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The Way of Effortless Mindfulness

with Loch Kelly

Friday, September 27th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

This evening of meditation and book signing is based on Loch Kelly’s new book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. Meditation is often taught in two stages. The first is deliberate mindfulness, which includes one-pointed focus and nonjudgmentally observing the changing contents of our mind and body. The second practice is called effortless mindfulness, not because no initial effort is made, but because of the discovery of an awareness that is already awake and able to focus effortlessly.

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Shifting From Head To Heart-Mind

with Loch Kelly

Saturday, September 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Having experienced some of the initial benefits of mindfulness, is it now possible to awaken to the deep sense of well-being, creativity, and unconditional love that is our true nature? In this daylong retreat, you will learn contemporary versions of effortless mindfulness that help you live from your heart-mind.

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Day of Mindfulness Meditation: Spiritual Friendship

with Bart van Melik and Rosemary Blake

Sunday, September 29th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The Buddha often emphasized the importance of friends and said that friendship is a prerequisite for awakening. On this day of silence we’ll reflect on this ancient teaching and investigate how friendship can support us in cultivating a kind heart in this challenging world.

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Insight and Resilience in Times of Change

with Oren Jay Sofer

Monday, September 30th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this evening of practice, contemplation, and reflection on how can our spiritual practice be a source of healing and guidance in troubled times.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi

Orientation: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Wednesdays, October 16th - December 4th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm

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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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Janusz Welin

Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Jon Aaron, Elaine Retholtz and Sandra Weinberg

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 7:00pm

Yom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, a day when, as a community, Jews are asked to reflect on their actions of the past year and to ask for atonement for any actions that were unskillful. In support of this day, NYI hosts a day of silence and reflection.

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Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom

with Alexis Santos

Friday, October 11th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. This evening of meditation and discussion will explore how to cultivate these essential qualities.

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When Awareness Becomes Natural: An IMS Urban Retreat

with Alexis Santos and Susa Talan

Saturday, October 12th, 2019 from 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, October 13th, 2019 from 9:00am - 4:00pm

Through relaxing the body and mind, we can come to understand the effortless nature of being mindful. Join us for this first IMS Urban Retreat at New York Insight to learn how natural awareness leads to the blossoming of wisdom and compassion.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Amy Selzer

Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Meditative Hike to Hook Mountain

with Lin Gordon

Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pm

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

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Anxiety: It’s Not All In Your Mind

with Jill Satterfield

Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

The seeds of anxiety originate from a variety of sources: repeated trauma, illness, chronic pain, hormonal imbalance, a mind caught in fear of the unknown future. By developing mindfulness, we cultivate internal awareness to address anxiety before it spreads, give kind attention to our bodies, and learn to recognize the progression of thoughts and emotions that arise prior to anxiety taking hold.

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Cultivating Lovingkindness as an Insight Practice

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, October 21st - November 18th, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

Join New York Insight teacher Elaine Retholtz for a five week course on cultivating Lovingkindness and the other Brahma Viharas: Compassion, Empathetic Joy, and Equanimity.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Gary Singer

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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An Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation

with Brian Simmons

Wednesdays, October 23rd - November 20th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

This 5-week course is designed to provide a clear and practical path for people wanting to experience the profound benefits of mindfulness meditation both on and off the cushion. Ancient techniques and teachings of Buddhist meditation will be made abundantly practical and relevant for modern city dwellers in the 21st century.

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Mindful Eating for Self-Care

with Laurence Magro

Saturday, October 26th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm

Do you eat when you are stressed out, bored or sad? Have you tried to eat more healthfully but just can’t seem to stick with it? Join Laurence Magro, psychotherapist and certified mindfulness educator on an exploration of habits of mind and heart around food and eating.

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Mindful Healing: Working with Pain & Difficulty

with Jon Aaron

Sunday, October 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The Buddha taught of suffering and the end of suffering but for those with physical pain, particularly chronic physical pain, this end of suffering seems like it might never happen. This day of practice will focus on physical pain and how mindfulness practice and some specific Buddhist teachings can open up a pathway to freedom through our pain.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Exploring Peace in Our Hearts

with Nina Wise

Friday, November 1st, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

During these troubled times when we are witnessing so much polarization, fear and hatred in our world, this is a time to come together to experience the peace that lies at the heart of our being.

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Citta: A Union of the Heart, Mind, and Body

with Leslie Booker

Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this daylong retreat, we'll unpack the mysteries of Buddha's Third Foundation of Mindfulness by moving through the body, feeling tones, and how we can use it to gain freedom from the turbulence of unexamined emotional experiences.

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Joyful Awakening Through Creative Self-Expression

with Nina Wise

Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:30pm

Contemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release robust creative self-expression.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Jon Aaron

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Janusz Welin

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 from 7pm-9pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey

with Donald Rothberg

Friday November 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

In this evening talk, we will examine the seven stages of the spiritual journey, starting with taking life for granted, being caught up in habitual and conditioned mind and behavior, and ending with (some degree of) awakening and then re-entering the “ordinary” world, often bringing gifts from the journey.

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Transforming the Judgmental Mind: A NYI Weekend Retreat

with Donald Rothberg

Saturday, November 16th, 2019 | 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday, November 17th, 2019 | 9:00am - 4:00pm

In this retreat, we will cultivate mindfulness around our judgments; inquiry into the deep roots of judgments; and heart practices such as lovingkindness, forgiveness, and compassion. We will also explore the somatic and social dimensions of judgments--how we internalize dominant views (e.g., of race, gender, etc.)

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Annual Thanksgiving Potluck

Sunday, November 17th, 2019 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Annual Thanksgiving Celebration. The event begins with a meditation sit from 6:30pm-7pm, followed by a delicious vegetarian or vegan meal that we will share together.

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Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck

with David Nichtern

Monday November, 18th, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join David Nichtern, a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer, entrepreneur and Senior Buddhist teacher for an evening exploring how to integrate the creative process with our spiritual practice and livelihood.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Elaine Retholz

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Buddhist Teachings for the Natural World

with David Loy

Friday, November 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The evening will focus on three aspects: practice in the natural world, a curious parallel between our usual individual predicament and our current collective predicament, and the new ecosattva path.

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We Are Nature: Remembering Our Sacred Connection to Earth

with Sebene Selassie, DaRa Williams and Lin Gordon

Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

In this daylong program, we will take time to reconnect to our bodies, hearts and minds remembering that we are nature. Centering land and ancestors, we will cultivate meditative awareness to sense the sacred connection to earth that is always present when we open to it.

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi

Sunday, November 24th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

This MBSR Daylong is for MBSR alumni, and those currently taking the course, to have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons and Gary Singer

Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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A Day of Mindfulness Meditation: In Touch with Wise View

with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik

Sunday, December 1st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

According to the Buddha the mind is forerunner of all experience. The lens through which we see life colors our experience. So often we resist an experience and suffer unnecessarily. On this day of meditation we will investigate living life in harmony with all its joys and sorrows.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz

Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Gary Singer

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice.

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Dharma Rhythms Holiday Fest

Saturday, December 14th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 6:00pm

Join us for an afternoon of amazing music, homemade refreshments and irresistible raffle prizes—from $5 up. We are celebrating New York Insight and and all the people who have made it a sangha, a refuge of peace and sanity in the city.

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Death and the Poignancy of Life

with Matthew Brensilver

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 from 7pm – 9pm

In this evening program, we’ll consider the way death can harden or soften our heart – and how dharma practice might lead us to a life that feels complete.

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Mindful New Year’s Eve Gathering

with Jon Aaron, Brian Simmons, Lani Miller and Upayadhi (Savanna) Luraschi as 'Chant Leader'

Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 from 8:00pm-12:30am

Join us for New Year's Eve as we come together in reflection and celebration, in compassionate community, to welcome the New Year.

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Life and Death – Is That All There Is?

with Rosemary Blake, Jon Aaron, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer

Saturday, January 4th - Saturday, December 12th, 2020

This yearlong course is about living fully each moment of our lives. Over twelve months we will live as though this is our last year. We will reflect upon life and death from the Buddhist perspective while incorporating powerful teachings from other spiritual traditions.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

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

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Required Free Orientation: Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 9:30am-12:00pm
8 Week Course: Fridays, January 17th - March 13th, 2020 | 9:30am-12:00pm

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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The RAIN of Compassion

with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust

Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday, January 11th, 2020 | 9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: Marble Collegiate Church, 1 West 29th Street at Fifth Avenue

Please join us for this special evening and daylong program with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust as they explore the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guide us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons

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

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

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Interpersonal Mindfulness: An 8-Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, January 15th - March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this course, participants will learn how to pause in midst of the habit mind, notice tensions and relax, kindly accept present moment experience, open and trust emergence as we listen deeply and speak the truth of our subjective experience.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Lani Miller

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

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

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Required Free Orientation: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm
8 Week Course: Thursdays February 6th - March 26th, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm

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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Finding the Way Home to Kind Awareness: An IMS Urban Retreat

with Bart van Melik and Leslie Booker

Saturday, January 25th, 2020 from 9:30am – 6:00pm
Sunday, January 26th, 2020 from 9:30am – 4:00pm

Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is pleased to present this weekend urban retreat at New York Insight. During this retreat, we will explore the heart of the Buddha’s teaching: suffering and its causes and freedom from its causes. With the help and cultivation of our kind and natural awareness, we can become intimate with what it is like to be human.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews and Brian Simmons

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

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

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Lani Miller

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

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

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Angela Dews and Gary Singer

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

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

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What’s Up with Waking Up

with Jon Aaron

Saturday, February 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

If we aren’t practicing meditation to wake up, then why are we bothering? What does waking up really mean? What are we waking up from or to? There is a Buddha in each of us waiting to wake up to a life without fear even in a world with much to be fearful of. In this daylong, we will practice directly with some of the Buddha’s teachings on freedom and investigate how to integrate these into every moment of our lives.

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Beginner’s Workshop

with Bart van Melik

Sunday, February 16th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:30pm

This comprehensive three-hour workshop provides fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz

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

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

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Bodhichitta: Developing the Mind of Awakening

with Scott Tusa

Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 from 10:00am-5:00pm

In this daylong workshop we will dive deep into the heart of the Buddha’s inner transformation and the spiritual tradition that arose from it. Through a combination of experiential learning, guided/silent meditation, and discussion we will explore how to access and develop a grounded open heart, a more available and open space of mindful awareness, and deeper insight into how to better overcome mental and emotional habits that cause us unnecessary suffering.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons

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

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

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Community Town Hall Meeting

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

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

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Elaine Retholtz

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

This MBSR Daylong is for you! Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Bart van Melik and Angela Dews

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

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

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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Exploring The Five Wisdom Energies of Tantric Buddhism

with Ethan Nichtern

Saturday, March 7th, 2020 from 10am - 5pm

The Five Wisdoms offers one of the deepest and most spiritually useful bodies of teaching in the tantric Buddhist tradition. By exploring different emotional patterns as they arise in meditation and in daily life, we begin to see the wisdom-potential that exists in every state of mind and every personality type.

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The Healing Journey Meets the Spiritual Path

with Dr Paul Epstein

Sunday, March 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm

This daylong program will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness meditation and compassion practice can be integrated and applied in the process of healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons

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

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

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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron

Saturday, March 14th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

This MBSR Daylong will be offered in-person at NYI and online. Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.

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Beginner’s Workshop

with Lani Miller

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

This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Jon Aaron and Lani Miller

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

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

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Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Brian Simmons

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

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

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Now Online: How Mindfulness Is and Is Not a Psychotherapy

with Matthew Brensilver

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

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

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Now Online: Finding a Refuge in the Body

with Peter Doobinin

Sunday, March 29th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, EST

One of the most important aspects of the Buddha’s teachings is developing the ability to find refuge.  In a world that is always changing and often presents difficulty, it is essential that we have this skill if we’re to know true happiness in our lives.

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Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: There Is No Problem

with Martin Aylward

Saturday, April 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, EST

During this online program, we will explore how to respond skillfully and actively to the ‘cries of the world’ while also discovering and resting in the realization that our true nature is free and unobstructed in its essence, and has always been so.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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Now Online: The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

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

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

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

with Katherine Marx

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

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

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Now Online: Fearlessness in the Midst of Fear

with Koshin Paley Ellison

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

In our time of social isolation in the midst of this pandemic, how do we take refuge in the teachings to support our path? Join Zen teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison for an online workshop on cultivating the freshness of feeling our feelings of fear without becoming them.

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Now Online: Surviving Modern Life – A Daylong Workshop

with Devon and Craig Hase

Sunday, April 26, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, ET

In this online daylong workshop, based on their new book, How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life, Devon and Craig Hase will be leading participants through meditations, contemplations, dialogues, and exercises to help them tap into their resilience, so that they can face these unprecedented difficulties with warmth, kindness, and some measure of equanimity.

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Postponed: Wisdom & Compassion – Guiding Our Life

with Joseph Goldstein and Bart van Melik

Details forthcoming
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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons

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

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

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

with Elaine Retholtz

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Compassion as a Guide Through Transition and Transformation

with Jane Chun

Saturday, May 16th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this online half-day workshop, we will explore the unfolding of grief and meeting reality as it is, fear and finding ground in groundlessness and examining our illusion of control, fear of change and impermanence and uncovering of who we really are and what’s really important to us.

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

with Paul Epstein

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Jon Aaron

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Interdependence Day – The Buddha’s Teaching on Dependent Arising

with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

Saturday, May 30th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

In this time of home-sheltering and social distancing, what do the Buddha's teachings on interdependence tell us about the meaning of “true connection”? What is the difference between being alone and feeling isolated? What does it mean to be “independent”? How do we create grace within the nature of interdependent relationships?

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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

with Katherine Marx

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

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

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Now Online: Free At Last – Identifying Our Suffering Around Race

with DaRa Williams and Karen Williams

Saturday, June 6th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:30pm

In this workshop open to all self-identified People of Color, we will create connection and build sangha in order to explore our individual and group level relationships to systems of oppression. We will also explore how we can integrate wisdom from the Dharma with contemplative practice to find freedom from pain and suffering.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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Now Online: Indigenous Presence – Decolonizing Our Hearts

with Bonnie Duran

Saturday, June 13th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

This online workshop will provide a conceptual framework and practice guidelines for “Indigenous Presence” meditation - a way of coming into harmony with the present moment and our world; and provides space for acceptance, and the cultivation of clarity, confidence, resilience and strength.

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Now Online: Resting into the Body of Awareness

with Jill Satterfield

Sunday, June 14th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET

Through meditation, breath practices and a restorative posture to calm the central nervous system, we’ll explore somatically, compassionately and tenderly. Together, we’ll rejuvenate and resource the body of awareness to navigate our own ways home.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

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

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

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

with Jon Aaron

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Gary Singer

Saturday, June 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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

with La Sarmiento

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Tibetan Mindfulness – Beyond the Breath

with Lama Surya Das

Saturday, June 27th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Experience an afternoon immersion with renowned bestselling author, and spiritual elder, Lama Surya Das. Learn experiential tools for dealing with distraction and interruption, a way to work with desire and aversion, of wanting and not wanting, and a means of dealing with the difficult emotions and life situations we are all currently experiencing.

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Postponed: Calm Abiding, Creative Awakening

with Nina Wise

Sunday, June 28th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Contemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release our wildness. In this half-day online retreat, we will practice both silent meditation and robust creative self-expression.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Janusz Welin

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

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

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Now Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

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

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

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Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Now Online: Surprised by Joy

with Bhante Suddhaso

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

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

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Online: A Happiness That Doesn’t Die

with Peter Doobinin

Saturday July 18th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

The Buddha’s happiness is sometimes known as “true happiness” because it’s a happiness that’s true, reliable, and always there. In this three-hour online class, we’ll learn about this quality of true happiness, what it is, and how we can come to know it.

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Postponed: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller

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

This comprehensive online three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

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

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

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik

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

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

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Online: Resourcing, Resiliency and Inquiry

Amma Thanasanti

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

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

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Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer

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

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

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

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

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

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

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