In-Person and Online: Radiating Metta for NYC Pride
with Leslie Booker and Elaine Retholtz
Monday, June 23rd, 2025 | 6:30pm-8:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, on the 12th Floor
Join Insight OUT Refuge radiate lovingkindness and offer compassion to our beautiful selves, our caring mentors, our dear friends and the whole rainbow community in an effort to face those who aim to harm us.
We will practice a short meditation and have time for socializing in celebration of NYC Pride. This is a time for us to celebrate our pride, freedom, and liberation.
RSVP is not required for online attendance.
Join us online via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89935101990?pwd=NHNEYXh6ZmttK3RGbjF5a21tcEZidz09
Meeting ID: 899 3510 1990
Passcode: 123
Dial by your location: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kbAkW4rpL2
- Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to ensure an orderly check-in.
- Walk-Ins are welcome, please register at the door when you arrive.
If you are having trouble completing your RSVP or donation, please CLICK HERE to open it in a new browser. All proceeds will support this sangha’s teacher(s) and other NYI operations support. Please contact [email protected] if you need assistance.
Fee by donation: Suggested starting donation is $15 but whatever you offer is greatly appreciated and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
Note: for the health and safety of our staff, teachers, and community, please do not come onsite if you are feeling unwell. Please let us know so those on the waiting list will be able to attend.
Teacher(s)
Leslie Booker
Booker is a heart – centered, spirit – driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co – authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma – informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.
Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.
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Elaine Retholtz
Elaine Retholtz has been studying and practicing the Dharma since 1988. In addition to teaching Dharma at New York Insight, she is certified as both a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher and MBSR teacher trainer. She has a deep interest in helping students integrate mindfulness practice into daily life.