July 2019
Iyengar Yoga
Iyengar Yoga for beginners to more serious practitioners — both gentle and strenuous with highly beneficial postural adjustment. Classes are given in Japanese and English. Instructor Hiromi completed her teacher training in Iyengar B.K.S. in 1986,
Find out more »Guided Meditations Inspired by A Course in Miracles
Given by Yasuko Kasaki (and by Makiko Mizuta and Christopher Pelham when she is away each March, July, and Nov) Tuesdays from 6:30 – 7 pm Free http://www.meetup.com/ACIM-meditation/ Please join us in the sharing of miracles. Here, your mind can come to rest and you can remember true peace. No experience with meditation is required, and everyone is welcome. We ask only that you make it your intention to sit still, quiet in body and mind, and to listen to; receive and…
Find out more »Spiritual Healing Clinic
Mondays from 6:30 – 7:20 pm (please arrive by 7 pm) Tuesdays from 7 – 7:40 pm (please arrive by 7:30 pm) Monday’s Healing Clinic usually begins with a short mediation Suggested Donation $20. No one turned away due to lack of funds. http://www.meetup.com/ACIM-healing Bring any issue you are facing right now — physically, emotionally, mentally, and/or spiritually. With eyes closed (you will be seated and a healer will stand nearby; no touching is involved), a CRS healer, trained in A Course…
Find out more »Exhibition: Celestial Mandala — Works on Paper by Heejung Kim
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents “Celestial Mandala,” an exhibition featuring recent ink works on paper by Korean artist Heejung Kim. Her art is influenced by Tibetan Mandala paintings, especially by the patterns and symbols found in them. Her star-like images come from actual dreams she has had since her childhood. Using repetition like the mantras in meditation, Heejung pushes her creative visions into a hypnotic space carrying the viewer into a surreal sense of illusion and the feeling…
Find out more »Yogacise — Yoga + Exercise
Enjoy yoga and complimentary exercises to increase your flexibility and strengthen your muscles. Improve your yoga poses. Relax & rejuvenate with accurate breathing technique. Taught in English and Japanese as needed. About the Instructor Hazuki Homma is originally from Japan, where she studied classical and modern dance. Since moving to NYC, she completed the Teacher Training Course at OM Yoga as well as international student training programs at Dance New Amsterdam and HB Studio. She has had the wonderful fortune…
Find out more »Iyengar Yoga Thursday classes
Iyengar Yoga for beginners to more serious practitioners — both gentle and strenuous with highly beneficial postural adjustment. Classes are given in Japanese and English. Instructor Hiromi completed her teacher training in Iyengar B.K.S. in 1986,
Find out more »CRS Healing Circle: Meditation + Whirling Prayer
Join us Thur, 7/18 @ 7:15 pm for our monthly Healing Circle + Whirling (Sufi Dance) Prayer! Led by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko and 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…
Find out more »A Course in Miracles Monday Classes
Mondays 7:30 – 9 pm Taught by Yasuko Kasaki, assisted by Christopher Pelham Wednesdays 8 – 9:30 pm Taught by Christopher Pelham Know your life purpose and the meaning of your current situation clearly. Communicate with your Inner Teacher. Heal yourself and others. These ongoing classes focus on mind training designed to help you to experience the lessons and loving wisdom of ACIM. Each class contains some lecture from the ACIM Textbook, some discussion and Q&A, and typically 10 – 20 minutes of…
Find out more »Whirling (Sufi Dance) Practice with Live Music
We invite you to join our Sufi Dance community for an hour of meditative whirling known as Samâ (spiritual listening), hosted by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko with live music by Iranian daf player Kamyar Arsani. Together, we create a sacred space for you to free your mind, transcend your limits, and share your light. By receiving the divinely inspired vibration of the music and developing our control of the body while surrendering the mind’s worries, let’s share the ecstasy that arises with…
Find out more »Persian Daf (Sufi drum) class
Dear friends, we are excited to have Kamyar Arsani‘s Persian daf lessons at CRS on a monthly or near monthly basis! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn to play a magical instrument from a master who learned from masters in Iran. Kamyar has been playing and singing for decades and recently for our Sufi Dance events at CRS when he is in town and taking us ever deeper into the heart. Daf is a big frame drum with lots…
Find out more »ShaktiDance Workshop with Mishaal
CRS invites you to celebrate and explore the divine feminine with Bali-based sacred dance artist Mishaal! Shakti Dance Circle is a gently guided, free flowing, sacred sensual healing dance for women, based in the mystical roots of bellydance, and sacred temple dance. We use a language of sacred geometry, tracing circles, spirals, serpentine waves, infinity loops, and shimmies throughout our body, cultivating our Shakti flow, and honouring the divine feminine within. In Sanskrit, Shakti, means goddess, and power. Shakti is…
Find out more »A Course in Miracles Wednesday Classes
Mondays 7:30 – 9 pm Taught by Yasuko Kasaki, assisted by Christopher Pelham Wednesdays 8 – 9:30 pm Taught by Christopher Pelham Know your life purpose and the meaning of your current situation clearly. Communicate with your Inner Teacher. Heal yourself and others. These ongoing classes focus on mind training designed to help you to experience the lessons and loving wisdom of ACIM. Each class contains some lecture from the ACIM Textbook, some discussion and Q&A, and typically 10 – 20 minutes of…
Find out more »August 2019
Sufi Dance Class with Lâle Sayoko
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,…
Find out more »Spiritual Dance & Meditation Workshop with Shizuno Nasu
What do you think and what do you pray for? CRS invites you to meditate on these questions with Hawaii-based Spiritual Dance artist Shizuno Nasu. Through spiritual listening and improvised movements, you will discover your own dance inspired by the rhythms of nature and your own heart. Both classically and traditionally trained, Shizuno has for many years been creating, performing, and teaching her own unique form of dance all over the world. All are welcome. No dance experience necessary. Please wear…
Find out more »Fly in Water: A Multimedia Concert by Pianist Hyo Jee Kang
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 7: FLY IN WATER, curated by gamin. FLY IN WATER is a structured improvisation and meditation on the inter-relationships between humanity, the environment, and the other life forms created by classical pianist / performance artist Hyo Jee Kang in collaboration with fashion designer and fiber artist Bo Choi and musical/media artist Damian Mahurlets. curator: gamin concept: Bo Choi (Korea) and Hyo…
Find out more »September 2019
Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 8: MOLDING
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 8: MOLDING, curated by gamin. MOLDING is an object movement puppetry piece that showcases and explores the emotional journey of a character in a liminal space. It is her journey to face society’s expectations and to recognize and assimilate her true identity. curator: gamin lead artist: Leah Ogawa (puppetry, Japan) music: John Chao (Taiwan) This is the fifth of eight concerts in the series…
Find out more »An Afternoon with Non-Duality Lecturer & Author Naho Owada
CRS welcomes back Paris and Japan-based Non-Duality lecturer Naho Owada, author of the newly published book Between the Lines, for a meditation, talk and Q&A. The event will be emceed by CRS co-founder and A Course in Miracles teacher/healer Christopher Pelham. Our purpose is to share the joy that is present when we drop our stories and experience life impersonally as it truly is, as limitless unconditional love. As long as thoughts continue returning, pulling us back into our stories,…
Find out more »Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 9: TBA
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 9, curated by JunYi Chow. This program will pair contemporary street/club dancers with musicians playing (mostly) acoustic instruments not typically seen together. curator: JunYi Chow dance: Akiko Tokuoka music: TBA This is the sixth of eight concerts in the series during 2019 and will take place on September 27, 2019 at 8 pm at CRS. Tickets are $25 in advance $30…
Find out more »October 2019
Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 10: STRING NOISE
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 10, STRING NOISE, curated by gamin. Classical avant-punk violin duo String Noise will explore the Korean/contemporary music of noted Korean composer Ki Young Kim. curator: gamin musicians: String Noise (violin duo Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris) composer: Ki Young Kim (Korea) This is the seventh of eight concerts in the series during 2019 and will take place on October 25, 2019 at 8 pm at…
Find out more »December 2019
Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 11: ZERO GRASSES
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 11, ZERO GRASSES, curated by Jen Shyu. ZERO GRASSES will include a video fieldwork presentation plus a short participatory intermedia workshop for the audience (tentatively scheduled for 6:30 pm) before the performance. The performance itself (at 8 pm) will feature new compositions by Ms. Shyu. curator: Jen Shyu musician: Jen Shyu This is the eighth and final concert in the series during 2019…
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