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Online: The Heart of the Matter – Cultivating Lovingkindness Practice

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, February 7th - March 21st, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In this course we will explore the various facets of Lovingkindness practice. There will be ongoing home practices each week, including questions for reflection. In every class there will be time to ask questions and share insights, as well as time to be in breakout rooms sharing, reflecting and learning from each other in smaller groups.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Interpersonal Mindfulness Course Eight Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Wednesdays, February 9th - March 30th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

The program was specifically designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Cultivating Emotional Wisdom

with Celeste Brooke Young

Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join InsightLA core teacher, Celeste Young for an engaging evening exploring some of the traditional Buddhist teachings on how to work mindfully with emotion, as well as modern approaches drawing on the latest research in positive psychology and neuroscience.

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, February 16th - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

During these challenging times it's good to know that there are tools we can turn to that offer us support and upliftment. In this course we will explore ways our spiritual and meditation practice can be a refuge and offer us the inner nourishment we long for.

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In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Course: Thursday, February 17th - April 7th, 2022 | 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 | 9:30am - 5:00pm ET

MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.

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Online: Buddhist Practice for Modern Westerners

with Seth Zuiho Segall

Thursday, February 17th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Buddhism is a living tradition that has, throughout its history, adapted to the needs of the cultures that have adopted it. This evening will focus on how the goals of Western Buddhist practice are evolving, and how meditation can be understood within this evolving context.

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Online: Making Meditation Easy – Good Ethics and Right View

with Ayya Santussika

Sunday, February 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Meditation doesn't need to be difficult - and if we establish the right foundations for our practice, meditation becomes much easier. In this session, bhikkhuni Ayyā Santussikā will draw on the Buddha's teachings to explain how we can use activities and concepts to strengthen our meditation.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Belonging through Lovingkindness

with Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio & Noliwe Alexander

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Join us for an afternoon/evening of discovering what it means to belong to ourselves and each other through the lens of deep reflection and Lovingkindness practice. Starting wherever you are, we’ll look at how to meet ourselves with friendliness in our own hearts and extend that grounded awareness into the world.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck and Movie Night

Friday, February 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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

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Online: Anatta and Identity BIPOC Daylong

with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios and Lissa Edmond

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

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

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Postponed: Embodied Communication in a Digital World

with Jenny Hannah

Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Join this workshop as we explore ways to deepen our relationships, and unstick our image based and verbal processing, both with ourselves and others. Through moving meditation, short investigative talks, group inquiry, discussions, and experiential breathing and movement exercises, we will fully embody our authentic felt presence and communicate with whole body expression.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Postponed: Mindful Politics

with Bodhipaksa

Wednesdays, March 2nd - March 30th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

With the help of traditional Buddhist teachings and insights from social psychology, and through exploring our own minds and emotions in meditative practice, we’ll seek a way to practice a more compassionate, wiser, and more mindful politics.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Indigenous Presence

with Jeanne Corrigal

Thursday, March 10th, 2022 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this online session, we will explore the intersections of indigenous culture and Insight Meditation and the guidance they offer for living in a sacred, kind, wise way in the world, in the midst of these times.

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Online: Befriending Mortality – Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death

with Nikki Mirghafori

Saturday, March 12th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Rather than running away from our inevitable mortality, we can harness the power of this reflection to stay aligned with our deepest values and to live and love more fully. Fully embracing our life’s impermanence can give rise to a deep letting go and freedom, so that we can be fearlessly, peacefully prepared for our death as a potentially liberative moment.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Calm and Steadiness, Insight and Wisdom

with Narayan Helen Liebenson

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

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

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Online: Wise Awareness – The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

with Bhante Kusala

Sunday, March 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

In Buddhism, the term 'mindfulness' means far more than just 'awareness' - it also incorporates the development of incisive, mind-transforming wisdom. Bhante Kusala will walk us through the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and discuss how we can relate it to our contemplative practice, to take us far beyond mere attention and deep into the domain of profound insight.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, March 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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

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Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller

Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

In this three hour comprehensive workshop, we'll learn the basics of Insight /Mindfulness Meditation Practice in a warm supportive environment and look at what draws us to explore meditation. There will be instructions for and time to practice meditation , as well as suggestions on how to develop and maintain an ongoing meditation practice.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings are a chance to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives.

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Online: Kindness Even Now?! Making Loving-Kindness a Real Part of Your Meditation and Life

with Amanda Gilbert and Jay Michaelson

Thursday, March 31st, 2022 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Amanda Gilbert and author, editor and teacher, Jay Michaelson, for an intimate and personal discussion on why Loving-Kindness and these practices of the heart are a leading practice and primary means to engage with ourselves and each other in today’s world. We will explore how these heart practices can guide us towards deeper transformation, personal growth, and connection to our authentic self.

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Online: Waking Up to Your Life – Intimate Presence

with Seth Zuihō Segall

Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This half-day retreat utilizes insight meditation and Zen practices to cultivate intimate, whole-hearted presence with our bodies, hearts, and minds, and our fundamental connection to others and the world.

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Online: Sensing the Subtle Body in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Practices to Cultivate Embodied Awareness

with Jill Satterfield

Fridays, April 8th - 29th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET

The union of body/mind is integral to full understanding and liberation of heart. Being embodied isn’t necessarily innate, but can definitely be cultivated. We can become aware of how a feeling tone feels, how thoughts and emotions are sensed in sensations and how the mind can be felt energetically in terms of expanded or contracted shapes.

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Online: The Healing Journey Meets The Spiritual Path – How Pain and Illness Can Be a Vehicle for Awakening

with Dr. Paul Epstein

Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

How we are with and relate to our pain and life's difficult challenges is as important as what we do to treat them. This workshop will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness and compassion practice can be integrated in the process of facing and healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.

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Online: Remembering the Already Awakened State – Waking Down to the Wisdom of Our Bodies

with Deborah Eden Tull

Friday, April 22nd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

It is through embodied presence, rather than mental effort or philosophizing, that we remember the already awakened state. Our bodies know the way home. Awareness is the key that allows us to recognize this, beyond habits of hierarchical perception. In this experiential teaching, we will explore the subtle body as guide to both inner-connection and interconnection, both on and off the cushion.

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Online: Love, Courage, Collective Awakening: Embodying the Nine Principles of Relational Mindfulness

with Deborah Eden Tull

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET

At this moment in history, there is a significant tear in the fabric of human relationship, and we all long for deeper connection and understanding. This retreat teaches the dharma of relational intelligence, which is the ability to see ourselves and one another clearly with the heart, beyond the mind of separation.

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Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying

with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm & Jon Aaron

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

This is the second of four daylong retreats around living life fully as we explore death. It will include both walking and sitting meditation, dharma talks, reflections shared in break-out rooms and the opportunity for all participants to explore the meaning of death through their practice, their lives and how they currently experience the five reflections.

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Online: Cultivating the Seven Factors of Awakening

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, April 25th - June 20th, 2022 from 9:30pm - 11:30pm ET

In our culture there can be a tendency to dwell on the negative – what we need to be rid of. In this course we will be investigating and practicing the cultivation of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy or rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity.

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Online: The Synergy of Dharma and Abolition

with karen g. williams, Peace Twesigye & Kierstin Williams

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

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

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Online: Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD

Thursdays, May 5th - June 9th, 2022 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.

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Online: Meditating With the Eyes

with Bodhipaksa

Thursday, May 5th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Bodhipaksa for this evening exploring how the practice of kind eyes can transform our practice of lovingkindness, giving us effortless access to feelings of warmth, appreciation, and caring both for others and for ourselves. Even after a brief experience of these approaches to meditation, your practice may never be the same again.

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Online: Touching the Earth

with Jeanne Corrigal

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

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

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Online: Cultivating Conscious Intentions

with Melissa McKay

Thursday, May 12th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Intentions are the seeds we plant that will determine what will arise in life. In this class, we will practice mindfulness with an emphasis on learning to be more aware of our intentions and set aspirations that align more favorably in our lives.

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Online: Exploring The Beautiful – Creativity and Meditation Daylong

with Lani Miller

Sunday, May 15th, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET

During this daylong workshop/ retreat we will have the opportunity to explore together the relationship between meditation practice and creativity. Through our direct experience during this workshop, we will explore the already present and inherent interconnection between meditation practice and creative expression.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, May 20th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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

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Healing Ourselves, Healing our World

with Aaron Solomon

Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This is a half-day workshop and practice space to explore the intersection of mindfulness, embodiment, and trauma healing. We will practice in large and small groups to build a sense of presence, connection, and embodied communication in order to hold space for processes of healing and transformation.

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Online: Three Branches of the Buddhist Path in Daily Life

with Vance Pryor

Thursday, May 26th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The path of Dharma practice is said to consist of ethical conduct, continuity of awareness, and discerning wisdom. This talk will emphasize the relationships between these three courses of training, and the benefits of making these pillars of our spiritual path.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, June 10th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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

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