In-Person and Online: Balancing Your Job and Your Life – How to Decrease Work Stress and Find a New Path Forward
with Mirabai Bush
Sunday, September 6th, 2026 | 10:00am – 12:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
We’re facing some unprecedented challenges related to the world of work: the effects of AI and economic uncertainty have forced many of us to make compromises or work more hours than we’d like. If we’re not being pressed in these ways, we might still be feeling the pang of wanting our work to feel more meaningful, engaging, and wholesome.
The Buddha’s teachings present practices that can help us engage with these concerns, recognize our strengths, and discover choices we might not otherwise see.
Over the course of this special morning program, teacher and author Mirabai Bush will explain how meditation can help you flow with change and meet stress and uncertainty with greater emotional capacity and stability. With awareness and care for ourselves, we can learn to thrive in our workplace, avoid burnout, and become better acquainted with our innate talents.
A pioneer in bringing contemplative practices to the workplace, Mirabai was the co-developer for Google’s Search Inside Yourself, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence that addressed both mindfulness and leadership skills.
Join us to learn more about these techniques, as well as how to apply Buddhist teachings to your work life. Together we’ll do insight and compassion practices together; share stories, questions, and insights; and leave knowing that we are not alone on the path.
In-Person Registration:
Please register below for in-person participation. 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.
Online (Zoom) Registration:
Please register below for online participation via Zoom. 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)
Mirabai Bush
Mirabai Bush is founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, which introduced meditation and other contemplative practices into education, law, business, environment leadership, the military, and social justice activism.
Her dharma studies include meditation in Bodh Gaya, India, with Shri S.N. Goenka and Anagarika Munindra; bhakti yoga with Neemkaroli Baba; and studies with Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She studied aikido with Kanai Sensei and has practiced Iyengar and Sivananda yoga.
She has been teaching contemplative practices in life and work for 50 years, integrating her experience in organizational management, teaching, and consulting. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.
She recently published a memoir, Almost Home: Dharma Social Justice, and the Power of Love. She is co-author with Ram Dass of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service; co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning; and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.
She has been a board member of Lions Roar, Omega Institute, Seva Foundation, the Dalai Lama Fellows, and Love Serve Remember Foundation.
She lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband, EJ Lynch. She has one son, Owen, a filmmaker, and a divine grand-daughter, Dahlia.