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Diving Deep: Living the Satipatthana Sutta

with various NY Insight Teachers
September 8th, 2018 - June 1st 2019

The Satipatthana Sutta is the Buddha’s teaching on a clear and direct path to total freedom. It is an ancient roadmap for modern practitioners to fully develop the power of Mindfulness and awaken the mind’s unlimited potential. Find out more

The Brahma Viharas: Loving What Is

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, September 26th - October 24th, 2018 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

This course will explore the four Brahma vihāra, which are teachings by the Buddha for the practice and cultivation of four states of mind. Find out more

The Four Noble Truths

with Angela Dews
Tuesdays October 2nd, 9th, 23rd and 30th from 10:00am-12:00pm

This course explores the Buddha's seminal teachings on the Four Noble Truths and investigates what he described as the causes and conditions that make freedom possible. Find out more

Working with the Judging Voice

with Gary Singer
Fridays, October 19th - November 16th, 2018 from 10am-12pm

One of the most powerful impediments to our awakening and peace in our lives is our judging, self-critical voice that can undermine our efforts. In this course, we’ll use the tools of the dhamma to investigate the roots of the judging voice and how we can quiet it. Find out more

Effortless Mindfulness Embodied

with Loch Kelly
Friday, October 26, 2018 from 7-9pm

Effortless mindfulness is an advanced, yet simple form of mindfulness. Rather than concentrating to calm and focus your mind, in this class we will learn to intentionally shift into our awake aware mind, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus. Find out more

Exploring the Eightfold Path

with Angela Dews
Tuesdays, November 6th - December 11th, 2018 from 10:00am - 12:00pm

The Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the way of practice leading to the cessation of suffering. This course will explore these teachings and include practice, instruction and talks, as well as group dialogue and inquiry. Find out more

The Three Refuges and Other Threes

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, December 6th, 13th, & 20th, 2018 from 10:00am - 12:00pm

During these three Thursdays we will explore how these key teachings from the Buddha overlap and interface with each other. Find out more

Insight Meditation 101: Beginners’ Course

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, January 9th-February 13th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis will be on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life. Find out more

Into the Void: The Buddha’s Teachings on Emptiness

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, January 17th - March 21st, 2019 from 10:00am-12:00pm

While they may seem confusing at first, the teachings on emptiness have the potential to open us to the experience and embodied wisdom of Anatta (not-self). This class will be an opportunity to explore how, as we start to live from the place of Emptiness, true freedom is experienced. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Thursday, January 17th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Thursdays, January 31st – March 21st, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm

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

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Orientation: Friday, January 18th, 2019 or January 25th, 2019 from 9:30am-12:00pm
Course: Fridays, February 1st - March 22nd, 2019 from 9:30am-12:00pm

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

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Fundamentals Course

with Elaine Retholtz or Jon Aaron
Sat, January 19th - Sat, March 23rd, 2019

New York Insight now offers MBSR Fundamentals—the first step in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Training Pathway. NYI teachers Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz are authorized by the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness to offer this special MBSR teacher training in New York City. Find out more

And Now What? How Do We Bring Practice Into Our Everyday Life

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, February 27th - March 20th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

How do we bring practice into our everyday life in order to deepen our awareness, moment to moment, and cultivate a more integrated daily relationship with the Dharma? And Now What? is a four-week course for those who have completed an introductory course in Insight or Mindfulness meditation. Find out more

Obstacles to Practice: Exploring the Five Hindrances

with Elaine Retholtz
July 15th - August 12th, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

As we practice meditation, we often experience a range of difficult emotions or mental obstacles. This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand these energies in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned. Find out more

The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 9th-23rd, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

Join us for a 3-week course examining forgiveness and how it can allow us to come more fully into our hearts and be a catalyst that transforms bitterness, anger, and grief into compassion and lovingkindness. Find out more

Cultivating Lovingkindness as an Insight Practice

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 21st - November 18th, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

Join New York Insight teacher Elaine Retholtz for a five week course on cultivating Lovingkindness and the other Brahma Viharas: Compassion, Empathetic Joy, and Equanimity. Find out more

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. 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 ET

These 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

Online: Cultivating the Seven Factors of Awakening

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, April 25th - June 20th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In our culture there can be a tendency to dwell on the negative – what we need to be rid of. In this course we will be investigating and practicing the cultivation of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy or rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity.

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In-Person and Online: Living Life Through the Dharma

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 13th - November 10th, 2022 from 10:00am - Noon ET

This extensive series will cover four major areas of the teachings over 20 weeks. One can sign up for the whole 20 weeks or each part separately. Part 1 is entitled Unquenchable Thirst and will cover the Buddha's teachings on dukkah or suffering.

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Online: The Seven Factors of Awakening

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, April 17th, 24th, May 1st, May 15th, 22nd, June 5th, June 12th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

During this course will be exploring how to cultivate mindfulness in various aspects of our lives through Cultivating the Seven Factors of Awakening - wholesome qualities that help us remember and connect to the simple joys of non-clinging.

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Online: Investigating the Three Characteristics of Existence

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 16th - November 13th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

Join New York Insight Teacher Elaine Retholtz for a five week online course on the Three Marks of Existence (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self), essential Buddhist teachings regarding the nature of experience. Find out more

Online: What’s Vedanā Got to Do With It?

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, April 1st - May 13th, 2024 from 9:30am-11:30am ET

Vedanā refers to the immediate feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral that arises in every moment of contact. In this course we will investigate our personal experience of vedanā, the role it plays in fueling craving and aversion, and the deeply ethical implications it has for our views, biases, and motivations for harm. Find out more
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