Course: Wednesdays, January 26th - March 16th, 2022 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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Thursday, January 27th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
Our worlds have changed completely in the last two years. How can social justice-informed mindfulness practices help us regain a sense of wholeness and daily well being in a deeply wounded and polarized society and world? How can self-healing and community-healing be understood as two ways of describing the same thing that is needed to go forward? During this evening with Patricia Mushim Ikeda, we'll explore these inquiries, and more, together.
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Friday, January 28th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, January 29th, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Join author, entrepreneur and meditation teacher, Gina LaRoche for this daylong retreat to investigate our stories, secrets and relationship with money. Using the 10 Paramis as a framework, we will create a path of awareness within the realities and constraints of our day-to-day lives.
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Tuesday, February 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 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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Wednesday, February 2nd - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue, psychotherapists and certified mindfulness educators, for a six week course to explore our habits of mind and heart around food and eating. Discover an innovative and compassionate approach to healing your relationship to this everyday life-sustaining activity.
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Thursdays, February 3rd - February 24th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET
Right view informs the steps we take as we make our way on the path to a greater happiness. And right resolve provides us with the wholehearted intention and sense of purpose that’s needed in order to take these steps. In this four week course, we’ll learn about these elemental components of the Buddha’s path and how to skillfully apply these understandings as we make the journey along the path.
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Friday, February 4th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Dharma practice offers encouragement to develop a wise and kind inner voice, to become an ally, companion and advocate for ourselves in life. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for an evening of meditation and exploration on how we can transform our inner dialogue.
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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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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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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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Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 from 6:30pm – 8:00pm ET
Please join NYIMC board vice president, Erin O’Connor, for a presentation about the new Dharma Leadership Council and an opportunity for you to ask questions and provide input on this groundbreaking new path for NYIMC.
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Thursdays, February 10th, 2022- March 17th, 2022 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
There is far more to the renowned Satipatthana Sutta that is apparent, or even explicit, in most secular mindfulness courses. This six-month, four-part course will be an opportunity to explore the teachings in the fuller context of the Buddha’s presentation, unimpeded.
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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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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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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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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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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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Saturday, February 19th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
In this half day of mindfulness, we’ll learn powerful practices of staying rooted and grounded in the midst of life’s storms by listening to the wisdom of the body.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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One Sunday a month from February 27th, 2022 - November 13th, 2022
Over the months of this yearlong course we will discover how our embodied Buddhist practice can help us face difficult emotions with compassion and how that impacts our response to the climate crisis.
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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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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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Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Understanding and transforming the personal, collective, and ancestral trauma—unresolved suffering—that lives in our bodies and shapes our minds and lives, is essential for us to be able to respond to the layered ecological and social crises of the 21st century.
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Fridays, March 4th-25th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, March 5th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
This half-day workshop explores the deep wisdom and power of the Four Reminders which turn the mind toward liberation, the dharma, and freedom.
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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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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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Fridays, March 11th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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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Fridays, March 18th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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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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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Fridays, March 25th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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.
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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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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Fridays, April 1st - 22nd, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Fridays, April 8th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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.
Fridays, April 15th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Thursday, April 21st, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
We commonly feel that our experiences of insecurity or doubt are evidence of personal weakness or failure, to be overcome by the cultivation of confidence or self-improvement. Join us for a evening exploring different frames for understanding – and meeting – these unwelcome experiences.
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Friday, April 22nd, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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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Sunday, April 24th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Meeting fear with mindfulness and courage can make difference between being caught up in fear and being free from it.
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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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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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Wednesdays, May 4th - June 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us for this four week dive into the teachings and practices of maranasati (marana=death, sati=mindfulness) to help us live more fully and die fearlessly.
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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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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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Fridays, May 6th - 27th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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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Fridays, May 13th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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Saturday, May 14th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
These teachings are a training for the heart to reside in its original state of loving awareness and open-heartedness. Each Brahma-Vihara holds its own unique flavor of love and meditative quality to incorporate into your meditation practice and daily life.
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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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Fridays, May 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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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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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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Fridays, May 27th, 2022 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions.
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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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Saturday, July 16th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The entirety of the Buddhist path is for alleviating or totally eradicating stress. Meditation, compassion, generosity and ethical practices all serve this purpose. During this program we will explore the therapeutic tools of the Buddha and discuss ways of applying it to our life.
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