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Using Musical Improvisation As A Treatment Strategy
Creative improvisation supports one’s ability to harness the emotional, aesthetic, organizing and communicative powers of music through live interactive improvisation. During this workshop, practical musical resources will be introduced through shared clinical examples and experiential music-making activities with a focus on interaction and instrumental, vocal, physical, verbal and emotional goal-directed improvisation. Participants will begin...
Herbal Remedies for Stress & Anxiety
We are living in a time when many people are suffering from worry, anxiety and stress. Herbal remedies are very effective in helping to heal these emotional states in gentle and profound ways. This evening we will explore how to use herbs to strengthen the nervous system, release tension, and calm anxiety. We will cover the use of herbs, foods, flower essences and homeopathic remedies to support a settled nervous system. WHAT YOU’LL...
We Can Heal Ourselves: The 4 Self-Healing Methods
We Can Heal Ourselves: The 4 Self-Healing Methods of Qigong The human system – Body-Mind-Spirit – is so profoundly endowed with naturally occurring healing and empowering capacities. It is tragic that, as a culture, we have been allured to believe otherwise. While “experts” simply neglect to let us know how incredible – and simple – the things are that we can do to heal ourselves, we are making this marvelous information available world-wide!...
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Herbal Syrups, Soups, & Infusions
Herbal Syrups, Soups, & Infusions for Strengthening Immunity As Mary Poppins sang: “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!” Join us for this practical series that will be filled with easy-to-make delicious-to-take-herbal recipes for your health. We use honey rather than sugar, but these medicines are still tasty and fortifying. We’ll explore a variety of healing soups, syrups, tinctures, vinegar and herbal baths that can...
Cultivating the Doula Heart
Doulas step into the most intense, vulnerable thresholds of life to hold a hand, wipe a tear and honor all that is meaningful. Feel invited to move from sympathy or empathy toward compassion to avoid energy depletion. Deepen your understanding of doula essentials of care. Learn useful, practical approaches and techniques that will enable you to more confidently support people through times of intensity, including birth, death and grief. During this...
Herbs for your Nerves: Radical Self-Care
Herbs for your Nerves: Radical Self-Care with Herbal Medicine Working with herbs mindfully brings a felt sense of connection and of belonging to the Earth; the healing plants can help us experience the inner peace we long for. Neurons exist virtually everywhere in our bodies and are the messengers coordinating the working relationships throughout our bodies’ digestive, respiratory and immune systems. Learn to use herbs such as sage, oat straw,...
Faith & Healing in a Time of Climate Change
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
Replenishing Hope: Faith & Healing in a Time of Climate Change We seem now to have crossed a rubicon in climate change and must commit ourselves anew to ways of living that sanctify life. Worst case scenarios flood our imagination, but few of us are able to hold a vision of a positive end here on earth. Our insatiable pursuit of perfect health contributes to the devastation of the environment and our ever-increasing pace of life is unsustainable....
$50
A Buddhist View of Death
Buddhist thanatology, as embodied in Bardo Yoga, is one of the great gifts to humanity. Bardo (“gap, transitional process”) Yoga shows us how to practice death and how to “Die before you die.” In the Buddhist view, death is a journey of the heart-mind we can begin exploring now. This presentation will offer contemplations and brief meditations that can help us prepare and give us the confidence to also help others as they die. The Buddha...
Anxiety, The Missing Stage of Grief
When we lose someone we love, we are thrust into a world where we feel more vulnerable than ever before. Suddenly we must face the fact that there are absolutely no guarantees in life. Everything that once seemed sturdy is now fragile, particularly the people we love. Feelings of intense anxiety following a loss is a more common reaction than most people realize, yet it can be incredibly difficult to grapple with. In this webinar, we will explore...
A Composer's Approach to Sound Healing
A Composer's Approach to Sound Healing with Singing Bowls and Drones This webinar is designed to help musicians, composers and sound health practitioners deepen their personal practice by integrating creativity, technology and spiritual practice into their work. Applied technology and production techniques for group activities such as music therapy and sound baths will be covered in the subsequent one-day workshop. Topic highlights include: Integration...
The Artist's Way: The Essential Tools
Join Julia Cameron for a live talk on the core concepts from her groundbreaking creativity course, The Artist’s Way. The seminal book on the subject of creativity, and an international bestseller, The Artist’s Way has inspired millions to overcome the limiting beliefs and fears that can inhibit the creative process. This session will cover Morning Pages, Artist Dates and Walks– the three bedrock tools of a creative recovery— plus the brand-new,...
$75
Medical Aid in Dying
Faced with a terminal diagnosis, adults deserve the full range of options for care at the end of life, including medical aid in dying. Medical aid in dying allows terminally ill adults to get a prescription they can take to end their life peacefully. Currently legal in eleven jurisdictions across the country, many states, including New York are considering legislation that would allow this as an option. Join us to learn more about the practice, the...
The Brain’s Powerful Response To Music
This webinar provides an introduction to the ways in which 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. Participants will be encouraged to transcend notions of brain areas...
Inviting the Wisdom of Death into Life
New York Open Center @ Virtual Classroom
In this interactive webinar Frank Ostaseki will introduce his The Five Invitations, principles that show us how to wake up fully to our lives. Best understood as practices for anyone navigating a life transition, coping with loss or serious illness or a personal crisis, The Five Invitations guide us toward appreciating life’s preciousness. Weaving together pragmatic tools, real life stories and ancient wisdom, Ostaseki helps us discover...
$50
Music and Psychedelic Therapy
New York Open Center @ Virtual Classroom
Music is widely considered integral for meaningful emotional and imagery experiences and self-exploration during psychedelic therapy. It transforms through its elicitation of anthropomorphic, transportive, synesthetic and material sensations. In a therapeutic session music can evoke and support emotional experiences, intense memories, thoughts and elicit a deep sense of embodied transformation. During this webinar we will explore the evolution,...
$50
Reiki for Self-Care to Improve Health & Vitality
New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY
As a whole, the Reiki System of Natural Healing 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. Reiki has become one of the most in-demand healing modalities in the United States and around the world, used in hospitals, hospices, spas, and wellness centers. This class uniquely blends the classical Japanese tradition and...
$15
Introduction: Western Esotericism and Soul
A recent announcement from the Open Center, posing the question above, What is Western Esotericism? was opened by 13,000 people, the highest rate of response we have experienced online. Fortunately, we are very well versed in this topic as we have produced a 25-year series of conferences known as Esoteric Quests that follow the golden thread of spiritual wisdom in the West. The director of the Quests, Ralph White, will interview two of its most accomplished...
The Inner Journey vs. A Space Flight Beyond Earth
The Inner Journey vs. A Space Flight Beyond Earth: How Mystics Can Assist us in Creating a Better Life for our Future As billionaires compete with each other to see who can race to space the fastest and farthest, one wonders why leaving Mother Earth behind is so pressing a goal. What are we running from? Thomas Merton decried the effort put into space travel at the expense of ignoring that “inner journey [that is] the most important of all voyages...
Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science
Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health Join Dr. Shamini Jain, an award-winning psychoneuroimmunologist, leading mind-body researcher and founder and CEO of the Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI), and Dr. Jill Blakeway, DACM, LAc, founder of the Yinova Center, for a special event around Dr. Jain’s new book, Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health. Dr. Jain and Dr. Blakeway will discuss the...
Stand Like a Tree, Move Like the Wind
Learn the details of posture, movement and breathing upon which all qigong is based and how to change unhealthy habits to good ones. By practicing Standing Meditation (Zhan Zhuang), you learn proper alignment, how to take stress off the joints, and how to root into the ground like a tree. Then practice meditative walking for balance, grace, coordination and to find stillness within movement. What about the qi, the life energy? This is naturally...
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