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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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 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 Community Potluck
Friday, December 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”.
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How to Practice at a Time Like This: An Online Urban Retreat
with Narayan Liebenson
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 9:00am - 6:00pm ET
Sunday, December 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET
In this weekend retreat we will turn our attention to the Buddha's Brahmaviharas or the Four Beautiful Qualities of Heart; loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. There are specific instructions and practices for cultivating each of the four Brahmaviharas, and over the course of the weekend we will practice with each one.
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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Being a Sacred Warrior – Lessons from Standing Rock
with Thanissara
Monday, December 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community formed around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis. For this session of the SES we are delighted to host Thanissara, who’s deeply engaged in activism informed by decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, her time at Standing Rock, and with Baba Mandaza Kandemwa of Zimbabwe.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, December 15th, 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, 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: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop
with Bart van Melik
Saturday, December 19th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm
This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, December 22nd, 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Angela Dews
Tuesday, December 29th, 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: New York Insight’s Annual New Year’s Eve Gathering and Celebration
with New York Insight Teachers
Thursday, December 31st, 2020 from 8:45pm - 12:15am ET
This evening will include meditation, chanting, time to connect, time to set intentions for the new year, a special remembrance, ceremony, and our wonderful "surprise" ending in which all are invited to participate.
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Online: Principles of Causality
with Bhante Suddhāso
Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
The core aspect of the Buddha's awakening was the realization that all phenomena are governed by causality. Join Bhante Suddhāso for an online talk exploring the basic principles of causality in the Buddhist framework and how to apply them to our practice.
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From ME to WE: An Online Course on the Six Paramitas
with Susan Piver & David Nichtern
Tuesdays, January 5th-February 9th, 2021 from 7:00-9:00pm ET
Join Buddhist teacher and Emmy-award winning musician, David Nichtern and New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Open Heart Project, Susan Piver for a special online course series on cultivating the transcendent qualities known as the Six Paramitas: Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Exertion, Meditation, & Wisdom.
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Monthly Online Community Potluck
Friday, January 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Online: Reclaiming the Sacred
with Scott Tusa
Saturday, January 9th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
When there's truth, when there's something profound, we can sense the sacred. Though we can feel it, sacredness can sometimes be this thing that we put outside of ourselves, which is impressive and worthy of our time and attention. In this halfway workshop, we will explore bringing the sacred more into our lives via dharma talks, meditation, and discussion.
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Online: A Journey Inward and Finding Refuge
with Tuere Sala
Sunday, January 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
The journey inward towards awakening asks more of us than force of will. It is a gradual unfolding of understanding and equanimity. This evening will be both an introduction and an exploration into what is possible when we find a genuine refuge.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Mondays January 11th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: The Promise and Power of Faith-Led Environmental Movements
with Dekila Chungyalpa
Monday, January 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us for a rare evening to learn from activist Dekila Chungyalpa's breadth and depth of knowledge from the frontline of climate crisis, and the wisdom of how we embody compassion as we engage in this work.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Lani Miller
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 15th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: The Dharma of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Reflections on Healing from the Amputated S/self
with Pamela Ayo Yetunde & Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips
Saturday, January 16th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:30pm ET
In this MLK Day-inspired retreat, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips and Community Dharma Leader Pamela Ayo Yetunde will offer dharma reflections on MLK's concept of the Beloved Community, the role of sangha in healing from the Amputated S/self, and Lovingkindness Meditation.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Monday January 18th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, January 19th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Getting Over Your Self: A Buddhist Therapist’s Path to Freedom
A Conversation with Mark Epstein and Amy Gross
Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 from 3:00pm - 5:00pm ET
Join Mark Epstein and Amy Gross as they sit down together again for an online conversation about Mark’s evolving understanding of how therapy and Buddhism combine to untangle the tangle of self and suffering. What can therapy offer that Buddhism needs?
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree – A Short Course on the Buddha’s Teachings
with Bart van Melik
Mondays January 25th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Over the course of four evenings we will contemplate the Buddha’s teachings on Awareness, Nature, and Community.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Wildency de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Orientation: Friday, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Course: Fridays, January 29th - March 19th, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training
Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm
New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.
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Online: Persistence in the Face of Adversity
with Ayyā Somā
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
The Buddha encourages practitioners to contemplate the source of our discomfort, no matter its form. Once we truly understand the nature of pain, loss, oppression, and despair, we can make the appropriate response and be free from the suffering they cause.
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Online: The Joy of Meditation – Vipassana and the Whole Nine Yards
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
The variety of meditation practices found in Buddhism can lead to confusion and doubt, or to staying on the surface level in our practice as a result of switching around so much. This course will spend time investigating our own experience with each of these practices and sharing the fruit of wisdom and compassion that comes of this.
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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Course: Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 5th - February 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Using Inquiry and Reflection in Meditation Practice
with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, February 6th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:30pm ET
The Buddhist tradition includes a wide range of practices beyond formal meditation training exercises. In this half-day session, we’ll explore core practices for inquiry and reflection, using the thought and recollection skillfully to enhance understanding and apply Dharma principles to life.
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Online: Life and Death – Going Forward
with Jon Aaron, Rosemary Blake, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer
Sunday, February 7th, Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, September 12th, Saturday, December 4th, 2021 from 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
These four quarterly, daylong retreats will include meditation, understanding and preparing for death through the Buddha’s teachings, small and large group reflections, and deepening our connection to one another through sangha, moving us toward living life more fully.
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Radical Honesty in the Face of Crisis: An Online Evening with Brother Man
Monday, February 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Sacred Earth Sangha guest teacher Brother Man for an evening workshop on fostering embodied communities of resilience to evolve consciousness and shift culture.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Anukampa – The Buddha’s Motivating Force for Care and Compassion-in-Action
with Gil Fronsdal
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET
This evening talk and meditation will consider the difference between the Buddha's teachings on karuna ("compassion") and anukampa ("care"), including why “care” might be a more fundamental emotion and motivation than compassion for a life devoted to the welfare and benefit of the world.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 12th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Monthly Online Community Potluck
Friday, February 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Lani Miller
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Cultivating Peace Within You in a Chaotic World
with Bhante Buddharakkhita
Saturday, February 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The world is on fire. Many countries are experiencing injustice, political unrest and a COVID-19 pandemic. How can you find balance and cultivate peace within you? The online retreat will include guided mindfulness and equanimity meditation, Dhamma talk, and a question and answer session.
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Online: Planting the Seeds of Peace and Happiness – A Beginner’s Meditation Workshop
with Lani Miller
Sunday, February 21st, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Have you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps looking for a way to refresh or renew your existing practice? This three hour comprehensive workshop includes instructions for experiential meditation practice with guidance from a New York Insight teacher, useful information for developing and continuing a meditation practice with plenty of time for sharing and Q & A.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online Urban Retreat: Sweeping Our Temple – Remembering Kind Awareness
with Leslie Booker & Bart van Melik
Saturday February 27th, 2021 | 9:00 am - 5:00pm ET
Sunday, February 28th, 2021 | 9:00am - 3:00pm ET
Through the Buddha's teachings on the 5 Spiritual Powers, (Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom), we will train our ability to bear witness to personal and social pains and immerse ourselves in heart qualities inviting us to dance, and vacuum, in our temple we call home.
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Online: The Radiant Mind
with Bhante Suddhāso
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Buddhist practice offers us the tools to free the mind from the constraints of discontent, irritation, and confusion—and when the mind is well liberated from these unwholesome states of mind, even temporarily, the path to true happiness becomes clear.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, March 5th - March 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: MBSR Alumni Daylong
with Elaine Retholtz
Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
Have you taken an MBSR course? Would you like to spend time practicing in community with support of a teacher to help you refine your skills of mindfulness? This MBSR Daylong is for you! Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, explore how it is manifesting in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
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Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Climate Crisis, Trauma Healing and Collective Action
with Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD
Monday, March 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
In this gathering, Kritee will dispel what, in her view, are myths around climate science that are common in the activist as well as Buddhist communities. We will then take a deep hard look at the scale of trauma we already face individually and collectively. Last but not the least, Kritee will share her understanding of how we can take meaningful and strategic collective actions for racial healing and putting down the fires of climate crisis.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Truth, Honesty and Dharma
with Matthew Brensilver
Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Dharma practice is a form of rigorous honesty, an attempt to resist self-deception, and a commitment to perceive experience in novel ways. In this evening together, we will explore the ways that the pursuit of truth animates Buddhist practice.
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Mindfulness & Ethical Evolution: A Daylong Online Retreat
with Matthew Brensilver
Saturday, March 13th, 2021 from 9:30am - 4:00pm ET
In this daylong, we’ll examine the process – in our direct experience – of maturing our ethical commitments. The process is facilitated by the perception of non-separation, an intimacy with the experience of suffering, a willingness to grieve, a spirit of renunciation and the courage to relinquish familiar understandings of ourselves.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree
with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Angela Dews
Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, March 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Monthly Online Community Potluck
Friday, March 19th, 2021 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Online: Skillful Pleasure
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, March 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
As the Buddha came to discover, we have to learn to establish a skillful relationship to pleasure if dharma practice is going to thrive and if we’re going to know happiness in life. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about skillful pleasure, what it is, how we cultivate it, and why there’s such great benefit in doing so.
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Online: Facing Aging and Fear with Love and Wisdom
with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm, Rosemary Blake
Sunday, March 21st, 2021 | 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
In our Aging As A Spiritual Practice daylong, yogis will explore their fears around aging through the teachings of the Buddha on Impermanence, holding what arises with the Brahma Viharas, and recognizing the wisdom that arises through the cultivation of these practices. This daylong will include meditation, exercises and reflections, dharma talks, as well as small and large group discussions.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree
with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Town Hall and Community Gathering
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Join us for a special town hall and community gathering as we reunite as a community, introduce the Center's new Executive Director, and review the struggles and victories experienced by our community over the past year.
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Online: Wisdom and Compassion on the Path of Recovery
with Kevin Griffin and Patricia Johnson
Saturday, March 27th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET
On this half-day retreat we will explore how Buddhist insight teachings and heart practices can support people in recovery. There will be meditation instruction, dharma talks, and opportunities for questions and discussion.
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Insight Meditation 101 – A Six-Week Beginners Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, March 29th - May 10th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the formal practices of sitting and walking meditation and on developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree
with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday April 2nd, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: The Potential of Human Relatedness on a Whole-Life Path
with Gregory Kramer and Peace Twesigye
Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET
Join us in a day of relational meditation through Insight Dialogue practice to contemplate how we might meet each moment as embodied beings in relationship to a whole. Turning toward our shared human experience, what is our responsibility to each other and the world as we engage a wholesome path of practice?
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Online: Liberation of the Heart
with Bhante Sumano
Tuesday April 6th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join Buddhist monk Bhante Sumano for a discussion of five common obstacles to meditation practice and the antidotes we can skillfully apply in response.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, April 9th - April 30th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Monthly Community Potluck
Friday, April 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Postponed: Cultivating Climate Resilience – Transforming Difficult Emotions into Compassion and Wisdom
with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturday, April 10th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Due to unforeseen circumstances this program is postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date.
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Online Sacred Earth Sangha
with Sebene Selassie, Lin Wang Gordon, and Jon Aaron
Monday, April 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community formed around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Course: Thursdays, April 15 - June 3, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm
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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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Tushar D. Bhagat
Course: Saturdays, April 17th - June 19th, 2021 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 | 9:00am - 4:30pm 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: Meditating With the Elements – A Weekend Workshop
with Bodhipaksa
Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th, 2021 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET
On this weekend workshop Bodhipaksa offers us a rare opportunity to explore the Six Element Practice — a beautiful form of insight meditation taught by the Buddha himself. This reflective practice gently encourages us to question limited assumptions we hold about who and what we are, leading us toward a more open, expansive sense of ourselves. It helps us to connect the world within and the world outside, so we can recognize that they are in reality one non-dual reality.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: What is Nirvana?
with Tuere Sala
Saturday, April 24th 2021 from 9:00am - 4:00pm ET
Have you ever wondered, "What is nirvana?" Is it something concrete or some elusive concept about the afterlife? Is nirvana, sometimes called awakening, even possible? During this daylong, we will explore this nirvana by looking deeper at the 3rd Noble Truth. We will look at why it is so important in today’s urban world to practice towards awakening.
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Online: Unlocking The Trap of Pain – Exploring Gentle Practices to Live with Ease
with Joan Griffiths Vega
Sunday, April 25th, Wednesday, April 28th, Sunday May 2nd, 2021 from 10:30am - 12:30pm ET each day
Acute or chronic pain needs a multifaceted approach to minimize its domination. In our time together we will explore the ways to turn towards the pain with kindness and curiosity to reduce the pain. When acceptance of pain is present, the exhausting war stops. New choices arise.
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Embodying Love – The Four Divine Abodes and Forgiveness
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, April 29th, 2021 - June 3rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
Mindful cultivation through formal practice of the boundless qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, resonant joy and equanimity can open the lens of wisdom and break through the barriers which have accumulated over lifetimes.
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Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, April 9th - April 30th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Angela Dews
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 7th - May 28th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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with Alexis Santos & Susa Talan
Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Inspired by the teachings of Theravādin Buddhist monk, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, during this daylong retreat we will explore the practice of meditation as a foundation for developing the heart and mind. Together we’ll practice cultivating moment by moment awareness, in a relaxed and natural way--leading us to an embodied sense of clarity, resilience and connection.
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Sacred Earth Sangha in Central Park
Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
For this month's Sacred Earth Sangha meeting, we will have a special gathering in Central Park to explore Honoring Native Land.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Lani Miller
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 14th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Monthly Community Potluck
Friday, May 15th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Online: Transcending Gender
with Ayyā Somā
Sunday, May 16th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
Buddhist monk Ayyā Somā will lead us in an exploration of how the Buddha's teachings encourage us to investigate gender—and all identities—and how to ultimately transcend it.
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Online: Obstacles to Practice – Exploring the Five Hindrances
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, May 17th - June 21st from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand the energies of the Five Hindrances in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Well-Being is a Skill: An Online Benefit for New York Insight
with Richard Davidson
Thursday, May 20th 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Join renowned author and neuroscientist Richard Davidson for an online evening benefit event for New York Insight. Together we will discuss the interaction between dharma and scientific evidence that suggests we can change our brains by transforming our minds and cultivate habits of mind that will improve our well-being and the world.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 21st, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha – Transforming Suffering and Reactivity
with Donald Rothberg
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
In this daylong retreat, we will explore the Buddha’s teachings on suffering, the Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, and the Two Arrows. We will learn ways to study and implement these teachings both in formal meditation and in everyday life, including in the context of the pandemic and contemporary “social dukkha.”
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Online: ¡Únicamente Latinx! Medio dia de retiro en meditación
with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios and Isabel Adon
Sunday, May 23rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET
Únase a nosotros en un retiro de medio día para reflexionar en lo que significa crear una sangha con otros meditadores latinos / Latinx y profundizar en nuestras prácticas espirituales, las cuales pueden fortalecernos para compartir con nuestras familias, unirnos a movimientos sociales y otras comunidades.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 28th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, June 1st, 2021 on 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: The Four Seals of Dharma
with Scott Tusa
Wednesdays, June 2nd-23rd, 2021 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET
In this four-week online course led by Buddhist teacher Scott Tusa, we will explore the Buddha's four seals together through periods of teaching, meditation, and discussion.
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Online: Skillful Pleasure
with Peter Doobinin
Thursdays, June 3rd-24th from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET
As the Buddha came to discover, we have to learn to establish a skillful relationship to pleasure if dharma practice is going to thrive and if we’re going to know happiness in life. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about skillful pleasure, what it is, how we cultivate it, and why there’s such great benefit in doing so.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 4th - June 25th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Thursdays, June 10th - July 29th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, July 18th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 11th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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Online Monthly Community Potluck
Friday, June 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
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Online: Somatically Sensing – Knowing Thoughts and Emotions through Sensations
with Jill Satterfield
Saturday, June 12th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
Join Jill Satterfield for an online program exploring the physical embodiment of thoughts and feelings and how we can respond without getting caught up in a story or discursive thinking.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, June 15th, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 18th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.
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From Shame to Pride: An Online LGBTQIA Pride Event
with Bhante Suddhaso
Sunday, June 20th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET
In celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month, Buddhist monk Bhante Suddhaso will share some reflections on how to recognize and uproot shame while sowing seeds of pride and appreciation for our wholesome qualities of mind.
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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Gary Singer
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET
The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.
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Online: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginner’s Course
with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, June 23rd - July 28th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
If you've been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment.
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