Health Classes in NYC, New York

Students will work at the level of the bones, to align the bones using the muscles of deep postural support: the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor. We don't work to exercise these muscles but rather to wake them up, to become conscious of their role in the support and movement of the body. We work for the body to become...

The Core Mat I program is the foundation of the Power Pilates method. Each subsequent program builds upon the information learned during this course. During this weekend you will learn to teach the 18 beginner level mat exercises and be introduced to Power Pilates teaching tools, philosophy, and teaching formula.  Every student new to Power Pilates...

Get back into your gymnastics training routine or simply learn gymnastics basics in this skill-building adult gymnastics class. Participants set goals for floor, balance beam, uneven bars, vault, rings and single rail bar, based on their experience level, and with guidance from our USAG-certified teachers.  All levels welcome.

BioSonic tuning forks positively alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into a deep state of relaxation. This special sound healing event is performed with precisely tuned BioSonic tuning forks to create sounds for healing, expansion of consciousness and exploration of sonic realities. During the event,...

Awakening the Healer Within: Medical Qigong Practice Leader Certification Training Become your healthiest, most resilient self with the Medical Qigong Practice Leader Certificate Training. This is a 4-session, 12-hour training designed to teach you how to restore a healthy balance of energy in the body, through both the ancient healing tradition...

In this class we'll review a variety of essential oils and how to incorporate them into your daily life, for home, body and mind.  The class is collaborative and students will have the chance to ask plenty of questions about oils.  Come share my passion with me, and learn how to support yourself in health and healing! About the Instructor:...

A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...

Pricing rate is for a minimum ticket purchase of 1 and maximum of 3. Offered April through early November: Experience New York like you never have before on this two-hour sail aboard the Adirondack, an 80-foot, wooden pilot schooner. You'll take in the famous Manhattan skyline as it was meant to be seen, from the water - plus spectacular views...

Pricing rate is for a minimum ticket purchase of 2 and maximum of 3 Offered from April to early November: Experience a New York City sunset from the water on this evening sightseeing sail past some of the borough's waterside landmarks. Climb aboard our beautiful 80-foot schooner, the Adirondack, for this peaceful, picturesque sail away from the...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foragers to search for wild foods in late spring, and you'll get to enjoy dozens of them. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with edible and medicinal wild plants. Red, white, and pink mulberries will be at their peak now. Too perishable...

Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants. Burdock,...

Step aboard the 1920s style yacht Manhattan and witness the city's beauty and elegance, while enjoying some festive live jazz! On this cruise you may hear anything from jazz standards by Gershwin, Cole Porter and Duke Ellington, to new renditions of Motown songs, R&B grooves and hits from today! Highlights during this groovy cruise include:...

This is a great place for wild foods in mid-summer. Wild greens will also be thriving in fields and along trail edges. We'll be looking for chickweed, which tastes like corn on the cob, lemony sheep sorrel and greenbriar, spicy poor man's pepper, crunchy purslane, and pungent field garlic seeds. We'll also hunt for culinary and medicinal herbs such...

Pricing rate is for a minimum ticket purchase of 4 and maximum of 9. Offered April through early November: Experience New York like you never have before on this two-hour sail aboard the Adirondack, an 80-foot, wooden pilot schooner. You'll take in the famous Manhattan skyline as it was meant to be seen, from the water - plus spectacular views...

A great abundance of edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms makes this park a great place for edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms in late summer. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in cultivated areas throughout the park. You can also use this invasive species as a superb root vegetable, or even...