Explore the City
ABC Home & Deepak HomeBase
Location: 888 & 881 Broadway New York, NY
Description:
Located in the heart of ABC Carpet & Home, Deepak HomeBase creates a critical mass where together we can create a peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy, and happy world. Deepak HomeBase is both a physical and a virtual salon; a vital, living, interactive, experiential platform; a multi media expanded classroom and a curated conversation. Hosted by visionary futurist Deepak Chopra, with the iconic characters and luminaries of our times, interactive events explore health & wellness; science & sages; innovation; technology; artists of substance; leaders and leadership; love in action; our environment; food; poverty; sustainability; compassion; spirituality; success; happiness, suffering; living and dying; beauty; wisdom; love, relationship and sexuality; current events; the future; and much more.
In a time where humanity is facing some difficult, painful, and mysterious questions, Deepak’s gift is more relevant than ever as he is poised to ask the questions, create the inquiry, and host the solutions and the debate. Informed through ancient sages, modern science, wisdom authors and philosophers, poetry, song and art, Deepak HomeBase raises the bar on integrity and intelligence.
Website: http://www.abchome.com/news-events/
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
Location: 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street
Description:
The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and the Seat of its Bishop, is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership. It serves the many diverse people of our Diocese, City, Nation and World through an array of liturgical, cultural and civic events; pastoral, educational and community outreach activities; and maintains the preservation of the great architectural and historic site that is its legacy.
People from many faiths and communities worship together in services held more than 30 times a week; the soup kitchen serves roughly 25,000 meals annually; social service outreach has an increasingly varied roster of programs; the distinguished Cathedral School prepares young students to be future leaders; Adults and Children in Trust, the renowned preschool, afterschool and summer program, offers diverse educational and nurturing experiences; the outstanding Textile Conservation Lab preserves world treasures; concerts, exhibitions, performances and civic gatherings allow conversation, celebration, reflection and remembrance—such is the joyfully busy life of this beloved and venerated Cathedral.
Website: http://www.stjohndivine.org/
The Garrison Institute
Location (note, outside the city):
Garrison Institute
14 Mary's Way, Route 9D
Garrison, New York 10524
Description:
The Garrison Institute applies the transformative power of contemplation to today's pressing social and environmental concerns, helping build a more compassionate, resilient future. The Garrison Institute envisions and works to build a future in which contemplative ideas and methods are increasingly mainstream, and are applied at scale to create the conditions for positive, systemic social and environmental change. A positive state of mind is a critical condition for a positive future, because it profoundly affects future behavior. Contemplation will be increasingly recognized and practiced as a key pathway to positive states of mind and behavior, helping to cultivate caring, insight and courage in individuals, to forge new ways of thinking, new learning and leadership networks among key leaders and groups, and to shift collective values, worldviews and practices in society.
Website: http://www.garrisoninstitute.org
Kirtan at the Bhakti Center
Location: 25 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (Between 1st and 2nd Street)
Description:
Kirtan is a form of devotional chanting with roots going back many centuries in India. It is a primary practice on the path of Bhakti Yoga. The singing is accompanied by musical instruments and rhythmic drumming and the audience is encouraged to participate by chanting, clapping and dancing. In its heartfelt expression kirtan can induce profound states of meditation and bliss. Every Thursday night the Bhakti Center is happy to present kirtan led by a variety of talented and devoted musicians
Website: http://bhakticenter.org
Marble Collegiate Church Labyrinth
Location: 5:00-6:00pm, enter at 1 West 29th Street.
Schedule: Labyrinth walks at Marble Collegiate Church are open to all:
First Sunday of each month - 1:00-3:00pm
Wednesdays - 5:00-6:00pm
(Please call the church to confirm schedule)
For more information contact Judy Tulin (212) 686-2770 ext. 207.
Description:
At Marble Collegiate Church we have one of the only indoor, permanent, walkable labyrinths in New York City available to the public on a regular basis. Ours is based on the design of the labyrinth inlaid in the floor of Chartres Cathedral in France dating from the thirteenth century. It is the first such labyrinth to be built in the city in over 80 years, and the first built in the 21st century. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to learn how Marble came to have a Labyrinth from Jean Ando, our Labyrinth Facilitator.
Website: http://www.marblechurch.org/worship/labyrinth/
Open Center
Location: 22 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Description:
The New York Open Center offers holistically-based educational programs to create positive transformation in individuals and the world. The New York Open Center was founded in 1984 with the intention of creating a forum for a new generation of seekers. Our founders felt there was an abundance of excellent spiritual teachers and practitioners in the New York City area without a physical space or destination in which to practice. With an event on the evening of January 13, 1984, the New York Open Center was born.
Website: http://www.opencenter.org
The Rubin Museum of Art
Location: 150 West 17th Street
Description:
The Rubin Museum of Art is an arts and cultural hub in New York City’s vibrant Chelsea neighborhood that inspires visitors to make connections between contemporary life and the art and ideas of the Himalayas, India, and neighboring regions. With a diverse array of thought-provoking exhibitions and programs—including films, concerts, and on-stage conversations—the Rubin provides immersive experiences that encourage personal discoveries and spark new ways of seeing the world. Emphasizing cross-cultural connections, the Rubin is a space to contemplate ideas that extend across history and span human cultures.
Website: http://rubinmuseum.org
Tibet House
Location: 22 West 15th Street, New York, NY 10011
Description:
Tibet House US is dedicated to preserving Tibet’s unique culture at a time when it is confronted with extinction on its own soil. By presenting Tibetan civilization and its profound wisdom, beauty, and special art of freedom to the people of the world, we hope to inspire others to join the effort to protect and save it. Tibet House US is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of this earth.
Website: http://tibethouse.us