with Love, Wisdom, Respect, Honesty, Bravery, Truth and Humility. The foundation for the theme comes from the Seven Grandfathers' Teachings of the Ojibwe people. |
 NEXT SUNDAY
January 31, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
Living Our Spirituality: Presence, Practice, Play
with guest speaker
Bernie Saunders
 Being one with nature provides exciting and challenging opportunities to explore our inner self in ways never considered before. Bernie Saunders will share with us one of his out-of-the-ordinary and revealing photographic experiences, and invites us to explore how we discover the power and reward of living our spirituality, by trusting our vulnerability.
After the service Bernie will be having a book gathering where you can hear his story about creating the book, The Grace of Ordinary Days.
Bernie Saunders is the founder of The Center for Living Art, acclaimed professional photographer, with 40 years working in the human development field. He has a Masters of Applied Theology degree, and is the author of three books.
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LAST SUNDAY
January 17,2016
FIRE STARTING
with
guest speaker
Dr. DEW Rogers and musicians Meg Miura and David Chapman   
Dr. DEW led us on a "s/hero's" journey through her sacred sculpture altar. We moved through each stage together to help propel us to our own inner knowing. The stages are: birth, the soul's call, crossing the threshold to the unknown, spiritual warfare, the fearless guardian, the knowing-the mother of nations and finally the metamorphosis and ascension. Dr. DEW not only talked about our personal journey but also the journey of our community Spirit United as we embark on moving our location. Dr. DEW graciously loaned us her sculpture garden. It is in our meditation room along with the s/hero's journey process. Visit our meditation room and go deep into yourself.
Meg Miura and David Chapman shared their music with us. David stepped up to the mic and blessed us with song. Beautiful.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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Blossoming Hearts:
Meditations of Peace and Healing Ourselves and Our World
EVERY Wednesday
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Suggested donation $10-$15
All are welcome!
Deepen your spiritual practice. Each session will begin with breath and movement practices to help deepen our meditation. Then we will embark on a series of guided and silent meditations designed to bring greater peace and healing to ourselves and to our world. The focus will always be on peace and healing. Each week will vary according to the current needs of the world and of the group itself. We will do world work and we will do a group meditation for the collective individual needs.
Our guide for month of January is Ron Moor. He has been an adventurer of meditation for almost 40 years and has led and taught meditative practices across the country.
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YOGA with Maria
4:00pm-5:30pm
$10 suggested donation (Half the proceeds goes to Spirit United.)
Only park on the street please.
Join Maria for a Gentle Yoga Practice. It will be a gentle class, rich in tradition. Give yourself the gift of yoga, your mind body and spirit will thank you. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket or towel and dress comfortably.
Maria is a certified Hatha instructor through the Freehold Yoga Center with extra studies in Restorative Yoga from the Himalayan Institute. Maria also has knowledge in the uses and benefits of breathing techniques.
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 Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association Gathering
Healing Health Disparities with Food/Agricultural Justice with Karen Clark, FN, NP, MN State Legislator
Saturday, January 23, 2016 9:00 am - 12:00 noon $3.00 MHNA members $5.00 non-members Free parking available in the lot east of the building and on the street. Certificate of Attendance available-2.4 contact hours
Everyone Welcome! Join us in exploring the current status of Minnesota's racial and gender health disparities and discuss how food justice and agricultural justice work can provide healing opportunities.
MHNA Theme for the Year:
We Are All Connected!!!
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 Spirit Walkers
Full Moon Celebration
Saturday, January 23, 2016
2:00pm-5:00pm
$15 Love donation
Bring a drum if you have one.
Shamanic Journey & Thunder Drum Healing
by Sol Fire Shaman, Jorge Villanueva Castillo
with
Cedric Red Feather,
Mandan Turtle Priest & Author
and
Janet Michele Red Feather,
Ceremonial Singer & Author
Grandfather Shire Ted Harrison
with Medicine Wheel Wisdom
The Power of Group
Energy Healing
with
Horse Julius Coffman,
Cultivator of Spirituality
at Three Feathers Farm
Full Moon Astrology, Channeling, Drumming
Cedric Red Feather is a Mandan Turtle Priest responsible for transmitting the stories, songs and prophecies of his people, the Nueta (Mandan) to the next generation of Waxikenas. He has Eagle Medicine given to him by a Holy Man on Ft. Berthold; Buffalo Medicine from his
Grandfather, Arthur Mandan; and Ghost  Medicine given to him by the Spirits. Cedric is a Purple Heart, combat-wounded Vietnam Veteran and member of the Blackmouth Soldier Society and Red Feather Society. His book Mandan Dreams (2012, Galde Press) is used as a scholarly text at colleges and universities.
Janet Michele Red Feather is a
Ceremonial Singer for Native American Ceremonies, having learned over 60 traditional songs in Mandan and Lakota. She is currently a full-time, tenured English faculty member at Normandale Community College. Her
life changed significantly after she
traveled to North Dakota in 1993 to fast and pray for a way of life. Her regular column Spirit Leaves appears in EDGE Magazine. Her book Song of the Wind (2014, Galde Press) deals with her experiences as an empath and her journey through Mandan spiritual culture.
The Spirit Walkers
Guillermo Luebbert, Virginia Sundin,
Jorge Villanueva Castillo, Gina Ferrell, Michelle Thelen & Jeanne Lecher
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HEALTHY CONNECTIONS
HEALTHY BOUNDARIES
with Rev. Ron Moor
Tuesdays, January 26, 2016
Meets Jan. 26 - April 26.
No class Feb. 2, March 8, April 5
11 week healing class
7:00pm-9:00pm
$330, $300 if pay in full by second class,
may pay $30 per week
To register: 952-929-1559 or click here
Open to all
To be in the world, to relate with the world, to be of service, healthy connections and safe boundaries are essential. Together, we will investigate the energy fields of our body so that we can make allies of our feelings rather than enemies. We will learn how to create and maintain a safe environment. We will enhance our capacity to stand in our truth and speak our word. We will learn about "grounding" and staying conscious so that we can make better decisions, and be more present to those around us. Then we will learn hands-on energy techniques to enhance healing of emotional wounds.
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A BOOK GATHERING
The Grace of Ordinary Days by Bernie Saunders
and his poet mother Kay Saunders Sunday, January 31, 2016
12:00pm-1:00pm
From Bernie Saunders, you hear his first-hand account of collaborating with his poet mother, Kay Saunders, in writing the book, The Grace of Ordinary Days. It has been described as "Tuesdays with Morrie meets Georgia O'Keeffe," their story is a rare glimpse into the separate but inseparably linked lives of a mother and son.
The Grace of Ordinary Days story is the perfect preparation for family celebrations. Kay's and Bernie's story may resonate with your own relationships and may prompt you to recount, with a loved one or by yourself, the grace of your own ordinary days.
To see more of Bernie's photography click here to go to his online galleries. You won't be disappointed.
Bernie Saunders is the founder of The Center for Living Art, acclaimed professional photographer, with 40 years working in the human development field. He has a Masters of Applied Theology degree, and is the author of three books.
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Spirit United is co-sponsoring
Building a Movement with Energy Solutions-The United Nations Climate Change Talkback
Saturday, January 30, 2016
10:00am-4:00pm
at The Carondelet Center
1890 Randolph Avenue Saint Paul, MN
$55-$135 Scholarships available. To register click here.  Tom Goldtooth will be back to share his experience and wisdom. Since the was here in the fall, he was awarded The International
Gandhi Peace Prize.
Convene the Visioning for Action conversation. Share the stories of what happened in Paris. Build a Movement with Energy Solutions. Share globally inspired wisdom for local action. Come together to commit to personal action. Add your voice for creating a more sustainable world now for the future. Act now-Register. Sponsored by Northland Sustainable Solutions
Co-sponsored by MN Pachamama Community, The Earth Partners Working Group of the Justice Commission of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and Consociates, AM950, Spirit United, Indigenous Environmental Network, MN350, and Future First.
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Be Certain to Visit Our Meditation Room
The Sacred Sculpture Altar Awaits You
Dr. DEW Rogers shares with us her interactive sacred candle altar experience for each of us to use. You can reflect on where you are in your own "hero's journey" and propel yourself into your own inner knowing.
Dr. DEW thank you for this opportunity to stay centered as our Divine self. Your tool will facilitate our being aligned with and have the courage to walk our journey.
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From left to right: The Metamorphosis & Ascension, The Knowing-The Mother of Nations, The Fearless Guardian, Spiritual Warfare, Crossing the Threshold to the Unknown, The Soul's Call, and Birth.
NOTE WHEN WALKING THIS JOURNEY, AS YOU LOOK AT THE ALTAR THE EXPERIENTIAL REFLECTION BEGINS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TABLE AT BIRTH.
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Keep Judy Trautner and her family, especially her husband Richard and sister Joan Johnson in your hearts and prayers. She died peacefully with her family all around her in the afternoon on Thursday, January 14, 2016.
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Healing Prayers for
Illana Christyna Livstrom
Illana is the daughter of Maria Turnblom, sister to Jeshua Livstrom and auntie to his children Annika, Celina and new baby boy.
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 Spirit United's Notification Process
for Canceling due to the Weather If Spirit United closes due to cold, ice or snow, a voice message will be put on the Spirit United phone and an email blast will be sent to those on our newsletter email list.
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