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Shanti Shivani Yoga Of Sound Workshop Saturday!

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THE HEALING POWER OF SOUND WITH SHANTI SHIVANI Through the Ancient Practice of Sound Yoga Shanti Shivani is a singer/nada yogini/sound healer, internationally acclaimed leader, and recording artist. The Yoga of Sound is an ancient mystical tradition using Voice, Breath and Movement as a Way of Healing, Empowerment & Self-Realization.

Sound yoga facilitates:

  • the release of trauma and the clearing of emotions
  • the alignment of body, speech and mind
  • the development of intuition & creativity

Workshop: BUY TICKETS HERE!

Where: Location given when you buy your ticket.

When: Saturday, May 25, 10 AM-12 PM.

Price: $35 at the door / $30 advance

Special Pricing for Concert & Workshop: S50 advance

Concert AND Workshop: BUY TICKETS HERE

Service positions available. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

UUFC Financial Insights

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2024-25 Pledge Drive Update As you may have heard, pledges from members and friends provide ~ 90% of each year’s operating funds for the UUFC.

Pledges are us! Your Board of Directors has set a $431,000 goal for pledges in the coming year. We are just beyond the $410,000 mark toward that goal. To date, members have made annual pledges from $60 to over $10,000. Over 180 pledging units have pledged to date – individuals, couples or other relationship groups. Our goal is to reach at least 200.

If you have not yet pledged for 2024-25, can we count you to be among next year’s pledgers?

Make Your Pledge Now

If you need assistance making your pledge, please email the business manager at businessmgr@uucorvallis.org.

Downsizing and Simplifying for Seniors 6/5

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Presentation by: Jesse G. of Queen B Organizing

Wednesday, June 5, 3-5 pm in the UUFC Sanctuary

Gather insight and information on how to move through the life-transitions of downsizing or trying to live more simply. Jesse will cover several aspects of these major steps:

  • Planning the setup of your future space
  • Exercises to simplify the sorting process, ex. “Plan of Attack”
  • Touch on emotional dynamics of decision making with belongings
  • Establishing support systems for moving and downsizing needs
  • And much more!

Feeling social? We’ll provide the form that makes it easy to be a host for a group social activity! Picnics? Games? Walking? Puzzles? Movies? You name it! Be sure to sign up at the June 5 meeting.

Come join us to create positive experiences for this time of life!

Hosted by the Aging Successfully in Community team, a part of the RE council.

Senior citizens with moving boxes

“In Memoriam”, 5/26/2024

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On this Memorial Day Weekend Sunday, we’ll remember and honor Fellowship members who have died in the past year. We’ll remember the origins of Memorial Day.  We’ll consider life before death, and life after death, and what “two deaths” means. With Revs. Jill McAllister and Leslie Chartier.

If you would like to have someone you’ve lost named and remembered in this service, please let Rev. Jill McAllister know (minister@uucorvallis.org) by Thursday May 23. 

Annual Meeting, 5/19

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By the time the Annual Meeting comes around, we’ve once again nearly completed another year in the life of the Fellowship. This is no small thing, especially considering the lingering effects of the pandemic and the state of the world in general. There have been days in the past few years when I truly wondered whether we’d be able to keep this community alive and well. But we have! And we have so much to be thankful for, most of all each other and our shared commitments to being a UU congregation.

I sometimes fantasize about what it would look like if EVERY MEMBER came to the Annual Meeting, every year. What it would be like for ALL of us to gather to acknowledge and thank each other, to discern together what our next priorities are, what the world is now calling us to do. Can you imagine? To think together about how well we’ve lived into our mission. To discuss together needed changes. To encourage one another to stay together and keep going– to trust that what we do here makes a difference. I know that in the real world only some of us will gather. I understand that people have many different ways of being part of the Fellowship, and that not everybody is able, or available, or all that interested in how our small local democracy works. And yet – don’t forget that the life and future of the Fellowship do depend on those who gather – who elect new officers, who affirm that those folks willing and able to serve are living up to our ideals, who hear and take to heart all of our challenges and successes in the past year.

The religious life is nothing if not a life of making commitments. To the many, many of you who do so – some for many years and some just now beginning – my gratitude is deep. I look forward to seeing you at the Annual Meeting on Sunday (May 19) – in person or online – as we do this beautiful work that belongs to us all!

“Air, Breath, Music!” 5/19/2024

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In many ancient descriptions of the seasons, when calling the four directions, East is associated with Spring, and Spring is the direction of morning, of beginnings, and of Air. To be alive is to know Air, is to be breathing: to be human is to be aware of being breathed. This fundamental truth is a grounding source of gratitude. Breathing is also the source of singing, which is one of the ways we let Air move through us, and one of the ways we give voice to our gratitude.

Our service this morning gives thanks for Air, for breath, and for the music which lives in us and through us. We’ll also give thanks for our choir as they share several new and old pieces of music. Come join us as we open ourselves to the movements of Air, breath and music!

New members will be welcomed during the service, and following the service all members are encouraged, needed and invited to stay to participate in our Annual Meeting, beginning at 11:45 AM.

Benefit Concert for Democracy Action Team Stamp Fund, 6/30

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Concert to benefit the UUFC Democracy Action Team stamp fund. Sunday June 30,
4 PM Donation $20 or pay what you can.

Concert to warm the heart, give you courage, and refresh the humor button with a wide variety of music—familiar tunes from the likes of Dylan, Stephen Foster, The Youngbloods, Pete Seeger, Gillian Welch and others, along with a few silly thought-provoking ditties.
Our band is a loose, rough-cut gem that fosters and celebrates community and reminds us of the power of coming together in song.

Music is love.
Treat your heart.
We do this together.
The Pereira/Weiss Band of 5 Musicians

Popular Kirtan Group Shantala Returns To Corvallis! 5/18

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We are very happy to welcome Portland’s popular Kirtan group Shantala back to Corvallis for a sacred chanting concert on Saturday, May 18 at 7 PM. Benjy and Heather Wertheimer have been leading kirtan (sacred chanting) worldwide since 2001 as the duo Shantala. They are known and loved for their special gift of bringing the audience into a vast and loving experience through their unique blend of exquisite voices with instruments of India and the West. Together they create music with beauty, passion, and reverence.

Heather and Benjy have released nine beautiful and well-loved albums of sacred chant music since 2003, including Living Waters, Jaya, LIVE in love, Sri, The Love Window, LIVE2love and FIVE. They also have a passionate international online following, with hundreds of thousands of YouTube video views, millions of iTunes/Apple Music downloads, and millions of streams on Spotify.They will play in the Sanctuary of the UU with special guests Jared May and Johanna Beekman.

**BUY TICKETS HERE**
https://tickets.brightstarevents.com/event/shantala18may2024