Srping Retreat
The Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont UU Women’s Spring 2009 Retreat, will take place the weekend of May 29-31, at Rockraft Retreat Center in beautiful Sebago Lake, Maine. The price per woman for the weekend, which includes two nights, six meals, and many wonderful workshops is: $145 for rustic Carriage House bunk-house accommodations and $130 for a bed in the Main House or Carriage House.
Spring 2009 Retreat Workshops
“The Work” of Byron Katie.
Barbara Jabaut and Thalia Ravlin will facilitate a discussion of Byron Katie’s “The Work”. Learn more about “The Work”; or if you’ve read any of Katie’s books and worked through the 4 questions and turn around, share some of your discoveries of how this process has helped you. Use “The Work” process with yourself and others. For more info, visit: www.thework.com
“Byron Katie, founder of The Work, has one job: to teach people how to end their own suffering. As she guides people through the powerful process of inquiry called The Work, they find that their stressful beliefs—about life, other people, or themselves— radically shift and their lives are changed forever. Through this process, anyone can learn to trace unhappiness to its source and eliminate it there. Katie (as everyone calls her) not only shows us that all the problems in the world originate in our thinking: she gives us the tool to open our minds and set ourselves free.”
Sacred Circle Dancing
We will be dancing to traditional dances from around the world along with newly choreographed dances to a variety of world music. Each dance is performed in a circle or a line and no partner, special skills or dance experience is necessary. Dances taught originate from Greece, England, Native America, Romania, and Canada and many more countries and cultures! Many of the dances will be slow and meditative.
With each dance there is an emphasis on enjoying the dance and having fun versus “getting the steps right”. Discover the inner peace, calmness and joy that comes from movement. Feel the connection and beauty of people gathering together and moving as one.
Led by Barbara Jabaut
Kripalu YogaDance led by Chris Chance
Kripalu YogaDance is here to remind us we are all dancers! Formerly known as "DansKinetics", YogaDance is a yoga-inspired dance form designed to allow your body to do the dance it wants to do. It has been described as transformative, spirit-moving, and just plain fun.
Self Acupressure led by Meret Bainbridge
Healing Through Grief led by Faith Barnes
Morning Yoga led by Stephanie Meyer
Sylvia Sims journeyed from our world on Christmas Eve. She was surrounded by family, holding hands, and Mozart's Requiem was playing as she had previously requested. Sylvia was the embodiment of female strength and warmth. An example to all on living a life that integrates mind, body and soul. She will be missed.
About Us
The Women & Religion movement officially began in 1977, with the passage of the Women and Religion Resolution at the UUA’s annual General Assembly. The dual focus of the resolution was to urge the UUA to look at the religious roots of sexism, and to encourage all Unitarian Universalists to examine the extent to which religious beliefs influence sex-role stereotypes in interpersonal behavior within families, friendships and in the workplace.
The Northeast District Women & Religion Committee began in 1982, when 24 women gathered for 24 hours. The NED W&R has occasionally fostered activities and programs within the District and at District meetings directed at raising consciousness of women’s issues and concerns; however, its primary focus has been sponsoring Fall and Spring weekend conferences with a wide variety of programming for women. For over 25 years, women have gathered to learn, rest, play, grow, sing, dance and celebrate life’s passages. Come join us!
