CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)

CRS Healing Circle & Whirling Prayer
2020-02-20 19:15 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Join us for our monthly Healing Circle + Whirling (Sufi Dance) Prayer!
Led 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.
After we’ll enjoy social time with tea and snacks.
The participation fee is $20 with advanced registration and $25 at the door. Direct registration link:
https://is.gd/B9HElo
Through 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.
If 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

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.

One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko
https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
https://youtu.be/6xkueoG80sg

Christopher 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.
http://www.chrispelham.com

Forgive & Be Free Workshop with Jennifer Hadley
2020-02-23 13:00 - 18:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Cost: Love Offering Donation
Space is limited – please click here to register online now:
https://is.gd/A1nlEY
This workshop is for you if you answer yes to any of these:
Do resentments and regrets take up a lot of your energy?
Do you often complain and feel bitter?
Do you have a habit of taking offense?
Do old hurts still steal your happiness?
Would you like to let go of the past?
Do you attack yourself mentally?
Do you suffer from anxiety and worry?
This 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.
Jennifer 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
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What people are saying about this workshop:
”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“
I 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

S3 (Suppleness / Strengthening / Stretching) Class
2020-03-05 18:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Instructor 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.
Shoko 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.

Sufi Dance 2 with Läle Sayoko
2020-03-05 19:00 - 20:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Classes are $25 with advanced registration and $30 at the door.
Please 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.
Avoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class.
Whirling 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.
About Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko
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.
One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko
https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw

Miracles in Manhattan with Dr. Jon Mundy
2020-03-08 13:30 - 16:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
March’s topic is THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR SIGHT.
1st hour: You are responsible for what you think.
2nd hour: Only at this level can you exercise choice.
You 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.
~ $25 per person with advanced purchase online, by phone (212-677-8621) or at CRS until the day before the lecture~
~ $30 per person at the door ~
As long as space is available, “No one is ever turned away who cannot pay.” Contribute what you can.
The lectures are usual held on the 2nd Sunday of the month (but are sometimes re-scheduled to avoid holidays).
Although 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:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwxH3nWSMFDGA1SiR9kAbeg
and 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.
Dr. 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
Miracles 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

CANCELLED — Sufi Dance 1 Class with Läle Sayoko
2020-03-12 19:00 - 20:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Each class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique, exercises, practice whirling, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt.
Please 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.
Avoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class.
Whirling 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.
Sufi Dance 1 Classes
2nd Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS
Sufi Dance 2 Classes
1st Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS
Classes are $30 ($25 with advanced registration).
About Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko
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.
One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko
https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw

Eckhart Tolle Now Video and Meditation Evening
2020-03-16 18:30 - 20:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Our next meeting – Eckhart Tolle Video
We begin meet and greet at 6:35 pm.
• Meet and greet /Q &A***
• Meditation
• Video
• Closing
THERE IS NO ADMISSION AFTER 7:15 PM (by group consensus)
Coffee 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.
See you soon!
***(https://www.paypal.me/nyceckharttollegroup)***

Silent Meditation
2020-03-17 18:30 - 19:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Free
http://www.meetup.com/ACIM-meditation/

CRS Healing Circle: Meditation + Whirling Prayer
2020-03-19 19:00 - 21:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
After we’ll enjoy social time with tea and snacks.
The participation fee is $20 with advanced registration and $25 at the door. Direct registration link:
https://is.gd/5lPqy7
Through 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.
If 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
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.

One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko
https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
https://youtu.be/6xkueoG80sg
Christopher 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.
chrispelham.com

Exhibition: Wooded Tales of Phantasy — A Photography Series by Troy Stallman
2020-03-21 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
The 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:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/songs-of-awakening-concert-with-kristin-hoffmann-friends-tickets-95773909341
ARTIST STATEMENT
“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.
It is in us all to be masters…in our own ways.
I rise to the calling. — Troy Stallman (Rise of Troy)

Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
2020-03-21 13:00 - 15:45, 2020-04-12 13:00 - 15:45, 2020-05-16 13:00 - 15:45 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Daf 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.
1:00 – 2:15 pm Beginners Daf Class
2:30 – 3:45 pm Intermediate Daf Class
1 class $50
both classes $70
Bring 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).
Some 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!
While 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!):
https://salamuzik.com/products/professional-daf-rad-404
About Instructor Kamyar Arsani
“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.
Kamyar 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.

At 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.
https://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases
Aside 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.
Kamyar 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.”
https://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance)
Kamyar 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:
https://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold
With 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)
https://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark
For more information you can contact Kamyar at:
Kamyararsani31@gmail.com
Instagram: @kamyararsani
FB: Kamyar Arsani

CANCELLED — Nowruz — Persian New Year — Concert & Celebration
2020-03-21 17:30 - 20:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
DUE TO THE STATE OF EMERGENCY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Please 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.
The 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).
Persians 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.
Taste of Persia recently lost its store front and we are supporting a community fundraiser now underway to help Saeed re-open his beloved restaurant:
https://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.
https://observer.com/2019/06/taste-of-persia-nyc-saeed-pourkay-interview/
KAMYAR 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.
Every 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.
MINA 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.
USAATO 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.

CRS 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.
One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko

https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw
MORE ABOUT KAMYAR ARSANI

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.
Kamyar 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.

At 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.
https://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com/releases
Aside 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.
Kamyar 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.”
https://youtu.be/2rn3u92MAR8 (Kennedy Center Performance)
Kamyar 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:
https://electriccowbellrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stories-untold
With 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)
https://music.blightrecords.org/album/voices-in-the-dark
For more information you can contact Kamyar at:
Kamyararsani31@gmail.com
Instagram: @kamyararsani
FB: Kamyar Arsani

Sufi Dance Workshop with Läle Sayoko & Paola García
2020-04-04 12:00 - 16:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
In 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.
“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.”
– Jalal ad-Din Rumi.
Sufi 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.
The workshop fee is $70 in advance and $80 at the door. Registration is available online, by phone (212-677-8621), and at CRS.
Please 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.
Do not eat for at least a couple of hours before the workshop.
Learn more about Sufi dance:
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2016/09/196246/the-one-thing-in-the-world-you-must-never-forget/
About the Instructors
Paola 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.
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. 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.
https://www.facebook.com/lale.sayoko

Sufi Dance 1 Class (Open Level) with Läle Sayoko
2020-04-09 19:00 - 20:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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.
Each class consists of some explanation of the theory and technique, exercises, practice whirling, and sharing and discussion of what you experienced and felt.
Please 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.
Avoid eating a large meal for two hours prior to class.
Whirling 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.
Sufi Dance 1 Classes
2nd Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS
Sufi Dance 2 Classes
1st Thursdays of the month 7 – 8:30 pm at CRS
Classes are $30 ($25 with advanced registration).
About Sufi Dance Instructor Läle Sayoko
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.
One 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.
https://facebook.com/lale.sayoko
https://youtu.be/OHmAPDEXNDw

Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music Vol. 18
2020-04-11 16:00 - 17:15 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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 third concert of the 2019-2020 season of Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music. The summer concert will be held on August 1, 2020 at 4 pm.
Tickets are $30 (general) and $20 (students) include wagashi (Japanese confectionary).
Seating is limited and advanced purchase (online, by phone 212-677-8621, or in person at CRS) is strongly encouraged.
“…Yoko Reikano Kimura, playing the shamisen and singing, is superb….” — New York Times
“…Kimura’s voice was rich and full-bodied ….” — KCMETROPLIS
“…Under Kimura’s practiced hand, there were also occasional dramatic and explosive passages. – Koto Concerto: Genji” — The NEWS GAZZETE
About Four Seasons in New York – Gems of Japanese Music
New 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!
This concert series is supported by Mar Creation, Inc.
About past performances: https://www.yokoreikanokimura.com/projects/fourseasons/
YOKO 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.
Her 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.

Kimura 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.
Website: yokoreikanokimura.com | duoyumeno.com
mochi 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

CMC 2020 A Course in Miracles Conference in Los Angeles
2020-05-21 08:00 - 2020-05-24 17:00 | The Omni Los Angeles, 251 SOUTH OLIVE ST, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Please join us over Memorial Weekend 2020 in Los Angeles for the annual Community Miracles Center Conference on A Course in Miracles, a gathering of 20+ Course teachers and writers and more than 500 students from around the world! CRS Founder Yasuko Kasaki will be leading a Pre-Conference Workshop on Spiritual Healing and Receiving Spiritual Vision. It’s an intense, life-changing experience to spend all your time in the company of Mighty Companions all dedicated to being Miracle Workers!
We have a limited number of discounted tickets. Please get in touch if you are interested in purchasing one! Otherwise, you can purchase tickets for the full price (currently $519, $599 from Sept 3) on the CMC web site. Please be sure to select Yasuko Kasaki in the drop-down form indicating whose group you would like to be identified with! Last year we registered enough students under Yasuko’s name that she was selected to be one of the two presenters to address the entire conference, which led to an experience of spontaneous healing on the stage in which 400+ people pariticpated. Let’s do it again!
20+ PRESENTERS:
“20/20 VISION FOR THE REAL WORLD”
“For forgiveness literally transforms vision and lets you see the real world … The smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder and a blade of grass a sign of God’s perfection.” (OrEd.Tx.17.12)(FIP.Tx.17.II.6)(CoA.Tx.17.II.6)
May (21), 22, 23, & 24 2020 (Memorial Day Weekend)
Held at The Omni Hotel in Los Angeles CA, USA
PRICE INCLUDES 4 ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET MEALS,
All presentations, plus …
Free Pre-Conference Workshop – Yasuko Kasaki on Thu. May 21, and
Free Post-Conference Workshop – Lisa Natoli & Bill Free on Sun. May 24
(These workshops are only open to those registered for the Conference) plus …
SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY,
& Sun. Finale celebration.
These are the Presenters who have currently confirmed:
Rev. Maria Felipe – Pathways of Light
Bill Free – Teachers of God Foundation (TOG)
Jennifer Hadley – Living ACIM
Jackie Lora Jones – https://jackie.news
Yasuko Kasaki – Center for Remembering and Sharing (CRS)
Dr. Dana Marrocco – www.drdanamarrocco.com
Maureen Muldoon – Miracles Live 365
Jon Mundy PhD. – Miracles Magazine
Lisa Natoli – Teachers of God Foundation (TOG)
Robert Perry – Circle of Atonement (COA)
Rev. Tony Ponticello – Community Miracles Center (CMC)
Gary Renard & Cindy Lora-Renard – www.garyrenard.com
Dr. Bob Rosenthal & Tam Morgan – Foundation for Inner Peace (FIP)
Armin Rott – Awaken to Love (ATL)
MaryBeth Scalice – Foundation of Open Hearts
Rev. Manuela Tornow – Course In Miracles Society (CIMS)
Corinne Zupko & Craig Villarrubia – MiracleShare
(Sleeping rooms at The Omni Los Angeles are a separate charge.)
Click here to register yourself –> http://bit.ly/2020-register-self-all
Click here to register a friend –> http://bit.ly/2020-register-friend-all

Celebration of Healing: A Course-Based Approach to Anxiety and Depression with Corinne Zupko & Emily Bennington
2020-06-27 13:30 - 17:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
A Course in Miracles (ACIM) is a radical pathway of healing through the practice of love and forgiveness.
In this workshop with bestselling authors Corinne Zupko and Emily Bennington, you will gain insights and tools inspired by ACIM to work with the painful feelings of anxiety and depression that plague so many of us today.
A Course in Miracles teaches that underneath the surface causes of these emotions, our depression ultimately stems from feeling deprived of God and our anxiety is really “separation anxiety”—feeling cut off from the safety of our loving Parent.
If you regularly experience the emotional pain of anxiety and / or depression, don’t miss this opportunity to discover a spiritual approach to transcend your suffering and find true healing and happiness.
Meet Your Workshop Hosts
Corinne Zupko was diagnosed with her first anxiety disorder at a very young age and struggled with debilitating anxiety for nearly three decades. She found true healing through A Course in Miracles and now helps others to discover peace within themselves through her podcasts, writings, and her book, From Anxiety To Love.
Visit Corinne’s website
Emily Bennington is Executive Director of the Circle of Atonement. Prior to joining the Circle, Emily led training programs on spiritual intelligence and mindful leadership for numerous Fortune 500 companies. She is also the author of three books, including Miracles at Work, which features a foreword by her friend Marianne Williamson.
Visit Circle of Atonement website
Listen to Corinne and Emily discuss anxiety on A Course in Miracles Radio
In this episode, Corinne and Emily share how to cure anxiety by looking at fear with the Holy Spirit, how to develop a personal relationship with God, and why true healing is “already ours.”
Listen here —>

Online A Course in Miracles Class with Yasuko Kasaki
2020-08-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom
Register & Pay here:
https://bit.ly/3jEuYvA
After paying, we will manually register you for the Zoom class and send you the meeting link.
Each class contains some lecture from the ACIM Textbook, some discussion and Q&A, and typically a meditation, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order to experience mind change.
Our 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.
You can find the text online here (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles), among other places.
Students of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.
You can listen to a sampling of Yasuko’s recent guided meditations here:
http://crsny.podbean.com

Online Guided Meditation with Yasuko Kasaki
2020-08-04 18:30 - 19:00 | CRS Facebook Live
Please join me 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. I 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.
Each week via Facebook Live on the CRS Facebook Page I 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.
https://www.facebook.com/events/917033915445809/
Some students have been practicing 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.
While 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.
ABOUT YASUKO KASAKI
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.

Online A Course in Miracles Class with Yasuko Kasaki
2020-11-01 21:00 - 22:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Register & Pay here:
https://bit.ly/34i1U7H
The Zoom link is:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88935322774
When you join the Zoom meeting, please use the same name that you used to register and pay or you may not be recognized and let into the meeting.
Following each class, at 10 pm, Yasuko will give a free guided meditation in the same Zoom meeting that is open to everyone so please feel free to invite your friends.
Each class contains some lecture from the ACIM Textbook, some discussion and Q&A, and typically a meditation, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order to experience mind change.
Our 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.
You can find the text online here (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles), among other places.
Students of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.
You can listen to a sampling of Yasuko’s recent guided meditations here:
https://soundcloud.com/user-858135220/sets/guided-meditations-in-english

Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 12: Celebrating Ostad Shajarian
2020-11-08 13:00 - 2020-11-16 03:00 | online
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 12: CELEBRATING OSTAD SHAJARIAN, legendary master of Persian classical music who passed on Oct 8. Curated by LÄLE SAYOKO, the concert features Shajraian’s musical adaptations of poems by both revered Sufi poets as well as beloved contemporary Iranian poets, performed by D.C. based KAMYAR ARSANI (vocals & percussion) with dance by LÄLE SAYOKO & members of the CRS SUFI DANCE COMMUNITY.
Ostad Mohammad-Reza Shajarian was called “Iran’s greatest living maestro of Persian classical music.” He toured all over the world, is a multi-Grammy award winner, and was honored with UNESCO’s Golden Picasso Medal and Mozart Medal. While he mastered the styles of many older masters, he also developed his own beloved style and set many famous poems to music, which he sang and recorded. This concert features his musical adaptations of poems by Rumi (13th century), Baba Taher (11th century), Hooshang Ebtehaj (H.E.Sayeh) (20th century), and Ali Mo’allem (20th century).
Due to the ongoing pandemic, this concert will be filmed and streamed online, premiering on Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 1 pm with a live Q&A. The concert will be available to watch for seven days. Tickets for this year’s online concerts will be available for $30, $20, or $10.
curator/direction: LÄLE SAYOKO
musician: KAMYAR ARSANI (daf/vocals)
dancers: PACO/FRANCISCO ORDÓÑEZ, FANNY PÉREZ GUTIÉRREZ, CHRISTOPHER PELHAM, LÄLE SAYOKO
video/editing: CHRIS FIORE
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kamyar 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. Kamyar Arsani regularly 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.
https://kamyararsani.bandcamp.com
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.
One 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.
https://crsny.org/index.php/sufi-dance-music-art-at-crs/
Paco/Francisco Ordóñez is a seeker, systems engineer and business owner based on Park Avenue in New York City. Originally from Southern Ecuador, in the ancient Cañaris land of Cuenca, and a New York City denizen for over a decade, Francisco has the goal to share all he has learned as a way of emptying himself to allow new collective experiences. He has lived and traveled in several countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America over the past decades. He deeply loves the ancestral Indigenous Andes traditions, poetry, music, dances, cultures and, principally, peoples. Francisco is a passionate student of Sri Aurobindo, Krishnamuti, and Sufism. He is part of a few social justice organizations and Dervish gatherings and mesmerized by beauty and freedom. A graduate of Systems Engendering, he worked in high school education in the South Bronx integrating digital communities and helping minority women to create ePortfolios. He enjoys places of worship, yoga, reading and spending time in nature, especially in the Sani Desert and in Kyoto.
Fanny Pérez Gutiérrez thinks of art as the love that can be channeled into this realm. For the past few years she has been focused on studying altered states of consciousness that can be accessed through the alignment of the body. She produces work that seeks to amplify important themes of the nature of our existence that have remained hidden or which we have been taught to undermine. https://www.instagram.com/fannsystem/
Christopher Pelham is the Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) and organizer of the CRS Sufi arts community. A spiritual healer/counselor/teacher and artist, he 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 has 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. Since he began producing live performance events in 1997, he has had the privilege of presenting dozens and dozens of wonderful artists from all over the world. As a performer, he performed in numerous productions Off Off Broadway in NYC as well as in productions in Texas and North Carolina. He is also an avid amateur photographer and filmmaker.
Filmmaker, writer, and artist Chris Fiore, born in 1959 in Norfolk, Virginia, received his BFA from Antioch College in 1984. In the late 80’s he was one of the founders of the Zone, an artist collective occupying an abandoned williamsburg warehouse at 104 South 4th St. Fiore showed at the East Village’s KOAP gallery in the early 90’s. His first documentary, “Trip and Go Naked,” edited over the course of five years between paid gigs won the Excellence in Sexual Theater award at the 2004 Arlene’s Grocery Picture Show. He went on to direct the feature documentary “ ackstage” for Miramax, a behind the scenes look at Jay Z’s Hard Knock Life Tour. The film had a profitable run in theaters and is still occasionally in rotation on the Showtime network 17 years after it was made. Fiore has also directed documentaries on the making of the Victoria’s Secret Christmas Catalog, the band Paramore, as well as two prime time specials for Fox Television. His most recent documentary, “Goodwoman,” tells the story of Debra Goodman, an activist brutally arrested for filming the NYPD. Featured in several film festivals, “Goodwoman” won the Grand Jury Award at the 2016 LA Film Invasion film festival. He’s currently directing a documentary and web series on artist Ken Hiratsuka.
Fiore’s first feature film script, “The Utopia Virus,” was a finalist in the 2006 Final Draft Big Break Competition, garnering him representation and a Hollywood roller coaster ride as directors Darron Aronofsky, Tony Scott, and Renny Harlin all considered making the film. He also wrote the Wassup Obama ad, described by Salon.com as one of the most creative of the 2008 presidential campaign and winner of a Cannes Lion. He’s currently working on a series of film treatments for a Beijing based production company which is also breathing new life into “The Utopia Virus” by translating the script into Cantonese.
Fiore’s film work has directly influenced his art over the years, in his use of appropriated imagery, presentation of sequential images, and in the cinematically dynamic composition of his mosaic photography. Fiore is represented by the Ethan Pettit Gallery.
https://chrisfiore.com
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
Now in its third year, CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a performance series devoted to creating unforgettable live art experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences, traditional and new music, and the local and the global, bringing people together and promoting the awareness that we each possess a limitless creativity inside us. CROSSING BOUNDARIES is produced by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), a healing and arts center founded in 2004 by artists Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham and located in NYC. https://www.crsny.org
The 2020 season of CROSSING BOUNDARIES is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.

Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 13: On the Silk Road Through Dunhuang
2020-11-15 13:00 - 2020-11-23 03:00 | online
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 13: ON THE SILK ROAD THROUGH DUNHUANG, curated by GAMIN with music by the EURASIA CONSORTwith guest artist GAMIN and dance by KAESHI CHAI. This program celebrates the intoxicating musical and cultural influences that propagated along the legendary Silk Road and features music from Tang Dynasty China (7c – 10c), 13th and 16th century Iran and 13th century Spain.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, this concert will be filmed and streamed online, premiering on Sunday, November 15, 2020 at 1 pm with a live Q&A. The concert will be available to watch for seven days. Tickets for this year’s online concerts will be available for $30, $20, or $10.
EURASIA CONSORT brings together three artists recognized as specialists in the ancient musical traditions. Through their research, teaching, and performances, they seek a common understanding of the world’s great music traditions along the ancient Silk Road. https://www.eurasiaconsort.com
GAMIN is widely considered to be the foremost Korean traditional woodwind player in the Americas today and has performed around the world with luminaries such as Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.
KAESHI CHAI is one of the leading figures in the NYC Near East dance scene, having performed at Central Park’s Summerstage, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, BAM, etc. From 2009-2016 she directed, co-choreographed, and toured the theatrical dance show Journey Along the Silk Road throughout the US, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Australia and Italy.
curator: gamin
musicians: Tomoko Sugawara (kugo/harp), Rex Benincasa (percussion), Adem Birson (oud), gamin (piri/flute)
choreography/dance: Kaeshi Chai
This program brings us from China to Spain at a time when Chang’an was China’s capital. We follow the famous Silk Road, illustrated with caves showing Buddhist ensembles and orchestras. There are many harps, lutes, zithers, flutes and percussion. Some of the music survived in manuscripts, and have been transcribed by Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars. Some transcribed ones are on today’s program. The paintings depict a large number of percussion instruments, far more than what the manuscripts mention.
Many kinds of people moved on the Silk Road. The Chinese brought silk to the West, and Iranians imported harps and lutes to China. Sogdians lived in the North-East of Iran and controlled merchandise on the road, and some settled in China, where Sogdian tombs have been found. Their coffins were decorated with Sogdian musical instruments – more so than Chinese ones. Their fast dance (the Sogdian whirl) was beloved by the Chinese, and is often depicted on Chinese images.
Next, the concert moves west to Iran – and half a millennium closer to our time. Modes or scales incorporate quarter-tones in distinctive fashion. Al-Farabi was a great Islamic theorist, whose voluminous treatises offer a major source on early Arabic music.
Finally, the journey goes to Castille, León and Galicia, three provinces of Northern Spain. King Alfonso X ruled them and is said to have composed 420 Cantigas, with words that praise the Holy Virgin. The King also published a book, Libro de los juegos, which shows instruments and board games. Many chess games are shown accompanied by musical instruments. One is an Angular Harp, played by a Spanish Moor. It is similar to the ancient Asian harp played in China on today’s program. However, it differs greatly from the Western harp, which has a pillar.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
Tomoko Sugawara, Kugo
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Tomoko Sugawara began playing the Irish Harp at twelve, added the Concert Harp at sixteen, and graduated in harp at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 1991 she plays the ancient Asian harp kugo, which arose in 1900 BCE in Iran and migrated via the Silk Road to the Far East during the early first millennium CE. After moving to NYC, Sugawara also learned Early European harp, Gothic and Baroque harp. She leads Eurasia Consort, her ensemble playing Silk Road music. She has received awards from the Japan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and the Dunhuang Foundation,among others. She has given solo recitals on the kugo at major international venues such as The World Music Institute (NYC), and World Harp Congresses (trice: Prague, Amsterdam, and Vancouver), The Early Music Guild of Seattle, The British Museum, Central China Conservatory of Music (Beijing), The Symposium on Historical Harps (Berlin), and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She has given recitals at many US Universities: Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Illinois, Indiana, Pittsburgh, and UC Berkeley. She has led her ensemble, Eurasia Consort, at The World Music Institute. In 2019 she served as researcher at Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her project was the revival of Tang Dynasty music. https://www.kugoharp.com
Gamin, Piri
Gamin is master a practitioner of the piri, taepyongso (double reed instruments), and saenghwang (reed mouth organ). Currently, as a yisuja(designated master) of the Important Intangible Cultural Asset No.46 for piri court music and Daechita, she strives to both preserve and enhance traditional Korean music. At Seoul National University and as a member and assistant principal player of the Contemporary Gugak Orchestra, Gamin has used her virtuosity to perform authentic jeongak (classical court music) and sinawi (shaman ritual music), as well as new compositions for her instruments.
Since leaving orchestral work behind eight years ago, gamin has taken these skills in unexpected directions, using her piri and taepyeongso (Korean oboes), and saengwhang (mouth organ) to pursue contemporary sounds and reach new audiences. https://gamin-music.com
gamin is…”a true pioneer and innovator, leading these instruments in exciting new directions” — Ralph Samuelson (senior advisor of ACC_Asian Cultural Council)
“gamin appears virtually unlimited as to the kinds of sounds she can get out of her instrument!” — Anthony Paul De, Ritis (composer, professor of Northeastern University)
Rex Benincasa, Percussion
He has been a freelancing drummer and world music percussion specialist in New York since 1978. Along with hundreds of television/radio soundtracks and commercial recordings, he has performed with dozens of American ensembles. Benincasa has played many show scores for all kinds of productions. His most recent Broadway appearances have been with shows like: Fosse, The Full Monty, Flower Drum Song, Man Of LaMancha, Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, All Shook Up, Hairspray, The Color Purple, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Shrek, In The Heights, Billy Elliot, and Peter And The Starcatcher. As you see, Rex likes all kinds of music. https://musikiwest.org/staff-member/rex-benincasa/
Adem Birson, Oud
A performer of the oud and a scholar of both Western and Turkish classical music, Dr. Birson completed his doctoral studies in musicology at Cornell University (2015) and became the Director of the Conservatory at Ipek University, in Ankara, Turkey. He currently serves on the music theory faculty at Hofstra University, in Long Island, New York. He is a student of several Turkish oud virtuosi, and has frequently played on Turkish Radio and Television. He has performed throughout the United States and Turkey and is the founder/director of the Classical Turkish Music Ensemble and the Turkish Music Collective. As a scholar, he has published in several academic US journals. https://www.hofstra.edu/faculty/fac_profiles.cfm?id=6746&t=/Academics/Colleges/HCLAS/MUSIC/
ABOUT DANCER/CHOREOGRAPHER KAESHI CHAI
KAESHI CHAI is a NYC-based performer, theatrical director, teacher trainer, and award winning designer. She is the co-founder of Bellyqueen, a professional dance company and school, and is also co-founder of PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment), a global community focused on healing and social change through dance and music. Kaeshi has extensive training in contemporary dance, physical theatre and Silk Road dances spanning the Middle East to China. She has taught or performed in 47 states and 38 countries.
She is an alumna member of the Bellydance Superstars, Jillina’s Bellydance Evolution and Kenji William’s Bella Gaia.
From 2009-2016 she directed, co-choreographed, and toured the theatrical dance show Journey Along the Silk Road throughout the US, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Australia and Italy.
Since 2007 she has produced and curated Djam NYC, a weekly live show in which dancers and musicians can create and play together.
Current projects include Ocean Stories, a performance integrating art and science to create more environmental awareness, and Creative Labs in which participants conceptualize, choreograph and mount full-length theatrical dance shows in 3-4 days. https://www.kaeshi.com
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
Now in its third year, CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a performance series devoted to creating unforgettable live art experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences, traditional and new music, and the local and the global, bringing people together and promoting the awareness that we each possess a limitless creativity inside us. CROSSING BOUNDARIES is produced by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), a healing and arts center founded in 2004 by artists Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham and located in NYC. https://www.crsny.org
The 2020 season of CROSSING BOUNDARIES is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.

Crossing Boundaries Concert Series 14: Rumi's Wedding Night Online Film
2020-12-17 19:00 - 2020-12-30 23:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol 14: RUMI’S WEDDING NIGHT, a video program of Sufi music, dance, and poetry celebrating the life of the beloved poet and Sufi mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, who died on December 17, 1273 in Konya, Turkey.
Curated and directed by LÄLE SAYOKO, this online film features music by ** TOMCHESS** (ney, oud, and morsing), vocals by MINA OMIDI, video by CHRISTOPHER PELHAM, and dance by members of the CRS Sufi Dance community: LÄLE SAYOKO, PAOLA GARCÎA, and MEERA KHANAL. Additional voice-over is provided by MILAI SAKAI.
Rumi directed his followers to celebrate rather than mourn his passing because he would be uniting with God, the “Beloved.” The observance of the anniversary of his death was thereafter referred to in Arabic as urs, which means “wedding.”
The whirling dance meditation of the Sufis is known as Sema or Sama and actually means “divine listening.” It is the mystical approach of practicing “listening” in order to achieve remembrance (zikr) of the divine spark in our heart of hearts. 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.
Our practice is fundamentally experiential rather than presentational in nature. Even though we are sharing it with you through this electronic medium, it is our hope that you can receive our prayer and join with us in setting aside the dualistic world of the ego to experience this Oneness.
ABOUT THE CURATOR/DIRECTOR
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.
One 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. Prior to the pandemic she taught ongoing Sufi Dance classes and led monthly Healing Circles at CRS. For information on private or small group lessons, please contact us for details.
https://crsny.org/index.php/sufi-dance-music-art-at-crs/
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
TOMCHESS (oud, ney, morsing) is a New York City–based multi-instrumentalist, improviser, and composer. He has been performing regularly with the CRS Sufi dance community since its inception. He is a founding member of the American Sufi Project, a group of artists and seekers who meet at the weekly gatherings for Zikr (remembrance of God) at the Dergah-Al-Farah in NYC. He has played and recorded with some of the most esteemed players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress, Ronald Shannon Jackson) as well as Moroccan sintarist Hassan Hakmoun. He has performed around the world and at NYC venues like Lincoln Center, the Turkish and Pakistani embassies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the United Nations. He has played on Grammy-nominated recordings and was awarded grants from the Turkish American Society and the Maryland Council for the Arts. In 2012 he was nominated for an Independent Music Award.
https://tomchess.bandcamp.com/
MINA OMIDI (vocals) is an Iranian immigrant, multidisciplinary artist, musician and singer. She is an active member of the CRS Sufi dance and music community, and the songs she performs at CRS embody her passion for sharing the universal message of love, unity and freedom. 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 at 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.
https://minaomidi.com
ABOUT THE OTHER PERFORMERS
** PAOLA GARCÍA** periodically teaches Sufi dance at CRS and performs with the CRS Sufi dance community. She has studied extensively with Sufi dance artist Rana Gorgani in NYC and in Europe and was awarded the International Sufi Dance Certification Of Cid UNESCO by her, granting Paola authority to teach Gorgani’s method of Sufi dance training. She has performed in multiple venues including Mana Contemporary, Alwan Center for the Arts, The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, From the Horse’s Mouth, The Outlet Dance Project, Dixon Place, MODArts Dance Collective, Queens Library, and Jamaica Center for the Arts among others. Paola holds a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies from Columbia University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She is a writer, Middle Eastern Studies researcher, lawyer, translator and student of Sufism.
MEERA SADIKCHHYA KHANAL is a Sufi dance student of Läle Sayoko and a graduate student at Columbia University, Teachers College where she studies Psychology with a concentration on Spirituality. While traveling in India five years ago, she came across Sufi Whirling at the Osho International Centre, and she knew that she had found her path. It was a revelation that dance could be a doorway to the beloved. Meera facilitates workshops and classes in Sufi Whirling, Yoga, and Active Meditations.
MILAI SAKAI is a movement student of Läle Sayoko. She is a nine-year-old Japanese girl growing up in NYC, and this is her first performance with the CRS Sufi dance community.
ABOUT THE PRODUCER/VIDEOGRAPHER/EDITOR
CHRISTOPHER PELHAM is Director and co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) where he studies and teaches A Course in Miracles, offers spiritual healing and counseling, leads guided meditations, and organizes and participates in all the Sufi events and Healing Circles with Sufi Dance Artist Lale Sayoko. He also studies when possible with Sufi Dance Artist Rana Gorgani. He is as well a producer and curator and avid amateur writer, photographer, videographer, and performer.
ABOUT CROSSING BOUNDARIES CONCERT SERIES
Now in its third year, CROSSING BOUNDARIES is a performance series devoted to creating unforgettable live art experiences that dissolve boundaries between performers and audiences, traditional and new music, and the local and the global, bringing people together and promoting the awareness that we each possess a limitless creativity inside us. CROSSING BOUNDARIES is produced by CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), a healing and arts center founded in 2004 by artists Yasuko Kasaki and Christopher Pelham and located in NYC.
The 2020 season of CROSSING BOUNDARIES is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC. LMCC empowers artists by providing them with networks, resources, and support, to create vibrant, sustainable communities in Manhattan and beyond.

Free New Year's Eve Guided Meditation with Yasuko
2020-12-31 18:00 - 18:30 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Since CRS opened in 2004 we have never missed offering a New Year’s Eve meditation. A lot of our friends gather at our studio, sit still, go inward, clear their minds, heal the year and prepare for the shining new year.
So, of course, we will again hold this precious gathering this year. Online.
We need to love and heal a lot of tears especially this year. And we can do it by bringing our minds into one.
Please join us.
New York time : Dec.31.2020 starting at 6:00PM. (About 30 min.)
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82672443490

A Course in Miracles and the Experience of Healing: A Talk by Yasuko Kasaki
2021-04-07 20:00 - 21:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
UCDM Universal (Un Curso de Milagros Universal) of Colómbia will present a free talk by CRS Founder and ACIM writer Yasuko Kasaki on spiritual healing on April 7 at 8 pm EST on Zoom. The talk will be given in English with Spanish translation provided.
https://ucdmuniversal.org
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87056988695
ABOUT YASUKO KASAKI
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.
ABOUT UCDM UNIVERSAL
UCDM Universal is a virtual Academy and a non-profit portal of Light, where you learn to rediscover your inner peace, to enjoy a fuller life and to discover true freedom. You do this by studying and practicing the wise teaching of A Course in Miracles.
This space of healing and transformation that is ACIM Universal was born in the month of March 2020, when a group of brothers received precise instructions from the Holy Spirit to create a platform in Zoom for the extension of the teaching of the Course, as a response to the collective fear created with the idea of ​​the pandemic. In principle, the groups of Instante Santo from Bogotá and Una Sola Mente participated in the initiative. from Medellín, in Colombia; together with a brother, a friend of both groups. Very soon, thanks to the large participation of those attending the teachings, servers from different cities and countries were added to the different heavenly tasks necessary to sustain the platform. This growing willingness to serve, facilitated the definitive unification, as of January 1, 2021, of all the work in a single team.

Friday Night ACIM Series with Yasuko Kasaki in Japanese (on Zoom)
2021-09-03 21:00 - 22:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
2021年『奇跡のコース』オンラインzoomコース (第二期 )
NY発！香咲弥須子『奇跡のコース』を生きる・・・
2020年は『奇跡のコース』のワークブックをしっかり学ぶためのオンラインクラスが開催されました。
今年は、もう一歩踏み込んで、NYから発信される香咲弥須子さんと世界各地が繋がって、瞑想の日・レクチャーの日・
祈りの日を織り交ぜながら月に4回ご一緒し、『奇跡のコース』のあらゆるマテリアルから日常をみんなで実践しながら　第一期を終えました。
心身に染み渡った感覚を忘れずに…少しの休息時間を経た後、新秋には、みんなでもうひとつ先の新たな”光”を受け取りにいきましょう。
初めてという方、長年の学習者の方でも、第一期に参加していなくても、どなたでもご参加いただけます。
ご一緒ください・・・お待ちしております。

Guided Meditation with Yasuko Kasaki in English (on Zoom)
2021-09-07 18:30 - 19:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Tuesdays in September and Oct 5 from 6:30 – 7 pm
Followed by ACIM Class from 7 – 8 pm (same Zoom link)
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866
Please join me 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. I 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.
Each week I 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. At the end of the meditation you will have a chance to respond briefly if you like.
Some students have been practicing 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.
While 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.
ABOUT YASUKO KASAKI
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.

A Course in Miracles Class with Yasuko Kasaki (on Zoom)
2021-09-07 19:00 - 20:00 | CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), 41 E 11th St 11th Fl, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Tuesdays in September and Oct 5 from 7 – 8 pm
Preceded by Guided Meditation from 6:30 – 7 pm (same Zoom link)
Together, let’s come to rest and remember true peace. Each class usually contains some lecture on concepts from A Course in Miracles, some discussion and Q&A, and a meditation, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order to experience mind change.
Our 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. Students of all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome!
Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81541160040
Call-in info:
Meeting ID: 815 4116 0040
One tap mobile: 1-929-436-2866
Suggested donation $20 via PayPal to https://www.paypal.me/crsny
(no one turned away due to lack of funds)
You can find the text of A Course in Miracles (ACIM) online here (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Course_in_Miracles), among other places.
Yasuko Kasaki is an internationally beloved spiritual writer, counselor, healer, lecturer and translator from Tokyo. She is widely recognized as the person most responsible for the spread of A Course in Miracles throughout Japan. In 2004 she founded CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing), the first and only spiritual center devoted to the teaching and practice of A Course in Miracles in New York City. 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 presents at the CMC’s annual ACIM Conferences in the U.S., and several times a year she gives large seminars throughout Japan. She has also been presented internationally at ACIM conferences and workshops in the U.K., Spain, Germany, and Israel.
Yasuko is the author of The Scales Fell from My Eyes: An Illustrated Course in Miracles and 17 books in Japanese about the Course, as well as numerous novels, short stories, essays and collections of photographs. Her translations of the ACIM Workbook and of books by Course teachers Jon Mundy, Gabrielle Bernstein and David Hoffmeister have also been published in Japan. Yasuko’s spiritual writing and lectures are celebrated for their clearly stated explanations of complex concepts illustrated by captivating personal stories of struggle and triumph, drawn from her long career as a writer, motorcyclist, and spiritual counselor. Meditation and communication with Holy Spirit form the foundation of her practice.
You can listen to a sampling of Yasuko’s recent guided meditations here:
http://crsny.podbean.com
