In-Person: Summer Sunday Sangha at Astoria Park
with Lani Miller
Sunday, August 17th, 2025 | 10:00am – 12:00pm ET, followed by BYO picnic
Location: North Lawn at Astoria Park, exact location here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8zLzywE3XmUvLGw56?g_st=ac
Connect with your meditation community in parks across the boroughs this summer! We will meditate, meet, and then celebrate with an optional BYO picnic.
This Queens gathering is the first of two outdoor, community events to celebrate the diversity of NYIMC’s community throughout New York City. Join us this summer to meditate outside and to meet your NYIMC sangha across the boroughs.
New York Insight teacher Lani Miller, the Queens Sangha, and the Friends Leadership Council will offer a morning meditation, exercises in community connection, and the chance to spend time in beautiful Astoria Park.
Beginning at 10:00 AM, we will meditate together in nature, then move into interactive activities to engage with new and old sangha friends. The event will end at 12:00 PM, when you’re welcome to join our BYO Picnic. Feel free to bring your own meal, or something refreshing to share.
We encourage you to bring a blanket, chair, or whatever you may need to support your practice in an outdoor setting.
All are welcome to join this event, whether you’re a longtime community member and practitioner or brand new to meditation and New York Insight. We are looking forward to seeing you this summer. And look out for our next Summer Sangha Sunday this September–in Brooklyn!
“Breathing in, I am part of a sangha and feel protected. Breathing out, I experience joy.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Teacher(s)
Lani Miller
Lani Miller has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1976. She is a graduate of the third Community Dharma Leaders Program. Lani is also a graduate of the MMTCP – “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program” and “The Mindful Mentor Training Program.”
As a teacher, Lani values the opportunity to be a “channel” for supporting individuals and groups to find and explore spiritual truth through their own present moment experience. As part of this, she feels honored to introduce beginning meditators to meditation.
Lani is also a Singer/ Songwriter who is interested in how music and other creative arts can be a vehicle for sharing spiritual truths and values.
“You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.” Rumi