Free Intro: The Integrative Sound & Music Institute Certificate Program
Free Intro on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:00 pm - Training starts on October 19 The Integrative Sound and Music Institute certificate program is a comprehensive, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and highly experiential approach to the study of sound, music, and voice and their powerful effect on the human organism.
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New York Open Center Lunchtime Meditation Series
Rita London
Connect with Your Core Self. Step away from your hectic day to quiet your mind and nourish your soul with a thirty-minute meditation experience. Learn simple Kundalini Yoga breathing techniques and meditations that reduce stress, increase your focus, balance your emotions and magnify your presence. View Details...
Connect with Your Core Self. Step away from your hectic day to quiet your mind and nourish your soul with a thirty-minute meditation experience. Learn simple Kundalini Yoga breathing techniques and meditations that reduce stress, increase your focus, balance your emotions and magnify your presence. View Details...
Somatic Techniques to Improve Your Inner Life
Caryn Scotto d'Luzia
Discover how empowering somatic awareness techniques, exercises, and movement can improve your inner life. Caryn has developed 10 self-relating principles to resolve unconscious inner conflicts, inhibitions, shame, and trauma. This approach harnesses neuroscience, somatic awareness, heart chakra presence, internal/external movement, and embodied techniques. View Details...
Discover how empowering somatic awareness techniques, exercises, and movement can improve your inner life. Caryn has developed 10 self-relating principles to resolve unconscious inner conflicts, inhibitions, shame, and trauma. This approach harnesses neuroscience, somatic awareness, heart chakra presence, internal/external movement, and embodied techniques. View Details...
Art of Dying Institute Mastery Program: Dying Consciously Teacher's Training
Ruby Parker
In modern society, death is often a source of fear and anxiety. Many die in great distress, with unresolved issues weighing heavily on themselves and their families. As Shamans, we know it is possible to enter death with serenity and anticipation of the great journey ahead. View Details...
In modern society, death is often a source of fear and anxiety. Many die in great distress, with unresolved issues weighing heavily on themselves and their families. As Shamans, we know it is possible to enter death with serenity and anticipation of the great journey ahead. View Details...
Earth Moon Gong Bath
Marco Dolce
Gong master Marco Dolce creates new, astonishing sonic vistas and dimensions of consciousness by pairing the Earth Gong with the harmonically-matched Moon Gong. The gong bath he will provide is a one-hour immersion in sacred sound, wherein the gong master activates the full sonic potential of the instrument and bathes the listener with sustained waves of primordial sound. View Details...
Gong master Marco Dolce creates new, astonishing sonic vistas and dimensions of consciousness by pairing the Earth Gong with the harmonically-matched Moon Gong. The gong bath he will provide is a one-hour immersion in sacred sound, wherein the gong master activates the full sonic potential of the instrument and bathes the listener with sustained waves of primordial sound. View Details...
Sufi Teachings on Suffering, Love & Happiness: A Symposium on Ibn 'Arabi
James Morris, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Angela Jaffray, and Deniz Mater
Mystic, philosopher, and renowned Sufi, Ibn ‘Arabi is known as one of the world's great spiritual teachers. He believed that each person comes into the world with the potential for living in complete happiness, but instead, we take on self-defeating beliefs and suffering. View Details...
Mystic, philosopher, and renowned Sufi, Ibn ‘Arabi is known as one of the world's great spiritual teachers. He believed that each person comes into the world with the potential for living in complete happiness, but instead, we take on self-defeating beliefs and suffering. View Details...
Somatic Awareness Tools for Emotional & Physical Balance
Lynn Bourbeau
Free Intro on Wednesday, October 2 at 6:00 pm - Series begins on October 16 Anxiety, panic, anger, hopelessness, depression, sadness, body aches, and ailments—these are a few of the sensations that hijack our nervous systems when we become overwhelmed or experience trauma. View Details...
Free Intro on Wednesday, October 2 at 6:00 pm - Series begins on October 16 Anxiety, panic, anger, hopelessness, depression, sadness, body aches, and ailments—these are a few of the sensations that hijack our nervous systems when we become overwhelmed or experience trauma. View Details...
Yoga Therapy for PTSD & Addiction Recovery
Gail Cristelli
Free Intro on Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 pm - Series starts October 10 If you are one of the many people who have lived through active addiction, felt your life spin out of control due to uncertainty or rage, survived cancer, or suffered violence, then you have also experienced trauma. View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 pm - Series starts October 10 If you are one of the many people who have lived through active addiction, felt your life spin out of control due to uncertainty or rage, survived cancer, or suffered violence, then you have also experienced trauma. View Details...
Dr. Mehmet Oz in Conversation with Dr. James Gordon: On Discovering Wholeness & Healing After Trauma
Dr. James Gordon and Dr. Mehmet Oz
In his book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma, Dr. James Gordon, the world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer, presents the first evidence-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma. View Details...
In his book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma, Dr. James Gordon, the world-recognized authority and acclaimed mind-body medicine pioneer, presents the first evidence-based program to reverse the psychological and biological damage caused by trauma. View Details...
Shamanic Palm Reading
Itzhak Beery
Shamanic Palm Reading is a diagnostic art form created by ancient indigenous cultures from around the world. It helps a person navigate emotional difficulties, traumas and make smart life decisions in alignment with their soul’s purpose as inscribed in their hands at the age of 5 months in the mother womb by the person’s soul. View Details...
Shamanic Palm Reading is a diagnostic art form created by ancient indigenous cultures from around the world. It helps a person navigate emotional difficulties, traumas and make smart life decisions in alignment with their soul’s purpose as inscribed in their hands at the age of 5 months in the mother womb by the person’s soul. View Details...
Charlie Gilkey in Conversation with Jonathan Fields: Find Your Spark & Start Finishing
Charlie Gilkey and Jonathan Fields
Stuck on a project or idea that you just can't drive forward? Or maybe you're not doing enough of the work that lights you up? You're not alone. Charlie and Jonathan will share illuminating mindsets, strategies, and insights to help guide you toward more of the soul-nourishing work that truly matters in your life. View Details...
Stuck on a project or idea that you just can't drive forward? Or maybe you're not doing enough of the work that lights you up? You're not alone. Charlie and Jonathan will share illuminating mindsets, strategies, and insights to help guide you toward more of the soul-nourishing work that truly matters in your life. View Details...
Meditative & Contemplative Studies Program
The New York Open Center is pleased to announce a 7-month, multi-cultural, and multi-faith Meditation and Contemplative Studies program, commencing in October of 2019. The program offers a offers a unique and expansive exploration of a variety of mystical and contemplative disciplines and forms of meditation from eight major religious and spiritual traditions. View Details...
Emotional-Release Therapy (ERT)
Bao Fengyuan
Through years of painstaking research on consciousness and quantum physics, Fengyuan Bao, a leading Chinese scholar in emotional health, has combined Eastern philosophy and scientific evidence to answer the question: what is the connection between emotions and disease and how do we heal it? After much clinical practice, he has developed a Traditional Chinese Medicine technique called Emotional-Release Therapy (ERT). View Details...
Through years of painstaking research on consciousness and quantum physics, Fengyuan Bao, a leading Chinese scholar in emotional health, has combined Eastern philosophy and scientific evidence to answer the question: what is the connection between emotions and disease and how do we heal it? After much clinical practice, he has developed a Traditional Chinese Medicine technique called Emotional-Release Therapy (ERT). View Details...
Ayurvedic Nutrition: Know Yourself, Find Balance, Prevent Illness
Naina Marballi, BSAM, DAC
Free Intro on Thursday, October 10 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on October 17 Ayurveda, India’s ancient healthcare tradition, views food not as mere nutritional substance, but as a living spiritual force that profoundly affects our well-being on every level. In this class, Ayurvedic physician (known as Ayurvedacharya) and aesthetician Naina Marballi will explain how we can create an optimal diet for ourselves based on our own unique constitution (prakriti). View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, October 10 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on October 17 Ayurveda, India’s ancient healthcare tradition, views food not as mere nutritional substance, but as a living spiritual force that profoundly affects our well-being on every level. In this class, Ayurvedic physician (known as Ayurvedacharya) and aesthetician Naina Marballi will explain how we can create an optimal diet for ourselves based on our own unique constitution (prakriti). View Details...
The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business
Michael Gelb
Join organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb, co-author with Raj Sisodia of the new publication, The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World, for an important book discussion and workshop. The premise is simple: When we understand and meet people’s real needs, we help to heal them, while healing ourselves, and generating abundance. View Details...
Join organizational innovation expert Michael J. Gelb, co-author with Raj Sisodia of the new publication, The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World, for an important book discussion and workshop. The premise is simple: When we understand and meet people’s real needs, we help to heal them, while healing ourselves, and generating abundance. View Details...
Herbal Bodycare Products for Emotional Well-Being
Ginger Andro and Raghda A. Maksoud
While a particular herb or essential oil may appear as a "miracle cure" for body care, it may not be the best choice for you. Int this workshop, we will focus on how herbs and essential oils can be selected to formulate a personalized line of botanical products that may benefit an individual's physical body as well as create or enhance a desirable mood. View Details...
While a particular herb or essential oil may appear as a "miracle cure" for body care, it may not be the best choice for you. Int this workshop, we will focus on how herbs and essential oils can be selected to formulate a personalized line of botanical products that may benefit an individual's physical body as well as create or enhance a desirable mood. View Details...
The Essence of Non-Duality
Rupert Spira
Join renowned spiritual teacher Rupert Spira will explore with us the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Zen and Sufism, and which is also the ever-present reality of our own experience. View Details...
Join renowned spiritual teacher Rupert Spira will explore with us the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Zen and Sufism, and which is also the ever-present reality of our own experience. View Details...
Toltec Cupping for Health & Healing
Josie Castañeda
Dive into the teachings of traditional ‘ventosas’ (fire cupping) for pain management, preventative care, and athletic recovery, which are applied on bare backs, arms, and legs. Now you can learn the history of ventosas, how they function, and how to best use them for self-care. View Details...
Dive into the teachings of traditional ‘ventosas’ (fire cupping) for pain management, preventative care, and athletic recovery, which are applied on bare backs, arms, and legs. Now you can learn the history of ventosas, how they function, and how to best use them for self-care. View Details...
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
Loch Kelly
What if you could open into a natural flow of wisdom, compassion, and joy in any moment? This possibility is closer than you think. Loch Kelly has integrated wisdom practices, neuroscience, and psychological research to support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. View Details...
What if you could open into a natural flow of wisdom, compassion, and joy in any moment? This possibility is closer than you think. Loch Kelly has integrated wisdom practices, neuroscience, and psychological research to support awakening as the next natural stage of human development. View Details...
Craniosacral Unwinding 1
Gary Strauss
Free Intro on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 pm - Workshop starts on October 17The craniosacral rhythms are at the core of the body's pulse. Learning to palpate and balance them is like discovering the ebb and flow of the ocean. By contacting the tissue in this way, areas of the body which have been devitalized or overcharged have an opportunity to reconnect with the primary healing core energy of the body. View Details...
Free Intro on Wednesday, October 16 at 7:00 pm - Workshop starts on October 17The craniosacral rhythms are at the core of the body's pulse. Learning to palpate and balance them is like discovering the ebb and flow of the ocean. By contacting the tissue in this way, areas of the body which have been devitalized or overcharged have an opportunity to reconnect with the primary healing core energy of the body. View Details...
Getting Unstuck with EFT: Clear Your Fear of Success
Carol Look
If you’re tired of being stuck and holding yourself back from success, learn how to release procrastination, clear the fear of success, and move forward in your life. Learn how to use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or “Tapping,” to change your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so you stop struggling and align with the success you desire and deserve. View Details...
If you’re tired of being stuck and holding yourself back from success, learn how to release procrastination, clear the fear of success, and move forward in your life. Learn how to use Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or “Tapping,” to change your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors so you stop struggling and align with the success you desire and deserve. View Details...
How Sound Heals: Listening from Shamans, Scientists & Sound Healers
Silvia Nakkach
We know that sound is vibration and vibration permeates all things. Sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. One reason sound heals on a physical level is because we have the capacity for deep listening—meaning that sound, chanting, and music transform us on emotional and spiritual planes. View Details...
We know that sound is vibration and vibration permeates all things. Sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. One reason sound heals on a physical level is because we have the capacity for deep listening—meaning that sound, chanting, and music transform us on emotional and spiritual planes. View Details...
The Integrative Sound & Music Certificate Program
A 9-Month, 130-Hour Certification Training, October 2019–June 2020
The Integrative Sound and Music Institute certificate program is a comprehensive, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and highly experiential approach to the study of sound, music, and voice and their powerful effect on the human organism. View Details...
The Integrative Sound and Music Institute certificate program is a comprehensive, multi-cultural, multi-disciplinary, and highly experiential approach to the study of sound, music, and voice and their powerful effect on the human organism. View Details...
Internal Family Systems & Shamanism: Finding Your Purpose
Itzhak Beery and Monique Lang
Dive into the conscious and unconscious motivations that inform your views, thoughts, and behaviors, using the powerful tools of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and ancient shamanic practices. Monique Lang teams up with Itzhak Beery for an intensive program focused on finding your authentic life’s purpose. View Details...
Dive into the conscious and unconscious motivations that inform your views, thoughts, and behaviors, using the powerful tools of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and ancient shamanic practices. Monique Lang teams up with Itzhak Beery for an intensive program focused on finding your authentic life’s purpose. View Details...
The Art of Improvisation: Freeing Your Musical Imagination
Silvia Nakkach
Music is one of the most natural ways through which we can joyfully celebrate our spirit. It feels enchanting when the healing energy of the human voice joins the power of collective music-making without borders. Masterfully led by Silvia Nakkach and friends, participants will learn original strategies of improvisation in the oral tradition of devotional music and spontaneous songs. View Details...
Music is one of the most natural ways through which we can joyfully celebrate our spirit. It feels enchanting when the healing energy of the human voice joins the power of collective music-making without borders. Masterfully led by Silvia Nakkach and friends, participants will learn original strategies of improvisation in the oral tradition of devotional music and spontaneous songs. View Details...
Consciously Create Your Career
Kori Burkholder, Marcy Clark, Nidhi Adhiya-Huba, and Eileen Moran
Join Career Transition & Fulfillment coach Kori Burkholder and PR veteran and Self-Expression coach Marcy Clark as they lead a series that marries internal tools for self-discovery with practical business strategy. Learn how to tap into your inner wisdom and develop new habits to support the creation and enjoyment of your dream career. View Details...
Join Career Transition & Fulfillment coach Kori Burkholder and PR veteran and Self-Expression coach Marcy Clark as they lead a series that marries internal tools for self-discovery with practical business strategy. Learn how to tap into your inner wisdom and develop new habits to support the creation and enjoyment of your dream career. View Details...
Soul Mending: How to Heal Spiritual Traumas with Soul Retrieval
Itzhak Beery
Free Intro Tuesday, October 22 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on November 5 Trauma often forces the psyche to suppress difficult feelings in order to carry on, but this takes its toll on the soul. Traditional shamans view this “soul loss”—the wounding of a person’s spirit due to trauma—as a leading cause of physical and psychological dysfunction. View Details...
Free Intro Tuesday, October 22 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on November 5 Trauma often forces the psyche to suppress difficult feelings in order to carry on, but this takes its toll on the soul. Traditional shamans view this “soul loss”—the wounding of a person’s spirit due to trauma—as a leading cause of physical and psychological dysfunction. View Details...
The Havening Techniques® to Build Resilience
Doug O'Brien
The Havening Techniques® is the newest psychosensory therapy created by Ronald Ruden, MD, PhD. When an experience is perceived as traumatic, it becomes encoded in the limbic system of our brain, often with life-altering consequences. However, the field of neuroscience has shown us that it's possible to remove this encoding. View Details...
The Havening Techniques® is the newest psychosensory therapy created by Ronald Ruden, MD, PhD. When an experience is perceived as traumatic, it becomes encoded in the limbic system of our brain, often with life-altering consequences. However, the field of neuroscience has shown us that it's possible to remove this encoding. View Details...
Become an Intuitive Healer: A Training for Healthcare Practitioners & Providers
Judith Orloff
There is an infinite amount of wisdom we cannot access through logic alone. Doctors, nurses, bodyworkers, and therapists have all felt it. Could there be a way to consciously tap this intuitive power and make it a regular part of diagnosis and treatment? Join Judith Orloff, MD, who has pioneered the use of intuition in healthcare healing for over 20 years. View Details...
There is an infinite amount of wisdom we cannot access through logic alone. Doctors, nurses, bodyworkers, and therapists have all felt it. Could there be a way to consciously tap this intuitive power and make it a regular part of diagnosis and treatment? Join Judith Orloff, MD, who has pioneered the use of intuition in healthcare healing for over 20 years. View Details...
Awakening Your True Voice
Jean McClelland
Free Intro on Monday, October 28 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 4 Every person possesses a powerful, natural voice that reveals who he or she truly is. Often, mental and physical tension, past experiences, and fears lead to inhibitions that restrict the natural flow of the voice, resulting in a forced, unnatural sound and blocked energy centers. View Details...
Free Intro on Monday, October 28 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 4 Every person possesses a powerful, natural voice that reveals who he or she truly is. Often, mental and physical tension, past experiences, and fears lead to inhibitions that restrict the natural flow of the voice, resulting in a forced, unnatural sound and blocked energy centers. View Details...
Native American Craniosacral Bodywork
Nita Renfrew and Reggie Ceaser
Free Intro on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 5 Enhance your energy and bodywork practice by learning basic craniosacral therapy, in a Native American way. Originated by indigenous people, it uses touch and manipulation with deep energy to restore function and flow to the fascia and musculoskeletal system, resets the nervous system, and heals you from trauma, physical injuries, and chronic pain. View Details...
Free Intro on Tuesday, October 29 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 5 Enhance your energy and bodywork practice by learning basic craniosacral therapy, in a Native American way. Originated by indigenous people, it uses touch and manipulation with deep energy to restore function and flow to the fascia and musculoskeletal system, resets the nervous system, and heals you from trauma, physical injuries, and chronic pain. View Details...
Developing Your Intuition: A Decision-Making Tool for Life
Constantina Rhodes
Free Intro on Thursday, October 31 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 7 Intuition is a key component of decision-making. One of New York’s most experienced intuitive consultants and teachers of intuition, Constantina Rhodes, will help us begin to develop a range of skills that we all possess in latent form but usually don’t know how to access, understand, or use. View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, October 31 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on November 7 Intuition is a key component of decision-making. One of New York’s most experienced intuitive consultants and teachers of intuition, Constantina Rhodes, will help us begin to develop a range of skills that we all possess in latent form but usually don’t know how to access, understand, or use. View Details...
Trust-Based Relationships: An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication
Dian Killian
How well do you respond to difficult people and situations? Do you judge yourself and others? Or end up disappointed, frustrated, or shut down? Come learn the first steps in how to transform your relationships, including with yourself, by practicing Nonviolent Communication (NVC). View Details...
How well do you respond to difficult people and situations? Do you judge yourself and others? Or end up disappointed, frustrated, or shut down? Come learn the first steps in how to transform your relationships, including with yourself, by practicing Nonviolent Communication (NVC). View Details...
Flying Phoenix Healing Qigong
Terry Dunn
Flying Phoenix qigong meditations are part of a rare and extraordinarily powerful medical system created more than 400 years ago by a Taoist sage named Feng Teh of Ehrmei Mountain. This complete system of mind-body health with a range of benefits combines easy breathwork exercises, with stationary or moving meditations. View Details...
Flying Phoenix qigong meditations are part of a rare and extraordinarily powerful medical system created more than 400 years ago by a Taoist sage named Feng Teh of Ehrmei Mountain. This complete system of mind-body health with a range of benefits combines easy breathwork exercises, with stationary or moving meditations. View Details...
One Simple Thing
Eddie Stern
Eddie Stern Eddie Stern’s new book, One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life, explains from both a yogic and scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wired. It describes the mechanics beneath the surface of our bodies and shows how we can consciously use yogic practices to direct and change our lives in positive ways. View Details...
Eddie Stern Eddie Stern’s new book, One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life, explains from both a yogic and scientific perspective how the human nervous system is wired. It describes the mechanics beneath the surface of our bodies and shows how we can consciously use yogic practices to direct and change our lives in positive ways. View Details...
Calming Your Nervous System: Tools for Creating Balance & Peace of Mind
Priti Robyn Ross
Too many of us exist in an overstressed, near continuous state of “fight-or-flight,” which adversely affects our moods, sleep cycles, cardiovascular, immune, and digestive systems. In this series, we will gain a practical understanding of the physiology of stress, learn effective coping strategies that counteract an overactive sympathetic nervous system, and boost the “relaxation response.” View Details...
Too many of us exist in an overstressed, near continuous state of “fight-or-flight,” which adversely affects our moods, sleep cycles, cardiovascular, immune, and digestive systems. In this series, we will gain a practical understanding of the physiology of stress, learn effective coping strategies that counteract an overactive sympathetic nervous system, and boost the “relaxation response.” View Details...
The Art of Herbal Medicine Making
Robin Rose Bennett
Crafting your own herbal preparations will lead you to a happier, healthier self—and save you money along the way. In this class, we will work with fresh and dried herbs, exploring their properties and making tinctures, liniments, oils, infusions, vinegars, syrups, salves, decoctions, poultices, compresses, fomentations, and more! View Details...
Crafting your own herbal preparations will lead you to a happier, healthier self—and save you money along the way. In this class, we will work with fresh and dried herbs, exploring their properties and making tinctures, liniments, oils, infusions, vinegars, syrups, salves, decoctions, poultices, compresses, fomentations, and more! View Details...
Brain Upgrade: Creating New Neural Pathways
Paula Oleska
Free Intro on Thursday, November 7 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on November 14 This class will explore what stress does to the brain and how to reverse it without the struggle. Stress can cause the brain to become forgetful, disorganized, unfocused, distracted, overwhelmed, and anxious; therefore, rational thinking and decision-making may stop. View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, November 7 at 8:00 pm - Class starts on November 14 This class will explore what stress does to the brain and how to reverse it without the struggle. Stress can cause the brain to become forgetful, disorganized, unfocused, distracted, overwhelmed, and anxious; therefore, rational thinking and decision-making may stop. View Details...
An Introduction to Sheng Zhen Gong
Master Li Junfeng
Sheng Zhen ( “sacred truth” ) is a spiritual qigong system composed of sets of graceful sitting and standing movements and meditations inspired by the world’s great spiritual traditions. This form of qigong has three functions—to improve the body’s health, to remove negative emotions and thoughts, and to open one’s heart. View Details...
Sheng Zhen ( “sacred truth” ) is a spiritual qigong system composed of sets of graceful sitting and standing movements and meditations inspired by the world’s great spiritual traditions. This form of qigong has three functions—to improve the body’s health, to remove negative emotions and thoughts, and to open one’s heart. View Details...
Free Intros: Coaching for Transformation: 9-Month Coaching Certification
Sharon Brown, PCC, MS and Michael Wise, MPH, PCC - Upcoming Free Intro Friday, November 8, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Coaching for Transformation is a world-changing, experiential program grounded in awareness of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Empower yourself, and empower others to be the change they want to see in the world. With Coaching for Transformation, you will expand both personally and professionally. View Details...
Coaching for Transformation is a world-changing, experiential program grounded in awareness of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Empower yourself, and empower others to be the change they want to see in the world. With Coaching for Transformation, you will expand both personally and professionally. View Details...
Reiki System of Natural Healing: Practitioner Training
Joanna Crespo, MBA, Reiki Teacher
Reiki 1 takes place on November 9 - 10th and is the first part of The Reiki System of Natural Healing Program which uses gentle, non-invasive touch to accelerate the body’s natural healing processes, support mental and emotional healing, and create an overall sense of profound well-being. View Details...
Reiki 1 takes place on November 9 - 10th and is the first part of The Reiki System of Natural Healing Program which uses gentle, non-invasive touch to accelerate the body’s natural healing processes, support mental and emotional healing, and create an overall sense of profound well-being. View Details...
The Natural Singer
Claude Stein
Learn to find your true, authentic voice. Whether you sing or always wished you could, you’ll free the undeniable beauty of your soul, even if you’ve never been able to carry a tune! The results have been called “life-changing” and “stunning.” Multidisciplinary experts have even called the results “profound.” View Details...
Learn to find your true, authentic voice. Whether you sing or always wished you could, you’ll free the undeniable beauty of your soul, even if you’ve never been able to carry a tune! The results have been called “life-changing” and “stunning.” Multidisciplinary experts have even called the results “profound.” View Details...
Grieving through the Holidays: A Compassionate Circle
Claudia Coenen
Holidays! It takes a lot of effort to be cheerful when we are feeling sad, and the presence of grief roars or whispers. How will we manage our emotions? The compassionate circle is for anyone who is anxious or worried about how to move through the holiday season when feelings of loss are present. View Details...
Holidays! It takes a lot of effort to be cheerful when we are feeling sad, and the presence of grief roars or whispers. How will we manage our emotions? The compassionate circle is for anyone who is anxious or worried about how to move through the holiday season when feelings of loss are present. View Details...
The Shape of Awake®: Meditation & the Alexander Technique
Hope Martin
Free Intro, November 14 at 8:00 pm - series starts on November 21 Mindfulness practices free us from habitual patterns of tension and bring a deeper alignment with life. The Alexander Technique, when applied to meditation, is a simple, yet powerful tool for cultivating mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to habitual tension, and relaxing our goal-oriented approach to life. View Details...
Free Intro, November 14 at 8:00 pm - series starts on November 21 Mindfulness practices free us from habitual patterns of tension and bring a deeper alignment with life. The Alexander Technique, when applied to meditation, is a simple, yet powerful tool for cultivating mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to habitual tension, and relaxing our goal-oriented approach to life. View Details...
Art of Dying Institute Film Screening
The Art of Dying Institute, in collaboration with The Art of Dying Threshold Circle, is excited to present a film series of specially selected movies beginning in the Fall of 2019, designed to share real and fictionalized stories on the vast topics associated with end of life and death. Our debut film for this series is TO DUST starring Matthew Broderick and Géza Röhrig. View Details...
Kirtan: Sing Your Heart Out!
Prem Sadasivananda
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. View Details...
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. View Details...
Planning a Good Death: The Difficult Decisions
Olivia Bareham
This workshop provides the information and tools necessary for creating a good death and ensuring your end-of-life wishes are fulfilled. There are a myriad of decisions to be made when our body begins to decline, but this is when we are most vulnerable. Knowing your options ahead of time, understanding the implications for each choice, and sharing your informed decisions with loved-ones relieve anxiety and soften pain; so you can let go of this world in peace. View Details...
This workshop provides the information and tools necessary for creating a good death and ensuring your end-of-life wishes are fulfilled. There are a myriad of decisions to be made when our body begins to decline, but this is when we are most vulnerable. Knowing your options ahead of time, understanding the implications for each choice, and sharing your informed decisions with loved-ones relieve anxiety and soften pain; so you can let go of this world in peace. View Details...
The Heart of Centering Prayer: Nondual Christianity
Cynthia Bourgeault
This weekend program offers a practical hands-on training in the practice of Centering Prayer, a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. Cynthia will help you dive deeper into the experience by analyzing what actually happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes open-hearted, nondual perception possible. View Details...
This weekend program offers a practical hands-on training in the practice of Centering Prayer, a pioneering development within the Christian contemplative tradition. Cynthia will help you dive deeper into the experience by analyzing what actually happens in Centering Prayer: the mind effectively switches to a new operating system that makes open-hearted, nondual perception possible. View Details...
Free Intros: Flower Essence Therapy Certification
Elizabeth Willoughby
Free Intro on Monday, November 18 at 6:00 pm - Training starts on January 27 Our emotions and stress affect our health. Flower Essences balance the negative aspects of our emotions so that we can function and flourish both physically and spiritually. In the 20th century, Dr. Bach created Bach Flower remedies to raise a person’s vibration and enliven the body to heal itself. View Details...
Free Intro on Monday, November 18 at 6:00 pm - Training starts on January 27 Our emotions and stress affect our health. Flower Essences balance the negative aspects of our emotions so that we can function and flourish both physically and spiritually. In the 20th century, Dr. Bach created Bach Flower remedies to raise a person’s vibration and enliven the body to heal itself. View Details...
Music & the Brain
Petr Janata
This webinar explores how the human brain enables musical experiences. Everyday experiences that people have with music, such as music-evoked remembering, feeling in the groove, having music playing in your head, and experiencing pleasure are explained in terms of underlying psychological mechanisms and the ways in which these manifest in the brain. View Details...
This webinar explores how the human brain enables musical experiences. Everyday experiences that people have with music, such as music-evoked remembering, feeling in the groove, having music playing in your head, and experiencing pleasure are explained in terms of underlying psychological mechanisms and the ways in which these manifest in the brain. View Details...
Know Thy Self: The Hand as a Guide to Self-Fulfillment
Ellen Goldberg
The hand has been called God's Road Map. This spiritual gift is both a science and a universal language, based on principles that anyone with an interest in human nature can understand. Reading your own palm is like reading a book about yourself, the most important and interesting subject to know about. View Details...
The hand has been called God's Road Map. This spiritual gift is both a science and a universal language, based on principles that anyone with an interest in human nature can understand. Reading your own palm is like reading a book about yourself, the most important and interesting subject to know about. View Details...
Gong Yoga
Don Conreaux
Every human being is a born gong player. Come for a special gong meditation for healing and illumination through focusing on the full moon guru-angel point. Learn about the most powerful healing musical instrument on the planet for those who wish to maintain physical health and emotional wellness: the gong. View Details...
Every human being is a born gong player. Come for a special gong meditation for healing and illumination through focusing on the full moon guru-angel point. Learn about the most powerful healing musical instrument on the planet for those who wish to maintain physical health and emotional wellness: the gong. View Details...
Carl Jung's SoulCollage®
Laurie Nadel
Based on the work of Carl Jung, SoulCollage® is a gentle, relaxing modality for exploring your inner self. Whether you are recovering from a loss, suffering from acute stress, PTSD, trauma, addiction, confused about what path to take, or looking for your soul’s purpose, this workshop will give you access to your inner guidance. View Details...
Based on the work of Carl Jung, SoulCollage® is a gentle, relaxing modality for exploring your inner self. Whether you are recovering from a loss, suffering from acute stress, PTSD, trauma, addiction, confused about what path to take, or looking for your soul’s purpose, this workshop will give you access to your inner guidance. View Details...
Breath-Body-Mind Introductory Workshop
Richard P. Brown and Patricia Gerbarg
Learn proven breathing techniques to relieve stress and improve mood, mental focus, and performance. Benefits have been enjoyed by thousands of adults and children worldwide, including medical professionals, yoga teachers, military veterans, and individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADD, cancer, and other health conditions. View Details...
Learn proven breathing techniques to relieve stress and improve mood, mental focus, and performance. Benefits have been enjoyed by thousands of adults and children worldwide, including medical professionals, yoga teachers, military veterans, and individuals with PTSD, anxiety, depression, ADD, cancer, and other health conditions. View Details...
NYC Healing Circle: An Evening of Healing, Networking, and Community
NYC Healing Circle
This will be the fifth event that the NYC Healing Circle has done at the Open Center, and their first three were extremely well received! These events utilize a special group healing technique that has been developed over many years, combining several modalities from around the world. NYC View Details...
This will be the fifth event that the NYC Healing Circle has done at the Open Center, and their first three were extremely well received! These events utilize a special group healing technique that has been developed over many years, combining several modalities from around the world. NYC View Details...
A Full Cold Moon Circle with Drumming
Mama Donna Henes
The Cold Moon this December occurs on the Winter Solstice of the old Julian calendar, shining its lunar light in the darkest time of the year. This moon illuminates our intentions, lights our path and ignites the ember spark of warmth in our hearts that can sustain us during the coming season of chill and shadow. View Details...
The Cold Moon this December occurs on the Winter Solstice of the old Julian calendar, shining its lunar light in the darkest time of the year. This moon illuminates our intentions, lights our path and ignites the ember spark of warmth in our hearts that can sustain us during the coming season of chill and shadow. View Details...
Biosonics Sound Healing
John Beaulieu
Sound Healing teaches an Energy Medicine approach, developed by Dr. John Beaulieu, which integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, and spiritual wisdom. In this workshop, students learn practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. View Details...
Sound Healing teaches an Energy Medicine approach, developed by Dr. John Beaulieu, which integrates energy healing, systems science, molecular research, and spiritual wisdom. In this workshop, students learn practical methods of using tuning forks to tune the nervous system, stimulate trigger points, and align our posture to visual harmonics. View Details...
Jumpstart Your Memoir: Writing from the Heart
Nancy Slonim Aronie
Nancy Slonim Aronie inspires us to reclaim our authentic voices, to write in our own rhythms, in our own language, without trying to sound like a “writer.” She creates a safe space where all who want to write can access boundless inner creativity, let go of the inner critic, and let the juices flow. View Details...
Nancy Slonim Aronie inspires us to reclaim our authentic voices, to write in our own rhythms, in our own language, without trying to sound like a “writer.” She creates a safe space where all who want to write can access boundless inner creativity, let go of the inner critic, and let the juices flow. View Details...
Tibetan Sound Healing
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
One of the world's oldest unbroken spiritual traditions is the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet. This wisdom path has survived, thanks to the efforts of a handful of dedicated teachers such as Bön lineage holder Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute and an acclaimed author and highly respected teacher. You are invited to learn from a master of this ancient lineage, and discover the power of sacred sound. View Details...
One of the world's oldest unbroken spiritual traditions is the Bön Buddhist tradition of Tibet. This wisdom path has survived, thanks to the efforts of a handful of dedicated teachers such as Bön lineage holder Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute and an acclaimed author and highly respected teacher. You are invited to learn from a master of this ancient lineage, and discover the power of sacred sound. View Details...
2020 Vision: Predictions for the New Year
Gary Christen, Jenny Lynch, Marza Millar, Steve Speer, and William Stickevers
Everything that has happened in 2019 has set us up for the shift in consciousness that is underway. In the upcoming days, we will see the manifestation of that transformation, as many visionaries have predicted. This will be a landmark year, a time of personal, national, and planetary upheavals. View Details...
Everything that has happened in 2019 has set us up for the shift in consciousness that is underway. In the upcoming days, we will see the manifestation of that transformation, as many visionaries have predicted. This will be a landmark year, a time of personal, national, and planetary upheavals. View Details...
Practical Intuition
Laura Day
Awaken and hone the latent, innate intuitive abilities you have with internationally renowned intuitive and best-selling author Laura Day. She has worked for decades to bring intuitive skills into the mainstream worlds of professions including medicine, business, and psychology. View Details...
Awaken and hone the latent, innate intuitive abilities you have with internationally renowned intuitive and best-selling author Laura Day. She has worked for decades to bring intuitive skills into the mainstream worlds of professions including medicine, business, and psychology. View Details...
Family Constellations: Breaking the Chains of Family Patterns
Suzi Tucker (AHG)
Hidden loyalties to our history—whether to our parents or the deeper lineage—often create a powerful undertow, even as we attempt to move forward in our lives. The patterns of self-sabotage we find ourselves caught in may actually reflect unconscious systemic agreements into which we are born. View Details...
Hidden loyalties to our history—whether to our parents or the deeper lineage—often create a powerful undertow, even as we attempt to move forward in our lives. The patterns of self-sabotage we find ourselves caught in may actually reflect unconscious systemic agreements into which we are born. View Details...
Energy Healing Methods for Trauma
Michael Cotayo and Kathryn Carey-Ackermann
Free Intro on Monday, January 6 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 13 In this 4-week program, Mike Cotayo and Kathryn Carey-Ackermann will teach gentle, easy-to-learn, self-healing practices based on Energy Healing, Gestalt Therapy, Yoga, and Qigong practices and principles that will support you in your journey to wholeness and wellness. View Details...
Free Intro on Monday, January 6 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 13 In this 4-week program, Mike Cotayo and Kathryn Carey-Ackermann will teach gentle, easy-to-learn, self-healing practices based on Energy Healing, Gestalt Therapy, Yoga, and Qigong practices and principles that will support you in your journey to wholeness and wellness. View Details...
Our Karma, Our Journey
Lorraine Goldbloom
Free Intro on Tuesday, January 7 at 8:00 pm - Series starts January 14 Join Lorraine Goldbloom as she presents her perspective on the meaning and nature of karma on our incarnational journey. An essential part of this experience will be VortexHealing® Divine Energy Therapy group healings, to deal with issues that arise for students in class, as well as to clear each person’s biggest, unique karmic obstacle. View Details...
Free Intro on Tuesday, January 7 at 8:00 pm - Series starts January 14 Join Lorraine Goldbloom as she presents her perspective on the meaning and nature of karma on our incarnational journey. An essential part of this experience will be VortexHealing® Divine Energy Therapy group healings, to deal with issues that arise for students in class, as well as to clear each person’s biggest, unique karmic obstacle. View Details...
Medical Qigong: Ba Duan Jin
William Kaplanidis
Free Intro on Wednesday, January 8 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 15 The Ba Duan Jin (“Eight pieces of brocade”), is a Taoist medical qigong set of eight therapeutic practices that dates over 1,000 years, and offers great health benefits. Over the centuries, many have experienced its numerous benefits, and it is one of the most famous of all qigong forms. View Details...
Free Intro on Wednesday, January 8 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 15 The Ba Duan Jin (“Eight pieces of brocade”), is a Taoist medical qigong set of eight therapeutic practices that dates over 1,000 years, and offers great health benefits. Over the centuries, many have experienced its numerous benefits, and it is one of the most famous of all qigong forms. View Details...
Introduction to Essential Oils
Marc Gian
Aromatherapy, the use of essential oils as healing agents, has a long history in many cultures. These oils can have very beneficial effects on the physical, mental, and emotional components of illness. In this class, we will focus on oils derived from leaves, flowers, resins, woods, and roots. View Details...
Aromatherapy, the use of essential oils as healing agents, has a long history in many cultures. These oils can have very beneficial effects on the physical, mental, and emotional components of illness. In this class, we will focus on oils derived from leaves, flowers, resins, woods, and roots. View Details...
TRE®: Exercises to Release Stress & Deeply Held Traumas
Phil Lynch
Free Intro on Thursday, January 9 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 16 TRE® (Trauma/Tension Release Exercises) is a series of exercises designed to activate the body’s natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating, to release deeply held stress, tension, and trauma. View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, January 9 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on January 16 TRE® (Trauma/Tension Release Exercises) is a series of exercises designed to activate the body’s natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating, to release deeply held stress, tension, and trauma. View Details...
EMDR Comprehensive Training: Parts 1 & 2
Laurel Parnell, PhD
Learn EMDR from the inside out, with extensive practice time, experiencing firsthand the power of this transformative therapy. Using lecture, small group practice, and demonstrations in a supportive environment, we will cover beginning through advanced level EMDR. View Details...
Learn EMDR from the inside out, with extensive practice time, experiencing firsthand the power of this transformative therapy. Using lecture, small group practice, and demonstrations in a supportive environment, we will cover beginning through advanced level EMDR. View Details...
The Power of Mantra
Prem Sadasivananda
Mantra is an energy embedded in a sound structure. Through the repetition of the mantra, its latent power becomes manifest, and the subconscious layers of the mind are awakened. The constant repetition of a mantra transforms the very life of the aspirant. From Sanskrit mantras, we will be learning the language of higher vibrations. View Details...
Mantra is an energy embedded in a sound structure. Through the repetition of the mantra, its latent power becomes manifest, and the subconscious layers of the mind are awakened. The constant repetition of a mantra transforms the very life of the aspirant. From Sanskrit mantras, we will be learning the language of higher vibrations. View Details...
Radical Compassion: An Evening with Tara Brach
Tara Brach
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and as a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. Radical Compassion has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive of all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. View Details...
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and as a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. Radical Compassion has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive of all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. View Details...
Rituals for the New Year
Barbara Biziou
Release old patterns and limiting thoughts to proceed into the future with clarity and lightness. January is an auspicious time to use the focused power of ritual to align our minds, hearts, and actions. Relinquish the blocks and barriers that prevent us from manifesting our goals. View Details...
Release old patterns and limiting thoughts to proceed into the future with clarity and lightness. January is an auspicious time to use the focused power of ritual to align our minds, hearts, and actions. Relinquish the blocks and barriers that prevent us from manifesting our goals. View Details...
The RAIN of Compassion
Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. In this workshop with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust, we will use the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) to explore the healing and spiritual freedom that becomes possible as we learn to contact the vulnerability within ourselves and others, and respond with a loving heart. View Details...
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. In this workshop with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust, we will use the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) to explore the healing and spiritual freedom that becomes possible as we learn to contact the vulnerability within ourselves and others, and respond with a loving heart. View Details...
Past Life Regression Therapy Training
Eli Bliliuos (NCAAOM) Learn and experience hypnotic regression which guides us back in time to previous lives. Based on the techniques utilized by Dr. Brian Weiss, this training features advanced techniques that past life practitioners, counselors, therapists, or healthcare professionals can use to tap into the soul and help people overcome challenging obstacles. View Details...
Art of Dying Institute Mastery Program: End of Life Doula Training
Henry Fersko-Weiss
This course will be of great value to people exploring the issues of death and dying for their own personal growth or who think they want to support and guide friends and family when they face death. Graduates of our training typically go on to volunteer in a hospice or hospital, serve in their community, or work in a private doula practice. View Details...
This course will be of great value to people exploring the issues of death and dying for their own personal growth or who think they want to support and guide friends and family when they face death. Graduates of our training typically go on to volunteer in a hospice or hospital, serve in their community, or work in a private doula practice. View Details...
The Long Before the End Book Group
Devorah Medwin and Caren Martineau
We present 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. View Details...
We present 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. View Details...
EMDR Comprehensive Training: Part 3
Laurel Parnell, PhD
In this intensive workshop, we will refresh our technique, review EMDR protocols and procedures, consult on our difficult cases, watch demonstrations, and practice EMDR in small supervised groups. Instruction will focus on using EMDR in complex cases, resource development and installation, target development and cognitive interweaves. View Details...
In this intensive workshop, we will refresh our technique, review EMDR protocols and procedures, consult on our difficult cases, watch demonstrations, and practice EMDR in small supervised groups. Instruction will focus on using EMDR in complex cases, resource development and installation, target development and cognitive interweaves. View Details...
The Last Great Act of Love: End of Life Planning
Alua Arthur
The last great act of love we will undertake is to put our affairs in order prior to our deaths. In this webinar, students will learn the practical, legal, and emotional considerations in end of life planning and begin answering the questions that will lead to tangible documents to catalogue the most significant details of the end of their lives. View Details...
The last great act of love we will undertake is to put our affairs in order prior to our deaths. In this webinar, students will learn the practical, legal, and emotional considerations in end of life planning and begin answering the questions that will lead to tangible documents to catalogue the most significant details of the end of their lives. View Details...
La Limpia: Andean Energy Cleansing
Itzhak Beery
Free Intro on Thursday, January 23 at 8:00 pm – Series starts January 30 La Limpia is a traditional energy-cleansing ceremony employed when people become emotionally/physically sick due to energies described as bad luck, “evil eye,” entity attachments, or are experiencing problems with relationships, money, or other misfortunes. View Details...
Free Intro on Thursday, January 23 at 8:00 pm – Series starts January 30 La Limpia is a traditional energy-cleansing ceremony employed when people become emotionally/physically sick due to energies described as bad luck, “evil eye,” entity attachments, or are experiencing problems with relationships, money, or other misfortunes. View Details...
Herbs to Deepen Intuitive Wisdom
Robin Rose Bennett
Plants help us to cultivate trust in our own inner wisdom, herbs assist us in raising and deepening our consciousness, aid meditation by easing restlessness of mind and body, help us access our intuition, remember our dreams, and facilitate our ability to take potent trance journeys, recollect past lives, and receive healing visions. View Details...
Plants help us to cultivate trust in our own inner wisdom, herbs assist us in raising and deepening our consciousness, aid meditation by easing restlessness of mind and body, help us access our intuition, remember our dreams, and facilitate our ability to take potent trance journeys, recollect past lives, and receive healing visions. View Details...
Shattered by Grief & The Karuna Cards
Claudia Coenen
How do we come back to wholeness after grief has disrupted our lives? Join author Claudia Coenen, certified grief couselor and thanatologist, as she shares her moving story of the loss of her husband, and how that inspired her to pursue an impassioned mission to support those in their grief to discover powerful practices to navigate their journey. View Details...
How do we come back to wholeness after grief has disrupted our lives? Join author Claudia Coenen, certified grief couselor and thanatologist, as she shares her moving story of the loss of her husband, and how that inspired her to pursue an impassioned mission to support those in their grief to discover powerful practices to navigate their journey. View Details...
Clinical Improvisation
Alan Turry
Creative live improvisation enables one to harness the emotional, aesthetic, organizing, and communicative powers of music. During this workshop, practical musical resources will be introduced through experiential music-making activities with a focus on interaction and instrumental, vocal, physical, verbal, and emotional goal-directed improvisation. View Details...
Creative live improvisation enables one to harness the emotional, aesthetic, organizing, and communicative powers of music. During this workshop, practical musical resources will be introduced through experiential music-making activities with a focus on interaction and instrumental, vocal, physical, verbal, and emotional goal-directed improvisation. View Details...
Flower Essence Therapy Certification
Elizabeth Willoughby
Free Intros on Monday, November 18 and Monday, January 13 at 6:00 pm Our emotions and stress affect our health. Flower Essences balance the negative aspects of our emotions so that we can function and flourish both physically and spiritually. In the 20th century, Dr. Bach created Bach Flower remedies to raise a person’s vibration and enliven the body to heal itself. View Details...
Free Intros on Monday, November 18 and Monday, January 13 at 6:00 pm Our emotions and stress affect our health. Flower Essences balance the negative aspects of our emotions so that we can function and flourish both physically and spiritually. In the 20th century, Dr. Bach created Bach Flower remedies to raise a person’s vibration and enliven the body to heal itself. View Details...
Building Bridges: How to Get Results & Turn Impasses into Opportunities
Dian Killian
Every day at work, we depend on other people--to get ideas and projects budgeted and approved, to find solutions, and to move projects forward. But what do you do if you are at a standstill or loggerheads with someone not cooperating or responding, or who’s even blocking your way? In this three-hour foundational immersion, learn practical skills that will help you to immediately start resolving impasses and find new solutions. View Details...
Every day at work, we depend on other people--to get ideas and projects budgeted and approved, to find solutions, and to move projects forward. But what do you do if you are at a standstill or loggerheads with someone not cooperating or responding, or who’s even blocking your way? In this three-hour foundational immersion, learn practical skills that will help you to immediately start resolving impasses and find new solutions. View Details...
Astrology & Herbalism to Heal the Body
Lata Chetri-Kennedy
Free Intro on Wednesday, January 29 at 7:45 pm - Series starts on February 5 For centuries, many astrologers were also known as herbalists, who documented the relationship between plants, planets, and the human anatomy in order to heal a wide variety of illnesses. We can still embrace this wisdom today. View Details...
Free Intro on Wednesday, January 29 at 7:45 pm - Series starts on February 5 For centuries, many astrologers were also known as herbalists, who documented the relationship between plants, planets, and the human anatomy in order to heal a wide variety of illnesses. We can still embrace this wisdom today. View Details...
Liberation Prison Yoga Training
Anneke Lucas
Different traumatized populations are found inside of prisons and jails, and incarceration itself is a traumatic experience. How do we offer a safe space within an inherently unsafe environment? How do we reach people who’ve been shut down by trauma and mental illness? How do we set boundaries? View Details...
Different traumatized populations are found inside of prisons and jails, and incarceration itself is a traumatic experience. How do we offer a safe space within an inherently unsafe environment? How do we reach people who’ve been shut down by trauma and mental illness? How do we set boundaries? View Details...
Creative Strategies for Grief
Claudia Coenen
Using the theme set forth in Claudia Coenen’s book, Shattered by Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again, this 5-part workshop will review current grief counseling models, deliver creative methods to understand the grieving process, and strategies to help the bereaved. View Details...
Using the theme set forth in Claudia Coenen’s book, Shattered by Grief: Picking up the pieces to become WHOLE again, this 5-part workshop will review current grief counseling models, deliver creative methods to understand the grieving process, and strategies to help the bereaved. View Details...
The Art of Manifesting in the Toltec Tradition
Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl
In this ancient Mexican/Toltec tradition, it is believed that creation takes 13 steps to transform our desires into material reality, known as Tlahtolin. It is a synthesis of numerology, dreams, our intent, the cosmos, the earth, and our personal energy, used to manifest anything from emotional healing to perfect health. View Details...
In this ancient Mexican/Toltec tradition, it is believed that creation takes 13 steps to transform our desires into material reality, known as Tlahtolin. It is a synthesis of numerology, dreams, our intent, the cosmos, the earth, and our personal energy, used to manifest anything from emotional healing to perfect health. View Details...
Empowering the Hands with Lunar Energy to Heal
Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl
The word Mexico means ‘place of the moon’s navel,’ so the relationship of the moon’s cycle and hands cannot be ignored. Tonight, Sergio Magana Ocelocoyotl will teach us about one of the 20 caves of power, the second cave called Mahcuilmetztli, or the ‘the five moons.’ View Details...
The word Mexico means ‘place of the moon’s navel,’ so the relationship of the moon’s cycle and hands cannot be ignored. Tonight, Sergio Magana Ocelocoyotl will teach us about one of the 20 caves of power, the second cave called Mahcuilmetztli, or the ‘the five moons.’ View Details...
Psychic Surgery: Energetic Healing of Mexico
Sergio Magaña Ocelocoyotl
Psychic surgery is a procedure used by ancient shamanic traditions, such as those that have developed in the Andes and various parts of Mexico. It is a form of healing, wherein the healer (without touching the body) can make an opening in the energy field of a person, and from there pull out all the stagnant energy that has been developing into illnesses, or negative emotional patterns. View Details...
Psychic surgery is a procedure used by ancient shamanic traditions, such as those that have developed in the Andes and various parts of Mexico. It is a form of healing, wherein the healer (without touching the body) can make an opening in the energy field of a person, and from there pull out all the stagnant energy that has been developing into illnesses, or negative emotional patterns. View Details...
The Unconditional Model: Working With Power Dynamics and Mindfulness to Heal Trauma
Anneke Lucas
Get an introduction to, or go deeper into the practices of the Unconditional Model, the healing modality created by Anneke Lucas and applied in the Liberation Prison Yoga training. The Unconditional Model focuses on being unconditionally present for ourselves, our clients or students, and/or our friends and family, by using awareness of power dynamics as an entrance point into one’s personal unresolved trauma. View Details...
Get an introduction to, or go deeper into the practices of the Unconditional Model, the healing modality created by Anneke Lucas and applied in the Liberation Prison Yoga training. The Unconditional Model focuses on being unconditionally present for ourselves, our clients or students, and/or our friends and family, by using awareness of power dynamics as an entrance point into one’s personal unresolved trauma. View Details...
Workshop Your Workshop
Jessica Hochman
Your experience is the starting point for all teaching, listening, and learning. How do you most effectively share that information with others? Workshop your Workshop will help you transfer your unique knowledge and background to audiences in a deeply engaging and unforgettable way. View Details...
Your experience is the starting point for all teaching, listening, and learning. How do you most effectively share that information with others? Workshop your Workshop will help you transfer your unique knowledge and background to audiences in a deeply engaging and unforgettable way. View Details...
NYC Healing Circle: An Evening of Healing, Networking, and Community
NYC Healing Circle
This will be the sixth event that the NYC Healing Circle has done at the Open Center, and their first four were extremely well received! These events utilize a special group healing technique that has been developed over many years, combining several modalities from around the world. NYC View Details...
This will be the sixth event that the NYC Healing Circle has done at the Open Center, and their first four were extremely well received! These events utilize a special group healing technique that has been developed over many years, combining several modalities from around the world. NYC View Details...
The Way of the Shaman®
Nan Moss
This weekend will introduce us to the core practices of shamanism, used for millennia in cultures around the world to enter non-ordinary reality for problem-solving and healing. We will focus on the classic shamanic journey, the visionary method to explore hidden universes normally only glimpsed in myths and dreams. View Details...
This weekend will introduce us to the core practices of shamanism, used for millennia in cultures around the world to enter non-ordinary reality for problem-solving and healing. We will focus on the classic shamanic journey, the visionary method to explore hidden universes normally only glimpsed in myths and dreams. View Details...
A Full Snow Moon Circle
Olivia Olkowski
Join us in sacred circle and community to shake off the depths of winter’s cold, and prepare to shift our focus towards spring. Through shamanic practices and ritual, we will use the bright white light of the Full Snow Moon to illuminate the stagnant energies residing within us View Details...
Join us in sacred circle and community to shake off the depths of winter’s cold, and prepare to shift our focus towards spring. Through shamanic practices and ritual, we will use the bright white light of the Full Snow Moon to illuminate the stagnant energies residing within us View Details...
Elements: The Language of the Chakras
Gary Strauss
Free Intro on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 pm - Training starts February 13 The body’s craniosacral system is at the heart of its intelligent design, giving all nerves, connective tissues, organs, energy systems, and pathways a frequency-based tuning mechanism, or “sound,” to operate by. Learning this system’s language, and the ability to apply it to one’s own life and the lives of friends and clients, is an empowering and fortifying journey. View Details...
Free Intro on Wednesday, February 12 at 7:00 pm - Training starts February 13 The body’s craniosacral system is at the heart of its intelligent design, giving all nerves, connective tissues, organs, energy systems, and pathways a frequency-based tuning mechanism, or “sound,” to operate by. Learning this system’s language, and the ability to apply it to one’s own life and the lives of friends and clients, is an empowering and fortifying journey. View Details...
Facing Death
Henry Fersko-Weiss
In this one-day workshop, we will explore what it means to face dying and explore the legacies you will leave behind. Using the end-of-life doula techniques of guided imagery, facilitated life review, and creating meaningful legacy projects, you will touch what it means to face dying in the context of your own life. View Details...
In this one-day workshop, we will explore what it means to face dying and explore the legacies you will leave behind. Using the end-of-life doula techniques of guided imagery, facilitated life review, and creating meaningful legacy projects, you will touch what it means to face dying in the context of your own life. View Details...
How Hormones & Your Mind Influence Weight Loss
Dana James
The weight loss equation has changed; it’s not simply eat healthy and it will work out. The new equation includes hormones, gut microbiome, inflammation, sleep, connection, emotions, beliefs, food and exercise. Dana will take you through this group of factors so that you can identify which areas are holding you back from sustained weight loss. View Details...
The weight loss equation has changed; it’s not simply eat healthy and it will work out. The new equation includes hormones, gut microbiome, inflammation, sleep, connection, emotions, beliefs, food and exercise. Dana will take you through this group of factors so that you can identify which areas are holding you back from sustained weight loss. View Details...
Your Rhythm, Your Life: Groove Tools for Mind-Body-Spirit
Glen Velez & Loire Cotler
Join Glen Velez, four-time Grammy-Award-winning master drummer, and Loire Cotler, critically acclaimed Rhythm Vocalist and Music Therapist, for an uplifting and energizing workshop of deep rhythmic discovery that will enrich your daily life and enliven your professional work in the healing arts! View Details...
Join Glen Velez, four-time Grammy-Award-winning master drummer, and Loire Cotler, critically acclaimed Rhythm Vocalist and Music Therapist, for an uplifting and energizing workshop of deep rhythmic discovery that will enrich your daily life and enliven your professional work in the healing arts! View Details...
The Way of Perception: The Journey of Consciousness in Our Everyday Life
Shakti Caterina Maggi
Perception is the main path towards emptiness and the key to transform the ego’s contractions/fears into radiance and joy. Shakti Caterina Maggi will use experiential meditations and Q&A to discover how at the center of the egoic contraction there is only pure Emptiness, something that is mistakenly conceived as fragile and vulnerable but is actually Openness itself disguised as someone. View Details...
Perception is the main path towards emptiness and the key to transform the ego’s contractions/fears into radiance and joy. Shakti Caterina Maggi will use experiential meditations and Q&A to discover how at the center of the egoic contraction there is only pure Emptiness, something that is mistakenly conceived as fragile and vulnerable but is actually Openness itself disguised as someone. View Details...
Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual & Musical Journey of George Harrison
Joshua Greene, Godfrey Townsend & Michael Also
Join the Open Center for an exciting tribute to George Harrison, featuring live music, film clips, narration, and a rarely seen interview of Harrison in his later years. The author of an acclaimed biography of the musician, Joshua M. Greene, will be joined by renowned singer and guitarist, Godfrey Townsend, to trace Harrison’s rise from the streets of postwar Liverpool to the summit of pop stardom, his discovery of spirituality in the ragas of Ravi Shankar, and his efforts to bring the other Beatles along on his journey to self-realization. View Details...
Join the Open Center for an exciting tribute to George Harrison, featuring live music, film clips, narration, and a rarely seen interview of Harrison in his later years. The author of an acclaimed biography of the musician, Joshua M. Greene, will be joined by renowned singer and guitarist, Godfrey Townsend, to trace Harrison’s rise from the streets of postwar Liverpool to the summit of pop stardom, his discovery of spirituality in the ragas of Ravi Shankar, and his efforts to bring the other Beatles along on his journey to self-realization. View Details...
Brennan Core Light Healing to Create the Life You Love
Priscilla Bright
Based on the new book Core Light Healing by Dr. Barbara Brennan, you will discover the secrets of manifestation by learning how creativity is either expressed or blocked through the Human Energy Field. Learn and explore how your energetic blocks and family patterns can impede your creative flow and prevent your longings from materializing. View Details...
Based on the new book Core Light Healing by Dr. Barbara Brennan, you will discover the secrets of manifestation by learning how creativity is either expressed or blocked through the Human Energy Field. Learn and explore how your energetic blocks and family patterns can impede your creative flow and prevent your longings from materializing. View Details...
Building a Vocal Community: The Power of Song in Community
Ysaye Barnwell Ph.D.
There is an awesome power in the human voice and when uncommon voices are blended for the common good, they become a ‘vocal community’ at its best. Masterfully led by Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, singers and non-singers alike will share the experience of learning in the oral tradition and singing rhythms, chants and traditional songs from African-American culture. View Details...
There is an awesome power in the human voice and when uncommon voices are blended for the common good, they become a ‘vocal community’ at its best. Masterfully led by Dr. Ysaye Barnwell, singers and non-singers alike will share the experience of learning in the oral tradition and singing rhythms, chants and traditional songs from African-American culture. View Details...
After-Death Care and Home Funerals
Olivia Bareham
This workshop demonstrates the role of the death midwife from the final breath, through the 3-day home vigil and funeral until final disposition. Open to professional and non-professional end-of-life caregivers and anyone wishing to care for their loved-one naturally, at home, according to personal, religious and cultural traditions. View Details...
This workshop demonstrates the role of the death midwife from the final breath, through the 3-day home vigil and funeral until final disposition. Open to professional and non-professional end-of-life caregivers and anyone wishing to care for their loved-one naturally, at home, according to personal, religious and cultural traditions. View Details...
Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life
Frank Ostaseski
In this interactive webinar, Frank will introduce The Five Invitations, principles that show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone navigating a life transition or coping with loss, serious illness, or a personal crisis. They guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. View Details...
In this interactive webinar, Frank will introduce The Five Invitations, principles that show us how to wake up fully to our lives. They can be understood as best practices for anyone navigating a life transition or coping with loss, serious illness, or a personal crisis. They guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. View Details...
The Journey of the Seeker in Sufism
Kabir Helminski
One key to meditation is the phenomenon of "presence." Mindfulness, meditation, contemplation, and remembrance are all based in a fundamental human capacity — presence — which, unfortunately, is rarely experienced in our fast-moving, depersonalized, technologized existence. View Details...
One key to meditation is the phenomenon of "presence." Mindfulness, meditation, contemplation, and remembrance are all based in a fundamental human capacity — presence — which, unfortunately, is rarely experienced in our fast-moving, depersonalized, technologized existence. View Details...
The Transforming Ecstasy of Sufi Zikr
Shaykha Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi
The workshop is a direct plunge into the ancient Sufi practice of Zikrullah. This practice of recitation of Divine Names, along with singing and dancing, is what distinguishes Sufism as a path of love and is said to be the main way to attaining union with God. We will begin with a short introduction to communal Zikr which will touch on the symbolic meaning of the different aspects of Zikr and will include the practice of chanting some of the Divine Names. View Details...
The workshop is a direct plunge into the ancient Sufi practice of Zikrullah. This practice of recitation of Divine Names, along with singing and dancing, is what distinguishes Sufism as a path of love and is said to be the main way to attaining union with God. We will begin with a short introduction to communal Zikr which will touch on the symbolic meaning of the different aspects of Zikr and will include the practice of chanting some of the Divine Names. View Details...
Coaching for Transformation: 9-Month Coaching Certification Program
Facilitators: Sharon Brown, PCC, MS and Michael Wise, MPH, PCC -First weekend March 28-29, 2020- Five additional in-person weekends - May 2-3, June 27-28, August 15-16, October 3-4 & November 21-22
Empower yourself, and empower others to be the change they want to see in the world. With Coaching for Transformation, you will expand both personally and professionally. Whether you launch a new career as a Certified Professional Coach or coach within your organization, transformation is certain. View Details...
Empower yourself, and empower others to be the change they want to see in the world. With Coaching for Transformation, you will expand both personally and professionally. Whether you launch a new career as a Certified Professional Coach or coach within your organization, transformation is certain. View Details...
Mantric Language, Vedic Healing Chants, Auditory Methods
Pat Moffit Cook
Throughout the ages, by divination, intuition and through trial and error, people from a wide array of circumstances and cultures have employed mantra, chant, and melodic song to communicate with nature and petition the support of a “Divine Source”. The Vedic culture of India is one of the earliest to employ a science of sacred sound for healing, spiritual development and a path to the “Source”. View Details...
Throughout the ages, by divination, intuition and through trial and error, people from a wide array of circumstances and cultures have employed mantra, chant, and melodic song to communicate with nature and petition the support of a “Divine Source”. The Vedic culture of India is one of the earliest to employ a science of sacred sound for healing, spiritual development and a path to the “Source”. View Details...
The Shamanic Foundations of Mindfulness and Practices
Itzhak Beery
Shamans the worlds over practice the art of shifting consciousness at will, and enter into the unseen realm of dreams, visions, and spirits. They learn to co-exist in a state of in-between the seen and unseen worlds. Shamans hold the belief that everything in our universe is alive and vibrate with energy, thus contain mindfulness. View Details...
Shamans the worlds over practice the art of shifting consciousness at will, and enter into the unseen realm of dreams, visions, and spirits. They learn to co-exist in a state of in-between the seen and unseen worlds. Shamans hold the belief that everything in our universe is alive and vibrate with energy, thus contain mindfulness. View Details...
Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga (LVCY) Teacher Certification
Lakshmi Voelker
A knowledge of Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga (LVCY) opens opportunities to bring the healing benefits of yoga to those who have previously been unable to take part in even a gentle yoga class. Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga helps those that cannot or do not want to get down on the mat for whatever reason. View Details...
A knowledge of Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga (LVCY) opens opportunities to bring the healing benefits of yoga to those who have previously been unable to take part in even a gentle yoga class. Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga helps those that cannot or do not want to get down on the mat for whatever reason. View Details...
Free Your Voice Through Shamanic Vocal Cultures & Medicine Melodies
Silvia Nakkach
Explore the use of music to clear and open energetic channels, and as a gateway for therapeutic processes, higher creativity, and community peacemaking. Through guided sound-centered practices and chanting, students will build an original repertoire of medicine melodies to use in shamanic journeys, psychotherapy, performance and sound healing sessions. View Details...
Explore the use of music to clear and open energetic channels, and as a gateway for therapeutic processes, higher creativity, and community peacemaking. Through guided sound-centered practices and chanting, students will build an original repertoire of medicine melodies to use in shamanic journeys, psychotherapy, performance and sound healing sessions. View Details...
Mythic & Energetic Transformation at Death
Jeffrey Black
Grief and death are rites of passage and are best experienced consciously and deliberately. Much work is done to focus on the literal needs of those who are dying and those who are grieving; however, mythic and energetic processes surrounding death and grief are essential to being conscious and deliberate. View Details...
Grief and death are rites of passage and are best experienced consciously and deliberately. Much work is done to focus on the literal needs of those who are dying and those who are grieving; however, mythic and energetic processes surrounding death and grief are essential to being conscious and deliberate. View Details...
Music as Medicine at the End of Life
Catharine DeLong
Music at the bedside brings beauty, intimacy, and comfort to end-of-life patients. It invites listeners to be present to what is going on both inside and around them. Catharine’s workshop offers the most effective uses of live vocal, instrumental and recorded music for palliative individuals and their loved ones. View Details...
Music at the bedside brings beauty, intimacy, and comfort to end-of-life patients. It invites listeners to be present to what is going on both inside and around them. Catharine’s workshop offers the most effective uses of live vocal, instrumental and recorded music for palliative individuals and their loved ones. View Details...
The Effects of Compassionate Presence: Being with Non-Communicative Patients
Jeanne Denney
Most people experience a nonverbal, coma-like state before death, yet all too often medical workers, even hospice workers and family, withdraw attentive presence when a patient enters silence. Perhaps we wonder if they know we are there. Perhaps we are uncomfortable. In this workshop, we will discuss what work and research with the non-communicative has taught us about their needs. View Details...
Most people experience a nonverbal, coma-like state before death, yet all too often medical workers, even hospice workers and family, withdraw attentive presence when a patient enters silence. Perhaps we wonder if they know we are there. Perhaps we are uncomfortable. In this workshop, we will discuss what work and research with the non-communicative has taught us about their needs. View Details...