In-Person and Online: Heavily Meditated – The Dharma of Depression & Anxiety
with Dan Harris and Leslie Booker
Sunday, September 21st, 2025 | 1:00pm – 5:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Please note: In-person registration is now full. We invite you to join us online.
Many of us come to the cushion looking for refuge from our anxiety, depression or any number of neurodiversities that we might feel are an impediment to our practices and our lives. And yet, they continue to pop up for us again and again.
In this special half-day workshop, Dan Harris, author and host of the 10% Happier podcast, and New York Insight’s Guiding Teacher, Leslie Booker, will discuss how the dharma is actually uniquely equipped to help us deal with our depression and anxiety.
Not only can the dharma shed light on why we feel anxious or hopeless—it can also help transform these experiences into portals of wisdom.
Through dharma talks, meditation, and group discussion, you’ll come to understand some basic tools to deal with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and overwhelm. You’ll also learn how to connect with your body and settle the mind in your most stressed-out moments. Together we’ll touch into the possibilities for care and well-being that the dharma offers, and also talk about what it doesn’t cover.
In-person seats have sold out. Please register for live online access below!
Online Registration:
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Teacher(s)
Dan Harris
Dan Harris is an author, podcaster, and entrepreneur. For 21 years, he worked as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, hosting such shows as Nightline and the weekend editions of Good Morning America. Dan has reported from all over the planet, covering wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and producing investigative reports in Haiti, Cambodia, and the Amazon. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan discovered meditation and then wrote the best-selling book 10% Happier as a way to encourage fellow skeptics to give the practice a shot. After that first book, Dan started the 10% Happier podcast where he interviews celebrities, entrepreneurs, authors, scientists, and meditation teachers about how to do life better. Dan lives outside New York City with his wife, son, and a rotating cast of rescue cats. You can learn more about Dan at danharris.com.
Leslie Booker
Booker is a heart – centered, spirit – driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co – authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma – informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.
Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.
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