Online: Cultivating Simple Joy in Daily Life – A Four-Week Course
with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Saturdays, March 7th – 28th, 2026 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
Do you find that you go through your day on automatic pilot, barely paying attention to subtle moments of contentment, peace and joy that arise? Joy is an inner state that we can cultivate and experience in our daily life with practice. It is not dependent on external conditions or life’s circumstances. It is possible for joy to arise without you having to do anything, get anything or have anything happen.
In this 4-week course, you will be guided toward the practice of opening your heart and having access to being present to small moments throughout the day, where joy arises. We all have joy within us and we can learn to take charge of deepening it.
Together, we will practice looking inward as we experience the feeling of well-being and recognize joy in the subtle moments of life. This course will include a variety of Buddha’s teachings along with the Brahma Viharas as an overarching guide.
During this program, you’ll learn:
- How to reclaim some of the joy you once felt but now feels “lost”
- Ways to notice love and contentment present in your life, right now
- How to practice gratitude
- How to let go of what’s no longer serving you in your journey towards joy
Note: This program will be recorded. Recordings will be sent to all registrants after each session, so you are welcome to register even if you cannot attend one or more sessions live.
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.)
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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.
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)
Amy Selzer
Amy Selzer has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2002. She completed two year-long classes on Integrated Study and Practice with Andrew Olendski.
She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders Program. After she graduated, she saw a need to address the aging population. She is one of the founders of that sangha, Aging As A Spiritual Practice, which meets weekly to this day.
She has also been one of the core teachers in the year- long Death and Dying classes. She has served as Co-Chair on the Teacher’s Council for over 3 years.
Amy’s former career was team- teaching young children in an inclusion program for children with and without special needs. In addition, she worked with and supported the parents of those children.
She is particularly passionate about the dharma and the aging population, as well as all other practitioners.
Nancy Glimm
Nancy has been practicing meditation since 1996. She has been a member of NYIMC since it’s inception in 1997. Her first teacher Tamara Engel was one of NYIMC’s founders. Nancy has taught broadly on the Dharma since her graduation from the Community Dharma Leader Teacher Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2012. Since 2013 she has been a core teacher for the NYIMC Aging as a Spiritual Practice sangha and courses. Since 2019 she has been a core teacher for the Life and Death year long courses. Her primary teacher since 2012 is Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia.
Nancy is also a psychotherapist with a full time private practice in NYC. Her private practice is informed by her Dharma training.