Due to popular demand, we’re bringing back listings of NYC’s hottest spirit-raising events. So, if you’re up to good stuff, tell us about it, so we can tell others. If you’re in other parts of the country, take heart, we hope to reach you soon. Email your events to jonathan(at)souldish.com.
Events This Week:
Kirtan With David Newman
Full Moon at Cosm
Chemistry
Matthieu Ricard on Happiness
Tai Chi – Chi Kung with Daria Fain
Upcoming:
NYC Gnostics: Living Gnosis & The Fire Serpent

Details below:

Friday, February 2
Kirtan With David Newman
An inspired evening of chanting and song with Kirtan Chant Artist David Newman aka Durga Das joined by devotional singer and percussionist MIRA.
Jivamukti Yoga Center
841 Broadway, 2nd Fl
212-353-0214
(8:30p, $17 in advance, $20 at door)

Also on Friday
Full Moon at Cosm
Prayer 7:30-9:30p
Drumming and Dancing from 9:30pm until midnight
Cosm
542 W. 27th St., 4th Fl
Doors open at 7
(7:30p-12a, $10)

Saturday, Feb. 3

Chemistry
Chemistry creates a party of playful abandon, both cosmopolitan and bohemian, where great music, exciting atmosphere, and beautiful, sexy people act as catalysts for a variety of spontaneous reactions – dancing, colorful conversation and intimate connections.
Grand Space
778 Bergen Street btw Washington and Grand in Prospect Heights,
(10p-4am, Check out Website for tix)

Sunday, Feb. 4
Matthieu Ricard on Happiness
Matthieu Ricard is the author of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill. He is a Buddhist monk who left France, where he had a promising career in cellular genetics, to study Buddhism in the Himalayas 35 years ago. He has served as a translator for the Dalai Lama, is a renowned photographer and is involved in humanitarian projects in Tibet and Nepal. He is a leading researcher on neuroscience and its relationship to ancient Asian practices that focus on achieving mental clarity and emotional balance.
92Y
Kaufmann Concert Hall
Lexington Ave at 92nd St.
(7:30p, $25)

SD: We highly endorse cellular geneticists turned Buddhist monks with a love of neuroscience and humanitarian projects.

Also on Sunday

Tai Chi – Chi Kung with Daria Fain
This thirteen-movement form focuses on the inner structure of Tai Chi, the way the Chi flows in the body and the way energy is transmitted through the bone structure from the ground. This form is simple and easy to master, yet it contains all the essential movement of Tai Chi.
Body Language
241 Bedford Avenue #7 - L train to Bedford
humanbehaviorexplorers@earthlink.net
718-450-1356
(11a-3p, $65)

Upcoming

Friday, Feb. 9

Living Gnosis & The Fire Serpent
Join the NYC Gnostics for a discussion of Tau Malachi’s Living Gnosis, showing us ways to experience “Sophia” in our daily lives. We’ll also raise the fire serpent (kundalini energy) up “The Tree of Life” (the spine) with a full chakra meditation involving breathwork, chanting, visualization, and more.
Cap 21, 18 W. 18th St. 6th Fl.
(7p, $6) RSVP