January 2020
Exhibition: Matters — Works on Silk by Aomi Kikuchi
CRS presents MATTERS, an exhibition of nine works by the award-winning Brooklyn-based artist AOMI KIKUCHI. Best known for her exquisite Yuzen silk kimono dyeing and work with other delicate fabrics, which have been exhibited in galleries and museums all over the world, KIKUCHI here depicts frogs on triple-layered silk organza in a variety of natural settings as well as among human-made objects. To maintain the softness and ‘unreliability’ of the gauze, she refrains from sewing or tightly stretching it. The fragility and…
Find out more »Access Clarity Ceremony
Upgrade your breathing, upgrade your life. Immediate session results include: • clear thinking • heightened creativity • lowered anxiety & depression • release of physical tension Why do we do this? We are all told breathing is automatic. Unfortunately, when we are stressed, anxious, depressed or heartbroken our breathing takes a hit. When this happens, our reactivity throws us out of harmony. Like a guitar string plucked out of tune. What happens? In the session everyone lays on a yoga…
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 »A Course in Miracles Monday Classes
Mondays 7:30 – 9 pm Taught by Yasuko Kasaki, assisted 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 meditation, creative visualization and/or spiritual reading practice in order…
Find out more »ESSENTRICS Gentle Stretch with Betty
Essentrics is a full-body stretching and toning workout that’s great for most levels. This class builds strength, flexibility and range of motion while releasing stress. Essentrics is also known as “Classical Stretch,” the #1 fitness show on American Public Television. It is a full-body, dynamic stretching workout that safely shapes and rebalances the body. Essentrics conditions not only our muscles but also bones and joints. This unique stretching-in-motion program rapidly creates a long, lean and strong physique with immediate changes to posture. Essentrics’ simple…
Find out more »ASCA — Adult Survivors of Child Abuse Support Group
ASCA New York City is a support group for adult survivors of child abuse. We meet weekly to give one another emotional support and an opportunity for expression of feelings, thoughts, memories, hopes, insights, and education on the subject of child abuse. Our meetings follow the Adult Survivors of Child Abuse (ASCA) program as designed by the Morris Center in San Francisco. The format is similar to that of 12-step programs with some significant differences. Similarities include directed readings, short…
Find out more »Kabbalistic Sound Bath Immersion
Together, we will experience the resonance and transcendent impact of MediSounds®, a powerful sound meditation system based on the use of our own voices vocalizing tones that impact our physical, psychological and spiritual beings. MediSounds aids in reducing anxiety, alleviating depression by enabling a connection to a greater reality. We will discuss how healing and integration can be approached simply, using the power of our own vocalizations dedicated to produce a profound meditative state. Most of all we will join together…
Find out more »Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music Vol. 17
CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing) invites you to discover traditional Japanese music by the acclaimed koto and shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura offered together with an exclusive taste of beautiful Japanese seasonal confectionary prepared by mochi Rin. This will be the second concert of the 2019-2020 season of Four Seasons in New York — Gems of Japanese Music. The winter concert will be held on Saturday, January 25, 2020 at CRS. Tickets are $30 (general) and $20 (students) include wagashi (Japanese confectionary). Seating is limited and…
Find out more »February 2020
Sufi Dance Class with Paola Garcia
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 »Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
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…
Find out more »Trance Dance Experience with Artist Dream Family
Join us for an incredible evening of root activating music and shapeshifting dance. Prepare to be lifted in Mind and Body in ways you might have never been before. Evan Worldwind (Didgeridoo), Yahoteh Kokayi (Drumset & Percussion), Läle Sayoko (Shapeshifting Dancer), and Saco Yasuma (Voice & Keyboard) will be your guides into a world of Root Sound and Dance Movement! Our intention is to give you all we can on February 9th, fueling the fire of your vision of designing your…
Find out more »April 2020
Sufi Dance Workshop
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 Paola García and Läle Sayoko. 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…
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