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"New Orleans is
rebuilding, but its enduring pulse and resilience is found in the
expression of literature,
music, art, and traditions steeped in a culture as rich and old as the
city itself."
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 The New Orleans
Healing Center
Description of The Healing Center
Housed within the Healing Center are five complementary and synergistically
interrelated “silos” each of which, in their own unique way, crystallize the
Center’s mission—to tend to the mind, body, and environmental health of the
resilient citizens of New Orleans.
Complementary and Alternative Healing Arts and Shamanic Studies Center
An association of holistic specialists and indigenous healers, whose focus
is to ameliorate stress, trauma generally and particularly the endemic
stress symptoms resulting from Katrina and subsequent individual, family,
social, and cultural violence. ...MORE
Yoga Studio
Wild Lotus Yoga, with over 7,000 students testifying to its well-established
programs in Uptown New Orleans, will open a downtown branch, bringing a
variety of specialized classes and yoga styles to the New Orleans Healing
Center.
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The Street University
In the belief that comradeship and learning are fundamental to
self-awareness, self-integration, self-healing, and community healing the
Street University conducts adult education courses of every sort taught by
anyone in the New Orleans community with a practical skill, craft, or life
experience to communicate....MORE
The Healing Café, Juice Bar and Coffee Shop
Nutrition is the corner stone of health and life. The Café will function as
a social hub for the Healing community and the neighborhood, extending the
spirit of healthy eating and friendship to everyone. The Café will offer a
full menu of moderately priced organic and vegetarian dishes drawn from a
variety of cooking traditions including healthier versions of local Creole
dishes. After an establishing year of operation, a program will be
instituted to train at-risk-youth culinary and restaurant skills....MORE
The Healing Center Retail Bazaar
Intended to be the supply resource for The Healing Center’s community
programs, a number of retail vendors in a Bazaar setting will offer Healing
Center logo brand clothes and supplies, sacred music discs, self-improvement
and educational books, video and audio instruction manuals for exercise and
life-style enhancement, and homeopathic and herbal supplements as well as
other related products. The Boutique will actively engage the surrounding
neighborhoods and beyond by offering a window into the variety of
intellectual, spiritual, and physical experiences The Healing Center offers....MORE
The New Orleans Food Co-op
This will be Louisiana’s first cooperative grocery store in the Center.
There are no other grocery stores in the Marigny/Bywater/Upper Ninth Ward
area. The emphasis will be on organic and locally grown foods.
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Art Space
Galleries will showcase local artists’ artworks.
Web Design SuJen Webs
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