Come join us in the zoom room on this Earth Day 2024 for fellowship, interfaith song, and prayer - in this challenging time on earth, it's important to find and celebrate Common Ground...Many Voices - One Spirit of Life - Suggested contribution $10 - our Taupo Unitarian Universalist Fellowship account # is 12-3162-0165629-00 Zoom link= https://us06web.zoom.us/s/87584857452?pwd=zaNvVU8w5bbE83lUaQjssuUtfpk7Wu.1#success

As we enter the new season and new moon of Autumn, the outer light of summer is waning, and we have the chance to move inward...tonight, our evening will include moving meditations on the inner aspects of ourselves which are known as 'the shadow'...and as we meet those with the light of love and acceptance, we sense an inner wholeness and freedom which comes from full authenticity. Sally Azima Mabelle, Hadia Jane Penton, and Gay Brice will lead some moving meditations (dup), and
mental health and habits coach, Dr. Rebecca Stafford, will visit us and share a will facilitate a short activity on 'embracing the shadow'..Please note earlier finish time - 6:30-8:30pm - RSVP to TaupoUU@gmail.com and let us know if you have a short poem or prayer on the theme you'd like to share - Suggested contribution ($10-20) all welcome.

All welcome - come join us for an evening of ‘Summer’s Harvest’ dances of universal peace with special guest leaders from Australia, Anna Sophia and Raimunda, joining Sally Mabelle. Fresh from Dance Camp Aotearaoa 2024, we are inspired to share a joyful evening of dances. Koha appreciated…78 Kaimanawa Street, central Taupo

All welcome - come join our circle of joyful meditation in motion/ body prayer for Peace in the New Year...We are an inclusive spiritual community welcoming people of all faiths - Toward the One - the perfection of love, harmony, and beauty...read more about us at www.taupouu.com - 78 Kaimanawa Street, central Taupo - koha appreciated

Come join us at 7pm as we inaugurate our Taupo UU Fellowship mission with Interfaith song, dance, and prayer. We’ll have a brief meeting to affirm our principles and mission followed by a time of reflection on joys and concerns followed by Dances of Universal Peace (musical body prayer). All welcome - suggested contribution $10 RSVP to TaupoUU@gmail.com

Come join our community circle dances to celebrate Spring, our transition from Whiringa-a-Nuku...(thawing of the earth) to Whiringa-a-Rangi - (thawing of the sky) - As we reach the halfway point between spring equinox and summer solstice, our creativity and growth accelerate and the blossoming begins...Experience the joy and peace of these multi-cultural, interfaith, moving meditations...no experience necessary - you are invited to bring flowers for our centrepiece and/ or to wear flowers in your hair - be creative 4-6pm, Family-friendly session-Children under 12 FREE with parent or caregiver's supervision, 6-7pm community potluck, and 7:30-9:30pm - Adults only session $20 per session cash at the door or by 27th Oct via our donation button above - Please RSVP to TaupoUU@gmail.com

Spiritual practice brings us face to face with our true nature - beyond form and imbued with universal consciousness. We humans are embodiments of that universal consciousness. Many of the world's cultures and religions access that consciousness with an activity called Prayer. The Dances of Universal Peace are prayer in motion, drawing on the sacred phrases, scripture, and poetry of the many spiritual traditions of the earth. The dances are like group circle meditations with chant, live music and evocative movement connecting us to the experience of unity, peace and integration. - Come join us for a special evening experiencing the sacred space of multicultural body prayer. 7:30-9pm, 78 Kaimanawa Street, Suggested contribution, $10 - all welcome RSVP and enquiries to Sally Mabelle TaupoUU@gmail.com

As we are being asked to vote in the next couple of weeks, tonight we'll explore and express through readings, prayers, and musical chants from 8 of the world's wisdom traditions - the right of conscience and democracy. We'll reflect on readings and join in chants from the ancient Mapuche tribe to those of Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Hebrew, Christian, Islamic, and Universal Sufi traditions.
We'll then have some small group discussion about how we may be feeling about the upcoming elections and our role in helping to shape our society here in New Zealand. Come join us for what promises to be a stimulating and inspiring evening. All welcome - koha and RSVPs appreciated - contact TaupoUU@gmail.com if you'd like to be one of our readers.

Chants and Dances of Universal Peace - Celebrate the beginning of Spring with meditative mantric melodies from various world wisdom traditions - Koha appreciated. Enquiries to TaupoUU@gmail.com

Take some time out to take some time in...

When your world feels shaky from the ground up and everything around you feels out of your control, what do you do? When you feel like you really need some TLC, what do you do?

These once a month Sunday SOUND MOVEMENT JOURNEYS are curated as a base for you to take the time and space needed to come home to your body.

Offering mindful movement and meditation with the deeply restorative vibrations from QUARTZ CRYSTAL SOUND BOWLS. You will be guided through gentle and powerful exercises, with foundations in dance and energy medicine facilitation. A fun and relaxed environment open to all levels, genders and abilities. Giving your body presence to balance through it’s own healing abilities. Regaining connection to your inner world. So you can feel full and energised to connect to your outer world.

Join us;-

-Sunday 25th June
-4-5:30pm
-Yoga Tree Taupo
-Koha
-Open level, all genders, nationalities and abilities welcome! Come as you are and go at your own pace.

Feeling your natural rhythm and flow through the power of MOVEMENT and SOUND you'll leave grounded in the moment.
Embodying the beauty of being alive.

Give yourself space and time to move and soothe with Moving Rivers.

Your host - Jasmine

SOUND
The quartz crystal sound bowls bring us into a deeply restorative meditative state. By moving us into the alpha-theta brainwave state, our parasympathetic nervous system is activated, and our body can start to restore and repair.

MOVEMENT
As water moves to renew and recharge itself, so do we. Sometimes we store energy in our body. We can choose to move this energy through awareness, breath and movement. Allowing the river of life to move freely through us once again.

JOURNEY
When we go on a journey, we start at one point, go through a transformation, and come to a new point of awareness. Going on a journey to discover, learn and grow. Life is one big journey. We can craft each journey with intention, love and presence. To follow our nature of change in this evolutionary, embodied, human experience.

Your host;-

"Jasmine is a mover;- in dance, sound, energy and breath. Bridging the two worlds of performance and healing arts. Creating space for individual, partnered and group embodiment work. Using her professional training in contemporary dance and over ten years experience in meditation and intuitive development she helps others embody and remember their innate nature and purpose. Jasmine has collaborated, performed and assisted in the East Point West Artist residency in Melbourne, Sydney and the dance festival in Kuala Lumpur, collaborated and performed with fellow performance artists in Auckland. Facilitating workshops in Auckland, Northern New South Wales, Otautahi Christchurch and Taupo. Jasmine has founded Moving Rivers - a base to come back to wholeness through awareness. Currently Jasmine offers one on one, couples and group healing sessions with crystal sound bowls and bodywork including miri miri, energy medicine, group Sound and Movement Journey’s and women's circles. Jasmine has completed a degree in dance, level 1 and 2 certification in 'Energy Medicine Facilitation' with Phillipe Atman, certification in the foundations of Miri Miri and Romi Romi with Jolie Davis, as well as completing a full curriculum with Jacqlin Richards working with principles of Alchemy from the 'Natural Success' program. Currently Jasmine is a Facilitator, Dance Teacher, Energy Healer and Movement Mentor

See facebook event link HERE

4:30-6pm - Family friendly dances and Midwinter /Yule story
6-7pm Community Potluck
7:30-9:30 - Evening Dances of Universal Peace and musical meditations with Sally Mabelle and Alice Sea (musician/singer/dance leader from Tauranga..see her instragram video clips HERE)

As our days grow shorter and our nights grow longer in Aotearoa New Zealand, we draw together in community, to celebrate the transition from our darkest time on the last day before winter solstice/ yule begins moving us back into the light...Join us for an intimate evening of moving meditation (multi-faith, mantric dances of universal peace), musical Maori creation, live music w. Alice Sea. We have created two sessions, the first is family friendly the evening session is for adults 16 years and up. Feel free to stay for the optional community potluck dinner from 6 -7pm after the family session/before the evening session

come to one or both sessions - Limited earlybird tickets available for $15 for each session - click HERE to book your place.

�$20 per person per session children under 12 free

Midwinter’s Taupo UU Fellowship Gathering: As our days grow shorter and our nights grow longer in Aotearoa New Zealand, we draw together in community, to celebrate the transition from our darkest time on the last day before winter solstice/ yule  begins moving us back into the light...Join us for an intimate evening of moving meditation (multi-faith, mantric dances of universal peace) including a musical Maori creation story dance.

Sally Mabelle will continue to share Unitarian Univeralist history beginning with the Reformation over 500 years ago - The first Unitarian King Sigismund of Transylvania was a visionary who stood for the value of inclusivity and unity in diversity. We continue the vision of multi-cultural, multi-faith inclusive fellowship today, standing for the values of tolerance, freedom, equity,, and love for all. Her talk will be followed by group discussions exploring our aspirations and creative vision for the future. We will also share joys and concerns and include some music and/or dance to keep us inspired and connected.

So what does the UU in our Taupo UU Fellowship name mean? Sally Mabelle, who led her first UU gathering 40 years ago, will give us a brief history of the Unitarian Universalist movement and the five spiritual paths which connect our community of diverse beliefs without dogma. Her introductory talk will be followed by group discussions exploring our visions for what we can co-create moving forward. We will also share joys and concerns and include some music and/or dance to keep us inspired and connected.

Samhain is the name for the ancient Celtic seasonal celebration marking the beginning of the winter season, the halfway point between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice. This is traditionally the time of year to honour our ancestors - and to gather in sacred circle. We’ll be sharing songs and dances of universal peace and seasonal reflections, poems, etc.

The dances of universal peace set sacred phrases from the world's wisdom traditions to live music and use simple, easy to learn movements, led in a community circle. They are a creative spiritual practice, which invoke an embodied sense of unity, presence, joy, and compassion, touching the spiritual essence within ourselves.