Mindfulness Meditation

Not provided during the summer.
3:00-3:40 p.m.
66 Fifth Avenue, room 818A

Guided meditation can help you cultivate happiness, relax, and gain greater awareness as well as enhance your creativity and academic performance. Come once, come twice, come every week; no commitment is required. Try a short meditation.

Biofeedback

Not provided during the summer.
Afternoons by appointment
80 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor

Learn how easy it is to go from feeling anxious, tense, or fearful to feeling focused, calm, and confident using biofeedback breathing techniques. Biofeedback measures your body's stress levels through a sensor attached to your earlobe. It gives you feedback about the levels of stress you carry in your body by measuring the rhythm of your heart and your autonomic nervous system response. Through computer-guided feedback, you can learn to let go of stress in your body and become aware of the emotional states and patterns of thought that lead to stress in the first place. For more information, email wellness@newschool.edu or call 212.229.1671 to schedule an appointment.

Free Confidential HIV Testing

The Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center (LESHRC) and The New School provide free and confidential HIV testing. No appointment is necessary; first come, first served. Note: There is no testing when the university is closed.

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Auricular Acupuncture

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., May 28 through July 30
80 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor

Receive a 30-minute, five-point ear acupuncture protocol that can release stress and promote body detoxification. Come once, come twice, come every week; no commitment is required.

Acupressure

Not provided during the summer.
2:45-3:45 p.m.
2 West 13th Street, lobby

Release stress and enhance your sense of well-being with ear acupressure. The procedure takes only three minutes and involves a small metallic bead, which can be left on the ear for up to three days. Come once, come twice, come every week; no commitment is required.

Acupressure

Not provided during the summer.
5:00-6:00 p.m.

Lang Café, 65 West 11th Street, ground floor or by the computers in the basement
Release stress and enhance your sense of well-being with ear acupressure. The procedure takes only three minutes and involves a small metallic bead, which can be left on the ear for up to three days. Come once, come twice, come every week; no commitment is required.

Nutrition

All day; by appointment only, May 30 through August 1, not available on July 4
For more information, email wellness@newschool.edu or call 212.229.1671 to schedule an appointment.

Eight-Week Art Therapy Group

Not provided during the summer.
6:30–8:00 p.m.
80 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor

Love to create? Miss making art for fun or self-discovery? Dread critiques? Take part in eight weeks of uninhibited and nonjudgmental creative expression. Learn about yourself and your peers through art making. Participants must attend six out of the eight sessions for maximum group cohesion. Only New School students who are registered in a degree program and have not waived the New School health insurance plan are eligible. There is a limit of ten participants. Contact The New School's resident art therapist, Kelley Linhardt, at linhardk@newschool.edu to schedule a phone conversation or meeting. Sessions take place every Thursday from February 21 through April 11.

Drop-In Art Therapy Studio

3:00-4:30 p.m., June 7 through July 26, not meeting on July 5.
80 Fifth Avenue, 3rd floor

Finish off your week with creativity! Join The New School's resident art therapist, Kelley Linhardt, every week for 90 minutes of uninhibited, non-judgmental and self-directed art for fun, relaxation, and bliss. Don't have 90 minutes? Come for 30. Come once, come twice, or join us weekly. No commitment is required and art materials are free. A valid New School ID is required.