August 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 »Kundalini Workshop
Ananda Mandala is a Chakra clearing meditation designed to raise Kundalini energy. This guided meditation involves vigorous (Pranayama) breathing techniques. Diksha is an energy transfer that works by activating Kundalini energy. This creates a gradual shift in consciousness, freeing you from the suffering created by the mind, balancing the body’s natural healing energies and attuning the brain to higher levels of awareness. Diksha does not belong to any religion or belief. It is a universal energy that can be received…
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 »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 »Chakra Balancing Meditation
As a group, we tone the sacred sounds of each chakra 7 times, creating an energetic flow that loosens and removes blockages and releases negative energy stored within. The sound of the toning creates a vibrational reaction within the body, which causes stillness and relaxation. We begin with a breathing exercise, followed by toning, and ending with an open circle to share the experience and/or ask questions. This is a meditation, and a self-healing practice. Chakra balancing meditation is excellent for the beginner and the experienced. We all have seven main chakras…
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 »Meditation+Yoga
Every Monday evening renown yoga and meditation teacher Omri Kleinberger (Omridoesyoga) leads a Meditation+Yoga session at CRS. Class begins at 6pm with a 20 minute talk and guided meditation followed by a 1 hour Athletic Yoga Flow. The Yoga is designed to rebalance strength, flexibility, and resilience, address plateaus and bottlenecks, and answer questions about postures and techniques. Suitable for all levels. About the Instructor Omri is the Founder and CEO of Ometa, a corporate wellness company, and an independent…
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 »September 2019
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 »Native American Drum Making Workshop
We are delighted to announce that ONACNY is offering a Native American Drum Making Workshop to our community in September 2019. We are honored to invite Squamish native elder Tsawaysia Spukwus (aka. Alice Guss) from British Columbia, Canada to lead the workshop. About Native American Drum-Making & Birthing: “Making your own drum begins a journey – as you will transform Mother Nature’s Gift into a musical instrument.” “Drums have been used for thousands of years and by many cultures. The drum beat works as a conduit connecting…
Find out more »Miracles in Manhattan with Dr. Jon Mundy: Special Relationships
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. The September lecture will cover Special Relationships, a concept to which ACIM devotes considerable pages. T-15.V.3. You cannot love parts of reality and understand what love means. 2 If you would love unlike to God, Who knows no special love, how can you understand it? 3 To…
Find out more »Crossing Boundaries Concert Series Vol. 8: MOLDING
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 8: MOLDING, curated by gamin. Conceived and performed by Leah Ogawa, MOLDING is an object movement puppetry piece about shedding one’s skin and confronting one’s memories. The character illustrates the liminal space she embodies by using her own physical body and her molded body parts to explore the feeling of in-between-ness and the process of accepting herself. It is her journey to face society’s expectations and to recognize…
Find out more »Film Screening & Talk: “Bees, The Earth & Me” with Apiarist Yasuki Funahashi
CRS invites you to a screening of Japanese documentary “Bees, the Earth, and Me” (dir. by Yasuko Iwasaki, 2018, 30′ in Japanese with English subtitles) and talk by its central figure, environmental researcher, beekeeper and TedxAnjo presenter Yasuki Funahashi, who launched a remarkable campaign to save the bees and, maybe, humanity as well. Masae Fujimoto will serve as interpreter for the talk. Tickets are $20 and are available online, by phone (212-677-8621), and at CRS. It’s said that we owe…
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 »Persian Daf (Sufi drum) classes
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 »Whirling (Sufi Dance) Practice with Live Music by Tomchess
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 Tomchess (ney, oud) of American Sufi Project. 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…
Find out more »Crossing Boundaries Vol. 9: Musicians Tomchess & Dan Kurfirst & CRS Sufi Dance Community Showcase
We invite you into our sacred circle to commune with the divine through the ecstatic music, dance, and poetry of Sufism with musicians Tomchess (ney, oud) and Dan Kurfirst (daf) of the American Sufi Project and our Sufi Dance student community. This concert, curated and directed by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko, is CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 9, and will take place on September 28, 2019 at 7 pm at CRS. Light refreshments will be served following the performance. O Lover of God,…
Find out more »October 2019
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 »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 Lâle 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…
Find out more »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 »November 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 »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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