Online: From Rupture to Repair – The Inner Work of Healing in Relationships
with Dalya Tamir
Thursdays, April 9 – 30, 2026 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
“My daughter won’t speak to me, she hides in her room and acts like a stranger.”
“My husband and I fight all the time, over nonsense. Then we make up, and before we know it we fight again. I forgot what it feels like to enjoy each other.”
Ruptures in relationships are some of the most painful experiences in our lives. Tension, disagreements, misunderstandings, or arguments may leave us feeling confused, hurt, angry, disheartened, and often afraid of what will come next. When old or current hurts in relationships are not attended to, the distance between individuals or groups of people may grow wider and the possibility of bridging that gap can seem impossible.
Over the course of this four-week course, we will deepen our capacity to be present in challenging relationships. We will begin the journey of repair by turning toward our inner landscape, meeting our raw experience with mindfulness, and holding ourselves in loving awareness. With the help of teacher Dalya Tamir, we’ll explore our willingness to engage in the process of repair and set an intention to do so. Using an approach based on Non-Violent Communication, we will learn how to identify our unmet needs and learn how to communicate them in a way that can be heard.
This course will provide you with tools to create healthy boundaries, rebuild trust with yourself and others, hold yourself with compassion, and will offer new ways to rekindle connection, understanding, and even warmth in a relationship that has been challenging for you.
Join us for an interactive and rich exploration of repair in relationships that will call forth your innate wisdom and compassion and will enhance harmony, peace, and wellbeing in our world.
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)
Dalya Tamir
Dalya Tamir was introduced to Buddhist teaching and practice during her first Vipassana meditation retreat in Bodhgaya, 1983. Since then, she has participated in retreats under the guidance of prominent dharma teachers in the west among them Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Narayan Liebenson, and Rodney Smith including two three-month-retreats at IMS. In recent years she has been practicing in the Tibetan Buddhist Nyingma tradition receiving teachings from Anne Carolyn Klein (Lama Rigzin Drolma) and Harvey Aronson (Lama Namgyal Dorje.)
Dalya has been facilitating meditation circles and retreats for women in Ithaca, NY, Israel, and online since 2002. During a two-year sabbatical in Israel, she led meditation and dialogue retreats for Israelis and Palestinians. Since the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, 2023, she has been leading a weekly online meditation and conversations circle for peace.
Dalya works as a psychotherapist in private practice. She integrates Buddhist practices with experiential methods of psychotherapy. In 2024 Dalya published her first book called Turning Back to Ourselves- A Women’s Guide to Healing-Self Abandonment and Loving Who We Are. She lives in Ithaca, NY with her husband and daughters.