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January 2021
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETDuring this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Orientation: Friday, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ETCourse: Fridays, January 29th - March 19th, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment. Find out more
Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training
Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 6:00pm – 7:30pm
New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.
February 2021
Online: Persistence in the Face of Adversity
with Ayyā Somā
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETThe Buddha encourages practitioners to contemplate the source of our discomfort, no matter its form. Once we truly understand the nature of pain, loss, oppression, and despair, we can make the appropriate response and be free from the suffering they cause. Find out more
Online: The Joy of Meditation – Vipassana and the Whole Nine Yards
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ETThe variety of meditation practices found in Buddhism can lead to confusion and doubt, or to staying on the surface level in our practice as a result of switching around so much. This course will spend time investigating our own experience with each of these practices and sharing the fruit of wisdom and compassion that comes of this. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Thursday, January 21st, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ETCourse: Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 14th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ET
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 5th - February 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETDuring this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more
Online: Using Inquiry and Reflection in Meditation Practice
with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, February 6th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:30pm ETThe Buddhist tradition includes a wide range of practices beyond formal meditation training exercises. In this half-day session, we’ll explore core practices for inquiry and reflection, using the thought and recollection skillfully to enhance understanding and apply Dharma principles to life. Find out more
Online: Life and Death – Going Forward
with Jon Aaron, Rosemary Blake, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer
Sunday, February 7th, Saturday, June 5th, Sunday, September 12th, Saturday, December 4th, 2021 from 10:00am – 4:00pm ETThese four quarterly, daylong retreats will include meditation, understanding and preparing for death through the Buddha’s teachings, small and large group reflections, and deepening our connection to one another through sangha, moving us toward living life more fully. Find out more
Radical Honesty in the Face of Crisis: An Online Evening with Brother Man
Monday, February 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
Join Sacred Earth Sangha guest teacher Brother Man for an evening workshop on fostering embodied communities of resilience to evolve consciousness and shift culture.
Online: Anukampa – The Buddha’s Motivating Force for Care and Compassion-in-Action
with Gil Fronsdal
Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ETThis evening talk and meditation will consider the difference between the Buddha's teachings on karuna ("compassion") and anukampa ("care"), including why “care” might be a more fundamental emotion and motivation than compassion for a life devoted to the welfare and benefit of the world. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 12th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETDuring this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more
Monthly Online Community Potluck
Friday, February 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm
In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETDuring this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more
Online: Cultivating Peace Within You in a Chaotic World
with Bhante Buddharakkhita
Saturday, February 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETThe world is on fire. Many countries are experiencing injustice, political unrest and a COVID-19 pandemic. How can you find balance and cultivate peace within you? The online retreat will include guided mindfulness and equanimity meditation, Dhamma talk, and a question and answer session. Find out more
Planting the Seeds of Peace and Happiness – A Beginner’s Meditation Workshop
with Lani Miller
Sunday, February 21st, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETHave you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps looking for a way to refresh or renew your existing practice? This three hour comprehensive workshop includes instructions for experiential meditation practice with guidance from a New York Insight teacher, useful information for developing and continuing a meditation practice with plenty of time for sharing and Q & A. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 26th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETDuring this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more
Online Urban Retreat: Sweeping Our Temple – Remembering Kind Awareness
with Leslie Booker & Bart van Melik
Saturday February 27th, 2021 | 9:00 am - 5:00pm ETSunday, February 28th, 2021 | 9:00am - 3:00pm ET
Through the Buddha's teachings on the 5 Spiritual Powers, (Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom), we will train our ability to bear witness to personal and social pains and immerse ourselves in heart qualities inviting us to dance, and vacuum, in our temple we call home. Find out more
March 2021
Online: The Radiant Mind
with Bhante Suddhāso
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETBuddhist practice offers us the tools to free the mind from the constraints of discontent, irritation, and confusion—and when the mind is well liberated from these unwholesome states of mind, even temporarily, the path to true happiness becomes clear. Find out more
Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Climate Crisis, Trauma Healing and Collective Action
with Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD
Monday, March 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETIn this gathering, Kritee will dispel what, in her view, are myths around climate science that are common in the activist as well as Buddhist communities. We will then take a deep hard look at the scale of trauma we already face individually and collectively. Last but not the least, Kritee will share her understanding of how we can take meaningful and strategic collective actions for racial healing and putting down the fires of climate crisis. Find out more
Online: Truth, Honesty and Dharma
with Matthew Brensilver
Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETDharma practice is a form of rigorous honesty, an attempt to resist self-deception, and a commitment to perceive experience in novel ways. In this evening together, we will explore the ways that the pursuit of truth animates Buddhist practice. Find out more
Mindfulness & Ethical Evolution: A Daylong Online Retreat
with Matthew Brensilver
Saturday, March 13th, 2021 from 9:30am - 4:00pm ETIn this daylong, we’ll examine the process – in our direct experience – of maturing our ethical commitments. The process is facilitated by the perception of non-separation, an intimacy with the experience of suffering, a willingness to grieve, a spirit of renunciation and the courage to relinquish familiar understandings of ourselves. Find out more
April 2021
Online: Climate Resilience – Transforming Difficult Emotions into Compassion and Wisdom
with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturday, April 10th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETGrief, anxiety, anger, and despair are normal emotions as the impact of climate change become more evident and frequent in our life. How can we be with these difficult emotions and stay grounded while absorbing the implications of these events? How do we transform grief, anxiety, anger, and despair into love, courage, compassion, and equanimity, so we can sustain our engagement without burning out or tuning out? In this workshop, we will explore tools and resources that can help us stay with difficult emotions, and process them individually and collectively. Find out more