Salem Area Energy & Consciousness Community Calendar

This event is offered by the Salem Zen Center

Saturday Meditations (offered online only) are from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m.
Each Saturday a formal Zen student coordinates a meditation and a morning poem. To join any Saturday morning meditation follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83806935297?pwd=WWxSM2dyRnk4OVdDSVoyNXBGOVMvdz09
If requested, the password is 741312

We also offer a Tuesday evening in person sit at the Miao Chung Temple. Please check our website for more information: https://sites.google.com/site/salemzencenter/home

Saturday, January 17th, 2026 - Salem Oregon Workshop-

The Dance that Reconnects - One day immersion in the work of Joanna Macy embodied in the Dances of Universal Peace with veteran certified leaders of the Dances of Universal Peace: Munajat Marti Dimock, Kalama Reuter, Ka Ginger Hayra, and Saraswati Andrea Burke
9am-5pm Workshop (bring lunch)
5pm-7pm Dinner break
7pm-9pm Dances of Universal Peace
Full day registration at door - $35
Full day pre-registration before January 1 - $25
For more information go to: Olympia Dances of Universal Peace. (Olypeacedances.org)
Joanna’s legacy, known as the Work That Reconnects, “helps people around the world discover and experience their innate connections with each other and the self-healing powers of the web of life, transforming despair and overwhelm into inspired, collaborative action.” There will be ritual, song, dance, meditation, and other activities that help us find our truth and energize us to bring our gifts forward into the complex needs of our world. The event will be led by four veteran certified leaders of the Dances of Universal Peace: Munajat Marti Dimock, Kalama Reuter, Ka Ginger Hayra, and Saraswati Andrea Burke.
For more information about the Work That Reconnects to prepare for the workshop, please see: https://workthatreconnects.org/.../core-assumptions-of.../
Full-day registration at the door is $35.00*; full-day pre-registration before January 1 is $25.00.* To pre-register, please go to https://olypeacedances.org/donate/ for more information. The public is also invited to join in the culminating evening dance for $10, at the door only.
*Amounts are suggested donations. A greater donation is welcome. No one is turned away for lack of funds, so please attend if you wish to and cannot afford the fee. Donations cover leader expenses and contribution to the UU for use of the space.
There will be a lunch break – it is recommended that you bring a lunch. Dinner break will be from 5 – 7pm. See less

## Spoon Bending: An Experiential Workshop in Awareness (Sliding Scale)

Spoon bending is often dismissed as a trick — or treated as a party stunt.
In this workshop, it’s neither.
Register here:
www.spoonbenderscafe.com/bendspoons
(Sliding scale $44–$111 — details below)

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Beyond bending the spoon, this is a simple, hands-on way to experience how you are already shaping your reality.
We’re taught that effort creates results.
Spoon bending reveals something different: change often happens through presence, attention, and flow.
In this live, guided workshop, you’ll explore:

• how you relate to effort and control
• what happens when you release attachment to outcome
• how self-talk and expectation shape experience
• what shifts when you stop trying to make something happen

Some people bend a spoon.
Some don’t.
Either way, participants consistently leave with a clearer, more embodied understanding of how they meet challenge, uncertainty, and possibility — and what happens when they meet it differently.
No prior experience is needed.
You don’t need to believe anything.
Just bring curiosity and a willingness to notice.
This is not a performance or a test.
It’s an experiment in awareness.
I’ve been teaching this practice for over a decade.

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### Practical details

• This is a live Zoom workshop.
• You’ll receive the Zoom link and simple instructions for choosing the spoons to bring after registering.
• Please register ahead of time so you receive all access information.

Cost: Sliding scale $44–$111
Choose the amount that feels right for you.
Your contribution supports the work and helps keep these workshops accessible.
Register here:
www.spoonbenderscafe.com/bendspoons
Step into the experiment.

Are you listening to your intuition? This 90-minute online class is for tuning into your inner guidance system for everything from relationships to career to health.

Together, we’ll cover tons of practical wisdom, like how to discern intuition from anxiety, bias, and random thought. Plus, two guided exercises will give tools for accessing intuition in any scenario.

All registered folks receive:
✨30+ minutes of lessons, broken into three sections, with slides.
✨Two fully-guided live practices using tools for accessing your intuition in nearly any situation.
✨Video replay, handout, and presentation slides viewable for two weeks afterwards.
✨The ability to ask questions if you attend live.

Some topics covered:
✨How to discern intuition from anxiety and other kinds of thought.
✨Step-by-step process for listening to your intuition.
✨Areas of life where intuition can help us.
✨How to develop intuition and make it stronger.
✨Pitfalls to watch out for and their solutions.

Who is this for?
Anyone seeking a deeper connection with themselves or even exploring psychic realms is welcome.

💥 Cost: Sliding scale $25 - $59
💥 Location: Zoom
💥 Register and see accessibility info on website

Facilitator:
Ray (they/them) — a trans, queer, autistic, and disabled Teacher-Intuitive and Grief Worker since 2016. Ray found their intuitive voice after thirty years of silencing it. Decades of masking and fawning nearly ended their life, but reclaiming themselves piece by piece led to a career as a professional intuitive. That background fuels them with a desire to give others the support they needed when they were younger. To get a sense for Ray's perspective on the topic, sign up for the newsletter at ArdenIntuition.com and follow them on Instagram: @ArdenIntuition.

✨Send any questions or comments to ArdenIntuition (at) gmail (dot) com.
✨ This event is cross-posted in several places, so there will be more in attendance than are shown here.
✨Register at ArdenIntuition.com/events

Thank you for doing your part to help heal the world.