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The Texture of Practice: A 3-class Series

Weaving movement and breath, action and reflection, solitude and togetherness, this series aims to provide a widening space for creativity, inquiry, and curiosity as we move into a new year.

3 Sundays
January 17, 24, 31
3-4:30pm

$20 per session
$50 for all

Please email info@theshala.com for more information!

steve popkin

Steve Popkin, a Shala student and Suzi Kurz’s partner, left his physical body early Tuesday morning, with Suzi by his side. He was 62 years old. Suzi shared that his passing was peaceful, a relief from the pain he had been suffering during a sudden and severe illness.

Steve was a big-hearted, inquisitive, and unassuming yogi. He began practicing 9 years ago with Suzi’s encouragement. He continued his practice as much as possible in the last months of his life. We will miss Steve dearly, and send him love and prayers as he journeys on.

If you would like to make a donation in Steve’s memory, please visit New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell at www.nyp.org/giving/ways-to-give-to-newyorkpresbyterian. Suzi would like to acknowledge and honor Dr. Rick Furman for his care and kindness during Steve’s treatment.

An Evening with Abdi Assadi

BIO

Abdi Assadi is a spiritual counselor and healer in his 35th year of clinical practice. His work centers on helping his patients use their disease and dysfunction as a doorway to spiritual serenity. Through his decades of practice, he has learned that identifying and integrating the human shadow – those disowned or repressed puzzle pieces of self that wreak havoc in our lives – offers the most lasting healing for what ails us in body, mind, and spirit. He has studied Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese acupuncture, body centered psychotherapy, external and internal martial arts, indigenous shamanic practices as well as diverse meditative techniques. He believes we should live in this transient world as fully as possible.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A Healer’s Handbook: A Guide for the Beginner Practitioner presents three and a half decades of clinical experience distilled into a practical and easy-to-use esoteric guidebook.

This book offers a pared-down examination of the therapeutic process while highlighting how self- reflection is crucial when engaging the healing realm, regardless of the modality. There is great responsibility in being called to tend to the needs of another. To become a clear enough channel to be of service, one must stare into the mirror.

This work applies to a myriad of healing modalities on the body-mind-spirit continuum: bodywork, psychotherapeutic arts, spiritual healing, or a mix thereof, and includes acupuncturists, massage therapists, yoga teachers, social workers, psychotherapists, energy healers, and life coaches.

Purchase book here
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