One Sunday evening a month we gather in the simple space of Neighborhood House for creative, experimental approaches to bringing our thanks, fears, hopes, and needs to God. At 5:30, there’s a half hour of guided spiritual practice such as yoga or contemplative prayer – a great way to get centered before the week ahead. From 6 to 7 p.m. is a service of healing and Eucharist, a chance to bring up our concerns for ourselves and others and to forge strong ties as a community.
If you’d like to be involved in liturgical planning – with art, poetry, photography, icons, dance, music, whatever interests you – please contact the Rev. Susan Richardson at srichardson@christchurchphila.org.
Fall 2008 schedule in the Great Hall in Neighborhood House, with Sanskrit chant at 5:30 p.m., service of healing and Holy Eucharist 6-7 p.m. Plug in at any point!
5:30 p.m., Great Hall, “Yoga: Chanting the Gayatri as Spiritual Practice.” Zoe Mai, practitioner and instructor of Ashtanga yoga and teacher from the American Sanskrit Institute, will lead us over a series of Sunday evenings in the ancient yoga practice of Sanskrit chant. From that deeper place of prayer, we’ll then move into the 6 p.m. Eucharist with prayers for healing. Got a yoga mat? Bring it. No yoga experience at all? Come pull up a chair and get into the chant – this is mainly a practice of sitting, breath, and awareness, as we create more space for God’s presence in us.
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Dec 21 - Special time to honor the range of feelings the holidays can bring up in us.