Spirituality Classes in NYC, New York

Turkish coffee fortune reading is an authentic tradition dating back to the Ottoman empire of the 1600s. After drinking this sweet, espresso-like coffee, it is customary to read one's fortune from the remaining coffee grinds.  Per old school Turkish style, we prepare the coffee on hot sand. The grinds are then projected onto an iPad screen,...

If you have been searching for the answer to the question "How can I give back?", this workshop is for you. How we can be of service in the world is as unique as each individual. There is no set formula or action that everyone takes to bring their gifts to the world. In fact, there may be that persistent call in the back of your mind and in the depths...

Sing, dance and celebrate as a community! A playful and soulful Shabbat experience for the whole family, filled with music, puppets, art and creative prayer. No experience celebrating Shabbat necessary!

Get ready for Shabbat with a joyous and active musical experience! Children, parents, grandparents and nannies are all a part of our Shababa Friday family. Join us for this playful and soulful experience of singing, dancing, jumping and celebrating as a community! This event is first come, first served. Please arrive early to ensure entry.

The Way of Perception: The Journey of Consciousness in Our Everyday Life Life itself is the opportunity for awakening, an invitation to rediscover the true Self at the center of our own humanity. Join Shakti Caterina Maggi in an experiential exploration of our true essence, discovering how our non-dual nature can meet and transform the duality of...

The LifeForm transmission enables a conscious channeling into the various systems, such as an organ or energetic body to awaken them to their true nature, free of conditioning and concepts. This awakening releases the conditioning. A Mantra Transmission is also given in this class, which enables channeling of a mixture of Hindu, Tibetan, Kabalistic,...

Join renowned spiritual teacher Rupert Spira as we explore the perennial, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the great spiritual traditions, such as Advaita Vedanta, Kashmir Shaivism, Buddhism, mystical Christianity, Zen, and Sufism, and which is also the ever-present reality of our own experience.  This is a contemporary, experiential...

The Way of Perception: Embodying Consciousness in the Form Bodily senses are the doors through which consciousness in the human form experiences the world. We are generally aware just of the experiences of life, but we can also travel back with our attention from the world, to the awareness that is experiencing it. Shakti Caterina Maggi will use...

Symbols of Faith: Art in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions This lavishly illustrated talk will explore how symbols—numbers, colors, geometric forms, gestures, and figures—are used in convergent and divergent ways in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim visual art; how so many of them derive from earlier imagery in pagan antiquity; and how...

Join us as we learn to transform, blend into a new form of liberation, working with our light energy body/dream-body to transcend into deeper understanding and practice of shapeshifting. Revive with Focus & Intent to change energetic patterns as you work with elementals, power animals, spirit guides and the personal totems within your...

Gong master Marco Dolce creates new, astonishing sonic vistas and dimensions of consciousness by pairing the Earth Gong with the harmonically-matched Moon Gong. The gong bath he will provide is a one-hour immersion in sacred sound, wherein the gongmaster activates the full sonic potential of the instrument and bathes the listener with sustained waves...

Yes together is the key and optimum word to describe a drum circle because it is within the container of a drum circle that we collectively build community, connect with our benevolent and helping Spirit Allies in all the forms they take, and create an energetic vibration for love, joy and healing to happen. For our March...

Come join us as we celebrate the arrival of Spring with community movement of sounds, dance, opening the path of Vortex Road Openers to activate our inner core as we travel within shamanic dream, vision and journey into revitalizing fortitude.  Enter your sacred space of divine being as we plant our new seeds to cultivate our Spiritual design...

Conscious Living Conscious Dying: the Nature of Death and Dying and Beyond Every great religious and spiritual tradition has laid great emphasis on the meaning and understanding of death and the dying process. As we more deeply understand the dying process, death becomes one of our greatest teachers. During this workshop, we will explore the many-faceted...

Shamanism teaches us that all things are alive and spirited, and can be resources for knowledge, and personal and planetary healing. Just as we do with crystals, we can attune and avail ourselves to the divine intelligence and healing properties of essential oils, and use our shamanic training to bring forth the qualities in them that are best suited...