In Quaker’s silent Meeting for Worship we gather to just sit together in God’s presence and listen to the whispers of the Spirit in our hearts. Sometimes these whispers inspire us to minister to others, vocally or in some other form.

God’s Spirit can speak to us in so many ways. It can be thoughts and words or it can be images, sensations, feelings, colours, sounds, movement…

In Ecstatic Dance we surrender to our body and let it move us…The rational mind quiets down and gives way to the music and the dance that arises naturally.. so the Spirit can move us in this way, too!

We’ll meet at Zoom and start our Meeting for Worship by dancing  to a shared playlist for 1-1,5 h, then continue the Worship in the Silence for a bit longer.
You are welcome to share in any language and anyone can help out by translating each other’s words when needed, and when there’s no translation we can try to feel and listen to the Divine behind the message even if our brain doesn’t understand the words.

Warmly welcome!

IMPORTANT:
The guidelines for Ecstatic dance, adapted to online setting:

THE DANCE FLOOR IS A NON-VERBAL SPACE
We join together to create a safe and sacred space for movement. Eliminating talking on the dance floor allows us to move out of our heads and into our bodies, hearts, and souls. We leave behind the words and worries of the day and connect with spirit and one another in new ways.

THE DANCE FLOOR IS A PLACE OF RESPECT AND SAFETY
Ecstatic Dance has been created as a safe container, whether we’re dancing alone or with others.
This is not a performance, so we can just relax to the move as we feel like, no matter how it looks like… Even your breath and spontaneous sounds can be part of the flowing movement!

You can choose whether you keep the video camera open during the dance or not. Keep your microphone muted.
If you feel like making contact with another dancers, you can non-verbally invite them, and they’ll decide for themselves whether or not they’ll follow your invitation to enjoy a moment of shared dance. If somebody offers you a shared dance and you are not interested, you can simply give them a bow with hands at your heart to say, “no thank you”.

IN PREPARATION FOR THIS ONLINE MEETING FOR WORSHIP, it is a good idea to test your loudspeakers in advance, silence your mobile phone, notify other people sharing the house with you that now you’re going to dedicate a couple of hours for silence and dance, and dont’ wish to be interrupted by words nor audience. If they’d like to join your company, invite them to the Ecstatic dance floor, too!

More:

https://quaker.org/legacy/evanston/QUAKER/MeetingForWorship.htm

https://www.ecstaticdance.com/about/

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4430722720?pwd=TEQxZkhnSWFDUHlrNVFLMW5zTjd2Zz09

Meeting ID: 443 072 2720

Passcode: Kveekar1

Dear Friends. The city of Helsinki has witnessed new kind of problems faced by those who are addicted to alcohol and/or drugs. Coronavirus has forced the social services to shut down the facilities that provide food and the possibility to wash oneself. The addicted and the homeless are hungry, which increases their substance abuse and overall poor health. Many of those living on the street need emergency aid which is harder and harder to find.
Quakers will gather donations for these people during Christmas, New Year and the beginning of the year 2021. The donations will go to the Salvation army. We will add fifty cents to every euro donated through us, the maximum limit of overall donations treated this way being 2000 euros.
You can give your donation to our bank account:
FI57 8020 0710 2249 98 (Danske Bank).
The message to attach to your donation: “Ruoka-apu” (food aid).
Fundraising permit: RA/2020/1616