Online: Kindness Even Now?! Making Loving-Kindness a Real Part of Your Meditation and Life… in 2022
with Amanda Gilbert and Jay Michaelson
Thursday, March 31st, 2022 | 7:30pm – 9:00pm ET
In her latest book, Kindness Now, beloved mindfulness teacher Amanda Gilbert adapts the traditional Buddhist heart practices known as the Brahma Viharas – Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity – to the world in which we found ourselves today. Which, if you haven’t noticed, is not always full of loving-kindness.
In this lively conversation, Amanda will be joined by Ten Percent Happier meditation teacher (and frequent New York Insight guest teacher) Jay Michaelson for an intimate and personal discussion on how Loving-Kindness meditation can really work, especially in challenging times.
If you’re new to meditation, Amanda will show how cultivating loving-kindness can be a valuable alternative to basic mindfulness. If you’ve practiced the Brahma Viharas before, we’ll explore new ways to enliven your practice so that you can take the next steps in deepening it. And if you’re really wondering whether you can become a more loving and compassionate person, we’ll try to persuade you.
All proceeds for this event will be donated as dana to New York Insight Meditation.
For more information about Kindness Now visit: www.kindnessnowbook.com or your favorite book retailer.
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Teacher(s)
Amanda Gilbert
Amanda Gilbert is a meditation teacher, speaker, lecturer of mindfulness at the University of Southern California, and the author of Kindness Now: A 28-Day Guide to Living with Authenticity, Intention and Compassion. Before dedicating herself to teaching full-time, Amanda was Center Director for The Aging Metabolism and Emotions Center at the University of California San Francisco, conducting clinical research and publishing investigations on the biological and psychological effects of mindfulness and meditation. Her formal meditation training has been with UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, in Primordial Sound Meditation with Deepak Chopra and within the Insight Meditation tradition at InsightLA. Amanda’s teachings span from coast to coast in the US as well as online. She has led meditation for top companies and startups like NBC, Paramount Pictures, The W Hotels, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s and YouTube.
Jay Michaelson
Dr. Jay Michaelson is the Programming Steward of New York Insight. He works as a writer, journalist, professor, and meditation teacher. He has taught meditation for twenty years in Buddhist, Jewish, and secular mindfulness contexts, and his books include Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment and The Gate of Tears: Sadness and the Spiritual Path.
For four years, Jay was an editor, teacher, and podcast host at the Ten Percent Happier meditation startup, and he was a member of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Board of Directors for six years. Jay is authorized to teach jhana in the lineage of Ayya Khema by his teacher, Leigh Brasington. He is also an ordained rabbi, and has written several books on Jewish spirituality.
In the media world, Jay is a regular commentator on CNN, and a contributor to Rolling Stone, The Forward, and The Daily Beast. From 2003-2013, Jay worked as a professional LGBTQ activist and is the author of the bestselling God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality. He holds a Ph.D. from Hebrew University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.