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SUMMARY:FREE New Year’s Eve Guided Meditation with Yasuko
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our final community event of 2019! 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. \nIt’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. \nYou 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 \nYasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer\, counselor\, healer\, lecturer and translator from Tokyo\, Japan. The founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in New York City\, she is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of ACIM throughout Japan. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She is the author of 16 books in Japanese about ACIM\, as well as numerous novels\, short stories\, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and books by ACIM writers Jon Mundy\, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister and others have also been published in Japan. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her classes.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/free-new-years-eve-guided-meditation-with-yasuko-2/
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SUMMARY:A Course in Miracles Monday Classes
DESCRIPTION:Mondays 7:30 – 9 pm\nTaught by Yasuko Kasaki\, assisted by Christopher Pelham \nKnow your life purpose and the meaning of your current situation clearly. Communicate with your Inner Teacher. Heal yourself and others. \nThese ongoing classes focus on mind training designed to help you to experience the lessons and loving wisdom of ACIM. Each class contains some lecture from the ACIM Textbook\, some discussion and Q&A\, and typically 10 – 20 minutes of meditation\, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order to experience mind change. \nOur primary goal in these classes is for each student to learn to listen to the guidance of Holy Spirit and live his/her life with certainty and peace. Slowly\, you will re-train your eyes to see the world around you without judgment. You will learn to communicate with your holy spirit. \nIt is OK to attend without having studied the Course\, but we highly encourage you begin reading the Text and\, especially\, to begin the workbook lessons if you can! This course is meant to be experienced rather than simply talked about. You can find the text and lessons online. \nStudents of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
URL:https://crsny.org/event/a-course-in-miracles-monday-classes-2/2020-01-06/
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SUMMARY:Guided Meditations Inspired by A Course in Miracles
DESCRIPTION:Given by Yasuko Kasaki\n(and by Makiko Mizuta and Christopher Pelham when she is away each March\, July\, and Nov)\nTuesdays from 6:30 – 7 pm\nFree\nhttp://www.meetup.com/ACIM-meditation/ \nPlease join us in the sharing of miracles. Here\, your mind can come to rest and you can remember true peace. No experience with meditation is required\, and everyone is welcome. We ask only that you make it your intention to sit still\, quiet in body and mind\, and to listen to; receive and follow my instruction to the best of your ability. You will learn to meditate as you practice. Please arrive for Meditation before 6:30 pm as we don’t allow latecomers to enter. \nEach week we will share with you a different inspirational message from Holy Spirit. This may take the form of creative visualization exercises\, or instruction about the nature and purpose of meditation\, or about our true nature and relationship to ourselves\, to one another\, and to the world. In a sense\, this is both a meditation practice and a meditation class. \n\nSome students have been coming regularly for a number of years. Others drop in and out as they have time or need. Some come to learn and grow\, others more so simply to calm down\, to take time out from the frenetic pace of their busy lives. If you are new and feeling uncertain or shaky\, do not hesitate to introduce yourself to some of the other students\, to ask questions before or after. Try to observe and emulate the stillness and concentration of others around you whom you sense are most grounded. Soon\, you\, in turn\, may provide inspiration and guidance for others. \nWhile the principles are based on A Course in Miracles (ACIM)\, it does not matter if you are unfamiliar with ACIM or are not prepared to study it outside of this meditation. You can still take from this practice some very practical\, effective lessons\, tools\, and experiences that can enable you to lead a more peaceful\, purposeful\, fulfilling and loving life.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/guided-meditations-inspired-by-a-course-in-miracles-2/2020-01-07/
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SUMMARY:Kalika Moonchild Lunar Alchemy: Monthly Transformations
DESCRIPTION:Full Moon Yoga\nKalika Moonchild Presents Lunar Alchemy: Monthly Transformations\, a gathering hosted by Jenna Devine. Our monthly workshop is a fusion of Kundalini Yoga\, Full Moon Ritual\, Sound Meditation and Alchemical work that empowers personal growth and transformation. Join us as we gather in the Full Moon to release what no longer serves us on our paths to living our fullest lives. \nAbout the Instructor Jenna Devine\n“It always seems impossible\, until it is done.” – Nelson Mandela. My “impossible” was balance\, spiritual wellness and aligned life purpose. Through Kundalini Yoga\,  Archetypal Initiatory work\, Sound Meditation\, a lifelong deep connection to the cycles of nature and the moon\, I made my impossible more doable. Integrating these varied paths to create a unique experience\, I have decided it is time to help you with your impossible. The power of group energy accelerates personal transformation in a magical way. Join me in my lifelong quest of transcendence\, new levels of perception and self empowerment. \nThrough my brand\, Kalika Moonchild\, I am creating community experiences\, jewelry\, apparel and apothecary collections\, donating a portion of profits to support those who inspire us to change the world. Currently funding amfAR where the top research priority is the pursuit of a cure for HIV/AIDS. \nwww.kalikamoonchild.com \n 
URL:https://crsny.org/event/kalika-moonchild-lunar-alchemy-monthly-transformations-2/
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SUMMARY:Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
DESCRIPTION:Dear friends\, we are excited to have Kamyar Arsani‘s Persian daf lessons at CRS on a monthly or near monthly basis! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play a magical instrument from a master who learned from masters in Iran. Kamyar has been playing and singing for decades and recently for our Sufi Dance events at CRS when he is in town and taking us ever deeper into the heart. \nDaf is a big frame drum with lots of rings inside that you can shake when you play for added effect. It is an integral part of Sufi and Persian music because of the variety of sounds it can produce and its ability to induce trance. \nLet’s learn the basic techniques together so we can play for one another at our Sufi events including hopefully at our next public Sufi night on September 28! \n1:00 – 2:15 pm Beginners Daf Class\n2:30 – 3:45 pm Intermediate Daf Class\n1 class $50\nboth classes $70 \nBring your own Daf or frame drum\, a pen & a 3–line or 5–line blank musical staff notebook (or paper\, which you can find templates of online to print). \nSome extra Dafs are available to rent ($5 cash) for the class\, but you must RSVP to chris@crsny.org because they are limited and you will want to get your own so you can practice! \nWhile many different Dafs are available for purchase online\, one such as this one —which has a synthetic head\, is reasonably priced at $119\, has good tone and construction\, is not too heavy\, and can be delivered in a few days by DHL — would be a great choice for learning on:\nhttps://salamuzik.com/products/professional-daf-rad-404 \nAbout Instructor Kamyar Arsani \n“Kamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. With his focus on Daf (Persian frame drum)\, through years he expanded circle of his instruments to Drums\, Percussions\, Guitar\, Ukulele and Melodica. He currently resides in Washington D.C\, teaching and performing around DMV area and working with individuals with Autism. \nKamyar began Daf lessons with Master Bijan Kamkar. Kamyar has spent over a decade performing and researching the Daf and its roots. His second choice of instrument was the kamancheh (Persian string bow instrument) and he studied it with Masters Ardeshir Kamkar and Sohrab Pournazeri. Ten years ago\, Kamyar and his family migrated to the United States around the same time that Iran’s Green Revolution was occurring. Kamyar’s songs and performances are very much inspired by the people of Iran and their history of struggle and protest. \n\n\n\nAt the time he started working as Autism classroom Teacher Assistant in Virginia and Washington DC public schools\, and the science of Behaviorism and creating motivation for students with Autism became his passion. But he did not put music behind\, Kamyar produced his first solo album in 2015\, entitled “No Freedom.” It was written on Guitar and Ukulele. The album was dedicated to those oppressed by Iranian Government. \nhttps://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases \nAside from his solo work\, Kamyar also plays in other collaborations and has performed series of concerts at Kennedy Center\, Library of Congress\, Georgetown University\, UMD\, WVU and VOA. \nKamyar is also the poet and singer of “Time is Fire (TiF).” Their music has been described by Washington Post as “Music from a country that does not exist.” \nhttps://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance) \nKamyar takes on a different character performing with Time is Fire\, wearing his sikke (a Sufi hat representing the “tombstone of Ego”) and singing poems of resistance and freedom in English and Farsi. Within the four member band’s worldly\, funky\, post-punky\, afro-infected music\, the sikke and poems make perfect sense. Their sound has been evolving since the group first came together in 2015. Washington City Paper: “Time Is Fire could have limitless places to go.” Time is Fire recently released an EP that can be found here:\nhttps://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold \nWith the new wave of hatred portrayed among our nation\, Kamyar could not sit quiet and wrote four songs inspired by Rumi and Hafez and Ferdowsi poems on his Daf\,inviting people to believe in a new spring together. He collaborated with Benjamin Schurr of Blight Records and produced an electronic backed Daf album called “Voices in the Dark” \, which can be found on Blight Records Bandcamp (Production of DC\,2018)\nhttps://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark \nFor more information you can contact Kamyar at:\nKamyararsani31@gmail.com\nInstagram: @kamyararsani\nFB: Kamyar Arsani
URL:https://crsny.org/event/persian-daf-sufi-drum-classes-3/
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SUMMARY:Sufi Music & Dance Concert with Kamyar Arsani & Friends
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents a soulful program of Sufi and Persian music performed by D.C. based Percussionist/Vocalist Kamyar Arsani and his students with whirling by Sufi Dance Artist Läle Sayoko and other members of the CRS Sufi Dance community. The program will take place on Saturday\, January 11\, 2020 from 5 – 6 pm. Tickets are $20 and light refreshments will be served. \nSufi dance or Sama means spiritual listening and its purpose is to transcend physical experience and melt into Oneness with the Divine. CRS presents a variety of Sufi dance\, music\, meditation and visual art programs\, curated by Läle Sayoko\, in order to share these peace-building practices with participants from all backgrounds. \nSufism\, as the mystical dimension of Islam\, preaches peace\, tolerance and pluralism\, while encouraging music as a way of deepening one’s relationship with the Creator. The pain of [perceived] separation from the Creator is at the core of Sufi lyrics and music; and hence the intense longing to dissolve the physical realm and transcend into the spiritual universe with Sama’a\, the practice of listening to music\, chanting and whirling\, and finally culminating in spiritual ecstasy (wajd).\n— from “Sufi Music:  The Song of the Soul” by Dr Suvarnalata Rao\, The India Times \nKamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. At age 7\, Arsani began studying the daf (Persian frame drum) with Master Bijan Kamkar. He also spent time playing meditative rhythms for hours at a time for Sufis. In 2009 the Green Revolution in Iran brought Kamyar and his family to Washington\, D.C.\, where he has been based ever since. He travels up and won the east coast playing daf and other instruments and singing and performing Sufi and Persian folk songs as well as his own compositions and contemporary music of all kinds. \nEvery month Kamyar Arsani travels to NYC to offer Persian Daf lessons at CRS. The Daf is a frame drum with lots of rings inside that you can shake when you play for added effect. It is an integral part of Sufi and Persian music because of the variety of sounds it can produce and its ability to induce trance. Kamyar learned from masters in Iran and has been playing and singing for decades. Learn more about the next daf classes on January 11 from 1 pm here. \nSufi Dance Artist Läle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice. \nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm. \nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\n\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw \nMore About Kamyar Arsani \n\nKamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. With his focus on Daf (Persian frame drum)\, through years he expanded circle of his instruments to Drums\, Percussions\, Guitar\, Ukulele and Melodica. He currently resides in Washington D.C\, teaching and performing around DMV area and working with individuals with Autism. \nKamyar began Daf lessons with Master Bijan Kamkar. Kamyar has spent over a decade performing and researching the Daf and its roots. His second choice of instrument was the kamancheh (Persian string bow instrument) and he studied it with Masters Ardeshir Kamkar and Sohrab Pournazeri. Ten years ago\, Kamyar and his family migrated to the United States around the same time that Iran’s Green Revolution was occurring. Kamyar’s songs and performances are very much inspired by the people of Iran and their history of struggle and protest. \n\n\n\nAt the time he started working as Autism classroom Teacher Assistant in Virginia and Washington DC public schools\, and the science of Behaviorism and creating motivation for students with Autism became his passion. But he did not put music behind\, Kamyar produced his first solo album in 2015\, entitled “No Freedom.” It was written on Guitar and Ukulele. The album was dedicated to those oppressed by Iranian Government. \nhttps://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases \nAside from his solo work\, Kamyar also plays in other collaborations and has performed series of concerts at Kennedy Center\, Library of Congress\, Georgetown University\, UMD\, WVU and VOA. \nKamyar is also the poet and singer of “Time is Fire (TiF).” Their music has been described by Washington Post as “Music from a country that does not exist.” \nhttps://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance) \nKamyar takes on a different character performing with Time is Fire\, wearing his sikke (a Sufi hat representing the “tombstone of Ego”) and singing poems of resistance and freedom in English and Farsi. Within the four member band’s worldly\, funky\, post-punky\, afro-infected music\, the sikke and poems make perfect sense. Their sound has been evolving since the group first came together in 2015. Washington City Paper: “Time Is Fire could have limitless places to go.” Time is Fire recently released an EP that can be found here:\nhttps://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold \nWith the new wave of hatred portrayed among our nation\, Kamyar could not sit quiet and wrote four songs inspired by Rumi and Hafez and Ferdowsi poems on his Daf\,inviting people to believe in a new spring together. He collaborated with Benjamin Schurr of Blight Records and produced an electronic backed Daf album called “Voices in the Dark” \, which can be found on Blight Records Bandcamp (Production of DC\,2018)\nhttps://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark \nFor more information you can contact Kamyar at:\nKamyararsani31@gmail.com\nInstagram: @kamyararsani\nFB: Kamyar Arsani
URL:https://crsny.org/event/persian-music-concert-with-percussionist-vocalist-kamyar-arsani-2/
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SUMMARY:Miracles in Manhattan with Dr. Jon Mundy
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents Miracles in Manhattan\, lectures on the teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and related texts and topics by Jon Mundy\, Ph.D. and occasional guest lecturers\, hosted by CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. \n~ $25 per person with advanced purchase online\, by phone (212-677-8621) or at CRS until the day before the lecture~\n~ $30 per person at the door ~\nAs long as space is available\, “No one is ever turned away who cannot pay.” Contribute what you can. \nThe lectures are usual held on the 2nd Sunday of the month (but are sometimes re-scheduled to avoid holidays). \nAlthough we would\, of course\, prefer to share with you in class\, Miracles in Manhattan classes are now also being offered via life-streaming (technology allowing) for those who cannot attend the class in-person. The day of the class\, go to our YouTube Channel:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxH3nWSMFDGA1SiR9kAbeg\nand choose the live-streaming button. If it’s not there\, it means there are technical difficulties\, but it should still be posted here about a week later. \nDr. Jon Mundy is an author\, lecturer\, the publisher of Miracles magazine\, and the Executive Director of All Faiths Seminary International in New York City. He 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\, which is now available in eight languages. After Return to Love by Marianne Williamson\, it is currently the best-selling book based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles. He taught courses in Philosophy and Religion from 1967 to 2008 at the New School University and the State University of New York with a specialization in The History of Mysticism. He is the author of 12 books\, his most recent being A Course in Mysticism and Miracles published by Red Wheel Weiser. drjonmundy.com  www.miraclesmagazine.org \nMiracles in Manhattan host Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer\, counselor\, healer\, lecturer and translator from Tokyo\, Japan. The founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in New York City\, she is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of ACIM throughout Japan. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She is the author of 16 books in Japanese about ACIM\, as well as numerous novels\, short stories\, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and books by ACIM writers Jon Mundy\, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister and others have also been published in Japan. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her classes. yasukokasaki.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/miracles-in-manhattan-with-dr-jon-mundy/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eckhart Tolle Now Video and Meditation Evening
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting –  Eckhart Tolle Video \nWe begin meet and greet at 7:05 pm. \n• Meet and greet /Q &A*** \n• Meditation \n• Video \n• Closing \nTHERE IS NO ADMISSION AFTER 7:15 PM (by group consensus) \nCoffee and conversation\, for those who wish follows at: “Think Coffee “downstairs or a nearby diner. If you are super early please grab a coffee and come up closer to the start time. There is a tiny waiting area upstairs that can only hold a few people. \nSee you soon!\n***(https://www.paypal.me/nyceckharttollegroup)***
URL:https://crsny.org/event/eckhart-tolle-now-video-and-meditation-evening-10/
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SUMMARY:CRS Healing Circle:  Meditation + Whirling Prayer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Healing Circle + Whirling (Sufi Dance) Prayer!  Our Sufi Dance Artist Läle Sayoko will be away performing with Bella Gaia in Miami so this month’s circle will be led by CRS co-founders Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham. In the first half\, we’ll focus on our visions for the year and in the second half we’ll have our usual whirling prayer time. \nAt each circle\, we create a safe space in which to let go of our small selves and recognize the divinity in one another and within ourselves. When we do so\, we can trust ourselves to fully experience our feelings with the awareness that they cannot hurt us\, or overwhelm us\, or change us at all\, because we are still as Love created us. \nAfter we’ll enjoy social time with tea and snacks. \nThe participation fee is $20 with advanced registration and $25 at the door. Direct registration link:\nhttps://is.gd/5lPqy7 \nThrough whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn\, that we may share our divine strength and bear witness to the divinity in others. \nIf you are quiet and in a state of prayer when you Turn\, offering everything of yourself to God\, then when your body is spinning\, there is a completely still point in the center… The heavens respond; and all the invisible kingdoms join in the dance. But the world does not understand. They think we Turn in order to go into some sort of trance. It is true that sometimes we do go into that state you call ecstasy\, but that is only when we know and experience at the same time. We do not Turn for ourselves. We turn around in the way we do so that the Light of God may descend upon the earth. As you act as a conduit in the Turn\, the light comes through the right hand\, and the left hand brings it into this world… We turn for God and for the world\, and it is the most beautiful thing you can imagine. — Mevlevi Shaikh Suleyman Hyatt Dede \nYasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer\, counselor\, healer\, lecturer and translator from Tokyo\, Japan. The founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in New York City\, she is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of ACIM throughout Japan. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes:  An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about ACIM\, as well as numerous novels\, short stories\, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and books by ACIM writers Jon Mundy\, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister and others have also been published in Japan. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her classes.\nyasukokasaki.com \nChristopher Pelham is a spiritual healer/counselor/teacher/artist who draws on practices from A Course in Miracles\, Non-Violent Communication\, improvisational theater\, Sufism\, and contemporary shamanism to help people remember who they really are. He is the Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). He has also taught and/or offered healing in London\, in Japan\, at the 2018 Awakening to the One Mind Retreat\, and at the 2017 Enlight Festival of A Course in Miracles in Ibiza\, Spain.\nchrispelham.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/crs-healing-circle-meditation-whirling-prayer-10/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:ACIM-Related Event,CRS Presents,sufi
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SUMMARY:Access Clarity Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Upgrade your breathing\,\nupgrade your life. \nImmediate session results include:\n• clear thinking\n• heightened creativity\n• lowered anxiety & depression\n• release of physical tension \nWhy do we do this?\nWe are all told breathing is automatic. Unfortunately\, when we are stressed\, anxious\, depressed or heartbroken our breathing takes a hit. When this happens\, our reactivity throws us out of harmony. Like a guitar string plucked out of tune. \nWhat happens?\nIn the session everyone lays on a yoga mat. Some music is played. We breathe together in a guided pattern. That’s it. That’s all that happens on the outside. What happens on the inside is a whole other story! Natural coherence in the mind and body are restored. The inward journey can be physical\, emotional\, mental and spiritual depending on the person. At the end Rahul will guide the group back home to reintegrate with the body. Once grounded\, everyone circles up to share our adventures\, insights and clarity. \nWhere does it happen?\nWe meet each Sunday at The Center for Remembering in NYC. Mats and blankets are provided. Feel free to bring your own stuff to create a cozy coocoon. \nWho is the facilitator?\nRahul Panchal is a Master Breathwork Facilitator and Founder of Clarity Breath\, initiated at Babaji’s ashram in the Himalayas\, trained in Qi Gong at a healing center in Thailand. He then went through deep spiritual initiation living with the Huni Kuin tribe in the Amazon Rainforest. He lives in service to humbly share his gifts with you. \nWhat are the lasting effects?\nThrough this practice\, achieving the growth\, ease\, alignment and happiness you want to create will become crystal clear. Your focus will sharpen naturally and the clarity to bring your gifts out into the world will clearly manifest. At our core we are all beings of light\, love and joy. Through breath\, it’s possible to move through anything that’s pulled us off center. Once done\, we can rise up full of childlike wonder and excitement\, ready to play with life again.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/access-clarity-ceremony/2020-01-19/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kabbalistic Sound Bath Immersion
DESCRIPTION:Together\, we will experience the resonance and transcendent impact of MediSounds®\, a powerful sound meditation system based on the use of our own voices vocalizing tones that impact our physical\, psychological and spiritual beings. MediSounds aids in reducing anxiety\, alleviating depression by enabling a connection to a greater reality. \nWe will discuss how healing and integration can be approached simply\, using the power of our own vocalizations dedicated to produce a profound meditative state. \nMost of all we will join together as a group and community\, something which we all could use more of in this day and age. \n7PM arrival for the 7:15-8:45 program. The program will begin promptly at 7:15. \nYou can come without reserving but it would be great if you could RSVP to thegreatoctave@gmail.com\nWe are asking for a $20 suggested donation to help defray the costs for producing the event\, but it is open to all even if you cannot afford to make a contribution. \nThese MediSounds® events will be sponsored by the Great Octave Foundation\, a not for profit organization dedicated to promoting the use of MediSounds as a pathway to awakened consciousness. \nWarm wishes!!\nShulamit \nSUPPORTED BY THE GREAT OCTAVE FOUNDATION\nwww.GreatOctave.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/kabbalistic-sound-bath-immersion/
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SUMMARY:Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music Vol. 17
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing) invites 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 confectionary prepared by mochi Rin. This will be the second concert of the 2019-2020 season of Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music. The winter concert will be held on Saturday\, January 25\, 2020 at CRS. \nTickets are $30 (general) and $20 (students) include wagashi (Japanese confectionary).\nSeating is limited and advanced purchase (online\, by phone 212-677-8621\, or in person at CRS) is strongly encouraged. \nProgram\nNe no Hi no Asobi (by Taiga Yamaki Ⅱ）＊New Year’s song\nKyorai for solo shamisen (by Seiho Kineya) \n“…Yoko Reikano Kimura\, playing the shamisen and singing\, is superb….” — New York Times\n“…Kimura’s voice was rich and full-bodied ….” — KCMETROPLIS\n“…Under Kimura’s practiced hand\, there were also occasional dramatic and explosive passages. – Koto Concerto: Genji” — The NEWS GAZZETE \nAbout Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music\nNew York’s music scene reflects the diverse and vibrant culture of the city. Kimura\, together with CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing)\, began this concert series in the fall of 2015. As a Japanese instrumentalist\, she hopes to introduce the brilliance of traditional Japanese music\, which is still being passed on to future generations after many centuries. Starting with the 2018-19 season\, the series has featured contemporary pieces composed by living composers as well. Since the first concert\, about 40 works from the classical repertoire have been introduced in the concert series. Please come and experience the sounds of koto and shamisen and enjoy the taste of the four seasons here in New York! \nThis concert series is supported by Mar Creation\, Inc. \nAbout past performances: https://www.yokoreikanokimura.com/projects/fourseasons/ \nYOKO REIKANO KIMURA is a distinguished virtuoso of Japanese koto\, shamisen performer and singer in both traditional and contemporary music. Kimura has concertized in about 20 countries around the world based in New York and Japan. Following her studies at the Tokyo University of the Arts\, she studied at Institute of Traditional Japanese Music\, an affiliate of Senzoku Gakuen College of Music in Japan. Kimura was awarded a scholarship from the Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan. Her teachers include Kono Kameyama\, Akiko Nishigata and Senko Yamabiko\, a Living National Treasure. Awards include the First prize at the prestigious 10th Kenjun Memorial National Koto Competition and the First prize at the 4th Great Wall International Music Competition. Kimura performed at the Kabuki-za in Tokyo\, accompanying Danjuro Ichikawa XII. Her performances have been broadcasted on NHK-FM’s Hogaku no Hitotoki\, NPR’s Performance Today and WKCR. As a koto soloist\, Kimura has performed Daron Hagen’s Koto Concerto: Genji with the Wintergreen Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Mei-Ann Chen and several string quartets. As a shamisen soloist\, she performed Kin’ichi Nakanoshima’s Shamisen Concerto at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center. \nHer performances have been featured at many opera and theater works\, such as Michi Wiancko’s Murasaki’s Moon at Metropolitan Museum\, Piestro Mascagni’s Iris by American Symphony Orchestra\, Basil Twist’s Dogugaeshi\, Yasuko Yokoshi’s Bell and many others.\n \nKimura is a founder of Duo YUMENO\, with cellist Hikaru Tamaki. The duo received the Kyoto Aoyama Barock Saal Award in 2015\, and featured at Chamber Music America’s 2016 National Conference\, and performed at the John F. Kennedy Center in 2017. In 2019\, the duo had its ten-year anniversary recital at Carnegie Hall.\nWebsite: yokoreikanokimura.com | duoyumeno.com \nmochi Rin creates bite-sized mochi desserts made with organic bean paste\, seasonal fruits and flowers produced in NY. She presents a new type of mochi that doesn’t quite exist in Japan by infusing New York’s locally-produced ingredients with Japan’s popular traditional desserts —the stuffed mochi rounds\, such as daifuku and sakura-mochi — and mixing in rin\, the element of restrained grace. Website: rin-nyc.com | https://www.instagram.com/rin_nyc
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LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,CRS Presents,Gems of Japanese Music
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SUMMARY:Sufi Dance Class with Paola Garcia
DESCRIPTION:Learn the ancient practice of meditative whirling known as Sufi dance or Sema (Sama in Iranian). You will learn the techniques of whirling\, but Sema is not about reproducing a certain form or aesthetic. Rather\, the technique serves as a vehicle for inner journeying. Sema means spiritual listening. Together we’ll create a sacred space in which we can safely listen to and share our true selves and experience oneness with the Divine. \nEach class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique\, exercises\, practice whirling\, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing like yoga pants or leggings and T shirts ( no tube top or short pants) and solid colors are recommended\, avoiding prints and shiny material which might distract the eye while whirling\, and wear socks or soft soled shoes. If you have a whirling skirt\, please feel free to bring it. \nAvoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class. \nWhirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Over time\, through whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control. We empty our minds of all thoughts of the individual self as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn. Into this emptiness floods a divine fullness\, which sometimes gives rise to a state known as “mystical intoxication\,” a reflection of knowing and experiencing that you and I and the Divine are One. \nClasses are $25 ($20 with advanced registration). \nAbout Sufi Dance Instructor Paola García \nSufi Dance artist Rana Gorgani awarded Paola the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi dance training. Paola holds a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies from Columbia University. She is a writer\, Middle Eastern Studies researcher\, translator and student of Sufism. \n  \n 
URL:https://crsny.org/event/sufi-dance-class-with-paola-garcia/
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SUMMARY:Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
DESCRIPTION:Dear friends\, please join our monthly Daf class community led by the amazing Kamyar Arsani! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play a magical instrument from a master who learned from masters in Iran. Kamyar has been playing and singing for decades and recently for our Sufi Dance events at CRS when he is in town and taking us ever deeper into the heart. \nDaf is a big frame drum with lots of rings inside that you can shake when you play for added effect. It is an integral part of Sufi and Persian music because of the variety of sounds it can produce and its ability to induce trance. \n1:00 – 2:15 pm Beginners Daf Class\n2:30 – 3:45 pm Intermediate Daf Class\n1 class $50\nboth classes $70 \nBring your own Daf or frame drum\, a pen & a 3–line or 5–line blank musical staff notebook (or paper\, which you can find templates of online to print). \nSome extra Dafs are available to rent ($5 cash) for the class\, but you must RSVP to chris@crsny.org because they are limited and you will want to get your own so you can practice! \nWhile many different Dafs are available for purchase online\, one such as this one —which has a synthetic head\, is reasonably priced at $119\, has good tone and construction\, is not too heavy\, and can be delivered in a few days by DHL — would be a great choice for learning on (and you can contact us for a 10% discount!):\nhttps://salamuzik.com/products/professional-daf-rad-404 \nAbout Instructor Kamyar Arsani \n“Kamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. With his focus on Daf (Persian frame drum)\, through years he expanded circle of his instruments to Drums\, Percussions\, Guitar\, Ukulele and Melodica. He currently resides in Washington D.C\, teaching and performing around DMV area and working with individuals with Autism. \nKamyar began Daf lessons with Master Bijan Kamkar. Kamyar has spent over a decade performing and researching the Daf and its roots. His second choice of instrument was the kamancheh (Persian string bow instrument) and he studied it with Masters Ardeshir Kamkar and Sohrab Pournazeri. Ten years ago\, Kamyar and his family migrated to the United States around the same time that Iran’s Green Revolution was occurring. Kamyar’s songs and performances are very much inspired by the people of Iran and their history of struggle and protest. \n\n\n\nAt the time he started working as Autism classroom Teacher Assistant in Virginia and Washington DC public schools\, and the science of Behaviorism and creating motivation for students with Autism became his passion. But he did not put music behind\, Kamyar produced his first solo album in 2015\, entitled “No Freedom.” It was written on Guitar and Ukulele. The album was dedicated to those oppressed by Iranian Government. \nhttps://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases \nAside from his solo work\, Kamyar also plays in other collaborations and has performed series of concerts at Kennedy Center\, Library of Congress\, Georgetown University\, UMD\, WVU and VOA. \nKamyar is also the poet and singer of “Time is Fire (TiF).” Their music has been described by Washington Post as “Music from a country that does not exist.” \nhttps://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance) \nKamyar takes on a different character performing with Time is Fire\, wearing his sikke (a Sufi hat representing the “tombstone of Ego”) and singing poems of resistance and freedom in English and Farsi. Within the four member band’s worldly\, funky\, post-punky\, afro-infected music\, the sikke and poems make perfect sense. Their sound has been evolving since the group first came together in 2015. Washington City Paper: “Time Is Fire could have limitless places to go.” Time is Fire recently released an EP that can be found here:\nhttps://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold \nWith the new wave of hatred portrayed among our nation\, Kamyar could not sit quiet and wrote four songs inspired by Rumi and Hafez and Ferdowsi poems on his Daf\,inviting people to believe in a new spring together. He collaborated with Benjamin Schurr of Blight Records and produced an electronic backed Daf album called “Voices in the Dark” \, which can be found on Blight Records Bandcamp (Production of DC\,2018)\nhttps://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark \nFor more information you can contact Kamyar at:\nKamyararsani31@gmail.com\nInstagram: @kamyararsani\nFB: Kamyar Arsani
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LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents,sufi
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SUMMARY:Miracles in Manhattan with Dr. Jon Mundy
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents Miracles in Manhattan\, lectures on the teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and related texts and topics by Jon Mundy\, Ph.D. and occasional guest lecturers\, hosted by CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. \nFebruary’s topic is THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIGHT.\n1st hour:   I choose the feeling I experience.\n2nd hour:  I decide the goals I would achieve. \nYou may believe that you are responsible for what you do\, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think\, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. \n~ $25 per person with advanced purchase online\, by phone (212-677-8621) or at CRS until the day before the lecture~\n~ $30 per person at the door ~\nAs long as space is available\, “No one is ever turned away who cannot pay.” Contribute what you can. \nThe lectures are usual held on the 2nd Sunday of the month (but are sometimes re-scheduled to avoid holidays). \nAlthough we would\, of course\, prefer to share with you in class\, Miracles in Manhattan classes are now also being offered via life-streaming (technology allowing) for those who cannot attend the class in-person. The day of the class\, go to our YouTube Channel:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxH3nWSMFDGA1SiR9kAbeg\nand choose the live-streaming button. If it’s not there\, it means there are technical difficulties\, but it should still be posted here about a week later. \nDr. Jon Mundy is an author\, lecturer\, the publisher of Miracles magazine\, and the Executive Director of All Faiths Seminary International in New York City. He 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\, which is now available in eight languages. After Return to Love by Marianne Williamson\, it is currently the best-selling book based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles. He taught courses in Philosophy and Religion from 1967 to 2008 at the New School University and the State University of New York with a specialization in The History of Mysticism. He is the author of 12 books\, his most recent being A Course in Mysticism and Miracles published by Red Wheel Weiser. drjonmundy.com  www.miraclesmagazine.org \nMiracles in Manhattan host Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer\, counselor\, healer\, lecturer and translator from Tokyo\, Japan. The founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in New York City\, she is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of ACIM throughout Japan. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She is the author of 16 books in Japanese about ACIM\, as well as numerous novels\, short stories\, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and books by ACIM writers Jon Mundy\, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister and others have also been published in Japan. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her classes. yasukokasaki.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/miracles-in-manhattan-200209/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Trance Dance Experience with Artist Dream Family
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an incredible evening of root activating music and shapeshifting dance. Prepare to be lifted in Mind and Body in ways you might have never been before. \nEvan Worldwind (Didgeridoo)\, Yahoteh Kokayi (Drumset & Percussion)\, Läle Sayoko (Shapeshifting Dancer)\, and Saco Yasuma (Voice & Keyboard) will be your guides into a world of Root Sound and Dance Movement! \nOur intention is to give you all we can on February 9th\, fueling the fire of your vision of designing your future in the present movement. \nPresentation:\n• We will begin this empowering evening with an introduction into the single mind for self-discovery\, as it pertains to health\, wealth\, and prosperous consciousness.\n• A journey into excellence guided by Root Sound and Dance Extravagant will follow. \n#### \nTrance Dance Experience with Artist Dream Family
URL:https://crsny.org/event/trance-dance-experience-with-artist-dream-family/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Guest Event
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SUMMARY:CRS Healing Circle & Whirling Prayer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our monthly Healing Circle + Whirling (Sufi Dance) Prayer! \nLed by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko\, with meditation and prayer by CRS Co-Founders Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham\, we create a safe space in which to let go of our small selves and recognize the divinity in one another and within ourselves. When we do so\, we can trust ourselves to fully experience our feelings with the awareness that they cannot hurt us\, or overwhelm us\, or change us at all\, because we are still as Love created us. \nAfter we’ll enjoy social time with tea and snacks. \nThe participation fee is $20 with advanced registration and $25 at the door. Direct registration link:\nhttps://is.gd/B9HElo \nThrough whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn\, that we may share our divine strength and bear witness to the divinity in others. \nIf you are quiet and in a state of prayer when you Turn\, offering everything of yourself to God\, then when your body is spinning\, there is a completely still point in the center… The heavens respond; and all the invisible kingdoms join in the dance. But the world does not understand. They think we Turn in order to go into some sort of trance. It is true that sometimes we do go into that state you call ecstasy\, but that is only when we know and experience at the same time. We do not Turn for ourselves. We turn around in the way we do so that the Light of God may descend upon the earth. As you act as a conduit in the Turn\, the light comes through the right hand\, and the left hand brings it into this world… We turn for God and for the world\, and it is the most beautiful thing you can imagine. — Mevlevi Shaikh Suleyman Hyatt Dede \n \nSufi Dance Artist Läle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice.\n\nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm.\nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw\nhttps://youtu.be/6xkueoG80sg\n  \nChristopher Pelham is a spiritual healer/counselor/teacher/artist who draws on practices from A Course in Miracles\, Non-Violent Communication\, improvisational theater\, Sufism\, and contemporary shamanism to help people remember who they really are. He is the Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). He has also taught and/or offered healing in London\, in Japan\, at the 2018 Awakening to the One Mind Retreat\, and at the 2017 Enlight Festival of A Course in Miracles in Ibiza\, Spain.\nhttp://www.chrispelham.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/crs-healing-circle-meditation-whirling-prayer-11/
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SUMMARY:Forgive & Be Free Workshop with Jennifer Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Cost: Love Offering Donation \nSpace is limited – please click here to register online now:\nhttps://is.gd/A1nlEY \nThis workshop is for you if you answer yes to any of these: \nDo resentments and regrets take up a lot of your energy?\nDo you often complain and feel bitter?\nDo you have a habit of taking offense?\nDo old hurts still steal your happiness?\nWould you like to let go of the past?\nDo you attack yourself mentally?\nDo you suffer from anxiety and worry? \nThis is a practical workshop to support you in having a forgiveness breakthrough and learning forgiveness as a practical tool to increase your happiness on a daily basis. If you’d like more joy\, freedom and prosperity. Forgiveness is essential to experiencing an increase! Forgiveness is the key to living a miraculous life! If you’re willing you can bring on your breakthrough to a more loving life and joyFULL life. \nJennifer Hadley has been teaching forgiveness and offering spiritual counseling for 20 years. Her radio show/podcast A Course in Miracles: Living the Love & Walking the Talk is followed by people in over 100 countries around the world since 2011. Jennifer offers classes and training for spiritual students\, teachers and counselors – for details at JenniferHadley.com \n——————————————————————————————— \nWhat people are saying about this workshop: \n”Jennifer’s Forgiveness Workshop was amazing and moving for me. Her deep belief and conviction in the power of forgiveness coupled with her amazing ability to speak and move the individual in a group setting. allowed me to do some much needed work. Thank you. Jennifer!” ~ Rev. Darrell Jones“ \nI attended Jennifer’s Forgiveness workshop about a year ago. I’d been suffering from terrible anxiety for 3 months. Constant anxiety every minute of the day. Two days after completing the workshop\, I woke up and the anxiety was gone! A miracle! It was a profound moment for me\, and I totally believe it was the forgiveness workshop that made it happen.” ~ Andy Steinfield
URL:https://crsny.org/event/forgive-be-free-workshop-with-jennifer-hadley/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:S3 (Suppleness / Strengthening / Stretching) Class
DESCRIPTION:S3 class combines hatha yoga breathing technique with Gyrokenisis & Pilates. You can use it as a warm up before a performance or as a cool down after a day at the office. Either way\, you are going to feel amazingly light and fit and calm afterward. \nInstructor Shoko Tamai has been doing this holistic mind-body routine for herself 365 days a year for many years to optimize her health and fitness as a professional dancer and maintain her emotional and spiritual wellbeing. What’s in the class is what has proved to work for her\, and she is happy to share it with you. \nShoko is a Dancer\, Ballet Instructor and Choreographer. In addition to teaching ballet and other styles of dance to ages 2-86\, she also teaches a workshop on Cosmic Dance Healing\, the practice of exchanging negative energy to positive energy\, through movement and awareness. She has regular classes at the Montauk Salt Cave\, Cosmic Arts in Brooklyn\, Studio Oasis in Chinatown\, The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM)\, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She is certified in NYC to teach Yoga\, Pilates\, Gyrotonic\, and Gyrokinesis I\, and has been awarded the Solo Seal Award\, and the Royal Academy of Dance Award advanced I and II\, with distinction. It is her sincerest intention to use dance to help heal the world\, and the people\, one happy student at a time.
URL:https://crsny.org/event/s3-suppleness-strengthening-stretching-class/2020-03-05/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents
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SUMMARY:Sufi Dance 2 with Läle Sayoko
DESCRIPTION:We are happy to announce that we are adding a second monthly Sufi Dance class so that those who have already learned the basic techniques and feel stable can have time together to practice and learn more. In Sufi Dance 2 classes\, we will dive deeper into the techniques of whirling and explore the somatic function and symbolic and spiritual meaning of the movements in greater detail. We will use the techniques to challenge ourselves to whirl longer with greater musicality\, control and freedom. And we will strengthen our commitment to spiritual listening and to unifying our experience of the music\, our minds\, and the Divine\, inviting mystical intoxication. PREVIOUS SUFI DANCE EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. \nClasses are $25 with advanced registration and $30 at the door. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing like yoga pants or leggings and T shirts ( no tube top or short pants) and solid colors are recommended\, avoiding prints and shiny material which might distract the eye while whirling\, and wear socks or soft soled shoes. If you have a whirling skirt\, please feel free to bring it. \nAvoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class. \nWhirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Over time\, through whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control. We empty our minds of all thoughts of the individual self as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn. Into this emptiness floods a divine fullness\, which sometimes gives rise to a state known as “mystical intoxication\,” a reflection of knowing and experiencing that you and I and the Divine are One. \nAbout Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko \nLäle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice. \nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm.\nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
URL:https://crsny.org/event/intermediate-sufi-dance-class-with-lale-sayoko/2020-03-05/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Miracles in Manhattan with Dr. Jon Mundy
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents Miracles in Manhattan\, lectures on the teachings of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) and related texts and topics by Jon Mundy\, Ph.D. and occasional guest lecturers\, hosted by CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki. \nMarch’s topic is THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIGHT.\n1st hour:   You are responsible for what you think.\n2nd hour:  Only at this level can you exercise choice. \nYou may believe that you are responsible for what you do\, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think\, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. \n~ $25 per person with advanced purchase online\, by phone (212-677-8621) or at CRS until the day before the lecture~\n~ $30 per person at the door ~\nAs long as space is available\, “No one is ever turned away who cannot pay.” Contribute what you can. \nThe lectures are usual held on the 2nd Sunday of the month (but are sometimes re-scheduled to avoid holidays). \nAlthough we would\, of course\, prefer to share with you in class\, Miracles in Manhattan classes are now also being offered via life-streaming (technology allowing) for those who cannot attend the class in-person. The day of the class\, go to our YouTube Channel:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxH3nWSMFDGA1SiR9kAbeg\nand choose the live-streaming button. If it’s not there\, it means there are technical difficulties\, but it should still be posted here about a week later. \nDr. Jon Mundy is an author\, lecturer\, the publisher of Miracles magazine\, and the Executive Director of All Faiths Seminary International in New York City. He 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\, which is now available in eight languages. After Return to Love by Marianne Williamson\, it is currently the best-selling book based on the teaching of A Course in Miracles. He taught courses in Philosophy and Religion from 1967 to 2008 at the New School University and the State University of New York with a specialization in The History of Mysticism. He is the author of 12 books\, his most recent being A Course in Mysticism and Miracles published by Red Wheel Weiser. drjonmundy.com  www.miraclesmagazine.org \nMiracles in Manhattan host Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer\, counselor\, healer\, lecturer and translator from Tokyo\, Japan. The founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) in New York City\, she is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of ACIM throughout Japan. She has taught and worked with thousands of people from around the world to help resolve their mental and physical issues and witness miracles. She is the author of 16 books in Japanese about ACIM\, as well as numerous novels\, short stories\, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and books by ACIM writers Jon Mundy\, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister and others have also been published in Japan. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her classes. yasukokasaki.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/miracles-in-manhattan-with-dr-jon-mundy-2/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED — Sufi Dance 1 Class with Läle Sayoko
DESCRIPTION:Learn the ancient practice of meditative whirling known as Sufi dance or Sema (Sama in Iranian). You will learn the techniques of whirling\, but Sema is not about reproducing a certain form or aesthetic. Rather\, the technique serves as a vehicle for inner journeying. Sema means spiritual listening. Together we’ll create a sacred space in which we can safely listen to and share our true selves and experience oneness with the Divine. \nEach class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique\, exercises\, practice whirling\, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing like yoga pants or leggings and T shirts ( no tube top or short pants) and solid colors are recommended\, avoiding prints and shiny material which might distract the eye while whirling\, and wear socks or soft soled shoes. If you have a whirling skirt\, please feel free to bring it. \nAvoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class. \nWhirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Over time\, through whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control. We empty our minds of all thoughts of the individual self as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn. Into this emptiness floods a divine fullness\, which sometimes gives rise to a state known as “mystical intoxication\,” a reflection of knowing and experiencing that you and I and the Divine are One. \nSufi Dance 1 Classes\n2nd Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS \nSufi Dance 2 Classes\n1st Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS \nClasses are $30 ($25 with advanced registration). \nAbout Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko \nLäle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice. \nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm.\nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
URL:https://crsny.org/event/beginner-sufi-dance-class-with-lale-sayoko/
LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Eckhart Tolle Now Video and Meditation Evening
DESCRIPTION:Our next meeting –  Eckhart Tolle Video \nWe begin meet and greet at 6:35 pm. \n• Meet and greet /Q &A*** \n• Meditation \n• Video \n• Closing \nTHERE IS NO ADMISSION AFTER 7:15 PM (by group consensus) \nCoffee and conversation\, for those who wish follows at: “Think Coffee “downstairs or a nearby diner. If you are super early please grab a coffee and come up closer to the start time. There is a tiny waiting area upstairs that can only hold a few people. \nSee you soon!\n***(https://www.paypal.me/nyceckharttollegroup)***
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SUMMARY:Silent Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Free\nhttp://www.meetup.com/ACIM-meditation/
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SUMMARY:CRS Healing Circle:  Meditation + Whirling Prayer
DESCRIPTION:Led by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko\, with meditation and prayer by CRS Co-Founder Christopher Pelham\, we create a safe space in which to let go of our small selves and recognize the divinity in one another and within ourselves. When we do so\, we can trust ourselves to fully experience our feelings with the awareness that they cannot hurt us\, or overwhelm us\, or change us at all\, because we are still as Love created us.\, we create a safe space in which to let go of our small selves and recognize the divinity in one another and within ourselves. When we do so\, we can trust ourselves to fully experience our feelings with the awareness that they cannot hurt us\, or overwhelm us\, or change us at all\, because we are still as Love created us. \nAfter we’ll enjoy social time with tea and snacks. \nThe participation fee is $20 with advanced registration and $25 at the door. Direct registration link:\nhttps://is.gd/5lPqy7 \nThrough whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn\, that we may share our divine strength and bear witness to the divinity in others. \nIf you are quiet and in a state of prayer when you Turn\, offering everything of yourself to God\, then when your body is spinning\, there is a completely still point in the center… The heavens respond; and all the invisible kingdoms join in the dance. But the world does not understand. They think we Turn in order to go into some sort of trance. It is true that sometimes we do go into that state you call ecstasy\, but that is only when we know and experience at the same time. We do not Turn for ourselves. We turn around in the way we do so that the Light of God may descend upon the earth. As you act as a conduit in the Turn\, the light comes through the right hand\, and the left hand brings it into this world… We turn for God and for the world\, and it is the most beautiful thing you can imagine. — Mevlevi Shaikh Suleyman Hyatt Dede \nLäle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice.\n\nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm.\nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw\nhttps://youtu.be/6xkueoG80sg\nChristopher Pelham is a spiritual healer/counselor/teacher/artist who draws on practices from A Course in Miracles\, Non-Violent Communication\, improvisational theater\, Sufism\, and contemporary shamanism to help people remember who they really are. He is the Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). He has also taught and/or offered healing in London\, in Japan\, at the 2018 Awakening to the One Mind Retreat\, and at the 2017 Enlight Festival of A Course in Miracles in Ibiza\, Spain.\nchrispelham.com
URL:https://crsny.org/event/crs-healing-circle-meditation-whirling-prayer-12/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:  Wooded Tales of Phantasy — A Photography Series by Troy Stallman
DESCRIPTION:CRS presents Wooded Tales of Phantasy\, an exhibition of photography by Troy Stallman. This new series of photographs focuses on capturing the “vital force” of wooded environments\, imploring the observer to interpret imagery through the waking lens of the imagination. We are called to remember the emotional connection that harmonizes the conscious space between our fantasy world\, higher self\, and interwoven spiritual channels of the natural world. Through this cosmic dialogue\, we are offered a chance to reflect on how majestic life-death cycles create deeper meaning\, balance and appreciation of nature in our lives\, leaving us with a resounding impression that nourishes the soul and re-inspires the inner visionary. \nThe exhibition will be on view from March 14\, 2020 – April 30\, 2020. The public is invited to meet the artist at the Songs of Awakening Concert by Kristin Hoffmann & Friends on March 14\, 2020 at 7:30 pm. A reception for ticket holders will follow the show. Tickets to the concert and reception are $20 and are available here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/songs-of-awakening-concert-with-kristin-hoffmann-friends-tickets-95773909341 \nARTIST STATEMENT \n“To capture and accentuate creations of terrestrial origin and transcend limitations of the mind”…This is my central focus as photographer.  Through my work I have the opportunity to energetically inspire others to re-connect with the mystery and harmony rooted in raw\, majestic Earth.  In today’s techno-industrialized\, fast paced world\, our living planet’s boundless beauty and natural offerings often go unnoticed and unappreciated.   We forget to stop\, look\, listen\, feel and take time to wonder at Her elemental perfection in awe.  My photographic crusade is to invoke a continued gratefulness and stewardship for sacred Earth’s infinite forms of expression\, from the grandest scale to the subtlest detail.  Master painters throughout the ages have taken the time to appreciate and experience our world in this precious manner.\nIt is in us all to be masters…in our own ways. \nI rise to the calling. — Troy Stallman (Rise of Troy)
URL:https://crsny.org/event/exhibition-wooded-tales-of-phantasy-a-photography-series-by-troy-stallman/2020-03-21/
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SUMMARY:Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
DESCRIPTION:Dear friends\, please join our monthly Daf class community led by the amazing Kamyar Arsani! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play a magical instrument from a master who learned from masters in Iran. Kamyar has been playing and singing for decades and recently for our Sufi Dance events at CRS when he is in town and taking us ever deeper into the heart. \nDaf is a big frame drum with lots of rings inside that you can shake when you play for added effect. It is an integral part of Sufi and Persian music because of the variety of sounds it can produce and its ability to induce trance. \n1:00 – 2:15 pm Beginners Daf Class\n2:30 – 3:45 pm Intermediate Daf Class\n1 class $50\nboth classes $70 \nBring your own Daf or frame drum\, a pen & a 3–line or 5–line blank musical staff notebook (or paper\, which you can find templates of online to print). \nSome extra Dafs are available to rent ($5 cash) for the class\, but you must RSVP to chris@crsny.org because they are limited and you will want to get your own so you can practice! \nWhile many different Dafs are available for purchase online\, one such as this one —which has a synthetic head\, is reasonably priced at $119\, has good tone and construction\, is not too heavy\, and can be delivered in a few days by DHL — would be a great choice for learning on (and you can contact us for a 10% discount!):\nhttps://salamuzik.com/products/professional-daf-rad-404 \nAbout Instructor Kamyar Arsani \n“Kamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. With his focus on Daf (Persian frame drum)\, through years he expanded circle of his instruments to Drums\, Percussions\, Guitar\, Ukulele and Melodica. He currently resides in Washington D.C\, teaching and performing around DMV area and working with individuals with Autism. \nKamyar began Daf lessons with Master Bijan Kamkar. Kamyar has spent over a decade performing and researching the Daf and its roots. His second choice of instrument was the kamancheh (Persian string bow instrument) and he studied it with Masters Ardeshir Kamkar and Sohrab Pournazeri. Ten years ago\, Kamyar and his family migrated to the United States around the same time that Iran’s Green Revolution was occurring. Kamyar’s songs and performances are very much inspired by the people of Iran and their history of struggle and protest. \n\n\n\nAt the time he started working as Autism classroom Teacher Assistant in Virginia and Washington DC public schools\, and the science of Behaviorism and creating motivation for students with Autism became his passion. But he did not put music behind\, Kamyar produced his first solo album in 2015\, entitled “No Freedom.” It was written on Guitar and Ukulele. The album was dedicated to those oppressed by Iranian Government. \nhttps://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases \nAside from his solo work\, Kamyar also plays in other collaborations and has performed series of concerts at Kennedy Center\, Library of Congress\, Georgetown University\, UMD\, WVU and VOA. \nKamyar is also the poet and singer of “Time is Fire (TiF).” Their music has been described by Washington Post as “Music from a country that does not exist.” \nhttps://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance) \nKamyar takes on a different character performing with Time is Fire\, wearing his sikke (a Sufi hat representing the “tombstone of Ego”) and singing poems of resistance and freedom in English and Farsi. Within the four member band’s worldly\, funky\, post-punky\, afro-infected music\, the sikke and poems make perfect sense. Their sound has been evolving since the group first came together in 2015. Washington City Paper: “Time Is Fire could have limitless places to go.” Time is Fire recently released an EP that can be found here:\nhttps://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold \nWith the new wave of hatred portrayed among our nation\, Kamyar could not sit quiet and wrote four songs inspired by Rumi and Hafez and Ferdowsi poems on his Daf\,inviting people to believe in a new spring together. He collaborated with Benjamin Schurr of Blight Records and produced an electronic backed Daf album called “Voices in the Dark” \, which can be found on Blight Records Bandcamp (Production of DC\,2018)\nhttps://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark \nFor more information you can contact Kamyar at:\nKamyararsani31@gmail.com\nInstagram: @kamyararsani\nFB: Kamyar Arsani
URL:https://crsny.org/event/persian-daf-sufi-drum-classes-5/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED — Nowruz — Persian New Year — Concert & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:DUE TO THE STATE OF EMERGENCY\, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. \nPlease join the CRS community in celebrating Nowruz\, the Persian New Year\, with Sufi and Persian music performed by D.C. based Percussionist/Vocalist KAMYAR ARSANI and vocalist MINA OMIDI and whirling by members of the CRS Sufi Dance community trained by Sufi Dance Artist Läle Sayoko in costumes by Thailand-/Japan-based natural clothing label USAATO. A pop-up exhibition of Usaato clothing and accessories for men and women\, along with handmade incense by Queen of Incense\, will be on display\, and a reception with wonderful Persian food provided by Taste of Persia’s SAEED POURKAY will follow the performance. \nThe program will take place on Saturday\, March 21\, 2020 from 5:30 – 8 pm. Tickets are $30 at the door and $25 in advance (food and drink included). \nPersians celebrate the new year (Nowruz) at the time of the Spring Equinox. For them\, the holiday is an opportunity to celebrate the spiritual rebirth that can happen when one remembers that we are actually immaterial spirit and only seem to be having a (seemingly very real) experience of the physical. We invite you to discover and enjoy traditional Persian & Sufi music\, dance\, and food as a means of sharing this universal message of love and unity with everyone. \nTaste of Persia recently lost its store front and we are supporting a community fundraiser now underway to help Saeed re-open his beloved restaurant:\nhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/taste-of-persia. Saeed came to the U.S. from Iran in 1978 and for a time ran a successful graphic design company with his brothers\, with clients such as David Bowie\, before going into business for himself\, which left him briefly homeless\, before he decided to try his true passion:  cooking! Since then he has gained a huge following\, having catered the Nowruz celebration at the U.N. in 2015 and become the favorite of the local Iranian community. We are honored to share his delicious dishes with you.\nhttps://observer.com/2019/06/taste-of-persia-nyc-saeed-pourkay-interview/ \nKAMYAR ARSANI is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. At age 7\, Arsani began studying the daf (Persian frame drum) with Master Bijan Kamkar. He also spent time playing meditative rhythms for hours at a time for Sufis. In 2009 the Green Revolution in Iran brought Kamyar and his family to Washington\, D.C.\, where he has been based ever since. He travels up and won the east coast playing daf and other instruments and singing and performing Sufi and Persian folk songs as well as his own compositions and contemporary music of all kinds. \nEvery month Kamyar Arsani travels to NYC to offer Persian Daf lessons at CRS. The Daf is a frame drum with lots of rings inside that you can shake when you play for added effect. It is an integral part of Sufi and Persian music because of the variety of sounds it can produce and its ability to induce trance. Kamyar learned from masters in Iran and has been playing and singing for decades. Learn more about the next daf classes on January 11 from 1 pm here. \nMINA OMIDI is an Iranian immigrant\, multidisciplinary artist\, musician and singer. After receiving her BFA in Graphic Design from Tehran Art University in 2013\, she began studying music and unfold her abilities as a singer in Iran. Mahsa Vahdat is the artist who played the most significant role in her path and helped her open up her heart and voice in deeper levels. Mina has always been obsessed with spirituality; Singing poems of classical Persian poets like Rumi and Hafez is a healing remedy to her. “It is my meditation and healing remedy to get through pain of loss and wounds that Ego shapes!” she says. The songs Mina performs at CRS embody her passion for sharing the universal message of love\, unity and freedom. \nUSAATO shares beautiful traditional clothes made in Chiang Mai\, Thailand. The clothing is designed by Japanese haute couture designer Usaburo Sato with fabrics made by the caring hands of the Thai people. The fabrics are mostly made of hand-spun cotton\, silk and hemp\, picked in mountains and villages\, naturally dyed from plants and fruits\, then made into clothes with traditional weaving machines by women in local villages of north and northeast Thailand and Laos. The attention\, time and passion put into the creation of these clothes give it a sense of energy that can be felt on your body and in your soul. Soft and warm\, relaxing wears suitable for both outside and home. The products are mostly women’s clothes but men’s clothes\, children’s clothes\, samue (monk’s working clothes)\, and rakui (pajamas) are also available. Approximate prices for tops are from $70 to $180 while bottoms are from $90 to $180. \n \nCRS Resident Sufi Dance Artist LÄLE SAYOKO lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice. \nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7 – 9 pm. \nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\n\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw \nMORE ABOUT KAMYAR ARSANI \n\nKamyar Arsani is a multi-instrumentalist\, singer and songwriter born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. With his focus on Daf (Persian frame drum)\, through years he expanded circle of his instruments to Drums\, Percussions\, Guitar\, Ukulele and Melodica. He currently resides in Washington D.C\, teaching and performing around DMV area and working with individuals with Autism. \nKamyar began Daf lessons with Master Bijan Kamkar. Kamyar has spent over a decade performing and researching the Daf and its roots. His second choice of instrument was the kamancheh (Persian string bow instrument) and he studied it with Masters Ardeshir Kamkar and Sohrab Pournazeri. Ten years ago\, Kamyar and his family migrated to the United States around the same time that Iran’s Green Revolution was occurring. Kamyar’s songs and performances are very much inspired by the people of Iran and their history of struggle and protest. \n\n\n\nAt the time he started working as Autism classroom Teacher Assistant in Virginia and Washington DC public schools\, and the science of Behaviorism and creating motivation for students with Autism became his passion. But he did not put music behind\, Kamyar produced his first solo album in 2015\, entitled “No Freedom.” It was written on Guitar and Ukulele. The album was dedicated to those oppressed by Iranian Government. \nhttps://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases \nAside from his solo work\, Kamyar also plays in other collaborations and has performed series of concerts at Kennedy Center\, Library of Congress\, Georgetown University\, UMD\, WVU and VOA. \nKamyar is also the poet and singer of “Time is Fire (TiF).” Their music has been described by Washington Post as “Music from a country that does not exist.” \nhttps://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance) \nKamyar takes on a different character performing with Time is Fire\, wearing his sikke (a Sufi hat representing the “tombstone of Ego”) and singing poems of resistance and freedom in English and Farsi. Within the four member band’s worldly\, funky\, post-punky\, afro-infected music\, the sikke and poems make perfect sense. Their sound has been evolving since the group first came together in 2015. Washington City Paper: “Time Is Fire could have limitless places to go.” Time is Fire recently released an EP that can be found here:\nhttps://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold \nWith the new wave of hatred portrayed among our nation\, Kamyar could not sit quiet and wrote four songs inspired by Rumi and Hafez and Ferdowsi poems on his Daf\,inviting people to believe in a new spring together. He collaborated with Benjamin Schurr of Blight Records and produced an electronic backed Daf album called “Voices in the Dark” \, which can be found on Blight Records Bandcamp (Production of DC\,2018)\nhttps://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark \nFor more information you can contact Kamyar at:\nKamyararsani31@gmail.com\nInstagram: @kamyararsani\nFB: Kamyar Arsani
URL:https://crsny.org/event/persian-new-year-spring-equinox-concert-celebration/
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SUMMARY:Sufi Dance Workshop with Läle Sayoko & Paola García
DESCRIPTION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) invites you to join our whirling community for an intensive workshop in Sufi Dance (sema or samâ in Arabic and Farsi) led by Sufi dance artists & CRS instructors Läle Sayoko and Paola García. Samâ means spiritual listening and its accompanying whirling dance embodies unity: unity within our own selves first\, and with the outer world and “others” second. Both beginners and more experienced whirlers and people of all faiths and ages are welcome. Together\, let’s experience the peace and blissfulness that come with accepting all feelings that arise during our practice\, including the uncomfortable. \nIn this workshop\, you will learn whirling technique and experience several meditation-in-motion exercises meant to facilitate connection with the deepest parts of our selves. You will also learn essential facts and some history about Sufism. This will promote an understanding of how we can benefit from the wisdom of this ancient tradition in a way that is deeply relevant and applicable to our experience as modern beings. Poetry and sacred music will be important components of this workshop. Those with prior experience will learn more advanced techniques and be led deeper into their practice. \n“Dancing is not just getting up painlessly\, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.”\n– Jalal ad-Din Rumi. \nSufi whirling is called the dance of the soul because of its ability to liberate the dancer’s soul from the prison of the body. A background in dance is not necessary to benefit from the alchemy and spiritual richness of this practice\, derived from Islamic mysticism. Cathartic and powerful\, this practice is life-altering\, exerting an irresistible pull on those who are called to it\, and therefore meant to remove their veils and witness the intoxicating light of the divinity that lies at the core of our human essence. \nThe workshop fee is $70 in advance and $80 at the door. Registration is available online\, by phone (212-677-8621)\, and at CRS. \nPlease wear solid colored comfortable clothing like yoga pants or leggings and no jewelry or strapless tops or short skirts/pants. Bring socks or flat dance slippers to dance in. If you have a whirling skirt\, you may bring it. Bring a notebook and pen and water bottle. \nDo not eat for at least a couple of hours before the workshop. \nLearn more about Sufi dance:\nhttps://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/196246/the-one-thing-in-the-world-you-must-never-forget/ \nAbout the Instructors \nPaola García was awarded the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO by Persian master Rana Gorgani\, granting Paola the authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi dance training. She holds a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies from Columbia University. She is a writer\, Middle Eastern Studies researcher\, translator and student of Sufism. \nLäle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. After a long professional dance career\, she retired to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7:15 – 9 pm.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/lale.sayoko
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LOCATION:CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)\, 41 E 11th St 11th Fl\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
CATEGORIES:CRS Presents,sufi
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SUMMARY:Sufi Dance 1 Class (Open Level) with Läle Sayoko
DESCRIPTION:Learn the ancient practice of meditative whirling known as Sufi dance or Sema (Sama in Iranian). You will learn the techniques of whirling\, but Sema is not about reproducing a certain form or aesthetic. Rather\, the technique serves as a vehicle for inner journeying. Sema means spiritual listening. Together we’ll create a sacred space in which we can safely listen to and share our true selves and experience oneness with the Divine. \nEach class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique\, exercises\, practice whirling\, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt. \nPlease wear comfortable clothing like yoga pants or leggings and T shirts ( no tube top or short pants) and solid colors are recommended\, avoiding prints and shiny material which might distract the eye while whirling\, and wear socks or soft soled shoes. If you have a whirling skirt\, please feel free to bring it. \nAvoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class. \nWhirling commonly induces dizziness or nausea. Over time\, through whirling\, we learn to trust ourselves to go off balance\, to be dizzy\, to surrender control. We empty our minds of all thoughts of the individual self as we give ourselves over to prayer and connect with a greater power\, the still center within\, around which we turn. Into this emptiness floods a divine fullness\, which sometimes gives rise to a state known as “mystical intoxication\,” a reflection of knowing and experiencing that you and I and the Divine are One. \nSufi Dance 1 Classes\n2nd Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS \nSufi Dance 2 Classes\n1st Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS \nClasses are $30 ($25 with advanced registration). \nAbout Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko \nLäle Sayoko lives to embody and transmit the voice of spirit through music and dance. As CRS resident Sufi Dance instructor\, choreographer\, performing artist\, and musical curator\, she loves to welcome people into this holy practice to explore and share their own divinity. She intermittently tours internationally with BELLA GAIA\, a live concert blending music\, dance\, technology\, and NASA satellite imagery inspired by the experience of astronauts viewing the earth from space. “Sublime” — Village Voice. \nOne of the founding members of Japan’s famous SAMANYOLU professional belly dance group in Tokyo\, Läle went on to a long solo career performing throughout the northeastern USA and touring with United Kingdom’s Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers on over a 100 city tour encompassing the U.K.\, as well as Turkey’s Baba Zula. About six years ago\, she was forced to retire to support her young daughter through a life-threatening medical crisis. Several years later she discovered that she could whirl as a form of prayer to support her daughter and began studying Sufi Dance with Paris-based Sufi Artist Rana Gorgani. In April 2018 Gorgani awarded her the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO\, granting her authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi Dance training. She currently teaches Sufi Dance classes at CRS every first and second Thursday of the month from 7 – 8:30 pm and leads the CRS Healing Circles + Whirling Prayer that take place every third Thursday of the month from 7 – 9 pm.\nhttps://facebook.com/lale.sayoko\nhttps://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
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