Fridays, September 14th- November 16th, 2018 from 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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Friday, September 14th, 2018 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The center needs you to help prepare the space and welcome participants. As a volunteer, you’ll learn more about New York Insight and become an active member of the Sangha.
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Saturday and Sunday, September 15th-16th, 2018 from 10am-5pm
Join Martin Aylward for a weekend retreat exploring the friction and inherent freeness at the heart of all experience.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 | 10am-6:30pm
All are welcome to join us in this celebration and exploration of the Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. There will be meditations focused on the idea of right action, the difference between guilt and remorse, the laws of karma, forgiveness, and lovingkindness.
A new date will be announced shortly. Apologies for the miscommunication.
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Mondays, September 24th - December 10th, 2018 from 6:30-8:30pm
Take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn the fundamentals of basic Pali, the language in which the texts of early Buddhism are recorded.
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, September 26th - October 24th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
This course will explore the four Brahma vihāra, which are teachings by the Buddha for the practice and cultivation of four states of mind.
Find out moreSaturday, September 29th, 2018 from 10:00am-5:00pm
A daylong meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice.
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Tuesdays October 2nd, 9th, 23rd and 30th from 10:00am-12:00pm
This course explores the Buddha's seminal teachings on the Four Noble Truths and investigates what he described as the causes and conditions that make freedom possible.
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Tuesday evening, October 9th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Join acclaimed playwright Lynn Nottage and renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg for a special evening exploring creativity as a healing and disrupting force, the power of the contemplative space and the responsibility of engagement.
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Instead of the usual Tuesday Dharma Gathering, Lynn Nottage and Sharon Salzberg will be speaking at NYIMC on October 9 from 7-9pm. Join us!
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October 10th - 15th, 2018 at Won Dharma Center
This retreat will explore the value and methods of shifting the focus of attention from objects such as thoughts and sensations, to fields of direct experience such as energies, relationships and environments.
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October 10th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
This course is for CLCW graduates to learn how to apply heart and mind-opening practices, blending wisdom, skillful behavior and meditation.
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Mondays, October 15th - November 26th, 2018 from 9:30am - 11:30am
This course is cancelled and will be rescheduled at a future date.
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Fridays, October 19th - November 16th, 2018 from 10am-12pm
One of the most powerful impediments to our awakening and peace in our lives is our judging, self-critical voice that can undermine our efforts. In this course, we’ll use the tools of the dhamma to investigate the roots of the judging voice and how we can quiet it.
Find out moreOctober 20th, 2018 from 10:00am-5:00pm
A daylong meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, October 26, 2018 from 7-9pm
Effortless mindfulness is an advanced, yet simple form of mindfulness. Rather than concentrating to calm and focus your mind, in this class we will learn to intentionally shift into our awake aware mind, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus.
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Saturday, October 27th, 2018 from 10:00am-5:00pm
Join us for a day exploring aging as a spiritual practice through meditation practice, teachings and group discussion.
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Monday, October 29th, 2018
Join visiting teacher Lama Rod Owens for a discussion on power and ethical misconduct in spiritual communities and how to work with these issues in daily life.
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Visiting teacher Lama Rod Owens will lead this week's Tuesday Dharma Gathering. These sittings provide an opportunity for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2018 from 6:30-8:30pm
Join us for special discussion with visiting teacher Lama Rod Owens on the teachings of the #MeToo movement followed by discussion and socializing with other LGBTQI practitioners at New York Insight.
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2018 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at Middle Collegiate Church
Join us for this special evening as we learn practical tools for deepening awareness of ourselves and others, and explore methods for cultivating greater insight, equanimity and kindness in the face of change and challenge.
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Sunday, November 4, 2018 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
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Sunday, November 4, 2018 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Tuesdays, November 6th - December 11th, 2018 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
The Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This course will explore these teachings and include practice, instruction and talks, as well as group dialogue and inquiry.
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, November 9th, 2018 | 6:00pm-8:30pm
Join Tricycle and New York Insight for a special screening of Mickey Lemle’s new award-winning documentary, The Last Dalai Lama?, in which the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, takes a look at his legacy as he enters the ninth decade of his life.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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November 14th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
This course is for CLCW graduates to learn how to apply heart and mind-opening practices, blending wisdom, skillful behavior and meditation.
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Friday, November 16, 2018 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Please join us for the NYI Annual Thanksgiving Potluck. The meditation starts at 6:30pm, and the potluck meal is from 7-9pm.
Find out moreNovember 18th, 2018 from 10:00am-5:00pm
A daylong meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 | 10:00am-12:00pm
This Sunday daylong retreat begins with a guided meditation followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Join Buddhist psychiatrist and author Mark Epstein for a discussion about the relationship of Buddhism and psychotherapy.
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Thursdays, December 6th, 13th, & 20th, 2018 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
During these three Thursdays we will explore how these key teachings from the Buddha overlap and interface with each other.
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Thursdays, December 6th, 13th, & 20th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Whether you've recently completed Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction or your practice just needs a bit of energizing this will be a three-week class to re-enforce and renew. This is an opportunity to practice together and learn ways to bring these practices into our lives while bringing life to our practice.
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Friday, December 7th, 2018 from 6:00pm-8:30pm
Every 20 years, locals tear down Ise Jingu, one of the most important Shinto shrine complexes in Mie Prefecture, Japan, only to rebuild it entirely from scratch. Explore this 1,300-year-old ritual in Tricycle’s and New York Insight’s screening of In Between Mountains and Oceans (Umi Yama Aida) directed by acclaimed Japanese photographer Masaaki Miyazawa.
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Saturday, December 8th, 2018 from 9:30am - 5:00pm
Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
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Sunday, December 9, 2018 from 10:00 am - 5:00pm
This daylong retreat will be an opportunity to learn and to deepen the practice of Insight Dialogue, a fully engaged relational meditation practice. Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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December 12, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
This course is for CLCW graduates to learn how to apply heart and mind-opening practices, blending wisdom, skillful behavior and meditation.
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Saturday, December 15th, 2018 from 10:00am-1:00pm
This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Saturday, December 15th, 2018 from 1:30pm - 6:30pm
Join us for an afternoon of amazing music, homemade refreshments and irresistible raffle prizes—from $5 up. We’re celebrating NYI’s 15 years at our beautiful Chelsea home and all the people who have made it a sangha, a refuge of peace and sanity in the city.
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Sunday, December 16th, 2018 from 10am-5pm
During this daylong retreat workshop we will explore the natural relationship and flow between meditation and creativity. The day will include and unfold with Buddhist meditation practice, experiential processes related to this topic, short talks by the teachers, and lots of group participation.
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Monday, December 31, 2018 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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Tuesday, January 1, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
This is a special Peer Led Tuesday Dharma Gathering.
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Sunday, January 6, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, January 9th-February 13th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis will be on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Friday, January 11th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, January 13th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
A weekend meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice.
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Thursdays, January 17th - March 21st, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
While they may seem confusing at first, the teachings on emptiness have the potential to open us to the experience and embodied wisdom of Anatta (not-self). This class will be an opportunity to explore how, as we start to live from the place of Emptiness, true freedom is experienced.
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Orientation: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Thursdays, January 31st – March 21st, 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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Orientation: Friday, January 18th, 2019 or January 25th, 2019 from 9:30am-12:00pm
Course: Fridays, February 1st - March 22nd, 2019 from 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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Friday, January 18th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Sat, January 19th - Sat, March 23rd, 2019
New York Insight now offers MBSR Fundamentals—the first step in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Pathway. NYI teachers Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz are authorized by the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness to offer this special MBSR teacher training in New York City.
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Monday, January 21st, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join us for a special POC + Allies sit on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in which we remember the legacy of MLK.
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, January 25th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
Saturday, January 26th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
Join teacher and author Narayan Helen Liebenson for a workshop on how to live from a compassionate love that guides our lives and warms whatever it shines upon. With metta and compassion as companions and allies, we will discover how our own magnanimous hearts can gently allow our inner knots to untie themselves.
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Sunday, January 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 1:00pm
This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, February 8th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, February 9th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
This daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on impermanence - and how they bring forth the wisdom to let go of what has just passed and open fully to what emerges next.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
In this Daylong Retreat in celebration of Valentine's Day, we will look inward to build a stronger understanding of our own hearts and minds before we turn our energy of love outwards.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, February 13th- March 6th, 2019 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm
A four-week workshop for graduates of MBSR that focuses on how to handle the challenges and discoveries that arise as we practice. We aim to transform meditating from being a task into a joy, a relief, and a homecoming.
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Saturday, February 16th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
Our difficulties require our most compassionate attention and inquiry. We will explore in depth our pain and difficult challenges and learn to open and to relate to them with unconditional presence, in a way that is mindful, wise, compassionate and healing.
Find out moreSunday, February 17th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 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 welcome our new Executive Director and share exciting news about recent developments at NYI. 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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Friday, February 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join us for a film night at New York Insight where we will take an in depth look at how mindfulness in schools is changing the lives of young people and creating a breath of fresh air in their lives. We will screen this short film and include a lively conversation with the film's director and a professor in the Psychology Department of Hunter College.
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
On this day-long workshop Bodhipaksa will introduce a three-stage approach to meditation that he’s developed in over the last 20 years, helping us to calm the mind, to enter deeply into a relaxed yet vibrant experience of the body and bring joy to the heart.
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Sunday, February 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
This daylong retreat will be an opportunity to learn and to deepen the practice of Insight Dialogue, a fully engaged relational meditation practice. Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, February 27th - March 20th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
How do we bring practice into our everyday life in order to deepen our awareness, moment to moment, and cultivate a more integrated daily relationship with the Dharma? And Now What? is a four-week course for those who have completed an introductory course in Insight or Mindfulness meditation.
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Sunday, March 3,2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join us for this Daylong Retreat to learn how meditation and mindfulness and can help you on the one journey we all take, our own personal journey through life to the common end in death. The day will be a mix of talks, meditation and practices with being present with life as it is.
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 from 7pm-9pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
Find out moreFriday, March 8th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
This evening will explore the process through which the mind comes to rest and how concentration and equanimity reinforce each other. We will cultivate a deeper understanding of ourselves and make space for the heart to respond with joy and compassion.
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Saturday, March 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Explore how we might we bring both a vast view and a fine attention to both our inner practices, and in response to the ecological, political and social crises in which we currently find ourselves.
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, March 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, March 16th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
This daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on suffering and how they hold the promise of more profound well-being than the simple escape from pain or difficulty.
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Sunday, March 17th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
How can we accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and ease, sadness and joy that life brings us? One possible answer is to take refuge in the power of wakefulness, in the Buddha’s teachings and in the community dedicated to harmony and awareness.
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Monday, March 18th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
at Middle Collegiate Church
Come join Daniel Siegel in this exploration of well-being in our lives! We’ll dive deeply into the nature of presence, and how learning a reflective practice can build the mental skills of focused attention, open awareness, and kind intention that cultivate important aspects of social, psychological, and physiological flourishing.
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Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
Find out moreSunday, March 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
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Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Saturday, March 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
This daylong retreat will share little-known stories of the first Buddhist women. They offer a more engaged, emotionally alive and gender-balanced Buddhism, filling gaps we have sensed but haven’t named.
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Sunday March 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
We brighten the mind by cultivating the heart quality of appreciative joy. In this daylong retreat, we'll learn to develop appreciative joy in meditation and in daily life.
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Orientation: Thursday, April 4th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Thursdays, April 11th – June 6th, 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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Sunday, April 7th, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Mondays, April 8th - May 20th, 2019 from 9:30am – 11:30am
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, April 12th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, April 13th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
This daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on non-self and how the careful observation of moment-to-moment experience in the mind and body, and has the potential of changing everything.
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Mindful awareness brings the choice of relating to experience with wisdom and compassion where practitioners train the mind and thus change the brain. Join us for this Daylong Program with Dr. Paul Epstein who will share recent scientific finding that prove that meditation and mindfulness can actually change the brain.
Find out moreThese sittings provide an opportunity for Sangha members in Queens to meet for meditation, a Dharma talk, and discussion.
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Tuesday, April 16th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Thursdays, April 18th - May 23rd 2019 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
This class will explore the Bodhisattva ideal - how compassionate action arises in us, when is it blocked, and how we bring our practice and wisdom into the world.
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Saturday, April 20th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
This daylong program will present the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and emptiness and through stillness and relational practice, we will tap into the potential which is present in all of us.
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Sunday, April 21st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program has been postponed and will be re-scheduled at a future date.
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, April 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, April 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
In this weekend program, we will explore a different sense of faith. We will discuss how it can connect us to a deeper place of strength within us and to a bigger picture of life. This type of faith increases confidence, openness, and our ability to recognize something outside of our immediate circumstances as describing who we are.
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Sunday, April 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join us for this daylong retreat where we will cultivate our natural capacity for an open and loving heart towards ourselves and all other beings.
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Please join NYI president Tom Carling, teacher Sebene Selassie, and Extinction Rebellion leader Bill Beckler, for an evening of meditation, presentations, and discussion as we explore your ideas and consider how NYI can best support our individual and collective practices in the midst of this new reality.
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Sunday, May 5, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm
These regularly scheduled mornings begin with a guided meditation, followed by standing or walking meditation. There is a Dharma talk and a question and answer period where attendees can inquire about practice.
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Fridays, May 10th - June 28th, 2019 from 9:30am-12pm
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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Friday, May 10th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
During this evening we will explore how mindfulness and the teachings of Buddhism can help us bring awareness and clarity to the constructs & biases around race that exist in society and within each of us (either as external racism or as internalized oppression), so that we can live with more love, wisdom and compassion.
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Saturday, May 11th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pm
Join us for a daylong program to practice 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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Sunday, May 12th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Join Elizabeth J. Coleman, a poet, public interest attorney, environmental activist, and teacher of mindfulness for a day of celebration reading poems from her new book, HERE: Poems for the Planet, an international contemporary poetry anthology for our planet. Readings will be interspersed with guided meditations and discussion of mindful activism.
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, May 17th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, May 18th, 2019 from 11:30am-5:00pm
In connection with the Call to Declare Climate Emergency and timed with Wesak, the annual observance of the Buddha’s Awakening, we invite you to come together as a sangha for a live-stream webinar featuring teachers such as Kittisaro and Thanissara followed by a community potluck.
Find out moreSunday, May 19th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
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Monday, May 20th, 2019, 7-9pm
This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice of meditation. Lama Rod Owens will be the guest teacher for this evening. Members of POC Sangha and Insight Out LGBTQI Sangha are invited to attend.
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, May 24th, 2019 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm
As we move out of automatic living and start to question and explore who or what we are, we open a Pandora's Box and our life can get dramatically more deep and interesting, and sometimes more disturbing. We find ourselves in a world of paradox, mystery, and yet unimagined freedom.
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Saturday, May 25th, 2019 | 10:00am to 4:30pm
In this daylong program, we will examine equanimity, how to recognize and appreciate it, and how it can be developed. We will also explore how we can avoid getting upset and overwhelmed by circumstances, such as conflict, injustice, and suffering.
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, May 31st, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Join Theravadan monk Bhante Sukhacitto for an evening exploring how can we use meditation practice to integrate meditation and insight more fully into our lives, instead of using it as a way to escape our problems and challenges in order to experience quiet and peace.
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Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Supported by kind awareness, wisdom, and community we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives. In this retreat we will introduce the six meditative guidelines of Insight Dialogue: Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth.
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Tuesday, June 4th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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June 5th, 2019 from 6:30pm-8:30pm
Come join us for meditation and discussion to meet and socialize with other LGBTQI practitioners at New York Insight.
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Friday, June 7th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
On this evening we will explore both the theme and experience of refuge. In these challenging times, remembering that finding and taking refuge is really possible can offer us comfort, support, and strength in our lives.
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Saturday, June 8th, 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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Sunday, June 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
In this Daylong, we will explore the concept of meditation, how it leads to insight and what concepts support us in our meditation practice. This program is open to meditators of all levels.
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, June 12th - July 24th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Orientation: Thursday, June 13th, 2019 from 6:30-9:00pm
Course: Thursdays, June 20th - August 15th from 6:30-9:00pm
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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Saturday, June 15th, 2019 from 8:15am-10:30am
Join nature meditation teacher, Lin Gordon, and science teacher, Stephen Roylance, in taking an early morning walk through Central Park, where we will listen to the sounds within and without.
Find out moreSaturday, June 15th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 from 7pm-9pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, June 21st, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pm
Join us as we combine mindfulness meditation with short writing exercises geared toward personal reflection, discovering our ways of being heroic, including relaxing and letting go.
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Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
Join us for a day exploring aging as a spiritual practice through direct meditation practice, Dharma offerings from the three teachers, open discussions as well as dyad and triad work among participants.
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Monday, June 24th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Please join us for a special evening free to members and those signing up to be members. Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos, is a collection of stories and essays about taking practice off the cushion and into our days, our homes, offices, the park, the streets. This is the fierce practice of Urban Buddhism which makes the practice of Buddhism real.
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Tuesday, June 25th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, June 28th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In this evening discussion and book talk for his new book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness, Loch Kelly teaches how you can “unhook” awareness from chattering thoughts, and access a peaceful mind and a naturally embodied wakefulness.
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Saturday, June 29th, 2019 from 10:00am – 5:00pm
In this daylong retreat we will learn to intentionally shift into awake awareness, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus. Effortless mindfulness helps us shift from a self-centered identity to an empty, yet open-hearted, way of seeing and being.
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Sunday, June 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-1:00pm
This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
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Monday, July 8th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
NYI is relaunching the Eco Sangha with monthly evening gatherings co-led by rotating NYI teachers, Sebene Selassie, Lin Gordon, and Jon Aaron. This first meeting will be led by Jon Aaron. We invite all of our Dharma friends to come together as a community and create a this new sangha around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of this global emergency.
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, July 10th - August 14th, 2019 from 10:00am - 12:00pm
This course 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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Friday, July 12th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, July 13th 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pm
Enjoy a summer 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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Sunday, July 14th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
In this daylong program for People of Color (POC) and allies, we will be exploring how the Buddha's Five Spiritual Faculties can be used to work with the Five Mental Hindrances in our everyday world. We will reflect as a group on how to free ourselves from these Hindrances and how to empower ourselves with the Five Spiritual Faculties.
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July 15th - August 12th, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am
As we practice meditation, we often experience a range of difficult emotions or mental obstacles. This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand these energies in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned.
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Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, July 19th, 2019 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The center needs you to help prepare the space and welcome participants. As a volunteer, you’ll learn more about New York Insight and become an active member of the Sangha.
Find out moreSaturday, July 20th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
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Sunday, July 21st, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
In this daylong event we'll discuss the mental processes and early relational wounds underlying maladaptive, compulsive tendencies that are difficult to alleviate.
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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Saturday, July 27th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
In this daylong retreat, we'll explore how we can use the practices of mindfulness of mind in our meditation practice and in our lives in in order to find a greater happiness.
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Sunday, July 28th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Drawing from Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, the “parts work” of Internal Family Systems, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and evolutionary psychology, this daylong retreat will give you a three-step method for engaging and healing from our counter productive inner voices.
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Monday, July 29th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
In this evening talk visiting teacher Dave Smith will discuss spiritual bypassing and how our practice can be used to understand and heal emotional suffering.
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Tuesday, July 30th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Wednesdays, July 31st - September 25th, 2019 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) is an 8 Week Course developed at Stanford University to uncover the capacity of individuals to move through life and its challenges with a steadier mind and heart, from a place of greater awareness, connection, and inner strength.
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Friday, August 2nd, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.
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Saturday, August 3rd, 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, August 6th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm
These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and dialogue to address practice issues.
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Friday, August 9th, 2019 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, August 10th, 2019 | 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join visiting teacher Ven Pannavati for a daylong program of renewal to move beyond mindfulness, contemplating key passages in the Buddhist suttas that awaken us to the necessity of cultivating joy and compassion.
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