In-Person and Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Thursday, September 4th, 2025 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Have you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps looking for a way to refresh or renew your existing practice?
Learn the basics of Insight/Mindfulness Meditation Practice in a warm supportive environment. This evening workshop includes clear instructions and time to meditate, with guidance from a New York Insight teacher, and plenty of time for sharing and Q&A.
The workshop includes useful information for developing and continuing a meditation practice.
We hope you can join us!
In-Person Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
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Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Online Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
CLICK HERE to open the registration form in a new browser window.
Bring a Buddy: If you are a member of our Circle of Friends, you’re invited to bring a Dharma buddy to this program for no additional cost. Simply select “1” from the drop-down next to the Bring a Buddy level, and enter your special discount code (provided in your Circle of Friends welcome email) to reduce the price to that of a single, standard registration. This registration will grant attendance for you and your buddy.
Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wildecy de Fátima Jury has been formally practicing Theravada/Vipassana meditation since 2000. She graduated from the Dedicated Practitioner Program and the Community Dharma Leader Program at Spirit Rock, in California. She is a Dharmacharya Lay-Ordained Monastic Minister by the Venerables Pannavati and Pannadipa. She completed the Dharmapala Training with teachers Thanissara and Kittisaro and the Mindfulness Mentoring Training (MMT) with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. In 2024, she completed the Original Medicine Foundation and at the moment she is enrolled at the year-long In-Depth Original Medicine Program, both through Braided Wisdom.
She has offered classes and retreats at East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland, Insight LA, Zen Center and University of Syracuse, at meditation centers in Brazil, Harlem Insight Community, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and New York Insight Meditation Center. At the moment Fátima is a resident teacher at NYIMC.
She has studied different spiritual practices and as a spiritual practitioner she has worked with many multicultural communities. She holds a BA in Psychology and Women’s Study and a Master in Social Work. She is certified in Aboriginal Focusing Oriented Therapy through the Justice Institute in Vancouver, BC.
Her intention is to promote the strengthening of sanghas and communities through the cultivation of compassion, unity and decolonization of oppressed and oppressive minds. She is an artist, a writer, and a poet who describes herself as a person within floating identities.