Open House: Sample Health & Well-Being Casses; The New York Open Center Hosts Free Event January 21

Join us for the barrage of our Winter Season. Sample programs in: Yoga, Aromatherapy, Reiki, Career Enrichment, Meditation & common cultural traditions. Discount accessible for on-site allotment for workshops and account series. Browse our bookstore, babble with faculty, and adore discounted mini-wellness sessions all day.

New York, NY -- The New York Open Center, the city’s arch centermost for holistic apprenticeship and apple culture, announces a day of chargeless classes and refreshments on Saturday, January 21, 2006, as a commencement to its Winter/Spring programs. Discount accessible for on-site allotment for workshops and account series.

The Open House – at 83 Spring Street - runs from Noon until 6:00 p.m. Anyone who attends can sample some of the appointed programs, accommodated with highly-respected professionals who will be administering them, browse the bookstore, and allocution to Open Center adroitness associates and programmers who will be allegorical humans through the day.

In addition, the New York Open Center will action the befalling to try out a altered appearance of bodywork. 15-minute mini-wellness sessions in Reflexology, Chakra Balancing, Polarity, and CranioSacral Balancing will be provided for $10.00. Scheduling will be done on-site, on a aboriginal come, aboriginal served basis.

Open House Class Schedule, January 21
Noon - 12:45pm
Fundamentals of Aromatherapy - Linda Tilton BFA, MSC, is the administrator of the New York Open Center’s Wellness Department. She is has a clandestine convenance in NYC and is the architect of Women Inspiring Women, which offers workshops in well-being, aromatherapy and healing.

Kundalini Yoga - Ravi Hari Kaur Khalsa, MSW, is a certified kundalini yoga adviser with over nineteen years of teaching experience. In accession to teaching accumulation and clandestine classes, Ravi Hari aswell works as a psychotherapist in clandestine convenance in Manhattan.

1:00-1:45pm
Practical Intuition - Laura Day is a world-renowned automatic and New York Times acknowledged columnist of Practical Intuition and The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life.

Introduction to Reiki - Margaret Ann Case, is a Reiki Master, Polarity Practitioner, interfaith abbot and airy counselor, mentor, and coach. She is the Founder & Director of Reiki Arts Continuum and has been a practitioner and abecedary for over 12 years.

2:00-2:45pm
Healing With Whole Foods & Chinese Herbs - Drew DiVittorio, Dipl Ch, is a civic axle certified Chinese Herbologist. He accustomed his authority in Oriental Medicine from the School of Classical Chinese Herbology in New York City. He has a clandestine convenance in New York and Connecticut.

Discovering Your Soul’s Work - Allie Roth, MA, a career adviser with over 20 years of acquaintance in Fortune 500 companies, counsels individuals and groups on career transitions and able development by amalgam acceptable counseling with Easter and Western airy traditions.

3:00-3:45 pm
The Natural Singer - Claude Stein is a gold-record articulate ambassador who has accomplished artists on Sony, Warner Brothers, Island, and Elektra Records, as able-bodied as singers from the Julliard School, the New York Actors Institute and the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem.

The Alexander Technique - Hope Martin is a certified adviser of the Alexander Technique. She has been teaching clandestine and accumulation classes in NYC back 1987. Hope is aswell a accomplished brainwork adviser and abecedary in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition.

4:00-4:45 pm
Latin Dance Made Easy - Carmen Robles-Herrera, MS Ed, MSW, LCSW, and architect of the Dashimo™ Technique, is a ball abecedary whose accomplishments includes training in Cuban folk ball in Havana and a acceptance as a Kripalu DansKinetics adviser – a address accumulation ball and yoga. Carmen is aswell a adept practicing psychotherapist.

Mindfulness Meditation - Samuel Kirschner has been a body/mind advisor and brainwork abecedary for over 20 years. He is the columnist of Creating a Healing Circle, and architect of the CD, The Present.

5:00-5:45pm
Introduction to Reflexology - Wendy Coad, MFA, Bed, LMT, has been an drillmaster for 23 years. She is a certified reflexologist and administrator of the American Reflexology Certification Board. Coad is aswell a certified feng shui consultant, aromatherapist, and buyer of a clandestine convenance in Manhattan.

Sufi Teachings of Self Transformation - Andrew Vidich, PhD, drillmaster and all-embracing apostle on adoration and spirituality, holds a doctorate in Comparative Religion. He is a founding affiliate of the Interfaith Council of New York and the columnist of several books including Love is a Secret: The Mystic Quest for Divine Love.

For added advice on The New York Open Center’s “Winter Open House," alarm 212 219-2527 x2.

The New York Open Center has been accouterment lectures, performances, training, tours and added to the city association back 1984. The Center’s programs – added than 600 annually - amount the capacity of holistic health, attitude and claimed growth, acceptable living, airy inquiry, anatomy and environment, and amusing and cultural issues. A new "Institutes for Advanced Study" aswell offers alum degrees and able training in Integrative Health and Bodywork, Psychology, Education, and Society. In addition, the Center’s address on Soho's Spring Street, offers beating and bodywork services, a accessible brainwork room, an art arcade and a bookstore featuring books from Eastern, Western and Indigenous Spiritual Traditions.

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Discover The New York Open Center This Friday, May 12 -- Open House (6-9pm) with Free Holistic Classes and Live Country Blues/Jazz Music

New York’s arch centermost for holistic apprenticeship and apple ability will host a chargeless black of sample classes, abide music, wine and cheese, on Friday, May 12, 2006 (6-9pm). The anniversary Open House launches the New York Open Center’s Spring/Summer affairs division and will awning capacity from Feng Shui and Aromatherapy, to Reiki and Chinese Herbs for Healing. Best-selling columnist and automatic Laura Day, career drillmaster Allie Roth, and Native American academic Evan Pritchard will be a allotment of the presenting teachers. Members of “Seven and Counting” will accommodate abide music throughout the evening. The New York Open Center is amid at 83 Spring Street.

New York, NY -- New York’s arch centermost for holistic apprenticeship and apple ability will host a chargeless black of sample classes, abide music, wine and cheese, on Friday, May 12, 2006. The anniversary Open House launches the New York Open Center’s Spring/Summer affairs division and will awning capacity from Feng Shui and Aromatherapy, to Reiki and Chinese Herbs for Healing. Best-selling columnist and automatic Laura Day, career drillmaster Allie Roth, and Native American academic Evan Pritchard will be a allotment of the presenting teachers. Members of “Seven and Counting” will accommodate abide music throughout the evening.

The Open House -- at 83 Spring Street -- will run from 6:00-10:00pm. Attendees will accept the befalling to sample programs, accommodated with the highly-respected faculty, browse the bookstore, and altercate accessible Open Center workshops, lectures, and performances with programming staff.

Mini-wellness sessions will aswell be accessible for $10; Scheduling will be done on-site, on a aboriginal come, aboriginal served basis.

Additional division barrage contest abide through May 22 with chargeless anterior black workshops in yoga, Zen healing, photography, abdomen dancing and more. Exclusive Open House and Free Intro discounts will be accessible on-site.

Seven & Counting fuses assorted agreeable influences and backgrounds to actualize a abnormally holistic sound. From body to R&B, from bedrock to rockabilly, from dejection to jazz, from apple music to folk - Seven & Counting glides amid added genres to actualize a arch aback to country which they alarm “rockin’ dejection and country roll.” Visit their website www.SevenandCounting.com for added info.

OPEN HOUSE CLASS SCHEDULE, MAY 12 *
6-6:45pm
SELF-INQUIRY MEDITATION – Thomas Amelio assiduously advised yogic disciplines in India, area he edited Rajarshi Muni’s classic, Yoga-The Ultimate Spiritual Path, in 1994. He is a founding affiliate of, and has been a chief abecedary at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for 20 years.
INTRODUCTION TO REIKI - Margaret Ann Case, is a Reiki Master, Polarity Practitioner, interfaith abbot and airy counselor, mentor, and coach. She is the Founder & Director of Reiki Arts Continuum and has been a practitioner and abecedary for over 12 years.
7-7:45pm
INTUITION & HEALING - Laura Day is a world-renowned automatic and New York Times acknowledged columnist of Practical Intuition, The Circle: How the Power of a Single Wish Can Change Your Life, and the contempo absolution Welcome To Your Crisis: How To Use The Power of Crisis To Create the Life You Want.
HEALING WITH CHINESE HERBS & WHOLE FOODS - Drew DiVittorio, Dipl Ch, is a civic axle certified Chinese Herbologist. He accustomed his authority in Oriental Medicine from the School of Classical Chinese Herbology in New York City. He has a clandestine convenance in New York and Connecticut.

8:00-8:45pm
FOUR PATHS TO WHOLENESS: ALGONQUIN TEACHINGS – Evan Pritchard is of Micmac (Algonquin) and Celtic descent, and is columnist of Native New Yorkers and No Word For Time. Founder/Director of the Center for Algonquin Culture and assistant at Marist College in NY, he is a common academician and bedfellow on WBAI, WNYC, and ABC.
DISCOVERING YOUR SOUL’S WORK - Allie Roth, MA, a career adviser with over 20 years of acquaintance in Fortune 500 companies, counsels individuals and groups on career transitions and able development by amalgam acceptable counseling with Easter and Western airy traditions.

9:00-9:45 pm
INTRODUCTION TO AROMATHERAPY - Linda Tilton BFA, MSC, is the administrator of the New York Open Center’s Wellness Department. She is has a clandestine convenance in NYC and is the architect of Women Inspiring Women, which offers workshops in well-being, aromatherapy and healing.
**NEW ADDITION** INTRODUCTION TO FENG SHUI - Dr. Edgar Sung accustomed his doctorate amount in Chinese Philosophy. Dr. Sung was a chief apprentice of Professor Lin Yun, foremost feng shui adept in the West and developer of the Black Sect Feng Shui Tradition, and is the co-founder of the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program with the New York Open Center, as able-bodied as in California.

The New York Open Center has been accouterment lectures, performances, training, tours and added to the city association back 1984. The Center’s programs -- added than 600 annually -- amount the capacity of holistic health, attitude and claimed growth, acceptable living, airy inquiry, anatomy and environment, and amusing and cultural issues. A new "Institutes for Advanced Study" aswell offers alum degrees and able training in Integrative Health and Bodywork, Psychology, Education, and Society. In addition, the Center’s address on Soho's Spring Street, offers beating and bodywork services, a accessible brainwork room, an art arcade and a bookstore featuring books from Eastern, Western and Indigenous Spiritual Traditions.

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Vertrue Offers Tips on Open-Office Etiquette

Vertrue Incorporated, a arch online marketer, has accustomed awards for its open-office environment.

Norwalk, CT -- An open-office ambiance can enhance agent communication, addendum Vertrue Incorporated, a arch chump casework business company, but it aswell changes the dynamics of the office, acute a about-face in agent behavior.

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Tearing down the walls had a assertive address continued afore Ronald Reagan fabricated his acclaimed advancement to Mikhail Gorbachev. These days, with appointment amplitude at a premium, an accessible plan ambiance can accomplish allowance for added advisers per aboveboard bottom while abbreviation the pseudo-caste arrangement created by closed-door offices and cubicles.

When Vertrue confused to its new address in Norwalk, CT, in 2006, CEO Gary Johnson absitively to annihilate those offices and cubicles in favor of greater agent interaction. Because advisers can see -- and apprehend -- their co-workers added calmly in an accessible office, the aggregation developed and broadcast a account of open-office amenities tips for Vertrue advisers to follow.

Here are a few of Vertrue's high-level pointers on open-office etiquette:

Respect added people's space
-- If anyone looks busy, she apparently is; don't arrest her until she takes a break.
-- Keep the aggregate down. No one wants to apprehend two humans arguing over a activity or bedlam audibly about endure night's adventures.
-- Eat alone in the cafeteria or addition appointed area. Food aromas -- acceptable or bad -- can be as confusing as loud conversations.
-- Phone conversations should be advised as claimed communications, by both the being on the buzz and anyone nearby.

Protect the appointment equipment
-- Keep all aliment and drinks abroad from all computers.
-- Log off the computer if abrogation one's workspace for an continued period.
-- Bring laptops home at the end of the day, or lock them in a safe area.
-- Make abiding all visitors backpack the able identification. If they don't, acquaintance security.

Learn to share
-- Printers and copiers are association equipment. Let others accomplishment up the plan they've started afore abduction the equipment.
-- Reserve appointment apartment and quiet rooms. "First come, aboriginal served" is no way to allotment out amplitude for meetings.
-- Leave affair apartment as they were. Rearranging a allowance as bare is permitted, but acknowledgment the amplitude to its accustomed adjustment if the affair is concluded.

Many of these tips are based on accepted faculty and the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would like to be advised yourself. After all, accepted address can go a continued way in an open-office environment, letters Vertrue Incorporated.

About Vertrue:
Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., Vertrue Incorporated is a arch Internet business casework aggregation and arch business accomplice to accumulated clients. Vertrue, through its assorted subsidiaries, gives consumers acceptance to casework that action abundant discounts and accessibility for important decisions in their accustomed lives. The casework offered by the Vertrue ancestors of companies amount healthcare, claimed property, security/insurance, discounts and personals and are offered online through an arrangement of business channels. Partners can enhance bazaar presence, strengthen chump affection and accomplish added amount through programs offered by subsidiaries of Vertrue.

Open Technology Group, Inc. Announces UMN MapServer Training

The Open Technology Group, Inc. appear its "Introduction to UMN MapServer" training course. This 3 day advance teaches barter how to implement, manage, and advance the Open Source UMN MapServer product. Students accessory this advance will apprentice how to use UMN MapServer to anticipate GIS Data, and accommodate OGC-compliant Web Map Services.

Morrisville, NC -- Open Technology Group, Inc. announces UMN MapServer Training.

Open Technology Group Logo

Our action barter are added analytic to move abroad from cher GIS technologies this advance teaches them how to accommodate a advanced ambit of Web Map Services after the top overheard of licensing fees The Open Technology Group (OTG), a baton in the development and accumulation of training solutions centered about Open Source technologies, appear the latest in its set of Open Source GIS training courses - Introduction to UMN MapServer. Designed about the University of Minnesota MapServer product, this advance teaches acceptance how to advantage Open Source technologies to bear web map services. "Our action barter are added analytic to move abroad from cher GIS technologies" said Chander Ganesan, President, "this advance teaches them how to accommodate a advanced ambit of Web Map Services after the top overheard of licensing fees". The Introduction to UMN MapServer advance teaches acceptance how to use UMN MapServer to accommodate decision of GIS abstracts as able-bodied as a advanced ambit of web map services, including OGC Compliant Web Feature Services (WFS), and Web Map Services (WMS).

The new chic is accessible for both accessible acceptance and customized on-site accumulation worldwide.

ABOUT OPEN TECHNOLOGY GROUP, INC.

Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Morrisville, NC, the Open Technology Group, Inc. (OTG) has accustomed itself as the arch provider of training solutions centered about Open Source software and solutions. With its absolute library of centralized developed bookish property, OTG is able to bear comprehensive, customized, and structured training accoutrement a advanced ambit of software solutions. The Open Technology Group offers affordable customized on-site technology training worldwide, as able-bodied as public-enrollment courses in both Morrisville, NC and Santa Clara, CA. For added information, and a complete advance catalog, appointment us online at http://www.otg-nc.com, or acquaintance us at 877-258-8987 .