Health Classes in NYC, New York

Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants. Burdock,...

Revisioning the Moments for End-of-Life Ceremony and Ritual As American families have become more religiously/spiritually mixed and diverse, a call for new language and ceremony has emerged around the end-of-life period. How can we better acknowledge change and loss, honor the dead, and pull ourselves together at times when sadness seems all there...

Our Dating Mastery Program is an intensive, life-changing experience. This program will give you the time you need to actually learn, experiment with, and ask questions about what we’ll be teaching you. So when you do get stuck, we’ll be there for you. Next, our classes are small. Our student-teacher ratio is usually 1:2. In addition, we tend...

June 16, 2019 Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers to search for wild foods in late spring. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with edible and medicinal wild plants. Red, white, and pink mulberries will be at their peak now. Too perishable for commercial...

This intensive hands-on training offers an in-depth exploration of the Craniosacral method’s essence: its work with the body’s subtle energy systems, and of the ancient language of the 5 Elements (Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth) to illuminate the body’s energetic flows. The Craniosacral system (CSS) gives all the nervous, connective tissue, organ,...

Smudging is the act of purifying one's body or space to cleanse the air and offer smoke and prayers in the manner of ancient Native American ceremonies. Medicine people and elders perform ceremonies to Mother Earth and Father Sky, to bless the land where they live, and to send prayer to the Creator, The Great Spirit. Traditional smudging fans...

This is a great place for wild foods in mid-summer. Wild greens will also be thriving in fields and along trail edges. We'll be looking for chickweed, which tastes like corn on the cob, lemony sheep sorrel and greenbriar, spicy poor man's pepper, crunchy purslane, and pungent field garlic seeds. We'll also hunt for culinary and medicinal herbs such...

This is a great place for wild foods in mid-summer. Wild greens will also be thriving in fields and along trail edges. We'll be looking for chickweed, which tastes like corn on the cob, lemony sheep sorrel and greenbriar, spicy poor man's pepper, crunchy purslane, and pungent field garlic seeds. We'll also hunt for culinary and medicinal herbs such...

You will learn the Shorinji Kempo techniques that are rationally designed to exploit the principles of body mechanics, physiology, and psychology so that anyone can do them. Shorinji Kempo is a method of self-defense that anyone, regardless of gender or age, can learn. The syllabus of Shorinji Kempo is divided into two main parts: Goho (hard system)...

You will learn the Shorinji Kempo techniques that are rationally designed to exploit the principles of body mechanics, physiology, and psychology so that anyone can do them. Shorinji Kempo is a method of self-defense that anyone, regardless of gender or age, can learn. The syllabus of Shorinji Kempo is divided into two main parts: Goho (hard system)...

Adult children with divorcing or divorced parents face unique stresses and challenges. This six-week support group will provide a space for individuals to process and share their feelings related to their parents’ divorce. Group members will gain insight into how parental divorce can impact everything from their sense of identity to their feelings...

“The soul never thinks without an image.” -Aristotle Image is the primary language of the subconscious. Dreams, being primarily visual, are a prime example of this. They are a nightly communication, and because communication is a two-way street, we can use the images of the Tarot to influence the subconscious for growth and healing. Carl Jung...

Alchemy of the Chakras: Energy-Based Meditation for Healing and Transformation One of the most powerful and complete avenues for awakening, healing, and transformation is chakra meditation practice. Central to the yoga tradition, chakras are spiritual, psychological, emotional energy centers that exist within the human subtle body. In this weekly...

You will learn the Shorinji Kempo techniques that are rationally designed to exploit the principles of body mechanics, physiology, and psychology so that anyone can do them. Shorinji Kempo is a method of self-defense that anyone, regardless of gender or age, can learn. The syllabus of Shorinji Kempo is divided into two main parts: Goho (hard system)...

June 16, 2019 Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers to search for wild foods in late spring. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with edible and medicinal wild plants. Red, white, and pink mulberries will be at their peak now. Too perishable for commercial...