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Thursday, May 21st, 6:30 PM- 7:30 PM ET
When the World Feels Heavy: A Dedication to the Alleviation of Suffering
— An Evening of Sacred Practice and Shared Purpose with One Spirit
There is a vow older than any tradition: to meet the suffering of this world with open hands.
It is the quiet thread that runs through every path we walk at One Spirit — the reason so many of us were called to ministry in the first place.
This month we invite you to gather with us — students, graduates, ministers, friends, and seekers — for a sacred evening devoted to the alleviation of our collective suffering. Some greater than others, always, and yet collectively our hearts are weary and grieved.
We Invite You:
One Spirit alumni
Students who will be graduating this June, who are
Interspiritual Practitioners
Anyone who feels called to practice in community and dedicate their energy to the alleviation of suffering.
This evening is an offering — a chance to sit together in practice, to remember why we do this work, and to choose, once again, to belong to one another.
Because remembering our connection and practicing it revives the weary heart. We hope you'll join us.
With care and in service,
The One Spirit Community
About the Co-Facilitator,
Rev. Sarah Bowen
Facilitating Dean, Interspiritual Foundations & One Spirit Interspiritual Seminary
The Reverend Sarah A. Bowen has been on the educational faculty of One Spirit Seminary since 2018, serving as a Dean, and facilitator of learning for 12-Step Spirituality and Interspecies Spiritual Care units. She is also the founder of the One Spirit in Recovery affinity group.
Sarah's area of current research is addressing moral injury in animal-centered professions through trauma-informed spiritual and emotional care. A passionate speaker, teacher, and writer, she is the author of the award-winning Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice for Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, & Healing the Planet, a columnist on human-animal relationships for Spirituality & Health magazine, and a frequent presenter at academic and professional conferences.
Sarah is also the lead clergy and Executive Director of Animal Chaplaincy Training at Compassion Consortium and a faculty member of Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in the Hudson Valley of New York, where she lives with two cats, a human husband, and a ridiculous amount of squirrels.
About the Co-Facilitator,
Rev. Amanda Lohman Yeu
Class of 2025
As a person walking a spiritual path that honors the wisdom of many traditions, Amanda strives to live in a way that reflects the sacredness of all life, and the interconnectedness of all beings. She answers the call to serve with love, compassion, integrity, and presence.
Amanda emphasizes spiritual autonomy, and the unfolding of innate inner wisdom and personal truth.
Honoring the richness of spiritual diversity and the many ways in which the Divine is known, named and experienced, Amanda does not seek to convert, but to understand, accompany and celebrate the spiritual journeys of others with reverence and curiosity.
Rev. Amanda is a One Spirit Interfaith Seminary graduate of the class of 2025. She has the honor to sit as an End of Life Doula with those in life transition. Amanda is an E-RYT 500 Yoga Guide and Somatic Practitioner, specializing in grief support, recovery and trauma.
Amanda lives in Northern New Jersey, land and ancestral home of the Lenape People.