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    Practical Beauty 

    Friday, April 6th 

    5pm - 9pm 

    New York Open Center is hosting an evening to boost your beauty from the inside and out—and renew into spring! Experience the latest cutting-edge technologies in health and wellness, alongside modalities blended with ancient forms of healing and meditation. We are happy to be collaborating with these wonderful wellness and natural beauty brands: Alchemist's Kitchen CBD oils, Kollectiv, Kate's Magik, Bios Apotherapy, Oh! Olivia and SunforSol.  
     
     

    Reservation required.
    Please sign up below and then select your services and talks 

  • Location:

    New York Open Center

    22 East 30th Street

    New York, NY 10016 

    212 219 2527 

    opencenter.org 

     

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  • Theraphi is a bio energetic device inspired by the research of Nikola Tesla that creates an electric magnetic force field harmonizing energy that aids the body into entering a deep state of relaxation. The resultant wave field restores order to the body’s cellular regenerative system.

    10 minutes       $29

  • Light Meditation Session uses a computerized strobe light to entrain your brainwaves to those experienced by master meditators, such as monks and shamans. This entrainment is an excellent way to make altered states of consciousness more accessible. Reported benefits include seeing unique scenes of indescribable beauty, intense worlds of colors or patterns, developing better focus, memory recall, cognitive skills, problem solving, in addition to feelings of deep relaxation, overall well-being, creative insights and renewed energy.  

     15 minutes $25

  • KryoFacial  uses a controlled beam of vaporized liquid nitrogen to freeze the skin on the face, scalp, and neck area. It promises to tighten the skin, fill in fine lines, and reduce wrinkles, stimulating a strong rejuvenation that promotes healing and makes you look younger. It works by naturally constricting your blood vessels during the treatment, then allowing them to dilate after it’s over. The quick constriction and dilation of these blood vessels helps to flush out toxins faster, boosting circulation and calming inflammation.

     10 minutes $39

     

  • Reiki is a form of energy medicine that treats mental and physical stress. Therapists guide universal life force into the body's field by the gentle laying of their hands. The energy's soothing nature restores emotional presence and nourishes a sense of inner peace.

    15 minutes $20

    Vortex Healing® an energetic healing that works with divine light and consciousness to perform deep emotional, physical and karmic healing. It transforms physical and emotional matter as well as releasing the deepest karmic issues and limiting beliefs that we hold as human beings.

    15 minutes $20

  • Thai Yoga “Lazy-Man’s Yoga” Sometimes you just need a hand — maybe two. Experience the benefits of yoga, even without the discipline. This technique incorporates guided, yoga-like movements, gentle stretches, and application of pressure along the meridian lines to center the mind and body.

    15 minutes $20

    Shiatsu  uses finger and palm pressure and stretches along meridians to contact Ki (energy) as it is referred to in Japan, and follow its movement through the body. Dynamic moves with varying amounts of pressure will release tension, restore balance and harmony, improve immunity, relieve ailments, and increase energy flow of the body. 

     15 minutes $20

  • Indian Head Massage is a technique that helps stimulate circulation and relieve tension in the head, neck, and shoulder. It is particularly beneficial to relieve stress, tension, fatigue, insomnia, headaches, migraine and sinusitis and increase mental clarity. In addition, especially helpful to people who are ‘desk bound’ and experience pain and tension in the upper body.

    15 minutes $20

  • Readings 

    Tarot + Astrology| Erin Tack Shipley is a creative healer based in Brooklyn, New York. She weaves together tarot, astrology and intuition to lighten, clarify and soften the human process of being alive. Akin to sailors in ancient times, she looks to the stars and planets as guides for navigating deep waters. Together with her clients, she explores internal and external patterns, examining experiences as opportunities for deep soul growth.

     

    Tarot Readings | Kristall O'Neill Richardson Tarot is a symbolic language that teaches & guides us through the sacred journey of the soul. Kristall uses Tarot to help guide clients through the various journeys of their lives, with a strong emphasis on self-empowerment and healing. She also uses the pendulum, bells, crystals and numerology during her sessions.

     

    15 minutes $25

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  • Insights into the Medicinal Benefits of CBD

    Join us for an informational CBD clinic with one of The Alchemists Kitchen's resident herbalists, Zachary Clancy. There will be a half-hour info session covering the how, what, and why of CBD with options for sampling, followed by an informal Q & A.


    Ask all your CBD-related questions and walk away with a greater understanding of this supremely beneficial remedy. CBD is a gentle and effective remedy that can be helpful for those of any age struggling with pain, inflammation, anxiety, or nervous system disorders.

    Zach Clancy is a Brooklyn based horticulturist, fellow sacred plant lover & caretaker, and is a resident herbalist at The Alchemist's Kitchen. He has over a decade of experience experimenting with herbs and has apprenticed under Great Plains herbalist, Ocoee Miller and Joe Hollis of Mountain Gardens, a permaculture Chinese Herbal retreat in Appalachia. Zach has spent the last five years building and managing urban gardens and farms around the city as well as participating in sustainability and education initiatives with a variety of organizations

    5:30 PM, Free (40 minutes)

  • Sound Meditation Circle

    A deeply immersive and meditative journey into sound. We will re-establish natural resonance of a body, balancing your nervous system through use of vibrational instruments like tibetan and crystal bowls, chimes, shruti box, tuning forks and a voice.

    Basia Blonska
    A classically trained flutist who received her MA in music performance. As a member of philharmonic orchestras and various chamber ensembles, she has performed throughout the world and also took part in television broadcasts on Polish National TV while performing with big band orchestras. Since moving to New York, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, and the DiMenna Center, among others.

     6:30 PM, $10 (40 minutes)

  • Shamanic Visioning Experience

    Shamanic healer/teacher Olivia Olkowski will guide you through a journey into the shamanic healing arts. You will experience a shamanic journey, and work with your guides, with the sound of the healing drum guiding us, to bring us down a path to to vision to find where you may be blocked in life and seek the next step to take on your life-path to wellness. You will learn about the energy of crystals for vitality, repairing emotional traumas, health concerns, and how to broaden your connection to Spirit/build your intuition.

    Olivia Olkowski is a powerful shamanic healer, a Peruvian Pachakuti Mesa holder (shaman), and Curandera initiated as a lineage holder of Mayan traditional medicine. Using hands-on-healing, channeled and traditional shamanic healing practices, Olivia has helped others to work through their emotional and physical dis-ease, and transform their lives. She also facilitates events, workshops and trainings.

    7:30 PM, $10 (40 minutes)

     

  • Radiance and Beauty Meditation

    Experience your radiance and beauty from the inside out, with this meditative soulful approach to reviving your energy and life force. In this circle, we will have a healing meditation, to focus on releasing blocks to the natural radiance of our body and spirit. When we allow time to unwind, our natural energy can emerge and vitality to replenish itself. The meditation will take us on a journey through cellular level brilliance and releasing stress to relax the nervous system. The session will include meditation, writing & reflective exercises on self care, and receiving healing energy to revitalize in mind, body, and spirit. Are you ready to experience more beauty and radiance in your life? 

    Maria Jade Piano works with clients to heal their soul, receive divine guidance, rise vibrational consciousness, embody self-awareness, and stepping in their Soul Leadership. She supports clients with energy healing and coaching, by helping clients to build self trust and listen to the compass of their soul.

    8:30 PM, Free (40 minutes)

  • COLLABORATORS

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    Kollectiv is an urban retreat center in Manhattan’s East Village designed to restore your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Its upper level is home to a plant-based cafe (Naturees Cafe) and a herbal dispensary/herbal pharmacy (The Alchemist’s Kitchen), while its lower level hosts the most advanced healing modalities in the wellness arena. Our spa partners offer kryo therapy (KryoLounge), sound + vibrational therapy (Tune.Studio), infrared saunas (HigherDOSE), vitamin IV therapy (NutriDrip), as well as electromagnetic healing, massage and reiki appointments at Kollectiv Spa.

    Visit Kollectiv to get your well-being back on track: kollectivnyc.com


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    Cold therapy treatment to heal, repair, and energize cells.

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    The Alchemist's Kitchen is a unique destination in the Bowery. More than a botanical dispensary and a whole plant tonic bar that serves elixirs and healthy food, we are a gateway into a conscious lifestyle and community through our wellness events and transformational workshops.


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    BIOS APOTHECARY is founded on a deep appreciation for the wisdom of nature and the innate intelligence of the body. We believe beauty comes from establishing an internal foundation of health; our blends are formulated using pure, living botanicals- roots, leaves, barks, flowers and extracts, which balance and revitalize the constitution.

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    Intention-Based Essential Oil Blends, Aromatherapy Products and Therapeutic-Grade Essential Oils. Enhancing the power of sacred, medicinal plants with Intention & Reiki.

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    Unique handcrafted healing jewelry made with the finest untreated gemstones and crystals. As each piece is created, it is infused with sacred geometry, prayers and blessings

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    Essential Rose Life is a mood-balancing beauty brand with products and practices that support mental and emotional wellness. Our natural and organic wellness oils and proprietary self-care methods are inspired by our Founder Jennifer Goldman's 300-hour Certification in Advanced Clinical Aromatherapy, as well as her extensive background in holistic healing modalities.

    More than an external remedy, our offerings facilitate self-love, which is integral to building healthy relationships, cultivating happiness, handling adversity and sustaining a deeply enriched life, from the inside out.

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