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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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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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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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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons

Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Community Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

New York Insight staff, teachers, and board directors invite you to join us for a Town Hall Meeting to share news about the new opportunities, challenges and transitions we will be facing in 2020. Most importantly, this evening, open to all, is an opportunity to share your thoughts about how NYI can support your practice and better serve as your spiritual home.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Elaine Retholtz

Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

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, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Bart van Melik and Angela Dews

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Required Free Orientation: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm
8 Week Course: Wednesdays, March 11th- May 6th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm

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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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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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons

Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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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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Beginner’s Workshop

with Lani Miller

Sunday, March 15th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:30pm

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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Jon Aaron and Lani Miller

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an online opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Brian Simmons

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm, ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: How Mindfulness Is and Is Not a Psychotherapy

with Matthew Brensilver

Friday, March 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In what ways does mindfulness practice function as a kind of ‘self-psychotherapy’? In what ways is practice entirely unlike psychotherapy? During our evening together, we’ll explore how the mindfulness overlaps with the healing we might find in psychotherapy.

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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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm, ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm EST

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: The Dharma is Your Life – A Six-Week Course

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, April 16th - May 21st, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Within the Buddha’s own teaching the word Dharma has a number of meanings—the truth, the teachings, the way, the nature of life, qualities of the mind, etc. We will integrate all these meanings into this exploration of practice. Each week we will explore a very specific teaching and see how it reflects our lives, and how our lives reflect the teaching.

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Now Online: The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz

Every other Monday, April 20th - June 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for a course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past. We will meet in person every other Monday evening and have home practice in the weeks between. This course appropriate is for meditation practitioners of all levels.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx

Free Orientation: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
8 Week Course: Thursdays, April 30th - June 18th, 2020 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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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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons

Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

8 Week Course: Fridays, May 1st - June 26th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:00pm 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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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: Finding Peace in the Storm – Facing Anxiety and Uncertainty with Mindfulness and Compassion

with Paul Epstein

Sunday, May 17th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 3:30pm, ET

In this online workshop, we'll discuss practical strategies to face and manage anxiety, and learn ways to deal effectively with uncertainty. We'll integrate dharma teachings, guided meditation practices and learn mind-body skills that cultivate resilience and support finding calm within the COVID-19 global crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Jon Aaron

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx

Orientation: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Course: Wednesdays, June 10th - July 29th, 2020 | 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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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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, June 12th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Orientation: Friday, June 5th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Course: Fridays, June 12th - July 31st, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm 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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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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: A Meditator’s Practical Guide to Daily Life

with Jon Aaron

Wednesdays, June 17th - July 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

You’ve learned to meditate and started to develop a daily practice and perhaps are wondering “now what”? If so, this course is for you. Each session in this online, four-week class will include meditation and discussion of how we bring our meditation practices to life and life to our practice.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, June 19th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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: Born This Way – The Liberating Practice of Self-Acceptance

with La Sarmiento

Monday, June 22nd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, ET

For this online gathering in the month of Pride, La Sarmiento will share their journey from assimilation to liberation through the teachings and practices of the Buddha. Through guided meditation, mindful movement, chanting, small and large group sharing, and song, may we know and trust our rainbow-infused buddhanature and share it with the world for the liberation of all beings! This Insight Out LGBTQI Sangha evening sit is open to all.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Friday, June 26th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Janusz Welin

Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

Wednesdays, July 1st - August 5th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, July 3rd - July 24th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, July 10th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Now Online: Surprised by Joy

with Bhante Suddhaso

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Buddhist teacher Bhante Suddhaso will give an online talk about the joy that comes through cultivating faith in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha and how that joy serves as a basis for deepening Samadhi and Vipassana.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, July 17th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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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Postponed: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller

Sunday, July 19th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm ET

This comprehensive online 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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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, July 24th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: Resourcing, Resiliency and Inquiry

Amma Thanasanti

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

The Buddha taught the first foundation of mindfulness – awareness of body and breath – as a cornerstone to enlightenment. With body centered practices, during this online half day retreat, we will open our focus and rest in awareness itself.

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Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

Mondays, July 27th - August 31st from 6:30pm – 9:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, August 4th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, August 7th - August 28th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: An Artful Path to Mindfulness

with Janet Slom

Saturday, August 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Join us for a creative, mindfulness workshop to cultivate resilience, calm, focus, and openness. Through creative exploration and compassion-based practices, we will inspire inclusivity, equality, and right action.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, August 14th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, August 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Online: Trauma Informed Mindfulness

with Jenny Hannah

Sunday, August 16th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Join psychotherapist and meditation teacher Jenny Hannah for an online workshop for meditation instructors, counselors, and therapists exploring a foundational understanding of types of trauma, how to respond skillfully and prevent retraumatization, and examine assumptions surrounding mindfulness meditation.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Belonging and Change

with Sebene Selassie and Sharon Salzberg

Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Sebene Selassie and Sharon Salzberg as they come together for an online discussion on the themes of each of their forthcoming books, "You Belong" and "Real Change".

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, August 21st, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: Nature Meditation – Cultivating Wisdom and Resilience Through Nature-Based Mindfulness Practice

with Lin Gordon

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 from 9:30am - 4:45pm ET

As we go through an intense year of pandemic and social transformation, how do we access our inner resources regardless of external circumstances? Through this day online and outdoors, you’ll be guided through nature meditation practices that connect to your senses and explore your internal and external experiences intimately.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Thursday, August 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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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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Online: Dispelling Delusion

with Ayya Soma

Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist monk Ayya Soma for an online talk about the ways we can ensure our practice of the Dhamma is geared towards undoing ignorance. After a guided meditation and talk, we will leave space for Q&A and discussion.

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Online: Liberation Teachings of Embodied Wisdom and Compassion Through Presence and Somatic Listening

with Peace Twesigye and Nakawe Cuebas Berrios

Thursdays, September 3rd, 2020 - March 11th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

Join us for a weekly BIPOC guided practice and inquiry group to delve deeply into the dynamic book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem. The author is a Black trauma therapist, and offers embodied practices to explore the somatic experience while looking at racialized trauma in the United States.

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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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People of Color Sangha: The Liberating, Loving, and Empowering Truth of Not-Self

with Tara Mulay

Monday, September 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

This online talk by guest teacher Tara Mulay, will explore how a deeper understanding of not-self frees us and supports engaged practice. The People of Color Sangha sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice of meditation.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Insight Meditation 101 – Six-Week Beginners’ Course

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, September 9th - October 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life. The course is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators who wish to maintain their “beginner’s mind.”

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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, September 11th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: The Dharma of Deep Time

with Deborah Eden Tull

Sunday, September 13th, 2020 from 3:00pm - 6:00pm, ET

The myth of "not enough time" is one of the most pervasive stories of today’s world, but in this age of global uncertainty, we have a rare opportunity to improve our relationship with time. This online retreat is inspired by the Zen teaching of Uji or “being time.” Resting in present moment awareness, we reconnect with “all time being” and “all being’s time.” We will also apply our practice to the systemic distortions that influence our relationship with time, including domination over nature, patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. Join us for a restorative, experiential online retreat.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, September 18th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: Contemplating Death to Liberate Your Life

with Martin Aylward

Sunday, September 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Dharma practice shows us how to lean into the stark truth of death and impermanence- meeting and embracing our dying nature so as to live more fully and freely. Join us for this online day of potent practices and liberating teachings for living fully and dying freely.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Postponed: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz & Gary Singer

Wednesdays, September 23rd - October 28th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice.

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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
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Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, September 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Fall Foliage Meditative Hike

with Lin Wang Gordon

Sunday, September 27th, 2020 from 8:15am - 3:00pm, ET

Enjoy a Fall day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a guided, socially-distanced meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. We’ll integrate sitting and walking nature meditation throughout the hike.

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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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Right View, Wise View, Beautiful View, No View

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 1st - November 5th, 202 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

In this six-week course we will take a deep dive into Right View, the very first factor of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, considering various suttas and their interpretations, and how this aspect of the Dharma evolved in later Buddhist traditions.

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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 1st - November 19th, 2020 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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Online: Living the Dharma in a Challenging Time

with Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Sebene Selassie and Dan Harris

Thursday, October 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for an evening discussion with three renowned teachers on how Buddhism has shaped their lives, how they are seeing our world through the lens of dharma and how dharma can lead us through this moment.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, October 2nd - October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Fridays, October 2nd - November 20th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm 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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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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Postponed: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice

with Jon Aaron

Wednesdays, October 7th - November 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Has your meditation practice been flagging? Are you finding yourself falling into unskillful habits? Give your mindfulness practice a boost with this course for anyone who has recently (or not so recently) completed the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction class and feels “stuck” in their practice.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 9th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Sacred Earth Sangha: Central Park Meet Up

Sunday, October 11th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm

Please join NYI teachers, Sebene Selassie, Lin Gordon, and Jon Aaron for an Sunday morning of teaching, meditation, and discussion as we create a community around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, October 16th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, October 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Online: Interpersonal Challenges in a Time of Tumult – A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Perspective

with Dr. Pilar Jennings

Saturday, October 17th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this workshop, psychoanalyst and Dharma teacher Pilar Jennings will explore the early developmental roots of interpersonal challenges, and bring these insights into conversation with Buddhist wisdom teachings. Together we will explore the key dynamics in our wish to nurture and sustain interpersonal relationships that can withstand the difficulties posed during this unique moment in time.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, October 21st - November 11th, 2020 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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat

with Ralph De La Rosa

Saturday, October 24th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The emotional impact of the election season lands on us when we already feel threadbare. It's never been so tough to maintain wellbeing, clarity, compassion, and non-reactivity -- and yet it's never been more important. Join us for a day of truly integrated practice and community connection informed by our complex needs during these times.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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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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Stability in the Storm: IMS invites you to a pre-election Day Meditation Sit

with Sharon Salzberg

Monday, November 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm – 8:00pm

On November 2, the day before election Tuesday, renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will offer a free, hour long online program sharing words of wisdom and encouragement as we navigate this difficult time. She will also lead several guided meditations to cultivate calm and stability and help restore our connection to ourselves and to one another.

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Location & Contact

  • New York Insight Meditation Center
    28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor
    New York, NY 10001
    Between Broadway & 6th Avenue
    If front door of building is locked, ring button #27.

  • The best way to reach us is by email.
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