Karen Brennan

Music For One is a joint Lawrence University venture between the Center of Spiritual and Religious Life and the Conservatory. It is a unique program pairing a live musician with an audience member, for the purpose of spiritual uplift.  The audience member asks for music for their spiritual needs, and is paired with a performer who creates a short concert based upon those requests.

As many of us are missing the uplifting feeling of being both a performer and an audience member at concerts, this forum offers a way to participate and share safely together in these current times. The venue may be in person and distanced or virtual.

Right now we are looking for performers who would be interested in signing up for this opportunity.  

Please fill out this musician form if you wish to be a performer. 

Flow with your breathing each Wednesday at 5:45. Tai Chi will continue when campus events are cleared for public experiences.

When in-person events resume, look for this group in the 4th Floor of Warch Campus Center. Led by Dean Linda Morgan-Clement.

A Celebration of Life for Pat will be held a later date, but grieving staff, faculty, and students are invited to learn more about Pat and reflect on her life. Messages, photos, and condolences may also be left via Post Crescent’s online guestbook.

Pat was s treasured and long time member of the Bon Appetit staff and served Lawrentians with care. The death of a person, an ideal, or a way of life is painful precisely because we have cared, have loved, and have developed deep attachment.  Grief, with all its complex emotions, is a part of our impulse to love.

We will share details of memorial opportunities for Pat when they become available.

Grief Group – Tuesdays at 11:30 – meets as a hybrid weeks 4-6. A weekly student grief group meets with Center staff each term. Reservations are not required, but as we may use Zoom, you are encouraged to contact the office so that we will be prepared to welcome you and can share the password. The group is led by Associate Dean Terra Winston. 

Winter Sensory Walk – Get out and take in the beauty. Wherever you are, you can enjoy the crunch of the earth outside, smell the air, feel the weather (temperate or otherwise), and deeply listen to the sounds of your surroundings. Allow the harmony, or even disharmony, to fill your senses.

Continue your practice and be guided by your breathing. Calm your inner voice as you develop your meditation practice either in person or via Zoom.

Mondays at 4:30 via Zoom
Beginning January 11-March 8
Virtual Guided Meditation with Amy Gruen

Thursdays at 4:30 in Warch 224
Beginning January 21 – March 11
In-Person Guided Meditation with Isaac Wippich

For the virtual meditation Zoom link and passcode,
Connect with the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life

For health and safety reasons, the in-person meditation is open to Lawrentians only.

In-person events such as meditation and one on one meetings will resume in week three, but (Sabin House) Center for Spiritual and Religious Life will be closed to the campus users for weeks one and two. The closure will include the Food Pantry.

We will remain open throughout break on weekdays, and we encourage campus users to visit our space to reflect on the season, read a good book, enjoy a sunny alcove, or take in the tranquility of the Meditation Room for self-directed yoga or mindful contemplation.

HOURS OVER BREAK – WEEKDAYS ONLY
November 26 – January 1
9a-6p
*Open January 2-3
9a-6p

Closed January 4-17
Reopen January 18
The building will be closed, including the food pantry, for the first two weeks of term. It will re-open on Monday, January 18.

REGULAR HOURS UPON REOPENING – Beginning January 18
Monday – Friday     9a-11:59p
Saturday      12p-11:59p

Since we house the food pantry and act as a public campus space for students and staff, Sabin House and the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life want to share with the campus community the hours of our space over the coming weeks.

HOURS OVER BREAK
Nov. 26 – Jan. 3
Weekdays only
9am-6pm

Closed January 4-17
Reopen January 18
The building will be closed, including the food pantry, for the first two weeks of term. It will re-open on Monday, January 18.

REGULAR HOURS UPON REOPENING:
Monday-Friday     9a-11:59p
Saturday     12p-11:59p

Wishing everyone a safe and pleasant break.

Expand your uses for flags, walls and walking with intention.

Community Gratitude Flags – Borrowing from Tibetan Buddhism, you are invited to contribute a flag to a living breathing kinetic journal of your thanks and appreciation in the new garden space east of the Center for Spiritual and Religious Life. Virtual submissions welcome through the office of Spiritual and Religious Life.

Prayer Wall – You are invited to place your intentions, wishes, hopes, thanksgiving, fears, confessions, questions, or prayers into the ‘wall’ regardless of background or beliefs. In Warch center until Sunday, November 15 and then look for it in the Conservatory until November 20th. On Saturday, November 21st we will dismantle the wall, collect the prayers. They will be released, unopened, to the universe through burning.

‘Take a Hike’ continues to be offered with Amber Latimer on Tuesdays at 4. Open to all students.

‘Fall Sensory Walk’ – Locate an area to explore, distance with a friend, engage your senses, share with others

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Please join the Lawrence Community as we gather to celebrate Stephen McCardell’s life and legacy among us.  We will gather virtually on Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 2:00p.m. for a time of music and memories. To protect the gathering from disruption, we are asking for RSVP’s so that we can send you the Zoom link. 

Please RSVP to Spiritual.Religious.Life@Lawrence.edu before noon on Friday, November 6^th and we will send you a link.

If you have questions, please email Brian Pertl at Brian.G.Pertl@Lawrence.edu or Linda Morgan-Clement at Linda.Morgan-Clement@Lawrence.edu.