In-Person and Online: New York Insight’s Annual New Year’s Eve Gathering & Celebration
with Leslie Booker and Lani Miller
Wednesday, December 31st, 2025 | 9:00pm – 12:15am ET (doors open at 8pm)
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
New York Insight Meditation Center teachers and staff warmly invite you to our 2025 New Years Eve gathering and celebration.
We are delighted to offer an evening of reflection, connection, and intention-setting as we honor the closing of the year and welcome the new one. The evening will include meditation, chanting, space for reflection, and our unique year-end ritual, in which all are invited to participate. Together, we will cultivate a sense of care and community, tending to ourselves and one another as we move into the new year. This is a benefit event for the center, with all proceeds supporting New York Insight’s ongoing work.
This hybrid event will be lovingly held by New York Insight Guiding Teacher Leslie Booker, community members, and guests, some of whom will join the evening online.
Doors will open at 8:00 p.m., allowing time for socializing and sharing light snacks until 9:00 p.m. The formal program will begin promptly at 9:00 p.m. ET. For those joining us online, from 8:45 to 9:00 p.m. we invite you to connect through the chat, listen to soothing meditative music, or simply sit in quiet presence with your community.
We look forward to sharing this meaningful evening with you, in the spirit of reflection and renewal, as we enter the new year together.
Suggested donation is $25, but whatever you offer is greatly appreciated. All proceeds will go towards supporting New York Insight and our Community Programs.
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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)
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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Lani Miller
Lani Miller has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1976. She is a graduate of the third Community Dharma Leaders Program. Lani is also a graduate of the MMTCP – “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program” and “The Mindful Mentor Training Program.”
As a teacher, Lani values the opportunity to be a “channel” for supporting individuals and groups to find and explore spiritual truth through their own present moment experience. As part of this, she feels honored to introduce beginning meditators to meditation.
Lani is also a Singer/ Songwriter who is interested in how music and other creative arts can be a vehicle for sharing spiritual truths and values.
“You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.” Rumi