Class: Awakening the Healer Within: Medical Qigong
Date: Friday, July 10, 6:30-9:30pm Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12, 10-5:30pm
Location: 22 E. 30th Street
Organization: New York Open Center
Cost: $345
Medical Qigong has powerful roots in both ancient healing traditions and in modern science. The Healer Within approach, developed from a Chinese medical qigong modality known as Bu Zheng Qigong (“Vitality Enhancement Method”) helps the human body mobilize its own extraordinary self-healing capacity through four essential sets of practices: Body postures and movements, Breathing exercises, Self-massage techniques, Mental focus practices, including mindfulness meditation..
Family: Kayak on the Hudson
Date: Thursday, July 9 thru 18
Location: Hudson River Pier 26 at North Moore St
Cost: Free
Free walk-up kayaking, kayak trips on the harbor and evening classes are operated from the boathouse at Pier 26 for the park by Downtown Boathouse. Facilities are available for the launching of small hand powered boats..
Music: Vision Jazz Festival 20
Date: Thursday, July 9 thru 12
Location: 55 Washington Sq South
Cost: $25 – $40
This year marks the Twentieth Anniversary of the Vision Festival. To celebrate this milestone, Arts for Art (AFA) has organized an event that sets the standard for creative FreeJazz music, dance, visual art, poetry and ideas, embracing values that challenge and inform. With world renowned musicians Roscoe Mitchell, the Sun Ra Arkestra, Milford Graves, William Parker, Joelle Leandre and Matthew Shipp.
Class: Healthy, Vibrant Skin Through Nutrition From the Inside Out
Date: Saturday, July 11 1:00–3:00 p.m.
Location: 227 West 13th Street
Organization: Integral Yoga Institute
Cost: $25
Skin is the body’s largest organ, and in order to keep it firm and flexible, clear and radiant, we must pay as much attention to the substances we put into our body as we do to the skin. Those substances will end up either nourishing the skin or depriving it of its needed nutrients or, even worse, creating such problems as toxicity. We shall cover all the key nutrients necessary for healthy, resilient, beautiful skin.
Attend this workshop and receive a one-time 20% discount at Integral Yoga Natural Foods and Natural Apothecary.
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