{"id":9772,"date":"2023-05-05T12:22:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uumfe.org\/?page_id=9485"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:37:22","slug":"embodiment-recordings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uumfe.org\/embodiment-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Gatherings Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"UUMFE Winter Solstice Service 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1148990501?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Winter solstice offers an opportunity to pause at a pinnacle, honoring Earth\u2019s longest night. For many moons leading up to this darkest moment, trees have been baring themselves of their leaves, offering a blanket to the Earth below. How can we as humans enter into the energy of this sacred time, using it as medicine, and aligning with the season\u2019s offerings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this winter solstice service, we honored the energy and teachings of Earth\u2019s darkest time of year, which encourages us to rest and seek nourishment in the sacred dark. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1dxotcm-nSC6scRyQgE_RVWtzLoB2XJAiYz5ZvAavTFU\/edit?usp=sharing\">View the Order of Service and speaker information here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"2025 UUMFE Earth Day Worship\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1087260328?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On April 22, 2025, we celebrated Earth Day with a special worship service. As Unitarian Universalists, we are positioned to be faith leaders at this critical time in our country\u2019s history.&nbsp;And it can feel overwhelming. Where do we start? We run the risk of becoming quick to act without listening to each other and the communities most impacted by climate disruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this&nbsp;Earth&nbsp;Day service, we hoped to help deepen practices that put Love at the center of our climate justice work. Not to avoid acting, but to prepare us for action. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/18W5A5yiDZzQayguLRKsUv5EsIG03qeMwdgtv6eyxwjw\/edit?usp=sharing\">Here is the Order of Service<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Longest Night - Winter Solstice 2024 Worship\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1041254885?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 19, 2024, we celebrated the Winter Solstice. UU Ministry for Earth (UUMFE) partnered with the UU Service Committee (UUSC) and UU College of Social Justice (UUCSJ) to bring you worship and stories from partners in Kiribati where climate justice is culture justice and disability justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1sTgrL9NSGKZ_CBeG6mVP910TVrI3cFHc-SfI6FAMzVw\/edit?tab=t.0\">Order of Service is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our guest preacher was Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, UUSC Board of Trustees Co-Chair and Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, Michigan.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Intl Biodiversity day\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/949894137?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">We celebrated International Day of Biodiversity with Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) who is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Din\u00e9 (Navajo), Ts\u00e9ts\u00eah\u00e9st\u00e2hese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged audiences across the globe towards personal, collective, and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.<br><br>Half of our collected donations went to the National Indigenous Women\u2019s Resource Center. <br>https:\/\/www.niwrc.org\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Earth Day Celebration on the Full Moon (2024)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/938776970?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We celebrated Earth Day on the Full Moon, April 23, 2024. We protect what we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"World Water Day 2024\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/929794283?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness that 2.2 billion people live without access to safe water. We were honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs and Rev. Karen Van Fossan into a conversation on this important and sacred day. They are defenders and protectors of water; two spiritual leaders in our UU movement who will help us build a heart-centered approach to a right relationship with Mother Earth and her waters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Solstice 2023\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/897059322?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Winter Solstice occurs when Earth\u2019s axis tilts away from the sun, making it the shortest day and longest night of the year for those living in the Northern Hemisphere. It also marks the time of celebration that daylight begins to grow to shed more light on us Earth! On this longest night, we featured the work of the Energy Democracy Project and shared a portion of our offering with them. Our service is part of the larger arc of Clean Energy as a Human Right being led by Side with Love.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"We Imagine, We Create\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VsGvO7-U3yo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A recording of our Jazz Vespers Worship Service hosted at Fourth Universalist. The worship and festival were made possible with funding generously provided by the New York State Convention of Universalists. The event was designed through \u201cNew York Unitarian Universalist Collaborates,\u201d a working partnership among Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York, Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth, and New York Unitarian Universalist Justice, the Empire\u2019s State Unitarian Universalist legislative ministry. Ministers from around the area were involved in the evening service. This is a recording of that service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Monthly Full Moon Gatherings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-vimeo-create aligncenter vimeo-create__video-container\"><div style=\"width:100%\"><iframe class=\"vimeo-core-video\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/864407384?autopause=true&amp;autoplay=false&amp;background=false&amp;byline=true&amp;controls=true&amp;dnt=true&amp;loop=false&amp;muted=false&amp;pip=false&amp;playsinline=true&amp;portrait=true&amp;responsive=true&amp;speed=false&amp;title=true&amp;transparent=false\" width=\"1600\" height=\"720\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"2023-08-30 Full Moon Gathering (1)\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:100%;height:100%;aspect-ratio:1600 \/ 720\"><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption class=\"vimeo-create__video-caption\">Watch our Full Moon Gathering from August 30, 2023 above. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user\/178821501\/folder\/17743735\">See our full playlist of full moon gatherings on Vimeo here<\/a>.<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Weekly Meditations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"weekly meditation 9\/14\/23\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/864577524?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Watch the recording of our Weekly Meditation gathering from Sept. 14, 2023 above. <br><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user\/178821501\/folder\/17744107\">The full playlist of our Weekly Meditations can be found on Vimeo here. <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">2023 UU General Assembly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-vimeo-create vimeo-create__video-container\"><div style=\"width:100%\"><iframe class=\"vimeo-core-video\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/839171302?autopause=true&amp;autoplay=false&amp;background=false&amp;byline=true&amp;controls=true&amp;dnt=true&amp;loop=false&amp;muted=false&amp;pip=false&amp;playsinline=true&amp;portrait=true&amp;responsive=true&amp;speed=false&amp;title=true&amp;transparent=false\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Summer Solstice June 2023 for General Assembly\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:100%;height:100%;aspect-ratio:1920 \/ 1080\"><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption class=\"vimeo-create__video-caption\">Watch our full playlist <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user\/178821501\/folder\/16747493\">of recordings from General Assembly 2023 here. <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">World Water day<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"2023 Honor World Water Day Concert\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/809934256?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Earth Day 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"2023 Earth Day Service Full.mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/813829280?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Winter Solstice 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Salt and Solstice: A Solstice Celebration\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/783646230?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; 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