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Mindfulness Practices for Psychedelic Integration

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Psychedelic experiences can be life-changing for some, yet mental healthcare providers are often at a loss for how to incorporate them into therapy to promote growth and positive change for the client. In this interactive, experiential workshop, participants will engage in a series of mindful, meditative exercises that can be used to assist clients in cultivating a relationship with insights from more ephemeral psychedelic experiences. Mindfulness...

Introduction to Design Thinking

International Institute for Learning @ 485 Madison Avenue, New York, NY

Innovation is the cornerstone of highly successful companies, especially those that continue to be successful over the years and decades. Design thinking practices fuel this continual innovation, as they are the critical links from inspiration to delivery, concept to showroom floor, and start-up to global business. Design thinking is a structured approach to promoting innovation and creative problem-solving. It is not a new approach. It has been...

Psychology of Productivity

General Assembly @ 10 E 21st St, New York, NY

Are you frustrated by procrastination? Do you find you continue to get in your own way? Having trouble focusing and working efficiently is a common issue that can interfere with your personal and professional goals. This workshop will provide you with a better understanding of how your mind works when you're procrastinating and why you might be doing it. You'll also learn various techniques you can implement to help you maximize your output and achieve...

Free Intro: The Alchemy of the Chakras

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

This is a FREE Intro class. To sign up for the series, see The Alchemy of the Chakras. One of the most powerful and complete means for awakening, healing and transformation is chakra practice. Central to the yoga tradition, chakras are spiritual, psychological and emotional energy centers that exist within the human subtle body. In this class we will explore the unique purpose and function of each chakra. Ideally each works in harmony...

Approach - Secrets to Starting a Conversation

Craft of Charisma @ 219 Canal St, New York, NY

Have you ever seen a person that you wanted to approach, but didn't know what to say? If the answer is yes, we have a solution:  This class is perfect for anyone who is serious about improving their social or dating life.  In this two hour class, our instructor will cover exercises that will teach you how to:     • Communicate confidence     • Know what to say     • Approach people...

Herbs to Deepen Intuitive Wisdom

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

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. We’ll explore ways to use herbs as teas, tinctures, infusions, anointing oils, ointments, smudge herbs, and baths....

Tantra: Elevating Sexual Energy to Nourish and Heal

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Tantra can help us connect our sexual energy to our hearts and higher selves, and our partners. It can heal us from our societal conditioning, past relationships, shame, guilt, and negative ways of relating. Part lecture, part experiential exercises, this workshop will include spirited discussion on “subtle energy lovemaking,” breathing, meditation, anatomy, arousal, emotional clearing. Discover all the positive healing aspects of sexual energy...

Finding Your Passion

General Assembly @ 902 Broadway, New York, NY

Who is this workshop for? People who want to or are making a career change -Students or graduates who are entering the job market -Professionals who want more meaning in their work or their lives outside of work  Come and learn strategies for finding and living your passion! Takeaways Meditation Techniques -Personal Meaning Statement -Real case examples of people living their meaning -Reflective exercises to take home and apply ...

Audition-only players 1 downtown

The Arts Effect @ 440 Lafayette St, New York, NY

Players 2 Uptown

The Arts Effect @ 1296 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Students will focus on the advancement of their acting technique and skill set. Through the exploration of sensory work, improvisation, character/scene study, text analysis, and more, participants will learn to achieve rich, natural, and honest acting perfect for stage or film. STUDENTS WILL EXPLORE: Technique Strengthening: Go beyond pretending and role-playing and actually experience REAL LIFE on stage or screen. Our Method-based technique centers...

Players 1 Uptown

The Arts Effect @ 1296 Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Students will focus on the advancement of their acting technique and skill set. Through the exploration of sensory work, improvisation, character/scene study, text analysis, and more, participants will learn to achieve rich, natural, and honest acting perfect for stage or film. STUDENTS WILL EXPLORE: Technique Strengthening: Go beyond pretending and role-playing and actually experience REAL LIFE on stage or screen. Our Method-based technique centers...

Meditation Workshop for Beginners - Level 1

Love & Compassion Soul Oasis Center @ 124 E 40th St, New York, NY

Meditation is a powerful and indispensable tool for creating inner peace through purification of the mind. According to the Buddhists, the Mind, the Speech (Mantra) and the Body form the “Three Doors” that transform our existence to the higher state of realization. Our training goes beyond short-term goals, not limiting to fulfilling physical and material world. We will guide you step-by-step how to build inner peace, acquire inner wisdom and...

A Seance to Contact Your Future Self

IN Studios @ 115 W 29th Street, New York, NY

Full Course name: A Seance to Contact Your Future Self And Change Everything Now Awaken the clarity within you by attending a live workshop with Israel Savage. With a MA in psychology, the 5X best-selling author of books like “Law of Attraction Secrets of Celebrities” and host of "The Happy Bar” podcast. Israel will guide you through this ground-breaking technique to discover the secret breadcrumbs your future self is leaving for you. Bend...

The Sufi Path of Ilumination

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

The world constantly pulls our attention outwards. By turning our focus within, our natural inner radiance is kindled and begins to illuminate our life’s journey. We develop insight which reveals meaningful connections and patterns and discloses the presence of the Eternal. In this workshop Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, renowned teacher and scholar of Sufism and president of the Sufi Order International, will share with us the beauty and depth of the Sufi...

The Art of Seers:Toltec Fire Reading

Shamanic Fire Reiki @ 56 West 45th St, New York, NY

Our ancestors used many systems to do intuitive readings by reading from tea leaf to crystal sphere. Every month I will be teaching a series of intuitive ways to read, consisting from different methods and tools, such as working with eggs, crystal spheres (obsidian & clear quartz), water gazing, crystal grids, rocks and feathers. Join us this month to learn how to work with Toltec candle fire reading as a diagnostic tool. These techniques...

Walking Home A Pilgrimage From Humbled to Healed

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

This evening world-renowned intuitive and spiritual teacher Sonia Choquette will draw from her newest, and most intimate, book, Walking Home: A Pilgrimage From Humbled to Healed, to describe three terrible years that saw the unexpected death of two close family members, her marriage implode, and betrayal by close colleagues. Having intuitive abilities didn’t exempt her from the pain of loss and all-too-human emotions-anger, resentment, pride. To...

Advanced Interpersonal Communication

New Horizons Computer Learning @ 462 Seventh Ave, New York, NY

In this course, students will learn how to develop effective communications skills that build positive interactions with others. Students will learn the following lessons throughout the session: Lesson 1: Communication styles and methods Communication styles  Identifying primary communication styles  Identifying secondary communication styles  Verbal and nonverbal communication  Using verbal communication  Using...

Cultivating the Archetypal Images of the Tarot

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

Cultivating the Archetypal Images of the Tarot to Accelerate Personal Evolution According to the pioneering psychologist Carl Gustav Jung, from birth we bear in our unconscious an inheritance of core psycho- spiritual personality patterns known as archetypes, such as the “Wise One,” “Fool,” “Warrior” and “Trickster,” to name only a few. These images are the primary language of the unconscious, that can, for better or worse, influence...

Qigong for Back, Shoulder & Neck Pain

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

In Chinese traditional medicine, most pain and illness is attributed to blockages in the flow of qi (or chi)—internal energy—in the body. One of the methods used to restore the free flow of qi is qigong (or chi kung)—exercises that are especially designed to help us build and circulate qi. In this workshop, renowned taiji and qigong master Yang Yang will teach us a number of simple but highly effective dynamic and static qigong exercises that...

Brazilian Spiritual Healing

New York Open Center @ 22 E 30th St, New York, NY

For many years, Brazil has captivated imaginations with stories of fantastic healings and spiritual phenomena. Tonight, Greg and Tania Stewart, who practice a type of trance mediumship very rare in the U.S.-the channeling of spiritual entities for healing-and have worked with more than 6000 people, will explore such topics as Brazilian mediumship’s relationship to healing, trance states, and the phenomenon of “miracle” cures.   The workshop...