Postponed: An Exploration in Presence
with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, March 24th - April 14th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
Due to COVID-19, this program is being postponed to a future date.
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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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Postponed: Exploring the Power of the Feminine – A Daylong Workshop for Women
with Tracy Cochran and Sebene Selassie
Saturday, March 28th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
What is feminine power? Is it something to be acquired? Or uncovered and reclaimed? Join us for a day of meditation, writing exercises, and group sharing aimed at exploring these rich questions.
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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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Cancelled: Monthly Community Potluck
Friday, April 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of community, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck.
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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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Now Online: Holistic Spirituality, Part 1 – Finding Courage and Steadiness with Uncertainty
with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, April 11th, 2020
1:00pm - 4:30pm, ET / 10:00am – 1:30pm, PT
Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for a half-day online retreat exploring ways to calm the mind and body, manage fear and anxiety effectively, and offer loving support to others in distress.
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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: Real Change – Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
A NYI Member Event with Sharon Salzberg
Friday, April 17th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
This evening will be a unique opportunity to get teachings from Sharon’s newest book, Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World, to be published September 2020.
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Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Sunday, April 19th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm ET
Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
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Now Online: 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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Now Online: Dharma and Recovery – A Weekend Retreat
with Kevin Griffin
Saturday, May 2nd, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm, ET
Sunday, May 3rd, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm, ET
In this online weekend retreat we will practice mindfulness meditation and explore recovery and the Twelve Steps through a Buddhist lens.
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Now Online: Fierce Love, Fierce Change in the Time of COVID-19
with Gina Sharpe
May 3rd, May 17th, June 7th, June 21st, 2020 | 10:00-11:30am ET
Gina Sharpe returns to lead a short series of online sits, sharing her observations about how the conditions of COVID-19 has demanded from us both fierce love and fierce change
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Now Online: Insight Meditation 101 – Six-Week Beginners’ Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, May 4th - June 15th, 2020 from 2:00pm – 4:00pm ET
This online 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.
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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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Wednesdays, May 6th - May 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Over the course of four evenings we will use Dharma Contemplation as a relational meditation practice enabling us to enter into the Buddha’s teachings in a profound way by revealing many layers of meaning.
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Now Online: Neurodharma – Science, Wisdom, and the Highest Happiness
with Rick Hanson
Friday, May 8th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Rick Hanson for an evening discussing his groundbreaking yet practical new book, Neurodharma. In it, he offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences, sense of oneness, and the heights of human possibilities.
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Now Online: Already Home – Resting in Peace, Contentment, and Love
with Rick Hanson
Saturday, May 9th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm ET
Join New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson as we explore the Buddhist analysis of the mind as a road map for strengthening the neural circuitry of deep calm, contentment, kindness, and wisdom—qualities we all need to succeed in the face of adversity.
Find out moreNow Online: Words of Awakening – An Evening of Poetry and Teachings from the Early Buddhist Nuns
with Ayya Anandabodhi
Tuesday, May 12th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join Ayya Anandabodhi for an online evening of poetry and teachings from the new poetry collection, "The First Free Women" featuring verses of Awakening from the Early Buddhist nuns.
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Postponed: Deepen, Soften, Open, Ease – How to Meet What Comes Up in Practice, in Life
with Amy Gross
Wednesdays, May 13th - June 3rd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
If there’s ever been a time when we needed our practice to lean on - it’s now! Join us for an online course offering sangha, a group of one’s own, a place and time to sit together to develop gentle ways to untangle our tangles, dissolve delusion, see through the causes of suffering, and find peace.
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Now Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Wednesdays, May 13th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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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 Community Potluck
Friday, May 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of community, please join us for an online potluck.
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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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Wednesdays, May 20th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Wednesdays, May 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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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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Now Online: Fierce Love, Fierce Change in the Time of COVID-19
with Gina Sharpe
May 31st, 2020 from 10:00-11:30am ET
Gina Sharpe returns to lead a short series of online sits, sharing her observations about how the conditions of COVID-19 has demanded from us both fierce love and fierce change
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Now Online: That’s Life – Navigating Major Life Changes with Confidence and Clarity
with Brian Simmons
Sunday, May 31st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Drawing from both classical Buddhist practices and non-Buddhist techniques from a variety of sources, the program is designed to inspire courage, confidence and context for powerful transformation. If you are facing a major life transition, this course is for YOU!
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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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Now Online: Fierce Love, Fierce Change in the Time of COVID-19
with Gina Sharpe
June 7th, 2020 from 10:00-11:30am ET
Gina Sharpe returns to lead a short series of online sits, sharing her observations about how the conditions of COVID-19 has demanded from us both fierce love and fierce change
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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.
Find out moreNow 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: Exploring the Paramis as a Practice of Liberation
with Leslie Booker
Thursdays, June 18th - July 9th, 2020 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET
Join Booker for a four-part online course exploring the Buddhist teachings on the paramis, 10 enlightened qualities that can help us realize our full potential, bringing the highest benefit to ourselves and others.
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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: Fierce Love, Fierce Change in the Time of COVID-19
with Gina Sharpe
June 21st, 2020 from 10:00-11:30am ET
Gina Sharpe returns to lead a short series of online sits, sharing her observations about how the conditions of COVID-19 has demanded from us both fierce love and fierce change
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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.
Find out moreNow 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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Online: Community Gathering – Many Ways to Belong
Thursday, July 9th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Please join us for an informal online evening of sangha and community.
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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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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Saturday, July 11, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm
Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
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Now Online: The Fierce Vulnerability of Heart Practice – A New Look at the Brahmaviharas
with Leslie Booker
Sunday, July 12th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
This daylong will be a way to explore and cultivate the Buddha's teachings on the four brahma-viharas: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Imbued with the virtues of these four states, we are better able to embrace ourselves, our current situation and the entire world.
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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.
Find out more
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 Community Potluck
Friday, July 24th, 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.
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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.
Find out moreOnline: 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: Nothing Stands Alone – A Four Part Course Exploring the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Monday, August 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this four-part online class series we will explore the essence of the Buddha's teachings on interdependence as found in the Heart Sutra.
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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: Nothing Stands Alone – A Four Part Course Exploring the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Monday, August 10th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this four-part online class series we will explore the essence of the Buddha's teachings on interdependence as found in the Heart Sutra.
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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: Illuminating, Warming, Transforming – Lessons from the Fire Element in Chinese Medicine
with Mona Chopra
Saturday, August 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
According to Chinese medicine, the element of fire illuminates, warms, expands, spreads, proliferates, and burns aways impurities. Join us us for an online program exploring how cultivating a healthy expression of the "fire" element can make us feel more joyful, dynamic, spontaneous, and alive.
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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: Nothing Stands Alone – A Four Part Course Exploring the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Mondays, August 17th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this four-part online class series we will explore the essence of the Buddha's teachings on interdependence as found in the Heart Sutra.
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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: The Wisdom of Prajnaparamita – A Half-Day Retreat Exploring The Essence of the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
In this half-day online retreat we will explore the wisdom teachings of the bodhisattva Prajnaparamita as found in the Heart Sutra.
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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: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak Outs
with Ralph De La Rosa
Friday, August 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join author, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa for a celebration of his timely new book, Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage Feels and Freak Outs.
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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: The Joy of Letting Go – Finding Freedom from Habitual Patterns
with Robin Boudette, PhD
Sunday, August 30th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
In the chaos of our everyday lives, we often run on auto-pilot finding ourselves caught in unhealthy habit patterns. Fortunately, mindfulness provides practices and skills that can help us change unhealthy habits and live in greater harmony with life.
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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: Creating a Life of Integrity – Our Path to Joy
with Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark
Saturday, September 12th, 2020 from 1:00pm-2:15pm ET
Join Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark for a free online program sponsored by New York Insight and Tricycle Magazine on living with integrity and finding our compass in a world turned upside down.
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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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NYI Sacred Earth Sangha Presents: An Online Evening with Environmentalist Charles Eisenstein
Monday, September 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join us for an online evening with one of the most important voices on climate today, renowned author and environmentalist, Charles Eisenstein.
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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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Climate Justice Through Racial Justice March and Rally
Sunday, September 20th, 2020 beginning at 1pm from Columbus Circle
Join us this weekend for the Climate Justice Through Racial Justice March and Rally!
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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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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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Online: Creating A Life of Integrity – A Ten-Month Course on the Paramis, and Our Path to Joy
with Gail Stark
Thursdays, September 24th, 2020 - June 24th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this year-long course, explore how practicing the 10 paramis--qualities of integrity—can lead to awakening. Led by Gail Stark, author of Creating a Life of Integrity, you’ll follow the path she took, guided by Joseph Goldstein--a deep dive that is transformational, invigorating, and joyous.
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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.
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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Finding Peace Through Release: An Online Urban Retreat
with Bart van Melik
Saturday, September 26th, 2020 from 9:00am - 6:00pm
On this daylong retreat we’ll explore the nature of clinging and how we can train ourselves in letting go. All are welcome.
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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: Effortless Mindfulness – Shifting from Head to Heart-Mind
with Loch Kelly
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 from 1:00pm -5:00pm ET
Join meditation teacher Loch Kelly for a workshop exploring effortless mindfulness, an advanced, yet simple next step after learning basic mindfulness that makes living an awakened life possible for all of us.
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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 People of Color Sangha: Contemplation of the Dharma and Buddhism Within our Lives
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Monday, October 5th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
In this People of Color Sangha meeting led by teacher Wildecy de Fátima Jury, we will together examine various ways that will support our practice and our Buddhist studies, and a few steps on how to experience the profound spaciousness and depth of the dharma.
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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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Understanding the Law of Karma: How We Find a Greater Happiness
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, October 10th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm
In this online workshop, we’ll learn about karma and how we change it. We will learn how to take skillful action that enables us to know a greater happiness: happiness of heart.
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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 People of Color Sangha: I Can’t Stop Pointing to the Beauty
with Devin Berry
Monday, October 19th, 2020 from 7-9pm ET
Join meditation teacher Devin Berry for an online talk on the Buddha's teachings on the brahamaviharas as an expression of the wisdom of the liberation narrative.
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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: Mind Knowing Mind – Embracing Radical Acceptance Through the Practice of Insight
with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Sunday, October 25th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this special online program, Lama Justin von Bujdoss will give a concise, contemporary teaching on a set of six meditation instructions at the core of Vajrayana insight practices known as Mahamudra, or the Great Seal, aimed at directly experiencing mind as it arises.
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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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Online: Living a Principled Life
with Bhante Pamutto
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
How do we stay on the path through the ups and downs of life? Bhante Pamutto will discuss the Eightfold Path not just as a blueprint for liberation, but a description of the stable core to a life that is beautiful from beginning to end.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 6th - November 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: A Question of Identity
with Martine Batchelor
Saturday, November 7th, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm ET
During this special morning online exploration with Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor, we will discover with mindful awareness what our identity is based on and how we relate to it that in a way that is confident, bright, creative and open to others and the world -- without being defined by them.
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Online: Metta-Vipassana – Integrating the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Heart Practices
with Dave Smith
Sunday, November 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
Vipassana meditation (insight or mindfulness practice) unites the stillness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment experience. As we learn to calm the body and mind, intuitive wisdom arises. This allows us to open to the truth of each moment’s experience within and around us. In this way, we increase our ability to meet life’s ups and downs with ease and presence. During this event, students will be guided on how to deepen their liberation practice in an atmosphere of kind awareness.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, November 10th, 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, November 13th, 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: Metaphors of Mindfulness
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this program we will look closely at some of the images, similes, and other literary devices used in the Pali Canon, and in some later literature, to define and describe the practice of mindfulness. We will pause from time to time to examine some of these images experientially as an aid to our own meditation practice.
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Online: Practice in Challenging Times
with Mark Coleman
Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
How can Dharma wisdom teachings and practices of mindfulness and compassion support us during these times? Mark Coleman will explore key Dharma teachings and practices that help us find clarity, heartfulness and balance in the midst of life.
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Online: Thanksgiving Community Potluck
Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Join the New York Insight community as we continue our tradition of our lovely yearly Thanksgiving gatherings. It will be a virtual event this year and there will not be the usual actual table filled with the Thanksgiving treats but we will share in other lovely ways this year and "feast on" each other's company.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 20th, 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: Cultivating Thanksgiving
with Bonnie Duran, Ramona Peters and Jeff Haozous
Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Giving thanks is a tradition in both Buddhism and Native American cultures. Thanksgiving ceremony is a medicine that we can use to begin to heal to ourselves, our relationships, and our world. In this half day program, the teachers will offer meditation practices to develop gratitude which are grounded in Buddhist teachings and informed by their perspectives as Native Americans.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 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: Developing (Not Destroying) the Spiritual Faculties
with Venerable Santi
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join us for an evening dharma talk with Buddhist Insights and Buddhist monastic Venerable Santi exploring the spiritual faculties that can propel us to deep and lasting awakening, and how these qualities can be carefully seeded, watered, and cultivated for the benefit of ourselves and all living beings.
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Online: MWe and the Integration of Identity
with Dan Siegel
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Who you are is both an internal (Me) and an interconnected (We) self that shapes your identity and sense of belonging. But how can you be both within the body and between the body and in relationship to people and the planet? In this talk we will explore how you can combine an inner “Me” and an inter “We” to become a whole integrated self – a MWe!
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 4th - December 18th, 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 Profound and the Profane – Bringing the Whole of Life into the Alchemy of our Practice
with Martin Aylward
Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Join Martin Aylward to give some close and caring attention together to life, love and letting go. We’ll invoke the radical freeness to which our practice invites us; explore how to meet and metabolise the habit patterns that get in our way, and feel our way into meeting the uncertainties and complexities of our lives more fluidly, fearlessly and freely.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Booker Leslie
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 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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Dharma Rhythms: A Virtual Benefit Raffle Drawing for New York Insight Meditation Center
Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 at 3:00pm ET
Come celebrate our community and support your spiritual home—a refuge of peace and a source of sanity in these turbulent times—at a benefit raffle featuring irresistible items.
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