Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying
with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm & Jon Aaron
Saturday, January 15th, 2022 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
This is the first of four daylong retreats around living life fully as we explore death.
It will include both walking and sitting meditation, dharma talks, reflections shared in break-out rooms and the opportunity for all participants to explore the meaning of death through their practice, their lives and how they currently experience the five reflections.
The Five Reflections help us to accept life’s difficulties as we cultivate kindness to ourselves and others. They are-
1. I am of the nature to grow old; there is no way to escape growing old.
2. I am of the nature to have ill health; there is no way to escape having ill health.
3. I am of the nature to die; there is no way to escape death.
4. All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
5. My deeds are my closest companions. I am the beneficiary of my deeds. My deeds are the ground on which I stand.
These five reflections will guide us toward understanding impermanence and that all conditioned things arise and pass away.
All levels of experience are welcome to spend the day, immersed in the teachings and reflecting on impermanence.
This program is part of a series of four day-long retreats throughout 2022 exploring the various Buddhist-based practices related to death and dying and in the process living fully. While the series will pick-up themes and practices which were introduced in the prior Life and Death programs. These retreats are open to all who meditate and are interested in exploring these powerful practices. The other retreats are on the following dates:
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
Registration for January 15th, 2022 Retreat:
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Teacher(s)
Amy Selzer
Amy Selzer has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2002. She has completed two year-long classes on Integrated Study and Practice with Andrew Olendski. Currently, she is part of the Community Dharma Leaders teaching program. She has led groups for the past 12 years and now teaches in several NYI sanghas. Amy’s former career was team teaching young children in an inclusion program comprised of children with and without special needs. In addition, she worked with and supported their parents. Her love of teaching continues. She is particularly passionate about the dharma and bringing it into the lives of the aging population as well as to all other practitioners.
Nancy Glimm
Nancy has been practicing meditation since 1996. She has been a member of NYIMC since it’s inception in 1997. Her first teacher Tamara Engel was one of NYIMC’s founders. Nancy has taught broadly on the Dharma since her graduation from the Community Dharma Leader Teacher Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2012. Since 2013 she has been a core teacher for the NYIMC Aging as a Spiritual Practice sangha and courses. Since 2019 she has been a core teacher for the Life and Death year long courses. Her primary teacher since 2012 is Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia.
Nancy is also a psychotherapist with a full time private practice in NYC. Her private practice is informed by her Dharma training.
Jon Aaron
Jon has been a teacher at NYI since 2006. His principal dharma teachers have been Matthew Flickstein of The Forest Way and Kittisaro and Thanissara of The Sacred Mountain Sangha. He is a Certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Teacher and Teacher Trainer and has taught over 100 cycles of the seminal curriculum. He leads retreats in the US and in Europe. He is the co-guiding teacher of the Makom Meditation Havurah program at the Jewish Community Center. He is a certified Somatic Experience Practitioner® and an Accredited teacher of Mindfulness for Heath from Breathworks in the UK. Jon is a co-founder of the MBSR Teachers Collaborative of Greater New York, and a founding member of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative. Recently with his partner Upayadhi, he established Space2Meditate.