Events for October 2020

Calendar of Events

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Fall Foliage Meditative Hike

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Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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Online: Right View, Wise View, Beautiful View, No View

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

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Online: Learning a New Embodied Relationship to Pain

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Online: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth – An Insight Dialogue Course on Wise Speech

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Postponed: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

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Online Community Potluck

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Online: Interpersonal Challenges in a Time of Tumult – A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Perspective

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

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Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat

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Online: Mind Knowing Mind – Embracing Radical Acceptance Through the Practice of Insight

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Fall Foliage Meditative Hike

with Lin Wang Gordon

Sunday, September 27th, 2020 from 8:15am - 3:00pm, ET

Enjoy a Fall day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a guided, socially-distanced meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. We’ll integrate sitting and walking nature meditation throughout the hike.

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Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Elaine Retholtz and Jon Aaron

Monday, September 28th, 2020 from 10:00am - 7:00pm ET

This year, New York Insight will continue the annual tradition of A Day of Silence and Reflection for Yom Kippur. As an act of care and compassion for our fellow practitioners during these times it will be offered as an online event.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Right View, Wise View, Beautiful View, No View

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 1st - November 5th, 202 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

In this six-week course we will take a deep dive into Right View, the very first factor of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, considering various suttas and their interpretations, and how this aspect of the Dharma evolved in later Buddhist traditions.

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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 1st - November 19th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm 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.

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Online: Living the Dharma in a Challenging Time

with Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Sebene Selassie and Dan Harris

Thursday, October 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for an evening discussion with three renowned teachers on how Buddhism has shaped their lives, how they are seeing our world through the lens of dharma and how dharma can lead us through this moment.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, October 2nd - October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Fridays, October 2nd - November 20th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm 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: Learning a New Embodied Relationship to Pain

with Joan Griffiths Vega

Sunday, October 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Pain, acute or chronic, requires a multifaceted, multi-dimensional approach to manage its overwhelming domination. Join us for a workshop on how mindfulness supports a kind, curious awareness towards pain contains practices to soften pain and open the body to greater ease.

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Online: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth – An Insight Dialogue Course on Wise Speech

with Bart van Melik

Course: Mondays, October 5th - October 26th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

As a community, we'll investigate the Buddha's timeless instructions on Wise Speech with the support of Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together mindfulness and concentration, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the causes and release of human suffering.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews

Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Postponed: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice

with Jon Aaron

Wednesdays, October 7th - November 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Has your meditation practice been flagging? Are you finding yourself falling into unskillful habits? Give your mindfulness practice a boost with this course for anyone who has recently (or not so recently) completed the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction class and feels “stuck” in their practice.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 9th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Sacred Earth Sangha: Central Park Meet Up

Sunday, October 11th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm

Please join NYI teachers, Sebene Selassie, Lin Gordon, and Jon Aaron for an Sunday morning of teaching, meditation, and discussion as we create a community around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Fridays, October 16th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

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Online Community Potluck

Friday, October 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Online: Interpersonal Challenges in a Time of Tumult – A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Perspective

with Dr. Pilar Jennings

Saturday, October 17th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this workshop, psychoanalyst and Dharma teacher Pilar Jennings will explore the early developmental roots of interpersonal challenges, and bring these insights into conversation with Buddhist wisdom teachings. Together we will explore the key dynamics in our wish to nurture and sustain interpersonal relationships that can withstand the difficulties posed during this unique moment in time.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, October 21st - November 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

During these challenging times it's good to know that there are tools we can turn to that offer us support and upliftment. In this course we will explore ways our spiritual and meditation practice can be a refuge and offer us the inner nourishment we long for.

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Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik

Friday, October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application.

Find out more

Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat

with Ralph De La Rosa

Saturday, October 24th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

The emotional impact of the election season lands on us when we already feel threadbare. It's never been so tough to maintain wellbeing, clarity, compassion, and non-reactivity -- and yet it's never been more important. Join us for a day of truly integrated practice and community connection informed by our complex needs during these times.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer

Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion.

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