NYI Urban Weekend Retreat

with Rosemary Blake

Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, January 13th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm

A weekend meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice.

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The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation

with Narayan Helen Liebenson

Friday, January 25th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, January 26th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm

Join teacher and author Narayan Helen Liebenson for a workshop on how to live from a compassionate love that guides our lives and warms whatever it shines upon. With metta and compassion as companions and allies, we will discover how our own magnanimous hearts can gently allow our inner knots to untie themselves.

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Love The One You’re With: Yourself

with Gary Singer

Sunday, February 10th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm

In this Daylong Retreat in celebration of Valentine's Day, we will look inward to build a stronger understanding of our own hearts and minds before we turn our energy of love outwards.

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Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat

with Rosemary Blake

Sunday, February 17th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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Awakening Together: The Power of Generous Presence

with Bart van Melik

Sunday, February 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

This daylong retreat will be an opportunity to learn and to deepen the practice of Insight Dialogue, a fully engaged relational meditation practice. Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.

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Vast View, Fine Attention

with Martin Aylward

Saturday, March 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Explore how we might we bring both a vast view and a fine attention to both our inner practices, and in response to the ecological, political and social crises in which we currently find ourselves.

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The Three Gems

with Bart van Melik

Sunday, March 17th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm

How can we accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and ease, sadness and joy that life brings us? One possible answer is to take refuge in the power of wakefulness, in the Buddha’s teachings and in the community dedicated to harmony and awareness.

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Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat

with Rosemary Blake and Nancy Glimm

Sunday, March 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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The First Buddhist Women

with Tracy Cochran and Wendy Garling

Saturday, March 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm

This daylong retreat will share little-known stories of the first Buddhist women. They offer a more engaged, emotionally alive and gender-balanced Buddhism, filling gaps we have sensed but haven’t named.

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Brightening the Mind

with Peter Doobinin

Sunday March 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

We brighten the mind by cultivating the heart quality of appreciative joy. In this daylong retreat, we'll learn to develop appreciative joy in meditation and in daily life.

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Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation

with Dr. Paul Epstein

Sunday, April 14th, 2019 from 10am-4pm

Mindful awareness brings the choice of relating to experience with wisdom and compassion where practitioners train the mind and thus change the brain. Join us for this Daylong Program with Dr. Paul Epstein who will share recent scientific finding that prove that meditation and mindfulness can actually change the brain.

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Postponed: The Island of Sangha

with Angela Dews and nakawe cuebas

Sunday, April 21st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program has been postponed and will be re-scheduled at a future date.

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Faith: A Buddhist Perspective

with Sharon Salzberg and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Friday, April 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Saturday, April 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this weekend program, we will explore a different sense of faith. We will discuss how it can connect us to a deeper place of strength within us and to a bigger picture of life. This type of faith increases confidence, openness, and our ability to recognize something outside of our immediate circumstances as describing who we are.

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Loving Kindness Meditation

with Gary Singer

Sunday, April 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Join us for this daylong retreat where we will cultivate our natural capacity for an open and loving heart towards ourselves and all other beings.

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Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat

with Rosemary Blake and Nancy Glimm

Sunday, May 19th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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Equanimity: Dancing with the Unpredictability of Life

with Dr. Stephen Fulder

Saturday, May 25th, 2019 | 10:00am to 4:30pm

In this daylong program, we will examine equanimity, how to recognize and appreciate it, and how it can be developed. We will also explore how we can avoid getting upset and overwhelmed by circumstances, such as conflict, injustice, and suffering.

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The Great Potential of Change

with Bhante Sukhacitto and Bart van Melik

Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

Supported by kind awareness, wisdom, and community we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives. In this retreat we will introduce the six meditative guidelines of Insight Dialogue: Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth.

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How Mindfulness Meditation Leads to Insight

with Jon Aaron

Sunday, June 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this Daylong, we will explore the concept of meditation, how it leads to insight and what concepts support us in our meditation practice. This program is open to meditators of all levels.

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Day of Mindfulness Meditation

with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik

Saturday, June 15th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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Mindful Writing Workshop

with Tracy Cochran

Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pm

Join us as we combine mindfulness meditation with short writing exercises geared toward personal reflection, discovering our ways of being heroic, including relaxing and letting go.

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Aging As a Spiritual Practice Daylong Retreat

with Rosemary Blake, Amy Selzer, and Nancy Glimm

Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm

Join us for a day exploring aging as a spiritual practice through direct meditation practice, Dharma offerings from the three teachers, open discussions as well as dyad and triad work among participants.

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The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Daylong Retreat

with Loch Kelly

Saturday, June 29th, 2019 from 10:00am – 5:00pm

In this daylong retreat we will learn to intentionally shift into awake awareness, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus. Effortless mindfulness helps us shift from a self-centered identity to an empty, yet open-hearted, way of seeing and being.

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Beginner’s Workshop

with Lani Miller

Sunday, June 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-1:00pm

This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Summer Meditative Hike to Hook Mountain

with Lin Gordon

Saturday, July 13th 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pm

Enjoy a summer day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. We’ll integrate sitting and walking nature meditation throughout the hike.

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Cultivating the Five Spiritual Powers – A POC & Allies Daylong

with nakawe cuebas and Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Sunday, July 14th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this daylong program for People of Color (POC) and allies, we will be exploring how the Buddha's Five Spiritual Faculties can be used to work with the Five Mental Hindrances in our everyday world. We will reflect as a group on how to free ourselves from these Hindrances and how to empower ourselves with the Five Spiritual Faculties.

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Day of Mindfulness Meditation

with Rosemary Blake and Angela Dews

Saturday, July 20th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.

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Mindfulness of Thinking

with Peter Doobinin

Saturday, July 27th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

In this daylong retreat, we'll explore how we can use the practices of mindfulness of mind in our meditation practice and in our lives in in order to find a greater happiness.

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Cultivating a Heart of Gold

with Venerable Pannavati

Friday, August 9th, 2019 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, August 10th, 2019 | 10:00am - 5:00pm

Join visiting teacher Ven Pannavati for a daylong program of renewal to move beyond mindfulness, contemplating key passages in the Buddhist suttas that awaken us to the necessity of cultivating joy and compassion.

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That’s Life! Navigating Major Life Changes with Confidence and Clarity

with Brian Simmons

Sunday, August 25th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

Often we fear the unknown of change. But it is possible transform our doubts and fear into courage and ease. This daylong program will provide you with effective skills to reframe and navigate the emotional trauma of major life changes and transitions with a sense of equanimity and purpose.

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Setting Things in Motion: Cultivating Kind Intentions

with Karen G. Williams and Rae Houseman

Saturday, August 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

Our thoughts, emotions, and mind-states are constantly in flux and come from specific causes. This doesn’t mean that we don’t take responsibility. In this daylong we will explore the impact of our motivations and how to practice with intentions. We will take a deep dive into what it is to bring kind intentions to our practice and lives.

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Right Action in the Anthropocene: A Buddhist Response to Global Warming

with Bhikkhu Bodhi and Guests

Friday, September 6th, 2019 from 7pm - 9pm
Saturday, September 7th, 2019 from 10am - 5pm

Join us for this important event as we explore the causes and conditions that have brought us to the climate crisis, the dukkha of extinction and human suffering, and the solutions that we can bring to bear in this critical time of our world.

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Mindfulness & Trauma: Healing Our Wounds with Wisdom and Compassion

with Dr. Paul Epstein

Sunday, September 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Most of us have experienced some form of trauma in our lives, to greater or lesser degrees. What is unprocessed can, and does, show up in our bodies, minds, hearts and spirit in our daily lives and in our meditation practice. In this retreat, we'll explore the pain and suffering that arises from unresolved, unprocessed trauma.

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Shifting From Head To Heart-Mind

with Loch Kelly

Saturday, September 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Having experienced some of the initial benefits of mindfulness, is it now possible to awaken to the deep sense of well-being, creativity, and unconditional love that is our true nature? In this daylong retreat, you will learn contemporary versions of effortless mindfulness that help you live from your heart-mind.

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Day of Mindfulness Meditation: Spiritual Friendship

with Bart van Melik and Rosemary Blake

Sunday, September 29th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The Buddha often emphasized the importance of friends and said that friendship is a prerequisite for awakening. On this day of silence we’ll reflect on this ancient teaching and investigate how friendship can support us in cultivating a kind heart in this challenging world.

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Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Jon Aaron, Elaine Retholtz and Sandra Weinberg

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 7:00pm

Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, a day when, as a community, Jews are asked to reflect on their actions of the past year and to ask for atonement for any actions that were unskillful. In support of this day, NYI hosts a day of silence and reflection.

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When Awareness Becomes Natural: An IMS Urban Retreat

with Alexis Santos and Susa Talan

Saturday, October 12th, 2019 from 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, October 13th, 2019 from 9:00am - 4:00pm

Through relaxing the body and mind, we can come to understand the effortless nature of being mindful. Join us for this first IMS Urban Retreat at New York Insight to learn how natural awareness leads to the blossoming of wisdom and compassion.

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Anxiety: It’s Not All In Your Mind

with Jill Satterfield

Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

The seeds of anxiety originate from a variety of sources: repeated trauma, illness, chronic pain, hormonal imbalance, a mind caught in fear of the unknown future. By developing mindfulness, we cultivate internal awareness to address anxiety before it spreads, give kind attention to our bodies, and learn to recognize the progression of thoughts and emotions that arise prior to anxiety taking hold.

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Mindful Eating for Self-Care

with Laurence Magro

Saturday, October 26th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm

Do you eat when you are stressed out, bored or sad? Have you tried to eat more healthfully but just can’t seem to stick with it? Join Laurence Magro, psychotherapist and certified mindfulness educator on an exploration of habits of mind and heart around food and eating.

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Mindful Healing: Working with Pain & Difficulty

with Jon Aaron

Sunday, October 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The Buddha taught of suffering and the end of suffering but for those with physical pain, particularly chronic physical pain, this end of suffering seems like it might never happen. This day of practice will focus on physical pain and how mindfulness practice and some specific Buddhist teachings can open up a pathway to freedom through our pain.

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Citta: A Union of the Heart, Mind, and Body

with Leslie Booker

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this daylong retreat, we'll unpack the mysteries of Buddha's Third Foundation of Mindfulness by moving through the body, feeling tones, and how we can use it to gain freedom from the turbulence of unexamined emotional experiences.

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Joyful Awakening Through Creative Self-Expression

with Nina Wise

Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:30pm

Contemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release robust creative self-expression.

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Transforming the Judgmental Mind: A NYI Weekend Retreat

with Donald Rothberg

Saturday, November 16th, 2019 | 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday, November 17th, 2019 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

In this retreat, we will cultivate mindfulness around our judgments; inquiry into the deep roots of judgments; and heart practices such as lovingkindness, forgiveness, and compassion. We will also explore the somatic and social dimensions of judgments--how we internalize dominant views (e.g., of race, gender, etc.)

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We Are Nature: Remembering Our Sacred Connection to Earth

with Sebene Selassie, DaRa Williams and Lin Gordon

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

In this daylong program, we will take time to reconnect to our bodies, hearts and minds remembering that we are nature. Centering land and ancestors, we will cultivate meditative awareness to sense the sacred connection to earth that is always present when we open to it.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi

Sunday, November 24th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

This MBSR Daylong is for MBSR alumni, and those currently taking the course, to have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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A Day of Mindfulness Meditation: In Touch with Wise View

with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik

Sunday, December 1st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

According to the Buddha the mind is forerunner of all experience. The lens through which we see life colors our experience. So often we resist an experience and suffer unnecessarily. On this day of meditation we will investigate living life in harmony with all its joys and sorrows.

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The RAIN of Compassion

with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust

Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday, January 11th, 2020 | 9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: Marble Collegiate Church, 1 West 29th Street at Fifth Avenue

Please join us for this special evening and daylong program with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust as they explore the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guide us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential.

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Finding the Way Home to Kind Awareness: An IMS Urban Retreat

with Bart van Melik and Leslie Booker

Saturday, January 25th, 2020 from 9:30am – 6:00pm
Sunday, January 26th, 2020 from 9:30am – 4:00pm

Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is pleased to present this weekend urban retreat at New York Insight. During this retreat, we will explore the heart of the Buddha’s teaching: suffering and its causes and freedom from its causes. With the help and cultivation of our kind and natural awareness, we can become intimate with what it is like to be human.

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What’s Up with Waking Up

with Jon Aaron

Saturday, February 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

If we aren’t practicing meditation to wake up, then why are we bothering? What does waking up really mean? What are we waking up from or to? There is a Buddha in each of us waiting to wake up to a life without fear even in a world with much to be fearful of. In this daylong, we will practice directly with some of the Buddha’s teachings on freedom and investigate how to integrate these into every moment of our lives.

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Beginner’s Workshop

with Bart van Melik

Sunday, February 16th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:30pm

This comprehensive three-hour workshop provides fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Bodhichitta: Developing the Mind of Awakening

with Scott Tusa

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 from 10:00am-5:00pm

In this daylong workshop we will dive deep into the heart of the Buddha’s inner transformation and the spiritual tradition that arose from it. Through a combination of experiential learning, guided/silent meditation, and discussion we will explore how to access and develop a grounded open heart, a more available and open space of mindful awareness, and deeper insight into how to better overcome mental and emotional habits that cause us unnecessary suffering.

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Exploring The Five Wisdom Energies of Tantric Buddhism

with Ethan Nichtern

Saturday, March 7th, 2020 from 10am - 5pm

The Five Wisdoms offers one of the deepest and most spiritually useful bodies of teaching in the tantric Buddhist tradition. By exploring different emotional patterns as they arise in meditation and in daily life, we begin to see the wisdom-potential that exists in every state of mind and every personality type.

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The Healing Journey Meets the Spiritual Path

with Dr Paul Epstein

Sunday, March 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm

This daylong program will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness meditation and compassion practice can be integrated and applied in the process of healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron

Saturday, March 14th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

This MBSR Daylong will be offered in-person at NYI and online. Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Now Online: Finding a Refuge in the Body

with Peter Doobinin

Sunday, March 29th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, EST

One of the most important aspects of the Buddha’s teachings is developing the ability to find refuge.  In a world that is always changing and often presents difficulty, it is essential that we have this skill if we’re to know true happiness in our lives.

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Now Online: There Is No Problem

with Martin Aylward

Saturday, April 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, EST

During this online program, we will explore how to respond skillfully and actively to the ‘cries of the world’ while also discovering and resting in the realization that our true nature is free and unobstructed in its essence, and has always been so.

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Now Online: Fearlessness in the Midst of Fear

with Koshin Paley Ellison

Saturday, April 25th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In our time of social isolation in the midst of this pandemic, how do we take refuge in the teachings to support our path? Join Zen teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison for an online workshop on cultivating the freshness of feeling our feelings of fear without becoming them.

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Now Online: Surviving Modern Life – A Daylong Workshop

with Devon and Craig Hase

Sunday, April 26, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, ET

In this online daylong workshop, based on their new book, How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life, Devon and Craig Hase will be leading participants through meditations, contemplations, dialogues, and exercises to help them tap into their resilience, so that they can face these unprecedented difficulties with warmth, kindness, and some measure of equanimity.

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Postponed: Wisdom & Compassion – Guiding Our Life

with Joseph Goldstein and Bart van Melik

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Now Online: Compassion as a Guide Through Transition and Transformation

with Jane Chun

Saturday, May 16th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this online half-day workshop, we will explore the unfolding of grief and meeting reality as it is, fear and finding ground in groundlessness and examining our illusion of control, fear of change and impermanence and uncovering of who we really are and what’s really important to us.

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Now Online: Interdependence Day – The Buddha’s Teaching on Dependent Arising

with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Saturday, May 30th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

In this time of home-sheltering and social distancing, what do the Buddha's teachings on interdependence tell us about the meaning of “true connection”? What is the difference between being alone and feeling isolated? What does it mean to be “independent”? How do we create grace within the nature of interdependent relationships?

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Now Online: Free At Last – Identifying Our Suffering Around Race

with DaRa Williams and Karen Williams

Saturday, June 6th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:30pm

In this workshop open to all self-identified People of Color, we will create connection and build sangha in order to explore our individual and group level relationships to systems of oppression. We will also explore how we can integrate wisdom from the Dharma with contemplative practice to find freedom from pain and suffering.

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Now Online: Indigenous Presence – Decolonizing Our Hearts

with Bonnie Duran

Saturday, June 13th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

This online workshop will provide a conceptual framework and practice guidelines for “Indigenous Presence” meditation - a way of coming into harmony with the present moment and our world; and provides space for acceptance, and the cultivation of clarity, confidence, resilience and strength.

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Now Online: Resting into the Body of Awareness

with Jill Satterfield

Sunday, June 14th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET

Through meditation, breath practices and a restorative posture to calm the central nervous system, we’ll explore somatically, compassionately and tenderly. Together, we’ll rejuvenate and resource the body of awareness to navigate our own ways home.

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Now Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Gary Singer

Saturday, June 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Now Online: Tibetan Mindfulness – Beyond the Breath

with Lama Surya Das

Saturday, June 27th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Experience an afternoon immersion with renowned bestselling author, and spiritual elder, Lama Surya Das. Learn experiential tools for dealing with distraction and interruption, a way to work with desire and aversion, of wanting and not wanting, and a means of dealing with the difficult emotions and life situations we are all currently experiencing.

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Postponed: Calm Abiding, Creative Awakening

with Nina Wise

Sunday, June 28th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Contemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release our wildness. In this half-day online retreat, we will practice both silent meditation and robust creative self-expression.

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Online: A Happiness That Doesn’t Die

with Peter Doobinin

Saturday July 18th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

The Buddha’s happiness is sometimes known as “true happiness” because it’s a happiness that’s true, reliable, and always there. In this three-hour online class, we’ll learn about this quality of true happiness, what it is, and how we can come to know it.

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Online: Resilience Club – Bringing Compassion to Our Anger and Overwhelm

with Ralph De La Rosa

Saturday, August 29th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Our nervous systems have never been so raw. The loss, the upheaval, the uncertainty, the hope, the fear – it’s never been more real. For meditators committed to keeping our eyes and our hearts wide open through all of this, it can be particularly challenging. This half-day workshop will offer practices for meeting the complexities of our situation directly. Through meditations, breathwork, lively talks, and group discussion, this workshop will offer sustenance and insight that is free of platitudes and spiritual bypassing.

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Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Elaine Retholtz and Jon Aaron

Monday, September 28th, 2020 from 10:00am - 7:00pm ET

This year, New York Insight will continue the annual tradition of A Day of Silence and Reflection for Yom Kippur. As an act of care and compassion for our fellow practitioners during these times it will be offered as an online event.

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Online: Learning a New Embodied Relationship to Pain

with Joan Griffiths Vega

Sunday, October 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Pain, acute or chronic, requires a multifaceted, multi-dimensional approach to manage its overwhelming domination. Join us for a workshop on how mindfulness supports a kind, curious awareness towards pain contains practices to soften pain and open the body to greater ease.

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Online: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth – An Insight Dialogue Course on Wise Speech

with Bart van Melik

Course: Mondays, October 5th - October 26th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

As a community, we'll investigate the Buddha's timeless instructions on Wise Speech with the support of Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together mindfulness and concentration, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the causes and release of human suffering.

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Online: Awakening Together – The Great Potential of Change

Bart van Melik

Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

For the sake of our well-being the Buddha asks us to understand and radically accept the universal truth of change. Supported by kind awareness, wisdom and community during this daylong program for experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners, we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives.

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Online: Cultivating Thanksgiving

with Bonnie Duran, Ramona Peters and Jeff Haozous

Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Giving thanks is a tradition in both Buddhism and Native American cultures. Thanksgiving ceremony is a medicine that we can use to begin to heal to ourselves, our relationships, and our world. In this half day program, the teachers will offer meditation practices to develop gratitude which are grounded in Buddhist teachings and informed by their perspectives as Native Americans.

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Online: The Profound and the Profane – Bringing the Whole of Life into the Alchemy of our Practice

with Martin Aylward

Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Join Martin Aylward to give some close and caring attention together to life, love and letting go. We’ll invoke the radical freeness to which our practice invites us; explore how to meet and metabolise the habit patterns that get in our way, and feel our way into meeting the uncertainties and complexities of our lives more fluidly, fearlessly and freely.

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Online: Cultivating Peace Within You in a Chaotic World

with Bhante Buddharakkhita

Saturday, February 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

The world is on fire. Many countries are experiencing injustice, political unrest and a COVID-19 pandemic. How can you find balance and cultivate peace within you? The online retreat will include guided mindfulness and equanimity meditation, Dhamma talk, and a question and answer session.

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Online: MBSR Alumni Daylong

with Elaine Retholtz

Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET

Have you taken an MBSR course? Would you like to spend time practicing in community with support of a teacher to help you refine your skills of mindfulness? This MBSR Daylong is for you! Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, explore how it is manifesting in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Online: Continuity of Awareness and the Art of Living Meaningfully

with Alexis Santos & Susa Talan

Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

Inspired by the teachings of Theravādin Buddhist monk, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, during this daylong retreat we will explore the practice of meditation as a foundation for developing the heart and mind. Together we’ll practice cultivating moment by moment awareness, in a relaxed and natural way--leading us to an embodied sense of clarity, resilience and connection.

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Online: Relationship as a Liberatory Path – A Daylong for Cultivating Care

with Devon Hase & Peace Twesigye

Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

The whole of spiritual practice can be framed as relationship: to ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us. Through dialogue, discussion, meditation, and movement, we'll explore the territory of noble relationship and what it means for how we relate to ourselves in practice, in community, and in friendship to the world.

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In-Person: Tending Grief in Nature

with Lin Wang Gordon and Peace Twesigye

Saturday, September 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:30pm ET

Grief, if not attended to, can often hold us hostage to life’s uncertainty and losses. How do we open our hearts and continue to let our life energy flow while facing and tending to our grief intimately? How do we establish a sense of connection with our loved ones when their bodies are no longer here?

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Online: Self-Lovingkindness – A Day of Deep Practice

with Ralph De La Rosa

Saturday, November 20th, 2021 | 1:00pm - 5:00pm

The relationship we have to ourselves inside has a direct correlation to how we show up in our outer relationships, work, and free time. Join Internal Family Systems therapist and author Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW for an immersive half-day of self-love meditation.

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Online: Anatta and Identity BIPOC Daylong

with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios and Lissa Edmond

Saturday, February 26th 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

This daylong is welcome to all who identify as Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and will explore how identity fits in with the Buddha Dharma teachings of not self. How can we honor and embrace our identities as BIPOC, the sense of community and history of our identities, valuing the wisdom of our ancestors, and also bring awareness to when we are attached and cling to our identities and as a result suffer?

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Online: Calm and Steadiness, Insight and Wisdom

with Narayan Helen Liebenson

Saturday, March 19th, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:30pm ET

The Buddha taught the basic practices of Shamata Vipassana meditation. However, we shouldn’t mistake “basic” to mean simply applicable for beginners. The understanding of how to cultivate calm and steadiness, as well as insight and wisdom, is an important, ongoing arena of exploration and discovery for both new and experienced practitioners.

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Online: The Synergy of Dharma and Abolition

with karen g. williams, Peace Twesigye & Kierstin Williams

Friday, April 29th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Saturday, April 30th, 2022 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET

Whether within systems, relational spaces, or within our own minds, abolition speaks to the process of unlearning and undoing, moving towards greater freedom and non-harming. Join us for this weekend of fun, liberating inquiry, and practice in community.

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Online: Touching the Earth

with Jeanne Corrigal

Saturday, May 7th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Indigenous teaching is based in the knowledge of our relationship and reciprocity with nature. In this daylong program, we will come together to practice and touch the earth with our hearts, minds, and bodies.

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