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Yoga Nidra is a meditative technique, practiced lying down, which allows us to move through layers of energy and consciousness. This practice often leads to deep rest and relaxation, and can provide a much needed respite from our culture of “doing.”

This VIRTUAL group will offer a unique, eight-stage Yoga Nidra each month, with time for sharing and questions. Participants will be invited to consider any intentions they wish to be amplified by the practice.

~Each session will be recorded and available to view for 30 days~

This IN-PERSON workshop will explore the medicinal and energetic gifts of Mugwort. Participants will be greeted with a custom blend of herbal tea, and the gathering will begin with a balancing meditation. Together we will craft our own fresh mugwort bundles, while discussing some of the themes that Mugwort can illuminate and support.
Then the group will move through a deep relaxation practice and embark on a journey to commune with the spirit of mugwort, allowing her healing energy to reveal the dreamspace and facilitate release. Therapeutic Sound and Reiki will be offered throughout to support the experience.

Participants will be gifted a bottle of Flowering Mugwort and Lemurian Crystal Essence, and the fresh mugwort bundles may be taken home for additional support.

This workshop is hosted by Anima Mundi in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

This VIRTUAL monthly group will offer a therapeutic application of Reiki for relaxation, release, and community.

At the start of the practice, participants will guided to systematically relax the body and mind. Therapeutic sound (such as Tibetan bowls and chimes) will be shared, while Reiki continues to be offered to the group. Reiki has many benefits including restorative effects on the nervous system, increased creativity, insights, emotional release, and calm. Reiki can also be beneficial to those who are grieving or contemplating existential matters, by inviting a deeper relationship to energy beyond the physical body. There will be time for sharing and questions following the group, or participants are welcome to free-write.

The experiential component of each group will be recorded for those who cannot attend live and for those who wish to continue working with the practice. Sharing will not be recorded, for the privacy of participants.

This six sessions series returns for a fourth cohort beginning this September. In this year’s offering, it will be a weekly course with options to add Reiki Training for those who have not yet been certified.

Blending short talks, experiential practices, and dynamic discussion, participants will be invited to consider how Reiki practice can both inform and be integrated into psychotherapy. This is especially for those who have some Reiki training and have wondered how to use it in psychotherapy, but may also be useful to those who desire to learn about energetic approaches to their existing modalities.

Registration will open in late July

Reiki is best known for its application to improve health, but it can also be used to assist us in “a good death.”

Reiki is most often translated as universal energy, or life-force energy. It can be understood as that essential quality that makes something alive, the difference between animate and inanimate. 

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed, and this premise lays the foundation for Reiki as a venue to explore our relationship to death, whether we can still connect with those who have died, and supporting those at the threshold of this life and whatever lies beyond.

This three-week course will offer participants the chance to experience Reiki directly and explore the intersections of spiritual, psychological, and scientific perspectives on what happens during and after death. Each class will include an overview of concepts and theory, followed by a guided exploration and Reiki practice. Participants will be invited to either lie down during the Reiki portion or use an expressive media of their choice (art, writing, or movement).

I’m thrilled to be offering this course again with Morbid Anatomy this Fall, in the winter iteration it sold out twice! All sessions are recorded for those who may need to miss a session. If you missed it last time, I hope you’ll join me for a beautiful series exploring what lies beyond through the power of Reiki.