University Open Air: Tibetan Method of Purifying Negative Energies and Five Pranayamas
City life is confusing, and everyone is busy running here looking for a healthier life! Here is a simple method to stay healthy! In this session, Dr. Chok will teach the most well-known nine-round breathings for purifying the stale energies from our bodies and the five most common breath works…
University Open Air: Kinwork: Anti-racism, Anti-facism, and How to Organize Our Families
In this workshop we will learn how to approach political topics like Immigration, anti-Haitianism, anti-Blackness and far right conservatism with your family while maintaining mental health and wellness. This workshop offers communication, well-being and organizing strategies to influence those…
University Open Air: Letters to the Future: Writing Epistolary Stories
Letters hold secrets, memories, and confessions—we write them to connect, to heal, to remember. This workshop explores epistolary storytelling, a form that uses letters, diary entries, and messages to build powerful narratives.
In this class, we’ll read and discuss excerpts from famous…
University Open Air: Line of Flight: Painting Workshop
We'll use a traditional, old-school method to transform photographic images into monochromatic acrylic paintings. Through abstraction—we’ll begin with a controlled approach and gradually allow expressive gestures to take over.
Limited to 15 participants.
University Open Air: Tibetan Meditation Practice
We are so busy with our city life and forget to take care of our mental health. Here is an opportunity to learn how to take care of our mind. In this session, Dr. Chok will teach how to practice Tibetan meditation from a to z. He will teach what are the things we need to prepare before…
University Open Air: Escaping the Maze: Writing Stories of Survival
Whether it’s escaping a dangerous place, a toxic relationship, or an outdated tradition, survival stories resonate because they are deeply human.
This class will help you explore the psychology of survival in storytelling; develop a compelling protagonist who must fight to escape, and…
University Open Air: Tibetan Secrets of Rejuvenation and Longevity
We all desire physical and mental wellbeing, but we are busy searching for it outside! Why not we search it within with help of the ancient Tibetan knowledge. We breathe every day without knowing its tremendous power. One of the key secrets is called ‘Vase Breathing’. It is also known as ‘One…
University Open Air: Stitched Narratives: The Stories We Wear
In this workshop, we explore clothing as a representation of identity, tracing the ways our garments connect us to people, places, and memories. This session emphasizes the communal nature of cloth storytelling, inviting participants to share the histories embedded in their clothing.…
*CANCELLED* University Open Air: Creative Coloring
Adult coloring, a self-care activity that transcends social and cultural barriers, is therapeutic and relaxing. No prior knowledge or expertise required - just an open mind to recreate patterns and images in one's own interpretation. Whether you are a seasoned artist or new to this activity, all…
University Open Air: Tibetan Self-Healing Massage and Mantra Healing
We are burning out with our busy city life! Our body and mind need healing but no time to go for a massage! Here is an opportunity to learn how to do self-massage (a little-known Tibetan self-massage method using your breath and hands) and mantra healing meditation to energize the body and heal…
University Open Air: Listening to the Voice of Things: On Reality and Its Signs
For as long as we can remember, human beings have dealt with uncertainty poetically. It all began with the traces that animals leave on the ground. Knowing how to read these tracks allowed us to address immediate challenges. Repeated patterns over time let us assign consistent meanings to…
University Open Air: Food Preservation and Terroir
This class explores how food preservation, access, and consumption intersect with identity, politics, and cultural norms. Focusing on preservation techniques—such as fermenting, pickling, and drying—we’ll examine how these age-old methods foster resilience, self-sufficiency, and collective care…
University Open Air: Immigrant Sayings: Lecture and Collection Open Hours
For this University Open Air session, Marcelo invites you to share the sayings you've learned from your family, friends, and acquaintances that have helped you cope with difficult situations in the city or country where you're currently living, and also to share the context or story behind the…
University Open Air: A Brief History of Photography (Techniques & Genres)
In this course, first we will see a brief history of photography focused on some of the important techniques and genres (with a bias on French and Francophone photography). After discovering or rediscovering certain techniques used by famous photographers, we will explore the building, the…
University Open Air: Shadow Chaser: Inviting Your Dreams to Tea
Have you encountered your worst self in dreams? Doing, saying, or wishing things that you would never permit yourself to do, think, or say in waking life? Let us invite our "Shadow Selves" to tea. There is no better remedy for shame, embarrassment, and confusion than opening the door to the…
University Open Air: Five Senses Tibetan Yogas & Five Movement Yogas
The Five Sense Tibetan Yogas are sitting yogas for energizing our five senses which are directly connected to our five solid organs and five hollow organs. These yogas are first taught in the 12th century in Tibet.
The Five Movements are standing yogas which release blockages in our…
University Open Air: The Symbolism and Cultural Significance of Chopsticks in Chinese Culture
In Chinese culture, chopsticks hold deep symbolic and cultural significance, representing Harmony, Balance, and Respect, and are integral to daily life and rituals, from meals to ceremonies. In this class, we are going to explore chopsticks Culture and learn Etiquette.
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University Open Air: Immigrant Sayings: Lecture and Collection Open Hours
For this University Open Air session, Marcelo invites you to share the sayings you've learned from your family, friends, and acquaintances that have helped you cope with difficult situations in the city or country where you're currently living, and also to share the context or story behind the…
University Open Air: Misconceptions about Chinese New Year
Is the Chinese New Year the same as the Lunar New Year? What are the differences? We will dive into the calendar's world in this class.
University Open Air: Stitched Narratives: The Stories We Wear
In this workshop, we explore clothing as a representation of identity, tracing the ways our garments connect us to people, places, and memories. This session emphasizes the communal nature of cloth storytelling, inviting participants to share the histories embedded in their clothing.…
University Open Air: How to Make Healing Nectar
Eco and drinking enzymes have been developed by Dr. Rosukon from Thailand. Eco enzyme is a complex solution produced by fermentation of fresh kitchen waste (fruit and vegetable scraps), brown sugar, and water. Eco enzyme is a multipurpose liquid, and its applications cover general household…
University Open Air: Power & Photography
Let's discuss photography's less known history of violence, which persists in subtle forms today. Some photographic practices are still based on power (colonial, and more). Content over consent unwittingly turns the “subject” into an object of consumption. With iconic examples, we will think of…
University Open Air: Dreams of Death, Signs of Rebirth. Discussion and Performance.
For many, dreams of death can bring discomfort, anxiety, and fear. Yet, death in the dream realm may be viewed as a transcendent experience rather than a literal one. Where there is death, there is a cycle into rebirth. One may ask themselves, "What part of me needs to die so a new chapter can…