April

Monthly Events:

Bible Book of the Month, Apr. 7

Journaling, Apr. 7

Meditation Evening
Meditations for Transforming Conflicts

Our inability to let go of anger perpetuates conflict, and even creates enemies. Learn specific meditations and inner methods for identifying and reducing anger, even in its subtle and suppressed forms. Through this training, conflicts cease to be problems; finally, they become a means for improving relationships and developing inner peace.

Peter Kurczynski
Wednesday, April 4
7-9 p.m.
$20 ($15 Members)
Summit Center

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The Director’s Wednesday Seminar

Bless This Mess
Turning Yearnings into Growth

How can our deepest desires find fulfillment in an imperfect, messy world where there are no easy answers or simple solutions? Using the ground-breaking new book by Rabbi Irwin Kula, Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life we’ll discover how ancient spiritual wisdom can help us create a path to maturity in the midst of imperfection. We’ll explore our yearnings for truth, meaning, love, happiness, creativity and transcendence through discussion, rabbinical stories and maxims, meditation and journaling. Join the journey!

Robert Corin Morris
Lisa Green, Guest Presenter
5 Wednesdays beg. April 11
9:30-11:30 a.m.
$70 ($60 Members) $20 drop-in
Summit Center

Hear Irwin Kula live on April 22!

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The Pause That Refreshes
How to Start or Rejuvenate Your Practice of Meditation

Meditation really works to transform the mind—if you practice regularly. You’ll learn some fundamental practices that can be used in deep meditation, and as part of meditation “quickies” to be used on the run or at work throughout the day. Bob brings 40 years of meditation experience to help your practice get established.

Robert Corin Morris
3 Thursdays beg. April 12
7:30-8:45 p.m.
$35 ($30 Members)
Summit Center

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Riding the Dragon
Braving the Highs and Lows of Manic-Depression

“Bi-polar depression can be a call to personal growth, not just a condition to be managed,” according to Bob Morris, who will share his own journey of dealing in healing ways with manic-depressive illness. Designed for those living with this condition, as well as friends and relatives who care about them, this seminar will explore how to combine responsible medical treatment with complementary modalities and lifestyle changes to harness the creative energies of the “dragon” and avoid the dangerous pitfalls.

Robert Corin Morris
Saturday, April 14
9:30 a.m.-noon
$30 ($25 Members)
Summit Center

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Step It Up 2007: National Day of Climate Action Rally

Join thousands of Americans gathering all across the country to call for action on climate change by urging Congress to cut carbon emissions 80% by 2050. This sounds like a lot, but it's less than a two percent reduction per year--and it is both possible and vital to address the most damaging effects of global warming. "Preserve the earth" is one of Interweave's seven practices of wholistic living--so let's practice what we preach with speeches, music, meditation, and action steps! Tell your friends and show your face for a photo that will be sent to Step it Up organizers and forwarded to Congress!

Saturday, April 14, 1-2 p.m.
Summit Center

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Bible for a New Day

My Beloved is Mine
The Mystical Marriage in Scripture and Other Poetry

The longing of the soul to become one with life itself—with nature, with humanity, with God—is one of humanity’s deepest desires. The Hebrew Bible and New Testament often see the Divine as a Lover in pursuit of the soul, a bridegroom seeking the bride. Explore the haunting beauty of the love poetry in the Song of Solomon, and how these themes are picked up by mystics and poets through the ages like the Sufi Muslim Rumi and the Christian nun Mechthild. Discover how human love itself can become a sacrament of the Divine.

Robert Corin Morris
Lisa Green, Guest Presenter
5 Fridays beg. Apr. 20, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
$70 ($60 Members) $20 drop-in
Short Hills

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Yearnings
Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life

Rabbi Irwin Kula has inspired thousands of people across the country using Jewish wisdom in ways that speak to modern life. In Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life, Kula’s first book, he shows how we can accept and embrace the messiness of differences instead of being seduced by “absolutes” that lock us into one position. Our life search for meaning and purpose, for love and happiness—and to make sense of it all—defines our spiritual path and leads to wonderful opportunities and discoveries.

Rabbi Irwin Kula
Sunday, April 22, 2 p.m.
$12 ($9 Members)
Leon & Toby Cooperman JCC
760 Northfield Avenue, West Orange

Cosponsored by the JCC MetroWest

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What You Can Learn from "The Secret"
Can believing make it so? An exploration into the power of affirmation
and belief inspired by the popular book and film.
Robert Corin Morris
Tuesday, April 24, 7:30-9 p.m. $15
Summit Center

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Returning to Wholeness
An Introduction to Integrated Kabbalistic Healing

This workshop is a hands-on introduction to a new paradigm for healing, created by modern kabbalist teacher Jason Shulman. This approach acknowledges and nurtures our relationship to the source of all healing power, which we call God-cleaving or awakening to the Real. As a path it reveals how to return to our natural state of wholeness. We will explore our consciousness from the Four Universes, the ego as holy, and prayer as a non-dual practice; share an experiential practice of wholeness; and learn the Healing of Immanence, a foundational healing on this path.

Raechel Bratnick with Gary DePice
Saturday, April 28
9 a.m.-5 p.m. with lunch break
$100
Summit Center

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Interweave’s Annual Yard Sale will NOT be held this year.

Many thanks to all who have saved and brought donations over the years. A few alternative suggestions for your items (call for more information):

Calvary Church, Summit, Rummage Sale—clothing and other merchandise in good condition, books for choir sale. 908-277-1814.

Grace, Madison Recycling Ministry
Gathers food, clothing, furniture, kitchen utensils, appliances, baby items and diapers for distribution to those in need. kcone@gracemadison.org, 973-377-0106.

Other Rummage Sales

Morrow Memorial Church, Maplewood, 973-763-7670. Unitarian Church in Summit, 908-273-3245. Christ Church, Short Hills, 973-379-2898.

Don’t miss our NEW fundraiser,
the Interweave Art Show and Sale,
February 3-4, 2007
at the Summit Center
in Calvary Church Parish House.