CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)

Metamorphosis
2016-10-05 - 2016-11-30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) announces Metamorphosis, an exhibition of fiber art created on SAORI loom by Nobu. The exhibition opens on October 6 and will remain on view through November 30, 2016.
There will be an Opening Reception with the artist and SAORI weaving demonstration on October 22, 2016 from 5 – 7 pm. A 20′ documentary about SAORI will be shown at 5:30 pm, followed by a brief talk by Loop of the Loom Founder Yukako Satone introducing the SAORI ARTS NYC non-profit organization (saoriartsnyc.org).
This, the second exhibition of SAORI fiber art at CRS, aims to demonstrate the potential for using the SAORI therapeutic approach to weaving to explore one’s emotional and creative impulses deeply enough to create works of striking imagination, originality and visceral impact that can be appreciated as art and serve as a vehicle for liberation for both creator and viewer.
SAORI is a contemporary hand weaving method founded by Misao Jo (1913-, Japan) in 1969. She started weaving when she was 57 years old and created her own easy-to-use-immediately loom and style, free from the traditional concept and rules of weaving. She named her weaving style ‘SAORI’ and because the loom is so easy to use, it allows anyone to express his or her self freely regardless of age, gender, disability or intellectual aptitude. In Zen vocabulary, SAORI is the combination of the words SA, meaning everything has its own individual dignity, and ORI, meaning weaving.
“In SAORI, we try not to imitate machine-made products, and we always try to do what only human beings can do. No two weavings are alike, and it is very natural that every single cloth freely woven by people with different personalities is beautiful in a different way. The irregular selvage and accidental skip of thread add the unprogrammed beauty to the SAORI cloths; and we admire this irregularity as ‘the beauty with lack of intentions’ created by our natural creativity.”
— loopoftheloom.com
Since 2004 Nobu has been active in the NYC SAORI community and and at the studio, Loop of the Loom, under the direction of Yukako Satone. She is a SAORI certified instructor and SAORI healing artist. During this time she has learned to use SAORI as a meditative practice to observe her inner mental and emotional state. Her commitment to the practice has freed her to allow her deepest impulses to intuitively guide her selection and manipulation of the threads.
While SAORI celebrates beauty in the imperfect, a characteristic commonly found in Japanese traditional aesthetics, SAORI works and Nobu’s work in particular embrace improvisation and veer so far in their wildness and irregularity from traditional woven fabrics and garments that western viewers may be more inclined to place them in the abstract expressionist tradition. Rebellious and highly idiosyncratic, Nobu’s creations burst with energy, not an easy effect for yarn to achieve. Is the yarn imbued by Nobu with energy or is the energy already inherent within — SA, individual dignity — simply being made palpable? Nobu’s works raise many questions without offering definitive answers or explicit meanings. They invite the viewer to feel rather than think and allow her feelings to give rise to authentic creative impulses of her own. By encouraging viewers to accept and express their own inspirations, Nobu’s work celebrates a way of living with constant transformation of our idea of who we are, free of self-definition and self-limitation.
ABOUT NOBU
Nobu was born in Kamakura City and lived right in front of Kanagawa Modern Museum. During her elementary school years, she loved to visit the museum and even explored neighborhood galleries on her own. After winning an international student art competition and showing great promise, her mother offered to send her to art school, but Nobu instead chose to study economics at Rikkyo University.
For eight years after college, Nobu worked in the fashion industry and after moving to New York with her husband, himself a talented interior architectural designer, she planned to open a wedding design business, but the birth of her son led her to change directions once again. When her son turned five, they attended a SAORI weaving workshop at CRS, sparking her interest in fiber arts. A reunion last year with her school friend, Yoh, whom she found had begun painting again, inspired her to throw herself back into it. She began training regularly at Yukako Satone’s SAORI studio uptown and soon began to develop her own style.
Previous Exhibitions
2011 “Re –Birth“ was Nobu’s first exhibition, held at CRS in New York City in March
2012 Exhibited “All” at The Sheep Palette in Kyoto, Japan
2012 Exhibited “Soul Journey“ at excy gallery in New York City in October
2012 Solo exhibition “Cocoon” in Yushima, Tokyo
2015 Exhibited “Deep and Deep, Gucha Gucha” at The Sheep Palette in Kyoto, Japan
2015 the Loop of the Loom group show at the Tenri Gallery in New York City in April

Affirmative Action: An Elderberi Coaching Experience
2016-10-22 06:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York)
A breakthrough event in the power of our words and practicing what you speak.
Facilitator Yvonne Gaines
Guest Facilitiator Izetta Pritchard
Tickets are $50 (Early Bird Pricing) through October 8th and $75 after 10/8/16. Tickets can be purchased online at https://bit.ly/elderberiaa

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Metamorphosis Opening Reception + Weaving Demonstration
2016-10-22 13:00 - 15:00
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) announces an Opening Reception with the artist, Nobu, for the exhibition Metamorphosis on October 22, 2016 from 5 – 7 pm. During the reception, attendees will have an opportunity to learn about and try weaving on a SAORI loom like the one used by Nobu to create the works on view.
“Saori, the Zen Art of Weaving,” a 20′ documentary about the SAORI hand-weaving method and its creator, Misao Jo, will be shown at 5:30 pm, followed by a brief talk by Loop of the Loom Founder Yukako Satone introducing the SAORI ARTS NYC non-profit organization (saoriartsnyc.org).
The exhibition opens on October 6 and will remain on view through November 30, 2016. This, the second exhibition of SAORI fiber art at CRS, aims to demonstrate the potential for using the SAORI therapeutic approach to weaving to explore one’s emotional and creative impulses deeply enough to create works of striking imagination, originality and visceral impact that can be appreciated as art and serve as a vehicle for liberation for both creator and viewer. Learn more….

Living in Gratitude: A Workshop in ACIM-based IntroDanza with Carolina Corada
2016-10-23 09:30 - 12:30
A transformational event inspired by
A COURSE IN MIRACLES
$30 cash at the door
“What is Heaven but a song of gratitude and love and praise….” — ACIM Ch. 26 IV.3:5
Experience the profound teachings of modern-day mystic Carolina Corada through her talks, conferences and her self-inquiry, ACIM-based method IntroDanza — guided movement with music. Learn how to use your body to observe and release judgments, alleviate suffering of any kind and immediately experience inner peace.
Carolina conveys messages of true commitment, discipline, honesty and humbleness in her teachings.
http://www.carolinacorada.com
“Introdanza is the experience of the ACIM teachings ‘in the flesh.’ It is the most wonderful way I have found to use my body best to watch and analyze my inner resistances and that which separates me from God.” — Carlos Fuguera, VENEZUELA

Film Screening "SWITCH" and Talk by Fumiko Irie
2016-10-27 06:30 - 09:30
You are invited to screen the Japanese documentary “Switch,” a touching documentary about the research of Dr. Kazuo Murakami, a scientist in pursuit of mankind’s unlimited potential, and the lives of people who have “switched on” their genes. Following the screening there will be a meet and greet with cast member and fellow filmmaker Fumiko Irie followed by a talk in Japanese with Ms. Irie.
The film, written, produced and directed by Naoki Suzuki, was released in 2011 and runs 80′ in Japanese with English subtitles. “SWITCH” was screened at the NY Independent Film Festival 2013, and this will be the second opportunity to see it in the Greater NY area.
Human genes are said to contain information that would fill approximately 3,200 encyclopedia volumes with 1,000 pages each and 1,000 characters per page. Research results from various sources, however, have revealed that we use only a small percentage of the information in our lifetime. Dr. Kazuo Murakami, a world authority on biotechnology, says that humans can have unlimited potential if they switch on their genes. So how can we switch on our genes? In this film, the secret is unveiled through astonishing examples of people who succeeded in switching on their genes.
Tickets for the movie and talk by Fumiko Irie are $30, and for the movie only are $20. Cash only at the door.
Door Open 10:15 am
Event Start 10:30 am
Movie Screening starts 10:40 am
Yumiko Irie Talk starts 12:15 pm
Event ends 1:30 pm
For reservations, please email:
welcome@hesodo.com （Please send an e-mail with title “CRS movie screening” along with your name, number of people attending, cell phone #).
Inquiries: 626-353-4104 (Yoshiko Nakamura / , +81 70-5346-7646 (Hamada/Fumiko Irie Office in Japan）
More About the Film
See the trailer:

Love and laughter can switch on our genes. A lot of people were killed or injured in the 2005 Amagasaki rail crash. Junko Suzuki, one of the victims, suffered severe brain injuries while in the second car of the train, which was reported to have been the most seriously damaged. Nevertheless, she recovered remarkably with the love and support of her mother Momoko and other family members. You’ll learn the mystery of how love and laughter switched on Junko’s genes.
A “mission can switch on our genes. Another story is about a woman who discovered her mission after her life hit rock bottom. Her child had severe atopic dermatitis, her husband’s company went bankrupt, and she herself had a miscarriage. That woman is Fumiko Irie, director of the lm e Miracle of the Gifted Quarter. She used to be an ordinary housewife, so what on earth happened? You’ll discover the secret of her energy as she works tirelessly to ful ll her mission: creating lms that lead people to be more thankful.
About Dr. Kazuo Murakami
Dr. Murakami was born in 1936, and he is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba. In 1963, he obtained a Doctorate of Agricultural Chemistry from the Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University and then became a researcher at Oregon Health & Science University. In 1976, he started working as an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. He was appointed Professor of Applied Biochemistry at Tsukuba University in 1978, where he began genetic research. In 1983, he decoded the enzyme “renin” in humans, a key factor in the development of high blood pressure, attracting global attention. In 1996, he won the Japan Academy Prize.
About Fumiko Irie
Starting off as a fashion designer, she became a professional aroma therapist and began teaching aroma therapy. After various experiences in her life, she happened to get inspired to produce a film so as to fill the universe with gratitude and that being her mission in life. She did everything such as shooting, interview, editing video, writing a song for the ending song and singing it herself to create the film. The title is “The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter – Life’s Truth revealed”, which contains many scenes in which Katsuko Yamamoto, a teacher at a special-needs school, communicates with students.
Within two years after the completion of the film, it spread abroad with English subtitles. And a hundred and twenty thousands people watched it by the end of 2011. It was invited to the Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation at a screening in Columbia University, which is the summit of video technique.
She completed the second film “The Miracle of the Colored Light” in 2008, and also completed the third film “A Great Blessing” in 2011. On the same year she also appeared on a Murakami, Kazuo film “Switch” by Suzuki Naoki.
On the National Human Rights Day in 2013, “The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter” got played at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York. In total, the film has been played at 1800 places in 18 different countries and has reached 180,000 viewers.
She has also released her own books “The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter, Life’s Truth” on Sunmark Publication and has also collaborated with A children’s book author Nobumi on a picture book “Oheso No Saki” and “Giving Creates More?” on Shichida Education Publication. In 2014 she released her second book “Hesodo~ Taking a Look Into the Universe~ Finding a Mission” also on Sunmark Publication.
Now she runs workshops all over the world on what she developed, “Hesodo.”

USAATO Fashion Show & Exhibition
2016-10-28 15:00 - 18:00
USAATO welcomes you to their first fashion exhibition and sale in New York City! USAATO designs and manufactures women’s clothes and also men’s clothes, children’s clothes, samue (monk’s working clothes), rakui (pajamas). Made in Chiang Mai, Thailand and distributed from Kyoto, Japan, USAATO’s clothing uses fabrics that are mostly handspun and hand woven from cotton, hemp and silk with natural dyeing by women in local areas of northeastern and north of Thailand and some parts of Laos.
All fabrics are once gathered at “USAATO SIAM” in Chiang Mai and then delivered for sewing process. USAATO clothes are sewn by individuals and groups outbound Chiang Mai, not by the company’s factory.
(One part of our products is from machine-weaving.)
The clothes made in Chiang Mai are mostly imported to “USAATO JAPAN” for selling all over Japan. USAATO clothes are selling all over Japan by our partners called coordinators in the forms of exhibitions. Normally each exhibition is held during weekend for 3-4 days. Places and frequencies of each exhibition depend on each area coordinator.
USAATO JAPAN located in Kyoto is the start point to deliver USAATO clothes for exhibitions all over Japan. The shop “USAATO Kyoto Shop” is only in Kyoto in Japan.
Approximate prices for tops are from $80 to $200 while bottoms are from $100 to $200.

Wellness and Psychic Fair
2016-10-29 09:00 - 13:00
Explore the world of psychic reading and energy healing at the Wellness and Psychic Fair. A chance to meet you will have the opportunity to meet some of the most gifted practioners, with workshops and conversations.

Healing Circle
2016-11-02 16:00 - 17:30
Join us for our next Healing Circle and spirit journey! This is a time of balancing of masculine and feminine energies and of head and heart. As the harvest draws to a close, let’s reflect on how we’ve grown during the preceding year. We’ll journey again to the lower realm and this time seek the guidance from the Heart of the Earth itself about how to retrieve and re-integrate any masculine or feminine energies we may have set aside for safe keeping during our growing process.
We’ll finish with a glass of wine and whatever munchies YOU bring to share — social time!
Walk-ins are welcome as long as there is room but if you know you will be coming, please sign up in advance — and perhaps bring something fresh and yummy to share to celebrate the fall harvest! Registration is $20.
You might want to bring pen and paper for taking notes. No previous experience is required and the circles are open. While we hope you will fill inspired to regularly share your shining spirit with this spiritual community, you are welcome to attend without any intention of returning.
Our purpose, guided by our devoted study and practice of A Course in Miracles, is to remind one another that we are one and the same, always already perfect expressions of love. Therefore, we will be training ourselves to look for and find such reminders in all of our visions and experiences. While the forms of our activities draw on or are adapted from various shamanic and healing traditions, we do not seek to hold up any particular forms as essential or superior in and of themselves. Any form or experience could be used to remember who we truly are and to join with others. We will be using these particular forms simply because we enjoy them!
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Our mission is to help you to discover, develop, and use your gift, and to appreciate the joy of sharing it. We opened CRS with the help of a community of healers, seekers, and artists, many of whom had come from other countries looking for inspiration, Together, we offer a prayer to help one another.
CRS Co-Founder Christopher Pelham has a background in ensemble and improvisational theatre and has been studying ACIM since 2003 and offering healing and spiritual counseling since 2013. He leads the Monday night guided meditation and Healing Clinic at CRS, teaches A Course of Love on Wednesday nights, participates in the Tuesday night Healing Clinics and assists Yasuko in the leading of the Monday night ACIM Classes.

Awakening Your Heart Workshop
2016-11-03 06:00 - 14:00
~AWAKENING THE HEART ~
4 days intensive workshop

presented by RALUCA HEIM, MSc.,CHt
certified teacher
Benefits of attending to this workshop

Overcome your limiting and negative thinking patterns
Get over your past hurts and heal your emotional problems
Gain knowledge about secret sacred technologies and how to use them in your daily life
Gain access to a higher level of consciousness and perceive the one reality with more clarity
Activate your LIGHT BODY from the heart and use it to create and live the life you desire

Workshop schedule and daily description
First day (9:00 am – 6:00 pm) – The mental day
The first day of the workshop is meant to introduce you to all the steps necessary to connect to your heart and how to activate your light body .
At the end of the first day you will be able to:

Understand what LIGHT BODY stands for, the mechanism of the LIGHT BODY, ways to activate yours
What is the Sacred Space of the Heart
Overcome past hurts using efficient ancient sacred technologies: Imagery Exercises from Blue School.

Second day (9:00 am – 6:00 pm) – The healing day
The second day is the healing day intended to release you from your limiting beliefs and the limiting beliefs of modern society. You will also gain knowledge based on the scientific research done to date, the protocol of healing and the way of using your light body to heal yourself. The healing day offers an overall experience by integrating the emotional, mental and physical planes.
After the second day you will be able to:

Overcome your limiting beliefs
Heal your emotional problems by shifting your consciousness
Heal yourself from a mental, emotional and physical point of view
Using technology from HEARTMATH to learn how to use your breath to move into your heart.

Third day (9:00 am – 6:00 pm) – The heart day
After you heal the mental, emotional and physical problems you gain access to advanced meditation and reality creation techniques. This is a practical day meant to give you practical tools to shift your consciousness, use your inner senses and create the reality you want to live in, by going into the Sacred Space and Tiny space.
You will be able to use the knowledge acquired during the third day to:

Activate and use your inner senses: Moving your consciousness through your body.
Perceive the outer world with your inner senses
Difference in Creating from the Brain and Creating from the Heart – discuss different aspects of “The Secret”
Use advanced meditation techniques: Unity Breath Meditation and Heart Meditation
The Sacred Space of the Heart and the Tiny Space of the Heart
The Blessing Dance Meditation
Beams of Light Activation – connected to the pineal chakra

Fourth day (9:00 am – 6:00 pm) – LIGHT BODY activation day
The last day of the workshop you are going to learn different exercises to access a higher level of consciousness, activate your LIGHT BODY and gain knowledge about how to use it for your daily life.

Opening the Third Eye Meditation
Programming the LIGHT BODY and Creating an external LIGHT BODY
Activation of the LIGHT BODY Meditation
Creation Process (from the Tiny Space of the Heart) Meditation
How to use your LIGHT BODY for your personal use (examples: for a better relationship, for a better marriage, for improving your professional or business experience, for improving your health condition, for spiritual ascension)

*Important to note that the above presented results and benefits of the workshop might take place at another moment in your life than during your presence at the workshop. The LIGHT BODY works according to your level of consciousness.
**The purpose of the workshop is to give you access to the described knowledge and exercises. Improving your abilities and getting the expected and described results depends on your daily exercise and practice of the acquired knowledge.

NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 3-6
Registration details
* 10% DISCOUNT on total cost of the event, if deposit is paid by September 27

Monthly Reiki Meditation Class with Jyogan
2016-11-10 14:00 - 16:00
Learn the practice of calming and centering your “Kokoro” (the Japanese word meaning mind, heart, and spirit combined as one) with Traditional Japanese Reiki Meditative Techniques.
The evening begins with an “Open Reiju” Attunement to Reiki.
and continues with-
HATSUREI HO: Method to stimulate Reiki energy within
JOSHIN KOKYU HO: Breathing method to purify the mind
GASSHO MEDITATION: Meditation with palms together in prayer position
SEISHIN TOITSU: Mind Concentration Technique
followed by silent meditation and
Reiki Meta-Meditation
concluded with an extended seated REIKI MAWASHI (Reiki Healing Treatment Circle)
Following meditation Japanese rice crackers and green tea will be served.
Rev. Jyogan is a Reiki Shihan (Master Teacher) and Ordained Buddhist Minister. He is one of only a few Reiki teachers who have studied Traditional Japanese-style Reiki directly in Kyoto, Japan while he lived in that holy city.
Jyogan also teaches all levels of Traditional Japanese Reiki Healing as well as provides Reiki Treatments (Contact Aum Shanti for more information.) Learn and experience Reiki directly from it’s Source!
Seating is limited. Call 212-260-2866 to register.

Positive Power: Metaphysical Hypnotherapy Seminar
2016-11-12 07:00 - 08:30
Experience and learn new therapies that will help you achieve your full potential and empower you to live happy, joyous, free and full of positive energy.
Seminars are interactive and consist of an explanation of hypnotherapy, metaphysical imagery, past-life regression, handwriting analysis, dream therapy, toning, dynamics of relationships, the Taoist system of healing and life enhancement and other unique therapies.
Participants will experience a metaphysical hypnotic induction.
Ralph earned a Master of Science in health administration and a diploma in hypnotherapy. He also holds certifications in handwriting analysis, past-life regression, metaphysical imagery and fear and phobia.
Ralph facilitates the healing process and helps harness the power of positive thinking. He enriches lives and will enable you to live happy, joyous, free and full of positive energy. Ralph utilizes a metaphysical hypnotic induction that allows participants to manifest their desires.
He works with individuals and conducts presentations and interactive workshops.
Most important, Ralph has a genuine interest in helping humanity.

Four Seasons in NY: Gems of Japanese Music
2016-11-12 11:00 - 12:30
CRS & Mar Creation, Inc. invite you to discover traditional Japanese music by the acclaimed koto and shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura, offered together with an exclusive taste of beautiful Japanese seasonal sweets prepared by Rin NYC. The next concert will take place on Saturday, November 12, 2016 at 4 pm at CRS. Tickets are $25 and include delicious wagashi (sweets). Seating is limited and advanced purchased (online, by phone 212-677-8621, or in person at CRS) is encouraged.
“…Yoko Reikano Kimura, playing the shamisen and singing, is superb….” — New York Times
“…Kimura’s performance on the solo shamisen was quite stunning. An elegant refined presence perfectly poised, she played with precision, beauty and the utmost confidence….” — San Francisco Examiner
Concert Program:
Saga no Aki (Autumn in Saga) with guest shakuhachi player, Ralph SamuelsonAki Shizuka (Tranquility in Autumn) for solo kotoTsuki no En (Ode to the Moon) for solo shamisen
This will be the first in a seasonal series of music concerts called Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music 2016 – 17. After many centuries, the brilliance of traditional Japanese music is still being passed on to the present day. Come and experience the sounds of koto and shamisen and enjoy the taste of the four seasons here in New York. This concert series will feature each season’s representative traditional works along with the colorful and delicate Japanese style confectionaries. Subsequent concerts in the series will be held on Jan 28, April 22 and July 15 at 4 pm.

Each season is expressed through ingredients. Spring traditionally begins with sakura (cherry blossoms), broccoli rabe, strawberries and raspberries, followed by elderflower, rose, edamame and sansho (Japanese pepper) in summer. As autumn approaches we’ll pick chrysanthemum, apples, grapes, chestnuts and hazelnuts; and yuzu and kumquats in winter…. Even within one season, the taste and the form change gradually from hashiri through nagori.
mochi Rin / Bite-sized mochi dessert made with organic bean paste, seasonally fruits and flowers in NY.
We present a new type of mochi that doesn’t quite exist in Japan, by infusing New York’s locally-sourced ingredients into Japan’s popular traditional dessert —the stuffed mochi rounds, such as daifuku and sakura-mochi — and mixing in rin, the element of restrained grace. http://www.rin-nyc.com
More about Yoko
As a frequent soloist and collaborator, Japanese born Koto/Shamisen performer and singer Yoko Reikano Kimura has performed in NYC, Chicago, Tokyo, Kyoto and many other cities, featuring a wide-ranging repertoire from classical Japanese music to improvisational pieces. Yoko has won numerous awards including the First Prize at the prestigious 10th Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition as the first Yamada style koto performer. She received the First Prize at the 4th Great Wall International Music Competition and the Osaka Chinese Counsel Award and won the Japanese music audition for NHK-FM radio and her solo shamisen performance was broadcasted nationally. Since then she has performed numerous koto and shamisen pieces for the radio and regularly toured internationally.
Since Yoko moved to the US in 2010, her mission has been to promote Japanese music to American audiences. As part of this mission she is performing and giving workshops at various venues, such as the UN, Merkin, Bargemusic, Roulette, Princeton University, Japan Society, Harvard University, Princeton University, the New England Conservatory, the University of Chicago, Duke University and many others. http://www.yamadaryu.com/reikano/
As part of the award-winning Duo Yumeno, she has just released the album Flowers, Birds, Wind, Moon: The Music of Marty Regan. Listen and purchase here.

Conduit of Healing®: Reiki Leve I Workshop
2016-11-13 06:00 - 09:00
Reiki is a Japanese healing technique that utilizes universal energy to reduce stress, and promote healing of mind, body and spirit.
REI – Universal, spiritual wisdom, God consciousness
KI– Chi, Life force, Prana
*** SPACE IS LIMITED *** (only 12 spots available)
Cost: 200.00 (to be paid via my website: www.conduitofhealing.com/services )
To Register: Join my meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/Conduit-of-Healing-Reiki-Workshop/

Miracles in Manhattan with Jon Mundy, Ph.D. & David Fishman
2016-11-13 08:30 - 11:30
The topic of Jon’s lecture this month will be Mysticism, Miracles and the Mind. Joining Jon this month will be longtime ACIM community leader and author David Fishman, who will be speaking on Why am I not experiencing the love of God?
~ $20 per person with advanced registration ~
~ $25 per person at the door without a registration ~
Call 212-866-3795 or email Fran@miraclesmagazine.org to register in advance.
Your name will be on a list at the door. To pay by credit, card please register in advance. Or, you can pay with cash or a check at the door.
As long as space is available, “No one is ever turned away.” Contribute what you can.
Although we would, of course, prefer to share with you in class, Miracles in Manhattan classes are now also being offered via life-streaming for those who cannot attend the class in-person.
You will receive a monthly email reminder with the latest information on the date, time and topic. The schedule can always be found on our website:
www.miraclesmagazine.org
Dr. Jon Mundy met Dr. Helen Schucman, the scribe for A Course in Miracles, in 1973. Helen introduced Jon to the Course and served as his mentor and guide till she became ill in 1980. He is the author of Living A Course in Miracles. After Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, it is currently the best-selling book based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles.

Be Your Superhero
2016-11-15 14:30 - 16:00, 2016-12-06 15:00 - 16:30
Be Your Superhero.
Rise above your old story and live your life anew.
By identifying and dissolving what bogs you down you can fly,
And live the life you were born to live.
I combine entertaining healing stories, insights from ACIM, and a guided healing meditation.
About the Instructor
Marvin Ginsberg is a creative writer, coach and healer. A healing method came to him after he refused spinal surgery and he was healed. He later used the method when he was diagnosed with Melanoma and baffled a panel of doctors after he had the second biopsy.
He sees clients for many issues ranging from health to career and relationships.
He firmly believes that there is nothing that can’t be healed.
He has created the tool for healing that anyone can use, the easy to remember, healing story.
It has been his longtime goal to heal as many people as possible through stories and entertainment.
He is working on a book that will be out shortly.

Eckhart Tolle Now Video and Meditation Evening
2016-11-17 13:45 - 15:30
Our next meeting – Eckhart Tolle Video
Runtime: 60-75 minutes
We begin meet and greet 6:45 pm.
Video begins –7:00 pm
THERE IS NO ADMISSION AFTER 7:10 PM (by group consensus)
• Meet and greet/Q &A NEW***
• Meditation
• Video
• Closing
Coffee and conversation, for those who wish follows at: “Think Coffee “downstairs or a nearby diner.

Matrix Reimprinting EFT
2016-11-19 04:00 - 12:00
Matrix Reimprinting EFT is the Meridian Tapping Therapy that everybody is talking about and is effective for the relief of emotional or physical pain. it can also be used to manifest your goals and dreams. It evolved from the popular self-help technique, the Emotional Freedom Techniques, EFT.
In Matrix Reimprinting EFT, we work with past negative memories that are held as body memory pictures or holograms in your body-field. Unless these past negative or traumatic memories are transformed, you keep tuning into them on a subconscious level and they affect your emotional and physical health and your point of attraction. Changing the pictures creates both physical and emotional healing, and enables you to attract more positive experiences into your life. And by tapping on the meridians of the body at the same time, the process is accelerated.
Matrix Reimprinting EFT works especially well with addictive behaviors, intense fears, negative core beliefs, relationship issues, allergic sensitivities, completion of incomplete past grief issues, birth-related traumas and much more.
A background in EFT is required to attend.
Cost: $365 Early Bird Special through Oct. 19, $395 thereafter
Learn more….

Crystal Singing Bowl Healing and Meditation
2016-11-21 14:00 - 15:00
Please join us for a sound healing concert and meditation by beloved musician and healer Naoe Moriya of Japan in the White Room at CRS, named one of ten studios around the world to “achieve design nirvana.” Naoe will play her eight crystal singing bowls while you lie down and enter into a deep state of relaxation. Yoga mats and blankets will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
Tickets are $20 cash at the door.
Facebook RSVP required by 11/20
Naoe became certified by Juilliard as an international eurhythmic teacher after graduating from the Kunitachi College of Music in Japan. She is an artist of many talents, playing piano, singing, and composing, improvising and teaching music. She developed her own method of playing crystal bowls and piano at the same time.

Exhibition: Out of Mind — Paintings by Eric Holzman
2016-11-30 - 2017-01-31
CRS announces Out of Mind, an exhibition of oil paintings by Eric Holzman. The exhibition will be on view from December 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017. We invite you to meet the artist at the CRS Holiday Party on Saturday, December 10 from 4 – 8 pm.
Eric has been a professional painter and art teacher since the 1970s. This is his second solo exhibition at CRS, his first coming in 2006. He is also now a student of A Course in Miracles and regularly drums for the monthly Healing Circles at CRS. We are pleased to be able to share his creative spirit with the CRS community more and more.
Eric Holzman always begins painting from life but brings the work back into the studio, accumulating density of paint, depth, presence, returning to many of the canvases again and again over a period of years. His landscapes share an atmospheric space that is deep, suggestive, sensual, and in tension with the surface, employing a relatively three-dimensional rendering of form in space, relative to most modernism. Often, the bottoms of the canvases support a lot of weight. The landscapes evoke a moment of in time, when the play of light on leaf is just so, and yet their weightiness imparts a sense of the ancient or timeless, echoing T.S. Eliot:
Time past and time future
Allow but a little consciousness.
To be conscious is not to be in time
But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden,
The moment in the arbour where the rain beat,
The moment in the draughty church at smokefall
Be remembered; involved with past and future.
Only through time time is conquered.
— section two, stanza three of “Burnt Norton” from Four Quartets
The human figures in his landscapes are both obscured and revealed, allowing the viewer a sense of intimacy with the subjects without sacrificing their dignity. They quietly assert themselves into the present of the landscape, their material ethereality encoding a more substantive timeless spiritual presence. As with a portrait, his subjects are usually placed toward the center of the canvas, so the pictures are simply conceived, but full of movement. While remaining grounded in perception, Holzman takes perceptual liberties with color and design, inspired by eastern art and its inference of the presence of the gods, or of the sacred or the eternal. One could say he stretches pictorial representation, in order to express the mysterious snap of each successive moment as the miracle of existence is revealed.
“For Mr. Holzman, making art is an endeavor through which intimacy and longing achieve a finely tuned, if tenuous, resolution.” — Mario Naves, The New York Observer
A graduate of Tyler School of Art (BFA ’71) and Yale University (MFA ’73), Holzman has since participated in numerous solo and curated group exhibitions at galleries in New York, Houston, Boston, Antwerp, and elsewhere. He is a past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as grants from the Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Studio Space, P.S. 1. Holzman has taught at Bard College, Pratt Institute, Chicago Art Institute, Penn University, Boston University, The Studio School, and others.
Artist Statement
Working from life excited me as a student, and it still is exciting. Still, a painting that was begun from nature may become entirely different as it subsequently evolves in the studio. Some times they come quick without too much reworking, and sometimes a small painting will take years to find itself, submitting themselves to tweaking, adjusting, scraping, sanding, glazing and scumbling and any thing else that occures to me.
I am after a kind of painting that can be enjoyed experientially; by-passing the mind, felt in the body the heart and the soul, like a song that feels just right, like it has always existed. In a totally contemporary way, I am after a slow, sensual richness, much more common before the modern era.
Painting outside in nature opened doors for me. I consciously saw and I felt the vibration of energy surrounding and flowing through the trees. This was an important revelation, which I have tried to let guide my work and my life, as it led to a deeper knowing on a spiritual level.
When I drew as a child, the empty page was a place that I could pour myself into, an escape. Later it became is a place to connect my inner world and outer world; sight and feeling, memory and dream , observation and thought.
I love many kinds of painting from different places and times. I have no desire to disturb what was, I want to add. In fact there are always some other painters floating around in my mind, inspiring me, and who I am, in my own way, trying to emulate and draw guidance and inspiration from.
— Eric Holzman
http://www.ericholzman.com

Healing Circle
2016-12-02 14:30 - 16:30
Join us for our next Healing Circle and spirit journey!

Your journey this time will be to meet your ancestral guide and heal your ancestral line from past to present. “Just as individual souls carry experience from one lifetime into another, families do as well, and when we, the newest members of our family line enter life, we agree to bear and hopefully resolve at least some of those persistent issues” — shaman Jane Burns. Your ancestral guide might also share with you the gifts of your ancestors, which could be encouragement to develop a certain talent or trust a particular character strength.
We’ll finish with a glass of wine and whatever munchies YOU bring to share — social time!
Walk-ins are welcome as long as there is room but if you know you will be coming, please sign up in advance — and perhaps bring something fresh and yummy to share to celebrate the fall harvest! Registration is $20 through Dec 1 and $25 on Dec 2.
You might want to bring pen and paper for taking notes. No previous experience is required and the circles are open. While we hope you will fill inspired to regularly share your shining spirit with this spiritual community, you are welcome to attend without any intention of returning.
Our purpose, guided by our devoted study and practice of A Course in Miracles, is to remind one another that we are one and the same, always already perfect expressions of love. Therefore, we will be training ourselves to look for and find such reminders in all of our visions and experiences. While the forms of our activities draw on or are adapted from various shamanic and healing traditions, we do not seek to hold up any particular forms as essential or superior in and of themselves. Any form or experience could be used to remember who we truly are and to join with others. We will be using these particular forms simply because we enjoy them!
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Our mission is to help you to discover, develop, and use your gift, and to appreciate the joy of sharing it. We opened CRS with the help of a community of healers, seekers, and artists, many of whom had come from other countries looking for inspiration, Together, we offer a prayer to help one another.
CRS Co-Founder Christopher Pelham has a background in ensemble and improvisational theatre and has been studying ACIM since 2003 and offering healing and spiritual counseling since 2013. He leads the Monday night guided meditation and Healing Clinic at CRS, teaches A Course of Love on Wednesday nights, participates in the Tuesday night Healing Clinics and assists Yasuko in the leading of the Monday night ACIM Classes.

Journey Intensive Workshop
2016-12-03 04:00 - 13:00
The Journey Intensive is a two-day workshop that many participants describe as the most transformational experience of their lives. You will be fully immersed in this truly experiential workshop with innovative teaching stories, meditations, engaging practical group interaction and one to one process work. All of these experiences will help to create a unique seminar which enables you to tap into your body’s infinite wisdom – facilitating profound transformative results in yourself – instantly and effortlessly – in incredible ways.
In just two days of powerful training—you’ll experience first hand the benefits of clearing out stored issues, letting go of old stories and emotional baggage and working in privacy with a partner of your own choosing.
Price: $395
Early Bird $50 OFF ends October 31, 2016
EMOTIONAL WELLBEING
You feel stuck or that there’s just got to be more to life
Do you feel there must be more to life? Are you holding yourself back from being the best expression of yourself? The Journey Intensive helps you reconnect with your full potential. It liberates you from deeply held blockages, old beliefs and vows you might not even be aware of. As you leave your limiting beliefs behind, you’ll soar on a fast-track path to freedom.
PHYSICAL HEALTH
You’re facing ill health or ongoing physical issues
The Journey Intensive has helped thousands of people all around the world find relief from physical illness and cure ‘incurable’ diseases. If you’re experiencing any health challenge, the Journey Intensive gives you practical tools to help heal your body and mind on a deep cellular level. It’s not a quick fix, it’s a lifestyle shift that will serve you for the rest of your life.
DEPRESSION
Fear, anxiety or stress is prevalent in your life
The methods shared at the Journey Intensive have helped people with depression, anxiety, phobias, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and other depression challenges. Your wellbeing is a choice. You can choose to clear out the baggage that’s been holding you back from true freedom and happiness. You can’t choose your life circumstances, but you can choose how you react to them.
RELATIONSHIPS
You want more fulfilling relationships
The relationships we have with our loved ones reflect the quality of the relationship we have with ourselves. The Journey Intensive has helped people with various relationship issues: it has saved marriages; helped people move away from toxic relationships that no longer serve them; brought people together, and helped them create powerful bonds of true love and freedom.
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING
You’re still searching for your infinite potential
The Journey Intensive is for people who’re willing to face what’s been holding them back in life on a deep level. It’s for lovers of truth who no longer want to hide and play small in life. If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and get real with yourself, you’ll experience a high level of consciousness and deep fulfillment.
WEALTH
Do you equate your right to be alive with your accumulated wealth?
The Journey Intensive gives you tools that help you clear your blocks to financial abundance and prosperity in every area of your life. Once you’ve cleared out your limiting beliefs and behavioral patterns you’ll gain more confidence, clarity and have a sense of purpose that helps you thrive. Ultimately you’ll have more success in your business and career – and simultaneously improve your relationships with colleagues, family, friends and community.
About Annette
Annette, in the truest, deepest part of her being, is an explorer, always looking to uncover the deeper Truth. She began taking personal growth and development courses which opened her to see herself and others in a whole new light. Annette experienced firsthand, the depth of healing that occurs when able to gently and lovingly find a way back to Source. After an extraordinary experience in 2002, Annette’s path became clearer when she was introduced to Brandon Bay’s book, “The Journey”. Passionate to learn more about this remarkable tool to deepen her relationship with herself, and to share it with others, Annette became one of the first certified Journey Practitioners in North America
In her search for the source of Freedom and Peace, Annette has studied, and continues to study many different modalities. This enables her to look at issues from different points and access the most appropriate course for resolution, for herself as well as in her practice.
Currently, as well as being a Senior Journey Practitioner, Certified Visionary Leadership Coach, and Presenter of both, Annette owns a wellness center in King City, Ontario. Her business, named ‘It’s All About You, Centre for Complementary Health’ was created to reflect Annette’s passion for helping people.

CRS 2016 Holiday Party
2016-12-10 11:00 - 15:00
CRS invites you to join in our annual holiday celebration on Sat, Dec 10, 2016!
4 – 5:30 pm Performance and Talk
6 – 8 pm Reception with Catering by Mie & Masako
Tickets to both parts are $30. Tickets to the reception only (enter after 6 pm) are $20. Part one has limited seating and advanced purchase is encouraged. Tickets at the door are cash only. If you bring your children, age 12 and under, they can get in for free.

4 – 4:20 pm Welcome & Opening Performance by Eric Holzman, Senko Nishimura & Evan Worldwind & Introduction by CRS Gallery Director Rie Nishimura of Painter Eric Holzman’s exhibition Time Out of Mind
4:20 – 4:45 pm Dance & Musical Performance by Lale Sayoko and Kenji Williams of Bella Gaia and their five-year-old Miracle Girl, Amara, and Prayer with Team Amara
4:45 – 5:30 pm Talk on Synchronicity & Miracles by CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki and her friend and mentor, Business Coach & Lecturer Gamyousei, who is visiting us from Japan
6 – 8 pm Reception with Catering by Mie & Masako

About two years ago, Amara chan, the older daughter of Lale Sayoko and Kenji Williams, was diagnosed with a brain tumor and began experiencing many tiny seizures every day. Since then, so many of you have supported their family with prayer and volunteer assistance. Today, she is seizure free. She is active and growing, and her tumor is at least at bay. Tomorrow, we celebrate her fifth birthday. That in itself is a miracle. But many of you and us and friends around the world who have been praying for her have also experienced many miracles as we have learned to let go of our fears and discover our own limitlessness. It is this joining together to share miracle mindedness that we want to celebrate today.
Gamyousei is a close friend and mentor of Yasuko Kasaki who has generously offered to join us from Japan for this occasion in order to share his experience of synchronicity and miracles. He began his professional life as an architect and met with much success. Through his work he developed relationships with many kinds of people and, inspired by his personal study of Buddhist meditation and principles, began to focus on helping others to accelerate their own careers and enjoy their lives. We are honored to have him with us!
Calling us in with their meditative music will be artist and drummer Eric Holzman, sound healer Senko Nishimura, and didgeridoo player and healer Evan Worldwind, each active contributors to the CRS community. Eric’s beautiful oil paintings will be on exhibit in the CRS lobby from December 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017.

Miracles in Manhattan with Jon Mundy, Ph.D.
2016-12-11 08:30 - 11:30
The topic of Jon’s lecture this month will be Mysticism, Miracles and the Mind. There will be a short end-of-year party at the end of the lecture. Please feel free to bring wine or a ready-to-serve dish or snack.
~ $20 per person with advanced registration ~
~ $25 per person at the door without a registration ~
Call 212-866-3795 or email Fran@miraclesmagazine.org to register in advance.
Your name will be on a list at the door. To pay by credit, card please register in advance. Or, you can pay with cash or a check at the door.
As long as space is available, “No one is ever turned away.” Contribute what you can.
Although we would, of course, prefer to share with you in class, Miracles in Manhattan classes are now also being offered via life-streaming for those who cannot attend the class in-person.
You will receive a monthly email reminder with the latest information on the date, time and topic. The schedule can always be found on our website:
www.miraclesmagazine.org
Dr. Jon Mundy met Dr. Helen Schucman, the scribe for A Course in Miracles, in 1973. Helen introduced Jon to the Course and served as his mentor and guide till she became ill in 1980. He is the author of Living A Course in Miracles. After Return to Love by Marianne Williamson, it is currently the best-selling book based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles.

Self Protection for Practitioners
2016-12-17 07:00 - 11:00
Protect yourself from taking on energy that does not serve you from clients, the workplace and life! Learn powerful techniques for shielding and strengthening your energy field so you can be more grounded and effective in your personal life and professional practice.
This 3 hour experiential workshop combines practical psychotherapy tools, Qi Gong exercises and shamanic protection techniques to expand your protection toolbox. You will learn environmental and energetic methods of protecting your energy field and workspace, learn effective methods to hold space for clients without taking on their “stuff”, learn Qi Gong exercises to release negative energy and create a personalized ritual for shielding and protection.
Facilitated by William J. Kaplanidis, Licensed Acupuncturist and Clinical Counselor and Kristen Boyer MPS, Shamanic Psychologist and Holistic Health Counselor
RSVP to Kristen@Kristenboyer.com
Limited number of spaces available

Spiritual Film Screening & Sound Healing
2016-12-18 09:30 - 12:30
2:30pm~ Film “A drop in the Galaxy – All from One”
4:30pm~ Healing and Meditation time with Didgeridoo by Evan Worrldwind and Shamanic drum by Senko
Film only $15 (under 12 years old $10)
Healing and Meditation 45min only $25
Both Film & Healing $35
Booking: contact to inoriforearth@gmail.com or 914-703-8018 Senko
Please pay in cash at the door.
About the film A Drop in the Galaxy
This film was created by Ms. Katsuko Yamamoto, a writer and renowned special ed teacher. You may know her if you’ve seen the film “The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter,” which CRS has shown numerous times. Ms. Yamamoto visited Nepal a couple of times. It became a place she could never forget and she developed a passion to make a documentary film about Nepal. This is her first film and it is filled with love.
In Nepal, it is said that 100% of the people knew we were all from One in ancient times and that 80% of the people still remember it.
The Gita says, You are wonderful and I am, too. Why are you fighting? Just accept each other. Accept everyone for we are all from One. Because we are all the same. People fight for different religions, ways of thinking, points of view and ways of living. We work hard and have many thoughts on how to reach the truth. If we know how to live with harmony, we will be led to the same destination. We don’t need to fight. And then we can respect each other.
There was a big earthquake in Nepal and people are still suffering. However, they were so kind to me who is a stranger from some other place. I learned what people in Nepal taught me. I sincerely hope to be happy with everyone together. — Katsuko Yamamoto (Director)
Healing and Meditation time:
Didgeridoo player Evan Worldwind is a certified Neurolinguistic Design Engineer, a Hypnosis Therapist, a student of the TAOIST philosophy, a practitioner of the Classical Yang Style Family Tai Chi Chuan, and a musician, performer, and teacher of the mystical didjeridoo. And uses this instrument in sounds healing workshops to enhance the community connection felt in a space so people can find love in each other, and in themselves, more deeply.
http://www.artistdreamfamily.com/biography/

Eckhart Tolle Now Video and Meditation Evening
2016-12-19 13:30 - 15:15
Our next meeting – Eckhart Tolle Video
Runtime: 60-75 minutes
We begin meet and greet 6:35 pm.
Video begins –7:00 pm
THERE IS NO ADMISSION AFTER 7:00 PM (by group consensus)
• Meet and greet/Q &A NEW***
• Meditation
• Video
• Closing
Coffee and conversation, for those who wish follows at: “Think Coffee “downstairs or a nearby diner.

CRS Satsang (guided meditation + Q&A)
2016-12-22 14:00 - 15:00
CRS Satsang meetups are for those of you who want to discuss how to see your situation from the point of view of spirit.
“Satsang is a Sanskrit word that means ‘gathering together for the truth’ or, more simply, ‘being with the truth.’ Truth is what is real, what exists. So all there is, is Truth. Whenever something increases your experience of the Truth, it opens your Heart and quiets your mind.” — endless-satsang.com
Let’s create an open, loving space together in which you can quiet your mind; remember the truth of who you are, an expression of love, perfect and whole; and inquire about how to see the truth of your present situation, transforming apparent obstacles into blessings and opportunities to give and receive love and share your limitless creative energy.
We’ll begin with a few minutes of quiet during which you can write down some issue, question or request you’d like to work with. Then we’ll have a a short guided meditation to quiet or minds and connect with the still, loving presence inside our minds. During the rest of the time, CRS Healer & ACIM/ACOL Instructor Christopher Pelham will take your questions and answer from that still, loving presence, and we will all practice supporting one another by giving one another our full attention and witnessing the light within each of us.
suggested donation $20
no one turned away for lack of funds

FREE New Year's Eve Guided Meditation with Yasuko
2016-12-31 13:00 - 14:00
Please join us for our final community event of 2016! At the end of each year, CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki offers a FREE one-hour Guided Meditation, drawing on the principles of A Course in Miracles, so that we can all begin the new year with a clear mind. This year she’ll also lead everyone through an introductory exercise in spiritual reading so that each of you may come away with some inspirational message from your inner teacher. The meditation will last about an hour.
It’s usually standing-room only so you’ll want to arrive a few minutes early. We don’t let anyone in after 6:02 pm. No previous experience with meditation is necessary.
You can listen to a recording of a previous New Year’s meditation here:http://crsny.podbean.com/2011/01/04/acim-guided-meditation-dec-31-2010

Singer Songwriter Showcase: One Voice + Guitar
2017-01-03 16:00 - 17:30
Please join us Tuesday night, Jan 3, 2017 at 9 pm for our first concert of the new year with charismatic guitar-based singer / songwriters Rie Tamuro and Chika Sasaki. Tickets are $10 cash at the door. For info call 917.400.9362.
Rie Tamuro, a 23-year-old singer / songwriter from Nara, Japan, started playing the guitar at the age of 14, writing songs and performing on the street and at shows. She has more than 150 original songs and has resided in New York since August 2015. Rie has performed at clubs such as Silvana, the Shrine, and Bowery Electric in New York City.
Chika Sasaki, born in 1991, is a singer/ songwriter from Tokyo, Japan. She debuted in Japan on January 13, 2016. She has a warm voice like a vintage guitar and her lyrics are heartbreaking. Chika likes movies and sake.
– Rie Tamuro: https://www.facebook.com/tamuro.rie
– Chika Sasaki: http://sasaki-chika.wixsite.com/sasakichika
– Mar Creation: http://www.marcreation.com/
