Student Government (SUN)

Student Life Programming Council (SLP)
Purpose: Creates, sponsors and implements social, educational, diversity volunteerism and activism programming; oversee student spaces
Meeting: Fridays 1-3 in the SUN Office
Contact: slp@listserv.naropa.edu

United Naropa (UN)
Purpose: Representation from academic departments, building relationships with staff, faculty & students from departments, increase inter & intradepartmental communication.
Meeting: Thursdays 7:30–9:00 p.m Admin Conference Room
Contact info: un@listserv.naropa.edu

AA @ Naropa
Mission: To provide an informal, open meeting that serves as a source of Naropa support on-campus for those in recovery
Meeting: Weekly, Wednesday from 12-1p. Upaya Cottage North
Contact: msawaya@students.naropa.edu or stuwellnessga@naropa.edu

Allies in Action
Mission: Organizing anti-oppression trainings and workshops; Serve as a campus resource to under-represented groups; Foster dialogue around issues of oppression.
Meeting: Weekly at El Centro de la Gente.
Contact: icrockett@naropa.students.edu

Analytic Meditation Club
Mission: To provide faculty, staff and student body an entrance into the meditation of the Buddhist Middle Way School found by Nagarjuna.
Meeting: Weekly at Nalanda 9104
Contact: dgarbes@students.naropa.edu

Bodhidharma's Eyelids
Mission: To enjoy casual conversation while sipping the luscious liquid brewed from the leaves of the fine tea plant (served in nice cups) with anyone who wants to be involved.
Meeting: Weekly or Biweekly on Arapahoe Green
Contact: spauli@student.naropa.edu

Community Kitchen
Mission: To bring like-minded activists together to discuss issues while sharing food.
Meeting: BiMonthly in Student Lounge & gardening 5 days/wk
Contact: ehiggins@students.naropa.edu

Dance Connection           
Mission: To make an ensemble of dancers that grow and learn from one another and to make a stronger connection to our bodies and the way they move.
Meeting: Weds 3-4:30, Fri 6-8pm. Location TBA
Contact: adweck@students.naropa.edu

Dharma Clown Club
Mission: In the name of unmentionable Spirit, for the sake of Smiles, in order to destroy the conventional notions of Linearity, Dharma Clowns wish to promote the freedom to act Contrary-wise.
Meeting: Bi-Monthly
Contact: bparrish@students.naropa.edu

Dr. Sam Beckett Foundation
Mission: To research, discuss and experiment and contemplate quantum physics, parapsychology, ancient traditions and metaphysics in order to examine and understand the possible fate of Dr. Sam Beckett and his quantum leap.
Meeting: Monthly
Contact: rcolbert@students.naropa.edu

East-West Comparative Philosophy Group
Mission: A comparative philosophy club that aims to increase interest in the area of comparative philosophy, raise scholastic standards, a forum to think critically about a variety of philosophical issues, a means to publish research in our yearly self-published journal.
Meeting: Bi-Weekly Location TBA
Contact: tomafray@students.naropa.edu

Envision Expression
Mission: Creating art and serving our planet. Working together as community, encouraging creativity, artists of all mediums: dancers, singers, poets, etc.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: smasla@students.naropa.edu

Gamers Club
Mission: Play games, exercise your brains.
Meeting: Bi-weekly, TBA
Contact: syoho@students.naropa.edu

International Students Club
Mission: To create social community for international students at Naropa, support each other, and adjust culture while they are at Naropa. It is also to interface with the dominant cultures at Naropa in the way that promote healthy culture exchange.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: pjiamjid@students.naropa.edu

Living Lectures
Mission: There are many profound and influential thinkers alive today – this group seeks to bring them to Naropa. The various fields of academia at Naropa will all be considered.
Meeting: Bi-monthly, Location TBA
Contact: jmayo@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Animal Rights Alliance
Mission: To promote animal rights awareness and vegetarianism at Naropa.
Meeting: Tuesdays, 5pm on Naropa Green/Student Lounge
Contact: cbrod@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Capoeira Club
Mission: To develop self-awareness, self-control and joy through the medium of dance, martial arts and music.
Meeting: Sundays, 3-4:30 in Student Center
Contact: tcarrico@students.naropa.edu

The Naropa Chado (Japanese Tea Ceremony club)
Mission: Provides opportunities for Naropians to experience a contemplative tea practice, exemplified by our weekly "open hearth" when anyone can stop by for a bowl of tea.
Meeting: Mondays, 3-6pm at the Naropa Tea House
Contact: stevenj@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Dog Club
Mission: To bring students with pets together.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: tcarrico@students.naropa.edu

The Naropa Healers
Mission: To come together in a weekly manner and provide free energy healings to our fellow community members.  Offering aura/chakra healings, reiki, munchies, massage, and love.
Meeting: Wednesdays, 3-5 under the sycamore or in the Student lounge
Contact: jurchek@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Laughter Yoga Club
Mission: “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.” - Jimmy Buffet
Meeting: Wednesdays, 6-7
Contact: bparrish@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Peace Community Network
Mission: Serves to work with and amplify the messages of various Latin American peace communities through education and activism.
Meeting: Bi-Monthly, TBA
Contact: nemerson@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Sports
Mission: Fosters the experience of teamwork, cooperation, healthy living, friendly competition, and contemplative fun by hosting athletic activities and providing resources for sporting events.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: philbattos@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Snow Shredders
Mission: To provide rides and free equipment rentals and resources. For students to interact and find help with developing their abilities in the sports of Snow. While teaching skills and how to maintain equipment.
Meeting: Thursdays, 8pm Student Center
Contacts: Jlambert@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Subtle Activism Group
Mission: Means engaging in spiritual practices for collective healing and transformation of our world. Working on a subtle level, it is a very effective way to ease suffering, support social and political change, and ultimately help to birth a new global consciousness.
Meeting: Tuesdays, 4, Flexible (Green, Lounge, etc.)
Contact: cwatjen@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Tibetan Debate Club
Mission: An opportunity for Nitartha Institute graduates to continue to cultivate their practice and understanding of Tibetan-Buddhist-style debate as taught at Nitartha.
Meeting: Tuesdays, 5-6:20pm on the Arapahoe campus
Contact: msawaya@students.naropa.edu

Naropa Zen Group
Mission: To bring Naropa’s Zen community together.
Meeting: Mondays, Lincoln Shrine Room Time TBA
Contact: tcarrico@students.naropa.edu

Out of the Basement
Mission: A student led group that seeks to support students who choose to abstain from alcohol or drugs as well as those who want guidance towards a more alcohol and drug free life.
Meeting: Weekly, Mondays, 6-7:30 p.m., Upaya Cottage North
Contact: dpyle@students.naropa.edu

Pagans At Naropa (PAN)
Mission: To provide a forum for those who are pagan or are interested in paganism to connect with each other and create community around their religions. To celebrate religious days together in ceremony and ritual.
Meeting: Bi-Monthly, Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30pm in the Student Center
Contact: cdukes@students.naropa.edu

People Like US 
Mission: People Like Us is a group for the queer identified students to have a safe, supported and community building space.
Meeting: Weekly in El Centro
Contact: twilder@students.naropa.edu

Push Hands
Mission: Four ounces dispels 1,000 pounds.  Lead him in, and he falls into emptiness, I unite with him and immediately issue.  Adhere, connect, stick, and follow; don’t lose the connection and don’t resist.
Meeting: Tuesdays 4:30pm-6pm or Weds. 3-5pm, On the Green or in the Student Center
Contact: jlord@students.naropa.edu

Reconnecting on Outer Terrain (RooT)
Mission: Embraces the reawakening of the soul in relationship to its world. It aims to heal the disconnect of human and nature and invites its leaders and participants to literally remember their ROOTs.
Contact: gleezer@students.naropa.edu
Website: http://naropa.edu/campuslife/root.cfm

Students for Peace and Justice 
Mission: Organized as a vehicle for student action to achieve an increasingly peaceful and just world and to achieve an end to U.S. militarism.
Meeting: Wednesdays from 6-8 pm at The Cup
Contact: eross@students.naropa.edu

Shabbat Kef Kef’e
Mission: This group will hopefully be an inclusive place for Jews and friends who are not Jewish to come together as a community, celebrating Shabbat and one another.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: dshneyer@studnets.naropa.edu

Students of Color            
Mission: To provide community, events, safe space and support to students of color in the Naropa community.
Meeting: Weekly in El Centro
Contact: lbrown@students.naropa.edu

Team Asana   
Mission: A team of students and alumni, who have completed the Naropa University Yoga Teacher Training Program with Nataraja Kallio, whom provide donation based yoga classes to the Naropa Community.
Meeting: TBA
Contact: jfraser@students.naropa.edu

Transition Naropa
Mission: An inclusive, University-wide movement for greater sustainability and self-reliance at Naropa. Transition Naropa seeks to strengthen community by raising awareness about the economic, social and environmental challenges we face and co-creating projects that address these issues in our lives at Naropa and beyond.
Meeting: Wednesdays at noon, Student Center/Green
Contact: khassler@students.naropa.edu


Transpersonal Film Series 
Mission:: To create a safe space in which to celebrate and empower our experiences as engendered human beings!
Meeting: TBA, six times a semester
Contact: katrinw@students.naropa.edu

The Contemplative Warrior Council
Mission: The sharing and preservation of world martial arts traditions and fellowship together with Naropa’s contemplative warriors.
Meeting: Wednesdays, 7-9pm Nalanda
Contact: dseward@students.naropa.edu

The Missing Lynx: Everything but the Kitchen Sphinx
Mission: Our goal is to create a space where people of all backgrounds can come together to share alternative and improvisational art in the form of freestyle, song, poetry, music, dance, theater, and other talents.
Meeting: Every other Tuesday 4:30-5:30 PM, Student Lounge
Contact: Jmelior@students.naropa.edu

Veteran Student Diversity Forum
Mission:: To bring students who are Veterans, National Guard/Reservists and prior Military together to offer support to one another through sharing our past and present experiences.
Meeting: October 5, 2009 at 7PM, then every 1st or 2nd Monday of the month, in El Centro
Contact: rpilawski@students.naropa.edu