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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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Spirit United's Relocation Updates
Details to the right and below
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THIS SUNDAY
MYSTERY SCHOOL SUNDAY
April 24, 2016
10:30-11:30am
Body Surfing
the Cosmos
with
Rev. Ron Moor
Details at right.
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KIDS WITH SPIRIT
THIS SUNDAY
April 24, 2016
10:30-11:30am
Help us sort
and pack
Details at right.
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NEXT SUNDAY
A Special Sunday Gathering
May 1, 2016
10:30-11:00am
11:00am +
May Day: The Past in the Future, the Future in the Past
with
Rev. Ron Moor
and the
Larger Community
hosted by
The Heart
of the Beast
Be certain to read fully the details
at the right.
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LAST SUNDAY
April 17, 2016
Practical Action as Spiritual Practice: On Earth Day
and Beyond
with
guest speaker Claire Baglien
and community member
Bob Gubrud
along with musicians
Meg Miura
and
David Chapman
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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EVERY Monday
Yoga with Maria
Mondays
4:00-5:30pm
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EVERY Wednesday
Wednesdays
10am-11:30am
Details at right.
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A Special Movie Night
featuring
The Way
hosted by
Sue Arnold
Friday, April 22
7:30pm
Details at right
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Spirit Walkers' Full Moon
Earth Day Celebration
Saturday, April 23 12:00-4:00pm
Details at right.
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Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
with
MN Pachamama Community
Thurs, April 28
6:00pm-9:00pm
Details at right.
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Support Spirit United Moving Forward Fundraiser
Designed to Support
Spirit United
Saturday, May 21
5:30-9:30pm
Details at right.
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Upcoming Events at Another Location
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MN Holistic Nurses Association
Daring to Connect Caring Economics with Health Care
featuring
Bill Doherty,
Joel Hodroff,
Teddie Potter
Sat, May 6
8:30am-12:30pm
Details at right.
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Wanted: Coordinator for the Next Phase of SU's Move
Details at right.
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Kudos
from
MN Women's Press
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Spirit United Prepares for Sunday, May 1st Gathering
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Spirit United's Relocation Update
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Spirit United is
on the Move...
Community Meeting Sun, April 24 11:30am-12:30pm
Keep Envisioning
Need: Coordinator for the Next Phase
Plan to Join the Next StepWhat's Up with the Library?
Details at right.
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We listen.
We care.
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Prayer Requests
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Make a pledge
to
Spirit United.
Send them to: Spirit United
3204 Como Ave SE Mpls, MN 55414
612 378-3602
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April 20, 2016
Greetings!
"There is something that exists
apart from ourselves,
and we play a vital part in bringing it
into being."
~ Lain McGilchrist
Spirit United 2016 Theme:
Living Our Spirituality
Through Presence, Practice and Play
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THIS SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016
Spirit United Community Meeting
promptly at 11:30am-12:30pm
We are having a community meeting immediately following Mystery School Sunday. An update will be given about the move. We will discuss SU's needs in this phase of leaving our Como Avenue home and more. 
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Rev. Ron Moor & Council of Stewards
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THIS SUNDAY 
MYSTERY SCHOOL SUNDAY
April 24, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
Body Surfing the Cosmos
Are you a spiritual being having a physical experience or a physical being having an occasional spiritual experience? Or something else all together? And just why are we humans here at all? Does universe even need us? Is Stephen Hawking just plain wrong?
The New Story that is emerging has some very intriguing ideas about all this, ideas that might just help you leave the old story behind. With luminous images, inspiring quotes and sacred chant.
And we will be welcoming new members who were not able to make it to the Easter service when we welcomed other new members.
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Kids With Spirit 
THIS SUNDAY
April 24, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
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 Teachings of our Indigenous people.
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NEXT SUNDAY
A Special Sunday Gathering with Immediate Experiential Opportunity (Multiple Locations, so fully read the description.) May 1, 2016
10:30am-11:00am Gather at SU
11:00am+ May Day Parade, Ceremony and Festival in Minneapolis
May Day:
The Past in the Future,
the Future in the Past
with
Rev. Ron Moor
and
The Larger Community
hosted by The Heart of the Beast
The annual Heart of the Beast May Day Parade and Festival is the largest non-denominational Celebration of Creation in the country. It brings together traditions from many spiritualities which honor and celebrate our earth and our relationship to all creation. It is really a re-enactment of the ancient mysteries brought to life in our time.
For the first time, our Spirit United community is participating in the May Day Parade and Festival. We will walk in the parade and have an information booth at Powderhorn Park festival site.
We will gather at 10:30am-11:00am at Spirit United on Como Avenue. Ron will share the ancient and modern mysteries which are about to be enacted by the parade and festival traditions. Those who want to participate in the May Day Parade and Festival at Powderhorn Park can car pool or drive to the parade starting site. For more information of the day's happenings, click here.
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LAST SUNDAY
April 17, 2016
10:30am-11:30am
Practical Action as Spiritual Practice:
On Earth Day and Beyond
with guest speaker Claire Baglien
and community member Bob Gubrud
along with musicians
How does your faith call you to respond to climate change in your everyday actions and spiritual practice? Important to spiritual practice is our realization of our oneness with the God energy inside ourselves. It is important to tap into this oneness as we address issues like climate change, to move us forward positively in a direction that makes sense. We have to take action that tells a new story about how we want the world to work. Claire and Bob spoke to facts, feelings and practical ways to address climate change in our everyday lives. Listen by clicking here.
Claire Baglien, Outreach Coordinator for MN Interfaith Power & Light (MNIPL).
Bob Gubrud, Co-Chair Commissioner of the Edina Energy and Environment Commission's Education and Outreach Working Group and the Community Solar Subcommittee member.
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 Upcoming Events
at Spirit United
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YOGA with Maria 
4:00pm-5:30pm
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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EVERY WEDNESDAY  The Tao of Meditation Class with Rev. Ron Moor EVERY Wednesday, except holidays 10:00am-11:30am $10-$15 suggested donation Deepen your meditative practice, or begin one by joining us on Wednesday mornings. Our weekly gathering is to read, meditate and dialog on the profound wisdom found in the 2500 year-old text of "The Tao TeChing." These 81 short, poetic sayings have offered relief, gentle guidance, and a pathway to inner peace for countless millions of people.
Each week we will begin with a few minutes of breath work to deepen our focus, read one of the sayings, and then bring these ancient words into a 30-minute silent meditation. Following the meditation we will join in an open discussion of the meaning as it relates to our lives today. Part of our discussion will also be about how to deepen our practice of silence and stillness.
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A Special Movie Night 
featuring
The Way
hosted by Sue Arnold
Friday, April 22, 2016
7:30pm
$10 suggested donation for Spirit United
We will watch the feature film The Way staring Martin Sheen. Our host is Sue Arnold who made the same pilgrimage the movie portrays. She will add her comments during the movie, sharing her experiences along the way and particularly at the locations featured in the movie. All funds go to Spirit United as we together experience our community transformation in this time of change, challenge, and transition to our new home.
THE WAY is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we face while navigating this ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, an irascible American doctor who comes to France to deal with the tragic loss of his son (played by Emilio Estevez). Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage "The Way of St. James" to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the  profound impact this trip will have on him. Through unexpected and oftentimes amusing experiences along "The Way," Tom discovers the difference between "the life we live and the life we choose." Sheen's son Emilio Estevez wrote, directed and produced this film.
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Spirit Walkers'
Full Moon Earth Day Celebration
Sat, April 23, 2016
12:00pm-4:00pm
Free Healing
with Sol Fire Shaman Jorge Villanueva Castillo
12:00pm-1:00pm
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Bring a drum/rattle, if you have one.
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Scorpio Full Moon in Taurus
plus Wesak Festival
with Spirit Walkers
1:00pm-4:00pm
$15
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Bring a crystal for a Master Attunement, if you have one.
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Featuring...
- Learn how to create a crystal grid for planet Earth
- Join Jeanne Lecher in Toning
- Channeling by Simon Grosblat
- An Earth Day Meditation/Shamanic Journey with Jeffery Grundtner
- Drumming
- Lively Irish Music! by TentaTively Tea Time
- Wesak Festival is named for the legendary convergence of Buddha, Christ and other Masters in the hallowed Wesak Valley in the Himalayas
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Take home a seedling planted during the Spring Equinox Event
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- during the Buddha full moon of May each year. The down pouring of the Wesak blessing has always been tied in with Buddha's birth/death/enlightenment.
- Astrology, Meditation, Shamanic healing and more...
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Awakening the Dreamer Symposium
with MN Pachamama Community
Thursday, April 28, 2016 
6:00pm-9:00pm
Suggested donation $20 to $50
Want to be part of creating a whole new world? The first step is attending the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium. Join us as we bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet! Through dynamic group interactions, leading-edge thinking, and powerful multimedia, you will be inspired to connect with your deep love for our world and empowered to make a difference.
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.
For more information and to view a trailer about the symposium, click here.
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Support Spirit United Moving Forward Fundraiser
Saturday, May 21, 2016
5:30pm to 9:30pm
Live Musical Performances:
- Frank DiCristina, Sacred Sound Healing Gongs and Singing Bowls
- TentaTively Tea Time, Irish/Sufi Duo with Fiddles
- Wild Moon Bhaktas, Chanting, Kirtan and Spiritual Music Band
Honored Guests:
- Rev. Ron Moor
- Sol Fire Shaman Jorge Villanueva Castillo
- and many more ...
Silent Auction:
- Healing Services
- Tickets to Lion King at Orpheum
- Art
- and much more...
Food Available for Purchase at these Food Trucks:
- A Peace of Cake, Artisan Mini Doughnuts
- The Bison Butler - Bison and BBQ
All funds, after expenses, are going to Spirit United as we together experience our community transformation in this time of change, challenge, and transition to our new home.
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Upcoming Events
at Another Location
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Minnesota Holistic Nurses Association
in connection with the
MN Holistic Medical Group
and
Master of Arts in Holistic Health,
St. Catherine University
share with you
Daring to Connect
Caring Economics and Health Care
Saturday, May 6, 2016
8:30am-12:30pm
Bill Doherty, PhD, LMFT, LP;
Joel Hodroff, Inventor; and
Teddie Potter, PhD, RN
Everyone is welcome to join us in exploring options and systems that we could be using to promote wealth inherent in caring, wellness and health. Are there more collaborative structures and ways to get citizens more involved?
$3 for MHNA Members
$5 Non-members
Location: St. Catherine University
Jeanne D'Arc Auditorium,
Whitby Hall (by Gate 2)
2004 Randolph, St. Paul, MN* Directions/Map: Click here or (651) 690-6000
- Granola bars available at the break
- Certificates of Attendance available.
*Free parking available on campus for this event. (No parking tickets will be issued in permit parking areas except areas restricted for admissions and disability.)
*Free parking also available on the south side of Randolph and in the parking lot behind the O'Shaughnessy Auditorium off Fairview Avenue.
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Wanted: Coordinator for the  next phase of SU's move.
During the first phase of the move, Janet Bergman graciously took on the role. She organized the tasks and scheduled times to complete them. People volunteered to fill the spots necessary to complete the tasks. She would be a good "go to person" to learn more.
Contact the office by clicking here or calling 612-378-3602 to inquire or express your interest. You may talk to Rev. Ron Moor or anyone on the Council of Stewards also.
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Kudos from MN Women's Press
Kudos on being voted Favorite Women Friendly Spiritual Community by Minnesota Women's Press readers in this year's "What Women Want Survey".
The May issue of Women's Press will publish this recognition. Pick-up one to see SU's kudos and our ad in this May issue. You can find the MN Women's Press publication in the back of our sanctuary every month.)
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Spirit United Prepares for Sunday, May 1st Gathering
Photos taken by Spirit United members as they supported the Heart of the Beast in making puppets for the 2016 May Day Parade.
A preview into the preparations for next week's Sunday Celebration. Details above and below.
      
What wonderful opportunity it was to get the momentum started by attending the Heart of the Beast workshop! What fun it was to work at our station of choice to support the creation of this amazing tradition. Understanding the theme and story, we help ease our connection to the magic of the day. Here are photos to see how some of the creatures for this year's parade and festival are made.
Rebecca Ratte, Paul and Gabriel were there. Gabriel, who attends Kids With Spirit at Spirit United, went to the Earth, Air, Fire, Water station. In this station they created animal hats that represent the different elements. Others chose to make Eagle heads. There were coyote and buffaloes also. People were busy making other animal heads. What an amazing evening is was.
Immediately Experience Sun, May 1's Message: Spirit United will meet at our Como Avenue site at 10:30am to gather and learn about the ancient and modern mysteries surrounding May Day. At 11:00am people are invited to experience the mystery at the May Day Parade, Ceremony and Festival as you desire.
The May Day Parade 2016 Sunday, May 1 Parade begins: Noon At the corner of 25th St. E. and Bloomington Ave. S., and travels south on Bloomington to 34th St. E., where the parade turns west towards Powderhorn Park.
Ceremony and Festival in Powderhorn Park
Tree of Life Ceremony - 3:00pm
Festival goes throughout the day
Check out the May Day Event schedule.
Click here to go to their website.
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Spirit United's
Relocation Update
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Spirit United is on the Move!
Community Meeting
April 24, 2016
promptly at 11:30am-12:30pm
Keep Envisioning
We are still looking for a home.
We have ideas for a temporary place for us to be.
So continue to keep your eyes and ears
tuned into any possibility out there.
Visualize Spirit United thriving in the best space working in harmony with the Universe.
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We are in the need for a coordinator for this phase of the move. See details below.
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Plan to Join the Next Step in May
The final tear-down, pack and move will be done in May. Make room in your schedule to support the next crew chief who will guide us through our departure from 3204 Como Avenue SE into our new home. We'll need you.
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 What's Up With the Library?
Many folks have books, CDs, DVDs checked out. Not to worry, just return them to the library shelf and they will be checked in and ready to join the other books in our new home. The new, streamlined library will have current, topical books of interest ready for you to check out for your studies and reading pleasure. In the meantime, let's find those books you know you have and return them.....please.
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