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...
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...
Shamanic Winter Solstice Social
Olivia Olkowski and SpiritDrummers
On this sacred evening of the Winter Solstice, join shaman and curandera, Olivia Olkowski, as we practice age-old shamanic rituals celebrating the longest night of the year. With fire, flowers, and sprays, we will cleanse the dense energies of our past year and, in ceremony, we’ll welcome back the Sun. View Details...
On this sacred evening of the Winter Solstice, join shaman and curandera, Olivia Olkowski, as we practice age-old shamanic rituals celebrating the longest night of the year. With fire, flowers, and sprays, we will cleanse the dense energies of our past year and, in ceremony, we’ll welcome back the Sun. 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, Michael 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, Michael 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...
Free Intros: Coaching for Transformation: 9-Month Coaching Certification
Sharon Brown, PCC, MS and Michael Wise, MPH, PCC 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...
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...
Free Intro: Flower Essence Therapy Certification
Elizabeth Willoughby
Free Intro on Monday, January 13 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, January 13 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...
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...
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 is a one-hour immersion in sacred sound, wherein the gongmaster 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 is a one-hour immersion in sacred sound, wherein the gongmaster activates the full sonic potential of the instrument and bathes the listener with sustained waves of primordial sound. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Collective Shamanism – The Power of Large Group Healing
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...
Free Intros: Coaching for Transformation: 9-Month Coaching Certification
Sharon Brown, PCC, MS and Michael Wise, MPH, PCC 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...
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...
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 gongmaster 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 gongmaster activates the full sonic potential of the instrument and bathes the listener with sustained waves of primordial sound. 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...
Free Intros: Coaching for Transformation: 9-Month Coaching Certification
Sharon Brown, PCC, MS and Michael Wise, MPH, PCC 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...
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...
Awakening Your True Voice
Jean McClelland
Free Intro on Monday, March 16 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on March 23
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, March 16 at 6:00 pm - Series starts on March 23
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...
Effortless Mindfulness: An Advanced Yet Simple Form of 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...
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...
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...
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...
Green Medicine: A 4-Month Training in Herbalism
Led by Peeka Trenkle
Herbal medicine has been in use for thousands of years, with each culture developing its own system based on the herbs of its bio-region. In this in-depth training, we delve into the art and science of herbalism for nourishment and healing, recovering the wisdom and empowerment that has been lost over the generations. View Details...
Herbal medicine has been in use for thousands of years, with each culture developing its own system based on the herbs of its bio-region. In this in-depth training, we delve into the art and science of herbalism for nourishment and healing, recovering the wisdom and empowerment that has been lost over the generations. 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...
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...
How To Build A Thriving & Profitable Practice
Robert Notter
Free Intro on April 7 at 6:00 pm – series starts on April 14
If you’re a health and wellness practitioner or coach, you love what you do and want to help people. You’re also probably a bit confused or overwhelmed by “marketing” and are not sure how to actually find and keep paying clients. View Details...
Free Intro on April 7 at 6:00 pm – series starts on April 14
If you’re a health and wellness practitioner or coach, you love what you do and want to help people. You’re also probably a bit confused or overwhelmed by “marketing” and are not sure how to actually find and keep paying clients. 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 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...
The Treatment of Trauma in the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard Schwartz, PhD, LMFT
Accessing the Self, the core of valuable leadership qualities that each person has to better deal with life's challenges, is a chief aim of Internal Family Systems (IFS). Developed over the past two decades, the IFS model is one of the fastest growing and most innovative approaches to psychotherapy. View Details...
Accessing the Self, the core of valuable leadership qualities that each person has to better deal with life's challenges, is a chief aim of Internal Family Systems (IFS). Developed over the past two decades, the IFS model is one of the fastest growing and most innovative approaches to psychotherapy. 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...
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...
