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Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna
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Full Course Name: Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna: Practices for Self-Healing Alessandra will reveal healing traditions of the still-living cult of the Black Madonna of Southern Italy, that are just as powerful and revered today as they were a millennia ago. In this workshop we will learn how to honor the Black Madonna using the musical and dance tradition called the Tammorriata, a sensual dance which can be used to heal sexual...
A Full Strawberry Moon Circle with Drumming
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Join us at this June’s full moon for an exhilarating welcome to the summer season. The period leading up to the Summer Solstice is the lightest, brightest most powerful time of the year. The days are long and the weather is warm. The flowers are in bloom and the summer fruits are ripe. We, too, are at the peak of our vibrant energy. Let us exalt in the succulent, ripe juiciness of the season and drum up our personal passion, purpose...
Traditional Ceremony for Healing the Mind,Body & Spirit
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Course name: Temazcal Seco (Dry Sweatlodge):Traditional Ceremony for Healing the Mind, Body & Spirit Traditional Curandernos (Healers) throughout the world have used ritual, sweating, medicinal plants to bring healing to their communities. Over the years Rita and Tonita have creatively expanded the tradition, to accommodate communities who would like to have the healing experience of a Dry Temazcal. A Dry Temazcal allows community the healing...
The Transformative Wisdom of the Dying
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
What Really Matters: The Transformative Wisdom of the Dying Dr. Karen Wyatt shares stories gleaned from her years of work as a hospice physician and the spiritual lessons she learned from her patients at the end of life. Expand your vision of life’s possibilities and transform your relationship with death through the wisdom of those who have faced their final days. (Book signing for the book What Really Matters to follow presentation.)...
Recognize Signs & Synchronicities That Can Guide Life
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
How to Recognize Signs and Synchronicities That Can Guide Your Life We all have intuitions. A mother senses something is wrong with her child. A young man meets the love of his life on a spontaneous adventure. We take a leap of faith, and everything falls into place. These are not uncommon happenings. People have impressions, they have premonitions, they have dreams—these senses are our guides through the obstacle-course of life. Stephen Post...
Kirtan: Sing Your Heart Out!
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Come enjoy the music and uplifting vibration of the traditional Hindu chants and English devotional songs which will open your heart. As you sing with each other, you experience a deep connection with the musicians, other audience members, and yourself, becoming one voice. The ancient chants contain powerful renewing and transformative energy that helps us reconnect with the Divinity that resides within all of us. Devotional singing is a wonderful...
Walking Each Other Home: Conversation on Loving & Dying
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Mirabai will read from her new book, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying, which she co-authored with Ram Dass, and talk about her experience of writing it. “The secret of dying is the secret of living, which is to be in the present moment.” The book treats fear of dying, how fear begins, letting go of fear, leading a loving life, being with the dying, grieving and loss, responses to pain, balancing medication and...
A Full Moon in Cancer
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Join us to celebrate the full moon in soulful Cancer. This night’s moon will be receiving the light of the Capricorn Sun, which will be conjunct with Mercury, Saturn and Pluto, making this perhaps the most potent full moon of the year. This celestial event illuminates the shifting structures of our home and work lives, along with those of governments, currencies, corporations and the world at large. The Cancer Full Moon calls us to make...
The Many Paths of Grief
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
In the study of death and dying, grief is an essential topic because it shapes the journey of the living as they move toward their own preparation for death. When we can embrace loss as a necessary fact of life, we can begin to utilize the pain as a powerful tool for growth and healing for ourselves and others. This presentation explores some of the many ways that people have found meaning within their grief. This workshop can be taken individually...
A Full Snow Moon Circle
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Join us as we gather in a sacred circle and community to shake off the depths of winter’s cold and begin to shift our energies as we prepare to lay the groundwork to blossom and thrive in the spring. Shamanic healer and teacher Olivia Olkowski will guide us in shamanic practices and rituals that use the bright white light of the “Full Snow Moon” to help us release the stagnant energies residing within us, the things that no longer serve us...
The Long Before the End Book Group
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
A unique learning experience with the goal of creating and supporting a community ready to embrace end of life with intelligence, warmth, and humor. The Long Before The End Book Group is a moderated discussion gathering where members explore death as the protagonist, minor actor, or overarching plotline in contemporary fictional narratives. We do not read “how to die” books, but rather, how to live, long before the end. Some of the benefits...
A Full Pink Moon Circle
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Join us for an evening of visioning at April’s Full Pink Moon. The first tender blooms of spring are now appearing; it is a time to embrace new growth and new beginnings. With the promise of nature’s rebirth comes our own reawakening, and an opportunity to re-envision our lives. Through shamanic journeying and ritual, come explore what new energies want to unfold and flourish within you this spring season.
JourneyDance™: Let Intuition Move You
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
The JourneyDance™ Transformational Dance Movement Flow leads participants on a ritual journey of physical and emotional transformation. Through breath, sweat, and expression, you gain a palpable experience of yourself as pure powerful energy. In JourneyDance™, we dance without mirrors to release judgement of ourselves and others. This is not about learning steps, it’s about revealing, recovering and rediscovering natural intuitive movement. ...
Making Probiotic Foods: Kefir, Kombucha & Cultured Veg
New York Open Center See all classes by this school @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Full Course Name Making Probiotic Foods: Kefir, Kombucha, & Cultured Veggies Kefir, kombucha, and cultured veggies – known as the Trilogy – are foods that can change your life and your body. Immerse yourself into the world of making/eating probiotic foods. With a wide diversity of probiotic strains, these foods will change your gut. Fix your gut and your health problems begin to vanish! Donna will teach us: how to make kefir, kombucha,...
Certificate in Holistic Psychology
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Holistic psychology explores not only the physical and mental dimensions of life, but also the spiritual, ecological, relational, somatic, mythological, and transpersonal aspects of the psyche. The separation of these dimensions of the whole person can be seen as contributing to the personal, cultural, and planetary crises and pathologies of our time. This program follows the way of wholeness, and offers a path out of division and alienation into...
Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology
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Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology and the Science of Happiness New York Open Center Positive Psychology Training Program Overview Positive psychology (PP) is a new and rapidly growing field that demonstrates what individuals, organizations, and communities need in order to flourish. Where traditional psychology focused on alleviating mental illness and emotional suffering, positive psychology aims to create more well-being, happiness...
The Chord of Nature
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The Greek doctrine of ethos expressed clear ideas about the structural elements of melody, harmony, and dissonance, and their profound effect on mankind’s “sonic core.” Mankind’s musical compass is the harmonic series or “chord of nature.” The proximity of music’s structural elements to this “chord” determines its viability as music, and its power to heal. This workshop will draw on musical insights from both the ancient...
Map of Heaven with Dr. Eben Alexander
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After the massively best-selling Proof of Heaven was published, many readers contacted Dr. Alexander to express how much his story of his near-death experience resonated with them and to share their own similar experiences. He met and heard from thousands of these readers and studied what the world’s religious traditions and its philosophers have had to say about the soul’s survival of death, and he has been deeply surprised at how often those...
HeartMath for Unlocking Creativity, Flow & Happiness
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In this workshop we will combine a unique model of creativity based on the latest understandings from neuroscience, brain-heart interactions, mindfulness and the arts, with the acclaimed HeartMath system of performance enhancement tools and technology. This two-part intensive workshop features: a five catalyst model to awaken creativity which include: music, meditation with heart, dance, memoir writing, and a photography assignment. These techniques...
Herbs for the Respiratory and Nervous Systems
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In this three-session course renowned herbalist Robin Rose Bennett will share her wealth of knowledge to help us learn how to maximize the use of herbal remedies to maintain the health of our crucially important nervous system and address challenges related to it. We will explore several ways in which the mysterious nervous system may hold the ultimate key to our health. Neurons exist virtually everywhere in our bodies and are the messengers coordinating...
Reviews of New York Open Center
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Reiki Circle (Online)
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Reiki Circle (Online)
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The Magic & Medicine of Trees
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The Magic & Medicine of Trees
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Psychedelics in the Treatment of End-Of-Life Suffering
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Rituals on the Day of A Highly Auspicious New Moon
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Herbs for the Respiratory and Nervous Systems
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Fermenting Vegetables: From Sauerkraut to Probiotic
Wonderful class!! Sandor Katz was very knowledgeable AND interesting! I would definitely take more classes with him. -
The Magic & Medicine of Trees
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Green Medicine: A 4-Month Training in Herbalism
Very informational. Peeka convered everything top to bottom and though it is alot of information, it's all very useful . I really enjoyed my time in this class. -
HeartMath for Unlocking Creativity, Flow & Happiness
Absolutely amazing! This class called out to me and I'm so glad I went for it. I got so much more out of it than I was expecting. Highly recommend New York Open Center's programs. -
Tarot Essentials: Unlocking Inner Wisdom
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Valentine’s Day Guayusa Dream Tea Ceremony
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Valentine’s Day Guayusa Dream Tea Ceremony
Loved the course leader and the beauty surrounding the ceremony -
Herbs to Support the Nervous, Digestive & Immune Syst.
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Herbs to Support the Nervous, Digestive & Immune Syst.
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2020 Vision: Predictions for the New Year
Interesting class, but I had no previous knowledge on the subject, so it was a little difficult to comprehend. -
2020 Vision: Predictions for the New Year
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Shamanic Winter Solstice
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Jumpstart Your Memoir: Writing from the Heart
The class was great. Participants wrote wonderful pieces, and Nancy has a way of making everyone comfortable enough to "write from the heart"!