Online: Training the Mind and Heart – Peace, Health and Happiness through Meditation
with Paul Epstein
Tuesdays, April 18th – May 9th, 2023 | 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET
Keeping it simple through basic and foundational mindfulness practices and Buddhist teachings, this class will focus on cultivating, balancing and integrating a mindful awareness and a compassionate heart in all aspects of our lives.
We’ll discuss and explore taking refuge, the 4 noble truths, the 8 fold path, the 3 characteristics, 7 intentions, mindfulness of the body, mind and heart (including loving kindness, compassion , equanimity and joy), forgiveness, gratitude, the 5 hindrances, and working with difficult emotions.
The class is an opportunity to review, deepen and reinforce your meditation practice, insight and understanding and support your continued journey on the path to peace, health and happiness. Whatever your background, whatever your experience, all are welcome, we’re all beginners.
Registration:
Please register at the highest level that your generosity offers.
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
New York Insight Meditation Center has streamlined the registration fee levels. Members of our Circle of Friends are eligible to receive 20% off of the Sustaining Rate via a code provided in the email confirming membership, which you can enter after clicking the Sustaining Level registration.
*Benefactor Level: Supports NYI’s ability to offer the Subsidized Base.
**Sustaining Level: This level reflects the actual costs to support this program. Circle of Friends members eligible for 20% discount with code. Click here to join.
***Subsidized Base: Made possible by the generosity of Benefactor Level above and other donations to ensure participation by those requiring financial assistance.
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Teacher(s)
Paul Epstein
Dr. Paul Epstein, a naturopathic physician and mind-body therapist, teaches that true healing involves integrating physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. He emphasizes that illness and pain are opportunities for self-awareness and transformation: the healing journey is inseparable from the spiritual path. His core philosophy is that by mindfully entering and exploring our pain—rather than resisting it—we uncover its meaning, release emotional trauma, and awaken the body’s innate capacity to heal. In this way, suffering becomes the doorway to freedom, and the heart of the pain contains the seed of healing itself.