Saturday, August 21st, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
This online program introduces the science of reward-based learning and how it applies to habit formation and habit change. Throughout this daylong program we will practice our new skills with short moments of mindfulness interspersed many times throughout the workshop.
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Three Wednesdays, September 1st, 15th & 29th, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
Through small group practice, stories, silent meditation, and mindful speaking and listening, we’ll explore the multi-faceted world of relational mindfulness, including embodied awareness, the art of radical self-acceptance, and the possibility of finding freedom right in the middle of the tangle and dance of day-to-day relating.
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Friday, September 3rd-24th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, September 4th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Whether it's falling in love, surviving a pandemic, claiming your identity, having a child, re-entering society, or having a difficult conversation... life throws us into vulnerable and uncertain situations over and over again. Join author and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa for a half day workshop exploring how to meet the challenges we face in this unique moment and excavate them for awakening.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
Find out moreThursday, September 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
While the Pali word “viriya” is often translated simply as “energy,” this heart quality actually involves cultivation of a kind of courage and gentle perseverance that sustains us and supports resilience. We will dedicate this evening of practice together to an exploration of the liberating potential of viriya.
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Friday, September 10th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.
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Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, ET
During this program we will explore how to wisely and lovingly respond to our own and others’ suffering, and contemplate the traditional Buddhist ’triple gem’ of refuge as a way to steady, gladden and liberate the heart, amidst the ongoing and infinite challenges of our imperfect and unperfectable world.
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Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 2:00pm–5:00pm
For this month's Sacred Earth Sangha meeting, we will have a special gathering in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn as we cultivate relationships with our personal genealogical ancestors as well as practice reflections and meditations that touch the truth of the whole of nature as "all my relations."
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesdays, September 15th - October 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
The ten perfections (paramis) are ten qualities of character which support both your practice and your compassionate involvement in the world, whether you’re working with your family at home, at the office, or on the cushion. In this 6 week course, we’ll investigate the paramis with an emphasis on how we can bring them practically into our lives.
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Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 10:00am – 7:00pm ET
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 an online day of silence and reflection.
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Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
There’s no way to instantly forgive ourselves. It takes time and practice. But on this evening with Bodhipaksa we’ll explore several powerful tools, drawn from Buddhist teachings, to help us let go, move on, and be more at peace with ourselves.
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Friday, September 17th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, September 17th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
How can we give and receive true spiritual friendship in a time of isolation and uprising? Join us as we celebrate the release of dharma teacher Kate Johnson’s first book, Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World, with a round table discussion on what radical friendship means within Buddhist communities and beyond.
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this program, we’ll learn about the qualities, in the teaching of the Buddha, that comprise our inner worth. We’ll learn how we develop these qualities and about the benefits in doing so.
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Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
In this online workshop, we will dive deep into transformational embodied awareness practices that engage a unified and joyful loving presence. Through periods of meditation and discussion we will explore and develop our connection to a calmer, more resilient, and interconnected state of being and learn how to move beyond the self-fragmentation that causes unnecessary suffering.
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Sunday, September 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
What do you get when you combine kindness and mindfulness? Kindfulness! Bhante Sumitta, a senior monk from Sri Lanka, explains how to cultivate "kindfulness" and why it's a critical part of Buddhist practice.
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Mondays, September 20th - October 25th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30m ET
Forgiveness can allow us to come more fully into our hearts and can be a catalyst that transforms bitterness, anger, and grief into compassion and lovingkindness. Join us for an online course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past.
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Thursdays, September 23rd - October 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.
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Friday, September 24th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Tuesday, September 28th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Fridays, October 1st, 8th, 15th & 29th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET
During this practice period together, we will explore the conditions that progressively lead to awakening. When we practice mindfulness with these as our foundation, we begin to develop a sense of empowerment based on an initial confidence in the practice, which leads to joy and stillness.
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives
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Wednesdays, October 6th - October 27th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
On each of the four evenings of this course, Buddhist teacher Bodhipaksa will explore one of the myths that bind us to resentment and keep us mired in the suffering it causes. He will also offer tools and perspectives for finding our way to peace and forgiveness.
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Thursdays, October 7th - October 28th, 2021 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ET
In practicing the dharma, we seek to develop our inner worth. What does this mean? How do we do this? And what are the benefits of doing so? In this four-week course with meditation teacher, Peter Doobinin, we’ll explore these crucial questions and learn about our innate goodness and our capacity to develop it.
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Friday, October 8th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, October 8th, 2021 from 5:30:00pm – 7:00pm ET
New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park (11 Madison Avenue). We look forward to being together!
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Friday, October 8th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
By settling into our direct experience, aligning with the truth-of-the-way-things-are, we can find peace, even in the midst of challenging times.
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Saturday, October 9th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
The Buddha recognized the calamitous nature of this world and pointed us to a place of refuge that, with practice and sincere investigation, can bring great peace and happiness in our lives. Coming together as community, exploring the truth-of-the-way-things-are, and bringing awareness to our direct experience, we can rediscover that place of refuge that the Buddha pointed to all those years ago.
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Friday, October 15th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
Find out moreSunday, October 17th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
According to the Buddhist teachings, there are ten obstacles to overcome on the way to Awakening. As each is progressively abandoned, one attains to progressively higher stages of awakening. In this talk, Bhante Suddhaso will explain each of the ten fetters and how we can overcome them.
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Friday, October 22nd, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Discomfort and perceived obstacles are not our challenge but our invitation; not a sign of something to turn away from, but a welcoming threshold to move directly towards. Join dharma teacher Deborah Eden Tull as we explore the innate courage of true nature and how to follow that tendril of courage in the face of fear.
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Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET
In this day-long retreat, we will explore how to work with FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) through compassionate inquiry and subtle body awareness. We will cultivate a sense of joyful responsibility to the collective, which supports us to release fear-based conditioning.
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Sundays, October 24th - November 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
We feel empowered when we are able to free our mind rather than being caught in our habits and patterns. In this course, we will deepen our understanding of finding ease in our daily lives and increase our awareness when faced with difficulties.
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Monday, October 25th, 2021 from 7:30pm-8:30pm ET
Building on the framework of the triple gem -- the refuges in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha -- this talk explores how the Dharma can console all of us, particular LGBTQ+ and allied folks, in the contexts of climate anxiety, pandemic trauma, and political polarization.
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Fridays, October 29th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Mondays, November 1st - December 13th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis will be on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Practicing self-compassion also enables us cultivate equanimity and courage—the wisdom we need to navigate the ever-changing circumstances of life with openness, patience, and clarity. Join us for this special evening of discussion, Q&A, and guided Metta (aka lovingkindness) meditation.
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Thursday, November 4th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
What if generosity were in itself a profound teaching about interconnection and non-self? In this evening we will explore the potential of generosity to deepen our practice
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Fridays, November 5th - 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, November 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 3:00pm ET
Please join us for an Online Book Launch and Discussion with author and dharma teacher Martin Aylward, on his new book Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness in dialogue with James Shaheen, the editor-in-chief of Tricycle.
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Mindfulness helps us to turn towards what is already here (painful or not) and act in the most kind and wisest way possible in that moment. While the principles taught in this introductory class can also be applied for emotional pain, it is geared towards those who suffer chronic physical pain or from a chronic illness.
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Thursday, November 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Sincere Buddhist practice leads to a radical opening of the heart, which benefits everyone around us. Through meditation, reflections, and dialogue—Bhante Sumano will explore how we can cultivate unconditional love for all beings, including ourselves.
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Friday, November 12th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, November 13th, 2021 from 11:00am to 6:15pm ET
Sunday, November 14th, 2021 from 11:00am to 12:45pm ET
Give your heart a much-needed opportunity to come together with others for an inspiring weekend event with world-renowned Buddhist teachers and other speakers benefitting Cambridge Insight and New York Insight Meditation Centers.
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Sunday, November 14th, 2021 from 11:00am to 12:45pm ET
Join Dan Harris and Mark Epstein for a special online dialogue on healing ourselves to heal our world. All proceeds for this program go to benefit Cambridge Insight and New York Insight Meditation Centers.
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us for an evening with renowned Zen teacher, Jose Shinzan Palma, exploring what we mean when we say practice and cultivating patience and perseverance when things become difficult in our lives.
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Thursday, November 18th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
The very purpose of cultivating mindfulness is to enable us to see the impermanent nature of things--their arising and passing away--directly in our own experience. This leads to the liberating understanding that there really is nothing worth clinging to because everything will inevitably change.
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Friday, November 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Friday, November 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Sunday, November 28th, 2021 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET
Enjoy the magnificent fall foliage in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a guided, meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves.
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Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this insight meditation practice, we come to see that every aspect of our being is in a permanent state of flux, and we learn how to appreciate the reality of our interconnectedness with the universe. It liberates us from a limited view of ourselves and helps us to see that we are nothing less than the universe becoming conscious of itself.
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Fridays, December 3rd - 17th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
In this evening event, Dharma teacher Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer teachings and practices based on her new book, We Were Made for These Times, drawing from her own experience with times of change and challenge to support us during difficult times.
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Thursday, December 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Tibetan medicine provides the modern world with an enormous wealth of accumulated information regarding health and healthcare, contextualized within a Buddhist perspective that becomes even more relevant as we face this watershed moment in public health worldwide.
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Friday, December 10th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2021 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET
On this half-day retreat, Bodhipaksa will introduce us to what it means to practice “wise self-care,” so that in forgiving others we don’t inadvertently invite them to behave in ways that are harmful to us.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Tuesday, December 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
During this evening program, Dr. Smalls will (re)introduce attendees to the Four Reminders, a pithy and powerful teaching that emphasizes what is actually real and important: the preciousness of human birth, the reality of death and impermanence, the pitfalls and possibilities of karma, and lure of samsara.
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Friday, December 17th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Sunday, December 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
During this talk, Buddhist monk Ayya Soma will share some verses and stories of enlightened bhikkhunis and eminent lay disciples from the time of the Buddha. These stories provide inspiration and guidance for our own practice of attaining awakening.
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Friday, December 31st, 2021 from 9:00pm - 12:15am ET
We are excited to present this evening, including meditation, chanting, time for silence and connection, time to set intentions for the new year, and our wonderful surprise ending in which all are invited to participate.
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesdays, January 5th - February 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
If you've been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment.
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Fridays, January 7th - 28th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET
Similar to what we observe in the natural world, the winter offers us a precious time to connect with the deeper layers of our experience, our consciousness, our being - to tend to the vast depths of the ocean underlying the surface waves of our experience. This half day retreat will support us in opening up to these depths within as we move into the new year.
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesdays, January 12th - February 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
The teachings of the Four Noble Truths—which are about suffering and the cessation of suffering—are both simple and profound and contain the essence of the Buddha’s way. Over the course of four weeks, we’ll study portions of the Buddha’s teaching, as well as contemporary writings on the Four Noble Truths, to help us bring the teachings into our everyday lives.
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Thursday, January 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In his new book, The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist sensibility influences the way he works. How are minds jolted in therapy? How is the ego disrupted and the soul made aware? How can Buddhism enhance (or obstruct) therapy?
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Friday, January 14th, 2022, from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 15th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
As we make our way along the path to a greater happiness, it’s essential that we learn to practice acceptance. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about the skill for developing acceptance, in meditation practice and in life.
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Sunday, January 16th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
Buddhist monastic Ayya Soma will discuss the purpose of precepts and explore the difference between letting go and deprivation.
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
So many people find themselves stuck in unhealthy and or uncomfortable relationships with food, weight, or body image! Learn about an evidence-based model of habit change that can help you develop sustainable patterns of self-care for eating and relating to your body.
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Thursday, January 20th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
The Buddha advised all practitioners, lay and monastic alike, to engage with the Five Daily Reflections. The more we welcome these five friends into our awareness, the more they shake us out of complacency of wasting time, motivate us to live aligned with our values, open our hearts in generosity and letting go, keep us from falling into the trap of self-pity, moisten our hearts in compassion for ourselves and others, and more.
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Friday, January 21st, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, January 21st, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Course: Wednesdays, January 26th - March 16th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Thursday, January 27th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Our worlds have changed completely in the last two years. How can social justice-informed mindfulness practices help us regain a sense of wholeness and daily well being in a deeply wounded and polarized society and world? How can self-healing and community-healing be understood as two ways of describing the same thing that is needed to go forward? During this evening with Patricia Mushim Ikeda, we'll explore these inquiries, and more, together.
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Friday, January 28th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Join author, entrepreneur and meditation teacher, Gina LaRoche for this daylong retreat to investigate our stories, secrets and relationship with money. Using the 10 Paramis as a framework, we will create a path of awareness within the realities and constraints of our day-to-day lives.
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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, February 2nd - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue, psychotherapists and certified mindfulness educators, for a six week course to explore our habits of mind and heart around food and eating. Discover an innovative and compassionate approach to healing your relationship to this everyday life-sustaining activity.
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Thursdays, February 3rd - February 24th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET
Right view informs the steps we take as we make our way on the path to a greater happiness. And right resolve provides us with the wholehearted intention and sense of purpose that’s needed in order to take these steps. In this four week course, we’ll learn about these elemental components of the Buddha’s path and how to skillfully apply these understandings as we make the journey along the path.
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Friday, February 4th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Dharma practice offers encouragement to develop a wise and kind inner voice, to become an ally, companion and advocate for ourselves in life. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for an evening of meditation and exploration on how we can transform our inner dialogue.
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Mondays, February 7th - March 21st, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
In this course we will explore the various facets of Lovingkindness practice. There will be ongoing home practices each week, including questions for reflection. In every class there will be time to ask questions and share insights, as well as time to be in breakout rooms sharing, reflecting and learning from each other in smaller groups.
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Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 from 6:30pm – 8:00pm ET
Please join NYIMC board vice president, Erin O’Connor, for a presentation about the new Dharma Leadership Council and an opportunity for you to ask questions and provide input on this groundbreaking new path for NYIMC.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join InsightLA core teacher, Celeste Young for an engaging evening exploring some of the traditional Buddhist teachings on how to work mindfully with emotion, as well as modern approaches drawing on the latest research in positive psychology and neuroscience.
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Wednesdays, February 16th - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
During these challenging times it's good to know that there are tools we can turn to that offer us support and upliftment. In this course we will explore ways our spiritual and meditation practice can be a refuge and offer us the inner nourishment we long for.
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Course: Thursday, February 17th - April 7th, 2022 | 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 | 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Buddhism is a living tradition that has, throughout its history, adapted to the needs of the cultures that have adopted it. This evening will focus on how the goals of Western Buddhist practice are evolving, and how meditation can be understood within this evolving context.
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Saturday, February 19th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this half day of mindfulness, we’ll learn powerful practices of staying rooted and grounded in the midst of life’s storms by listening to the wisdom of the body.
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Sunday, February 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
Meditation doesn't need to be difficult - and if we establish the right foundations for our practice, meditation becomes much easier. In this session, bhikkhuni Ayyā Santussikā will draw on the Buddha's teachings to explain how we can use activities and concepts to strengthen our meditation.
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Join us for an afternoon/evening of discovering what it means to belong to ourselves and each other through the lens of deep reflection and Lovingkindness practice. Starting wherever you are, we’ll look at how to meet ourselves with friendliness in our own hearts and extend that grounded awareness into the world.
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Friday, February 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha "Potluck" and Movie Night . Looking forward to virtually sharing this community gathering with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Join this workshop as we explore ways to deepen our relationships, and unstick our image based and verbal processing, both with ourselves and others. Through moving meditation, short investigative talks, group inquiry, discussions, and experiential breathing and movement exercises, we will fully embody our authentic felt presence and communicate with whole body expression.
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One Sunday a month from February 27th, 2022 - November 13th, 2022
Over the months of this yearlong course we will discover how our embodied Buddhist practice can help us face difficult emotions with compassion and how that impacts our response to the climate crisis.
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Wednesdays, March 2nd - March 30th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
With the help of traditional Buddhist teachings and insights from social psychology, and through exploring our own minds and emotions in meditative practice, we’ll seek a way to practice a more compassionate, wiser, and more mindful politics.
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Understanding and transforming the personal, collective, and ancestral trauma—unresolved suffering—that lives in our bodies and shapes our minds and lives, is essential for us to be able to respond to the layered ecological and social crises of the 21st century.
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Fridays, March 4th-25th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, March 5th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
This half-day workshop explores the deep wisdom and power of the Four Reminders which turn the mind toward liberation, the dharma, and freedom.
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Thursday, March 10th, 2022 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this online session, we will explore the intersections of indigenous culture and Insight Meditation and the guidance they offer for living in a sacred, kind, wise way in the world, in the midst of these times.
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Fridays, March 11th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, March 12th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Rather than running away from our inevitable mortality, we can harness the power of this reflection to stay aligned with our deepest values and to live and love more fully. Fully embracing our life’s impermanence can give rise to a deep letting go and freedom, so that we can be fearlessly, peacefully prepared for our death as a potentially liberative moment.
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Fridays, March 18th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Sunday, March 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
In Buddhism, the term 'mindfulness' means far more than just 'awareness' - it also incorporates the development of incisive, mind-transforming wisdom. Bhante Kusala will walk us through the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and discuss how we can relate it to our contemplative practice, to take us far beyond mere attention and deep into the domain of profound insight.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Fridays, March 25th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, March 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this three hour comprehensive workshop, we'll learn the basics of Insight /Mindfulness Meditation Practice in a warm supportive environment and look at what draws us to explore meditation. There will be instructions for and time to practice meditation , as well as suggestions on how to develop and maintain an ongoing meditation practice.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Thursday, March 31st, 2022 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Join Amanda Gilbert and author, editor and teacher, Jay Michaelson, for an intimate and personal discussion on why Loving-Kindness and these practices of the heart are a leading practice and primary means to engage with ourselves and each other in today’s world. We will explore how these heart practices can guide us towards deeper transformation, personal growth, and connection to our authentic self.
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Fridays, April 1st - 22nd, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
This half-day retreat utilizes insight meditation and Zen practices to cultivate intimate, whole-hearted presence with our bodies, hearts, and minds, and our fundamental connection to others and the world.
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Fridays, April 8th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Fridays, April 8th - 29th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET
The union of body/mind is integral to full understanding and liberation of heart. Being embodied isn’t necessarily innate, but can definitely be cultivated. We can become aware of how a feeling tone feels, how thoughts and emotions are sensed in sensations and how the mind can be felt energetically in terms of expanded or contracted shapes.
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
How we are with and relate to our pain and life's difficult challenges is as important as what we do to treat them. This workshop will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness and compassion practice can be integrated in the process of facing and healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.
Fridays, April 15th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
We commonly feel that our experiences of insecurity or doubt are evidence of personal weakness or failure, to be overcome by the cultivation of confidence or self-improvement. Join us for a evening exploring different frames for understanding – and meeting – these unwelcome experiences.
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Friday, April 22nd, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, April 22nd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET
It is through embodied presence, rather than mental effort or philosophizing, that we remember the already awakened state. Our bodies know the way home. Awareness is the key that allows us to recognize this, beyond habits of hierarchical perception. In this experiential teaching, we will explore the subtle body as guide to both inner-connection and interconnection, both on and off the cushion.
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET
At this moment in history, there is a significant tear in the fabric of human relationship, and we all long for deeper connection and understanding. This retreat teaches the dharma of relational intelligence, which is the ability to see ourselves and one another clearly with the heart, beyond the mind of separation.
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
This is the second 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.
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Sunday, April 24th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Meeting fear with mindfulness and courage can make difference between being caught up in fear and being free from it.
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Mondays, April 25th - June 20th, 2022 from 9:30pm - 11:30pm ET
In our culture there can be a tendency to dwell on the negative – what we need to be rid of. In this course we will be investigating and practicing the cultivation of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy or rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity.
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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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Thursdays, May 5th - June 9th, 2022 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.
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Thursday, May 5th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join Bodhipaksa for this evening exploring how the practice of kind eyes can transform our practice of lovingkindness, giving us effortless access to feelings of warmth, appreciation, and caring both for others and for ourselves. Even after a brief experience of these approaches to meditation, your practice may never be the same again.
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Fridays, May 6th - 27th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Thursday, May 12th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
Intentions are the seeds we plant that will determine what will arise in life. In this class, we will practice mindfulness with an emphasis on learning to be more aware of our intentions and set aspirations that align more favorably in our lives.
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Fridays, May 13th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, May 14th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
These teachings are a training for the heart to reside in its original state of loving awareness and open-heartedness. Each Brahma-Vihara holds its own unique flavor of love and meditative quality to incorporate into your meditation practice and daily life.
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Sunday, May 15th, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET
During this daylong workshop/ retreat we will have the opportunity to explore together the relationship between meditation practice and creativity. Through our direct experience during this workshop, we will explore the already present and inherent interconnection between meditation practice and creative expression.
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Fridays, May 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, May 20th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
This is a half-day workshop and practice space to explore the intersection of mindfulness, embodiment, and trauma healing. We will practice in large and small groups to build a sense of presence, connection, and embodied communication in order to hold space for processes of healing and transformation.
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Thursday, May 26th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
The path of Dharma practice is said to consist of ethical conduct, continuity of awareness, and discerning wisdom. This talk will emphasize the relationships between these three courses of training, and the benefits of making these pillars of our spiritual path.
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Fridays, May 27th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Friday, June 10th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Saturday, July 16th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The entirety of the Buddhist path is for alleviating or totally eradicating stress. Meditation, compassion, generosity and ethical practices all serve this purpose. During this program we will explore the therapeutic tools of the Buddha and discuss ways of applying it to our life.
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