Sunday, December 10th 10:30am-12pm EST

Join Salons for Life for the sixth and final virtual salon- “Lift Off: Cast Your Spell for 2023! A Rhyme Resolution Party" with returning salon facilitator, David “BS” Bradshaw. A Brooklyn-based emcee, songwriter, improviser, beatboxer, and educator, BS’s mission is to empower continued creation.

This workshop is an embodied exploration of the ubiquitous “New Year’s Resolution.” Using techniques derived from hip hop and freestyle rap, BS will guide salon attendees to construct a song that can be their individual mantra for 2023.

Mantra is the chorus; visualization is the verse- what do you want for yourself moving forward? –David “BS” Bradshaw

Sunday, October 30th 10:30am-12pm EST / 3:30-5pm CET

Join Laure Porché – multi-modality therapeutic practitioner and teaching artist– for the fifth salon of the 2022.Children Interrupted Series.

“You might have heard the phrase “Use your words” when you were younger… But do you know which words are YOUR words?

What is the language of your essence? Which words speak to your soul, your body, your senses, your imagination? Do you use them to propel yourself through difficulty, support your life or process your blind spots?

This session aims to explore your unique relationship to words and language, and guide you to start telling stories in your own tongue. We will explore one word of our private glossary and how to build on the many dimensions present in each word.” – Laure Porché

Saturday, September 10th 10:30am-12:00pm EST / 8:00pm-9:30pm IST

Join Salons for Life for our fourth virtual salon of the 2022.Children Interrupted series, "The Kural: A Salon on Love, Listening & Longing," with Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma. A writer, translator, teacher and performer, Thomas has devoted his life to the highest possibilities of words and their power to join our hearts across time and place. Using his two decades of experience translating the Kural – the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power and love – Thomas will guide salon participants to listen to the music of the words of a great poet so that we may hear, more deeply, the wisdom of our own hearts.

Sunday, June 12th 10:30am-12:00pm EST

Join David “BS” Bradshaw- a Brooklyn-based emcee, songwriter, improviser, beatboxer, and educator- for the third salon of the 2022. Children Interrupted Series.

“A firm believer that ‘practice makes progress,’ a decade plus of rhyming has seen BS grow into collaborations with companies like Facebook, Toyota, and Nikon and being featured on programs like The Today Show and "Way Past Midnight" on RedBullTV. You can catch BS hosting his freestyle rap game show PROPS!, teaching through his Freestyle Fitness initiative, and rocking alongside Broadway's Freestyle Love Supreme.” - BS on the mission behind his work.

Sunday, April 10th 10:00am-11:30am EST / 7:30pm-9:00pm IST

Join Anu Seth, a financial coach, software engineer and part of the female-led team at Pay It Forward- an Indian social entrepreneurial venture- for the second salon of the 2022.Children Interrupted Series.

“Our vision is to impart financial awareness to women and youth, thereby empowering them to take responsible and independent financial decisions. Through objective, jargon free workshops and interactive sessions, we learn how to not only help avoid debt traps and falling prey to mis-selling, but also help make a holistic financial plan to meet goals and take informed decisions.” - Anu Seth and the mission behind Pay It Forward.

Saturday, February 19th 10:30am-12:00pm EST / 4:30pm-6:00pm CET

Join multi-modality therapeutic practitioner and textile/performing artist, Laure Porché. Through embodied spatial exploration, drawing and self-reflection, this salon will be an experiential dive into how the adaptive behaviors and survival strategies developed in childhood can be used for the better in our adult lives.

“My approach is rooted in a desire to restore humans into their creative capacity, strength and flexibility. In every case, I start from the body, because no healing process can bypass it. I create environments, experiences, pathways, because the body and the subconscious mind, which are responsible for 95% of our decisions and reactions, respond only to sensations, metaphors, and embodied experience.”- Laure