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Healing on the Shores of the Long Island Sound

On Saturday, the Wainwright House will hold its annual Healing Arts on the Harbor event, which will feature various faith healers from across the area.

The energy healers are coming to Rye.

So are the spiritualists, the pet communicators, the psychic mediums, the heart healers, shamans, tarot card readers and a lot more.

They call it "Healing Arts on the Harbor."

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It is billed as a day of lectures, intuitive mini-sessions, as well as a marketplace.

It takes place this Saturday, August 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Rye's Wainwright House, the oldest non-profit and non-sectarian holistic healing center in the country.

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It is a veritable "Who's Who" of conventional and unconventional healers from throughout the community.

"Healing Arts Day is an outreach attempt so that people in the community can experience and learn about the different forms of healing alternatives as well as showcase the variety of programs offered at Wainwright House when it comes to healing and spirituality," according to Diane Negvesky, Wainwright House director of programs.

Negvesky pointed out that the first Healing Arts Fair was started about five years ago to give the community insight into the variety of services and events offered at Wainwright. While she doesn't have an exact number of registrants for this year's event, it usually draws more than 200 people from all over the tri-state area, from far-out Zen types to curious-minded individuals looking to enlarge their spiritual and intellectual horizons.

"It attracts adventurous wellness seekers who want to develop their mind, body and spirit," she said.

The keynote speaker will be life coach and lecturer Jacqueline Wales, author of "The Fearless Factor," who will be speaking on "The Year of Living Fearlessly," according to Janice O'Brien, Wainwright House director of special events.

The event will take place rain or shine with many vendors displaying their wares under a sprawling tent outside Wainwright House on 260 Stuyvesant Ave., which faces the Long Island Sound.

Mini-sessions will be available with various practitioners at an extra charge.

Speaking from past experience at Healing Arts Day, some of these mini-sessions can be interesting, to say the least. I encountered a shaman and faith healer during the initial Healing Arts Day several years back. The shaman began shaking Indian-feathered rattles and beating a drum while the faith healer chanted in tongues as she performed a massage with soothing oils  in a private room at the chateau.

Though the session began in somewhat comical fashion, it ended with me having a more open-minded attitude about various forms of healing.

While the multitude of people expected to attend Saturday's event may not have the same experience, there will be a lot for them to choose from in terms of healers.

Some of the practitioners involved include Katey Ciriello,  a psychic medium and vibrational sound healer who says she connects with the angelic realm and receives important messages in the form of visions, feelings and thoughts by using clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience (seeing, hearing and feeling) to receive guidance to answer questions.

Then there is Jessica Lawrence, a Reiki master/energy worker and psychic medium who channels answers to your questions, she says, by receiving information from the spirit world as a past-life "regressionist."

Other healers expected to attend include Purim Kin, who describes herself as a  body-centered psychotherapist, spiritual teacher and channel who does past life readings, while Sharon Warner says she is a pet communicator and people psychic; Michael Baier is a spiritual energy attuner, meaning someone who can feel people's energy and emotions, while Linda Darin is an energy healer who works with healing modalities including the chakra energy system, color light/sound healing, meditation, visualization, Reiki and more.

And so it goes from Lisa K, a self-described angel reader, to astrologist Pamela Cucinell and energy healer Alexandra Leclerc, who is a clairvoyant and hypnotherapist. Others range from Susan Armstrong, a chakra balancer,  to Jessie Shippy, a third generation spirit guide artist and clairvoyant.

So, if you are in need of either a zen feeling or a spiritual awakening, you might just find it during Healing Arts on the Harbor.

Further information on Healing Arts on the Harbor: www.wainwright.org; phone: 914: 967-6080; Admission: $10 if you pay online; $15 cash on day of the event. Extra charge for mini sessions.

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