We invite you to join us for an all-faiths evening of guided meditation, guest speakers, Reiki and singing-bowl sound healing, and open-mic\u00a0sharing around the truth of how much we really yearn to join together in peace.
\nTHE PROGRAM<\/p>\n
Opening Remarks
\nHeart-Centered Healing Meditation by Meryl Vendana Brinin
\nTalk by CRS Founder and\u00a0A Course in Miracles\u00a0(ACIM) Writer\/Teacher\/Counselor Yasuko Kasaki
\nGuided Meditation by CRS Director and Healer\u00a0Christopher\u00a0Pelham
\nTalk by Ahmed Tarell, Sufi Healing Circle NYC
\nTalk by Oriya Pollak, Everyday\u00a0Shaman & Radio Show Host
\nOpen Mic Sharing
\nClosing Hands on Healing and Tibetan Singing Bowl Ritual by Meryl Vendana Brinin\u00a0<\/p>\n
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
\nAhmed Tarell, Sufi Healing Circle NYC<\/p>\n
Ahmed is an Imam in the Shadhiliyya Sufi Tariqa and has spoken nationally and internationally on topics of spirituality, healing and peace. His speaking engagements have included The New Theological Seminary, The New School, Hunter College and the various institutions in the Federal Prison system. He has frequently contributed to conferences on Incarceration, PTSD and alternative healing.
\nAdditionally, Ahmed has provided guidance and training to various social service programs on Motivational Interviewing and self-care.\u00a0
\nAhmed holds a Master’s Degree in Education and has touched hundreds of lives. As a teacher, mentor and healer.\u00a0 Ahmed speaks on the topics of the role of spirituality, healing, relationships, and world peace. An accomplished teacher, Ahmed moves audiences to find the truth of God within their hearts and to seek their inner guidance in resolving and healing the issues that people face within their lives.
\nAhmed leads by example, empowering people — many of whom face challenges similar to his own — to succeed by sharing his personal story. He recognizes people\u2019s barriers, focuses on their strengths, and pushes them to achieve their goals. Tarell was recently awarded the prestigious Citizens Against Recidivism Award for Leadership in Education!
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\nChristopher\u00a0Pelham, CRS Director & A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Healer
\nChristopher Pelham\u00a0is the Director and a co-founder of CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing). He balances his time between overseeing the growth and health of the CRS community, producing arts\/cultural\/educational events at the Center, and working as a CRS Healer\u00a0and student and teacher of\u00a0A Course in Miracles.\u00a0He has previously also worked in educational publishing and as a web designer, writer\/editor,\u00a0actor (most notably for several seasons\u00a0with\u00a0Doris Duke Impact Award Winner Johnny Simons\u00a0at the\u00a0Hip Pocket Theatre\u00a0in Ft. Worth, TX and with artists Richard Bach, Harold Lehmann, and\u00a0Lake Simons in NYC), producer and videographer. He graduated from Duke University in 1991 with a degree in English. In addition to studying ACIM off and on with Yasuko Kasaki since 2003, he studied the Spiritual Psychology of Acting with London-based teacher\u00a0John Osborne Hughes\u00a0and Jay Johnstone-based Improvisation with the late Gloria Maddox.
\nMeryl Vandana Brinin, Transformational Energy Healer
\nVandana (a.k.a Meryl Vandana Brinin) is an Intuitive and Empathic Reiki Master Teacher and Organizer \/ Facilitator of The NYC Healing Events. She hosts radio shows on various healing modalities. She is also a Vibrational Sound Healer, Vocalist, Shamanic Soul Retrieval Practitioner, Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, Soul Guidance Energy Reader and Deep Emotional Release Practitioner. She incorporates Aromatherapy in her private healing practice as well as Ayurvedic Techniques such as Indian Head Massage (Champissage). She has worked with Deepak Chopra at his healing center in NYC.
\nVandana facilitates classes and one-on-one coaching in meditation, psychic development and energy healing to both children and adults on the autistic spectrum to empower and encourage their super psychic abilities with love and respect. Commonly known as Star Children & Indigos, she teaches easy to apply energy healing techniques which have proven to be empowering and have helped many families to understand their Indigo Children by allowing everything without judgement. She helps anyone who feels different from the rest of the planet to trust their intuition while assisting them in navigating this reality with patience & loving kindness.
\nShe lives in Brooklyn, NY and has her own healing practice, teaches energy healing workshops and helps clients over the phone and via skype to empower them to know what they know.\u00a0Vandana does one-on-one RICH Healing Personal Transformation Sessions over the phone \/ skype and in-person in Brooklyn, NY, facilitates group tele-classes and provides in-person and distance energy healing services and classes.
\nhttp:\/\/Vandanarichhealing.com
\nOriya Pollak
\nOriya serves as a spiritual resource. He helps bring people back to their hearts and format their lives around what they love. His work as a guide in community gatherings and private sessions revolves around cultivating\u00a0self-care and presence. Oriya lives in NYC with his wife and son. Visit him at\u00a0heart.vision\u00a0(launching soon!)\u00a0and\u00a0on Facebook.
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\nYasuko Kasaki, CRS Founder and A Course in Miracles (ACIM) Writer\/Teacher\/Counselor
\nYasuko Kasaki\u00a0founded CRS in 2004 in order to provide artists and individuals from all walks of life with opportunities to remember and share their limitless creative energies. She is the author of 15 books in Japanese on A Course in Miracles\u00a0and is the translator into Japanese of the\u00a0ACIM Original Edition, the ACIM Workbook, and books by Jon Mundy,\u00a0\u00a0David Hoffmeister, Gabrielle Bernstein, Mari Perron. Seven of her novels and several collections of essays, stories, and photographs have also been published in Japan.\u00a0She began\u00a0offering spiritual counseling, reading, instruction and healing to individuals and groups in 1999 and has since worked with more than 1,000 students and clients around the world. In her classes and lectures, Ms. Kasaki teaches the text of ACIM, and through abundant use of meditation and creative visualization, facilitates experiential learning and practice of the concepts of ACIM, and by extension, of channeling, clairvoyance, reading and understanding the dynamics of universal energy, and the essence of spiritual healing.\u00a0
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