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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi
Orientation: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Wednesdays, October 16th - December 4th, 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

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

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation

with Brian Simmons
Wednesdays, October 23rd - November 20th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

This 5-week course is designed to provide a clear and practical path for people wanting to experience the profound benefits of mindfulness meditation both on and off the cushion. Ancient techniques and teachings of Buddhist meditation will be made abundantly practical and relevant for modern city dwellers in the 21st century. Find out more

Life and Death – Is That All There Is?

with Rosemary Blake, Jon Aaron, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer
Saturday, January 4th - Saturday, December 12th, 2020

This yearlong course is about living fully each moment of our lives. Over twelve months we will live as though this is our last year. We will reflect upon life and death from the Buddhist perspective while incorporating powerful teachings from other spiritual traditions. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Required Free Orientation: Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 9:30am-12:00pm 8 Week Course: Fridays, January 17th - March 13th, 2020 | 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

Interpersonal Mindfulness: An 8-Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, January 15th - March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this course, participants will learn how to pause in midst of the habit mind, notice tensions and relax, kindly accept present moment experience, open and trust emergence as we listen deeply and speak the truth of our subjective experience. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Required Free Orientation: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm 8 Week Course: Thursdays February 6th - March 26th, 2020 | 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 Jon Aaron
Required Free Orientation: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm
8 Week Course: Wednesdays, March 11th- May 6th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm

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

Now Online: The Dharma is Your Life – A Six-Week Course

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, April 16th - May 21st, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Within the Buddha’s own teaching the word Dharma has a number of meanings—the truth, the teachings, the way, the nature of life, qualities of the mind, etc. We will integrate all these meanings into this exploration of practice. Each week we will explore a very specific teaching and see how it reflects our lives, and how our lives reflect the teaching. Find out more

Now Online: The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz
Every other Monday, April 20th - June 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for a course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past. We will meet in person every other Monday evening and have home practice in the weeks between. This course appropriate is for meditation practitioners of all levels. Find out more

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx
Free Orientation: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
8 Week Course: Thursdays, April 30th - June 18th, 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. Find out more

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
8 Week Course: Fridays, May 1st - June 26th, 2020 from 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 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 greed, hatred and confusion. 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 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 greed, hatred and confusion. 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 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 greed, hatred and confusion. 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx
Orientation: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Course: Wednesdays, June 10th - July 29th, 2020 | 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. Find out more

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 12th, 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Friday, June 5th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET Course: Fridays, June 12th - July 31st, 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

Now Online: A Meditator’s Practical Guide to Daily Life

with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, June 17th - July 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

You’ve learned to meditate and started to develop a daily practice and perhaps are wondering “now what”? If so, this course is for you. Each session in this online, four-week class will include meditation and discussion of how we bring our meditation practices to life and life to our practice. Find out more

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 19th, 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 26th, 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

Now Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Wednesdays, July 1st - August 5th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 3rd - July 24th, 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 10th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 17th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 24th, 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

Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Mondays, July 27th - August 31st from 6:30pm – 9:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Fridays, August 7th - August 28th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Friday, August 14th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Friday, August 21st, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Thursday, August 27th, 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

Online: Liberation Teachings of Embodied Wisdom and Compassion Through Presence and Somatic Listening

with Peace Twesigye and Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Thursdays, September 3rd, 2020 - March 11th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

Join us for a weekly BIPOC guided practice and inquiry group to delve deeply into the dynamic book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem. The author is a Black trauma therapist, and offers embodied practices to explore the somatic experience while looking at racialized trauma in the United States. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 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

Online: Insight Meditation 101 – Six-Week Beginners’ Course

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, September 9th - October 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life. The course is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators who wish to maintain their “beginner’s mind.” Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 11th, 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

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 18th 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

Postponed: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz & Gary Singer
Wednesdays, September 23rd - October 28th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
br> 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

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: 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. Find out more

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: 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. Find out more

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. Find out more

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. Find out more

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. Find out more

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. Find out more

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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 6th - November 27th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 13th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 20th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 27th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 4th - December 18th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 11th, 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 18th, 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

From ME to WE: An Online Course on the Six Paramitas

with Susan Piver & David Nichtern
Tuesdays, January 5th-February 9th, 2021 from 7:00-9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist teacher and Emmy-award winning musician, David Nichtern and New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Open Heart Project, Susan Piver for a special online course series on cultivating the transcendent qualities known as the Six Paramitas: Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Exertion, Meditation, & Wisdom. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Orientation: Friday, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Course: 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: The Joy of Meditation – Vipassana and the Whole Nine Yards

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, February 4th - March 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The 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 ET
Course: 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: 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: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom. Find out more

Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom. Find out more

Online: Together Under the Bodhi Tree

with Bart van Melik
Mondays, March 8th - March 29th, 2021 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET

If you've never read a Buddhist text before or you're looking to refine your understanding of the teachings, this four week course with Bart van Melik is a wonderful way to deepen your connection with this timeless wisdom. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Course: Thursdays, April 15 - June 3, 2021 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm

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

Online: The Four Seals of Dharma

with Scott Tusa
Wednesdays, June 2nd-23rd, 2021 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET

In this four-week online course led by Buddhist teacher Scott Tusa, we will explore the Buddha's four seals together through periods of teaching, meditation, and discussion. Find out more

Online: Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD
Thursdays, September 23rd - October 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors. Find out more

Postponed: A Life of Inner Worth – A Four Week Course

with Peter Doobinin
Thursdays, October 7th - October 28th, 2021 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ET

In practicing the dharma, we seek to develop our inner worth. What does this mean? How do we do this? And what are the benefits of doing so? In this four-week course with meditation teacher, Peter Doobinin, we’ll explore these crucial questions and learn about our innate goodness and our capacity to develop it. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, October 20th - December 15th, 2021 | 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. Find out more

Online: Gladdening the Mind as We Grow in Our Confidence

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm
Sundays, October 24th - November 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

We feel empowered when we are able to free our mind rather than being caught in our habits and patterns. In this course, we will deepen our understanding of finding ease in our daily lives and increase our awareness when faced with difficulties. Find out more

Online: Four Noble Truths Four Week Course

with Gary Singer
Wednesdays, January 12th - February 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The teachings of the Four Noble Truths—which are about suffering and the cessation of suffering—are both simple and profound and contain the essence of the Buddha’s way. Over the course of four weeks, we’ll study portions of the Buddha’s teaching, as well as contemporary writings on the Four Noble Truths, to help us bring the teachings into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, January 26th - March 16th, 2022 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. Find out more

Online: Mindful Eating – Habit Change for Self-Care 6 Week Course

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue
Wednesday, February 2nd - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Join Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue, psychotherapists and certified mindfulness educators, for a six week course to explore our habits of mind and heart around food and eating. Discover an innovative and compassionate approach to healing your relationship to this everyday life-sustaining activity. Find out more

Online: Interpersonal Mindfulness Course Eight Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Wednesdays, February 9th - March 30th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

The program was specifically designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Course: Thursday, February 17th - April 7th, 2022 | 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 | 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

Postponed: Mindful Politics

with Bodhipaksa
Wednesdays, March 2nd - March 30th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

With the help of traditional Buddhist teachings and insights from social psychology, and through exploring our own minds and emotions in meditative practice, we’ll seek a way to practice a more compassionate, wiser, and more mindful politics. Find out more

Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying

with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm & Jon Aaron
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET The second of four daylong retreats around living life fully as we explore death, this will be a day of retreat to cultivate the compassionate heart which is in each of us. 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. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, May 4th - June 29th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm 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: We Were Made for These Times – Skillfully Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption

with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Wednesdays, June 15 - July 6th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET So many of us are working through grief and personal hardship. Through this course, Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer a path to help us meet the individual and collective pain of these times — with open hearts, and clear minds. Learn timeless perspectives and attitudes that help us navigate the difficulties and upheaval of the present moment. Find out more

Online: Buddhism and Human Flourishing

with Seth Zuiho Segall
Thursdays, July 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET This online course explores how Buddhism is changing during the course of its transmission to the West and how it will continue to evolve to remain relevant to how we—as modern people—understand and construct our lives. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Wednesdays, July 13th - August 17th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET This daylong retreat will focus on the 5th of the 5 Reflections and explore its relationship to forgiveness. It will consist of meditation, writing exercises, break-out rooms, dharma talks, and sharing. Find out more

Online: Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Heart

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, August 24th - September 14th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET In this four week course we will explore the beautiful practice of equanimity together. We will learn from observing our individual patterns of reactivity and noticing how it feels when we are able to respond to life's circumstances rather than reacting to them. Find out more

Online: Establishing Self Love and Confidence

with Melissa McKay
Wednesdays, September 7th - 28th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET In this online four-week series with Melissa McKay, we'll talk about some Buddhist and modern tools for developing self love and confidence. We will learn to make these a habit for our lives and to overcome negativity in the mind whenever it arises. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller
Thursdays, September 8th - October 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: The Four Noble Truths

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 12th, 19th, October 3rd, 17th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET We often hear of the Four Noble Truths when we are first introduced to the Buddha’s teachings. Some of us continue to learn, study and remember these teachings … but how many of us take the time to truly investigate the meanings and implication of the teachings in our own lives with the aspiration that we embody our understanding? Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Course: Wednesdays, September 14th - November 9th, 2022 from 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, October 29th, 2022 | 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: Metta & Karuna – Love in Action

Leslie Booker & Devin Berry
Four Wednesdays, September 14th - October 5th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET The protection and focus of lovingkindness coupled with the fierceness of compassion, are together LOVE IN ACTION. These two heart practices can be cultivated and experienced in the meditative process, but really come alive when we know them in our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Unwinding Anxiety – Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD
Thursdays, September 22nd - October 27th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, October 12th - December 7th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET Daylong: Sunday November 20th, 2022 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, October 12th - December 7th, 2022, 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. Find out more

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. Find out more

Online: The Eightfold Path

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 24th - December 12th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET The Buddha's teachings on The Eightfold Path is not some belief system to take on, nor a philosophy to be debated. Rather it is a very accessible (if sometimes challenging) guide for living and practicing in the world. Find out more

Postponed: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

Postponed: Meditation - Tools for Our Times with Lani Miller Due to unforeseen change in circumstances, the course is postponed Wednesdays, October 26th-November 16th, 2022 | 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 [...]

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Online: Finding Calm in a Crisis

with Bodhipaksa
Wednesdays October 26th - November 16th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET Join Bodhipaksa for a four-week course and learn simple practices that can help us dramatically change our experience of life, so that we become islands of calm and reassurance for the world, bringing peace not just to ourselves, but to others as well. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, January 10th - February 14th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, January 23rd - March 6th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, February 1st - March 22nd, 2023 from 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz and Dr. Kimberly Grocher
Course: Wednesdays, February 1st - March 22nd, 2023 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.

Find out more

In-Person and Online: Living Life Through the Dharma

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, February 16th - March 16th, 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

As our practice deepens, and the boundary between self and other softens, the unconditional nature of love arises. Join us for this four-week course on how mindful cultivation through formal practice of the boundless qualities of lovingkindness, compassion, resonant joy and equanimity can open the lens of wisdom and break through the barriers. Find out more

In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five Month Course

with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturdays, February 25th, March 11th, April 8th, May 20th, & June 3rd, 2023 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

If you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a new in-person course exploring many areas of our lives (health, career, money, family, relationship, kids/no kids) and the gifts of this mid-life stage. Find out more

Online: Mindful Eating and Consuming – Habit Change for Self-Care

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue
Thursdays, March 2nd - April 6th, 2023 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET

So many people find themselves stuck in unwanted and/or uncomfortable relationships with food, weight, body image, devices and their schedules. Mindfulness-Based Habit Change combines the tools of mindfulness practice and behavioral science to fundamentally change how we relate to our eating and other consuming behaviors. Find out more

Online: Obstacles to Practice – Exploring the Five Hindrances

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, March 13th - April 10th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

While we may come to meditation hoping to experience calmness of mind, as we practice, we find that we are visited by “guests” such as desire, ill will, restlessness and worry, sleepiness, and doubt. These are the energies of the “Five Hindrances”. They are like clouds that obscure the mind from seeing clearly. 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

Online: Meditation and Creativity

with Lani Miller
Three Tuesdays, March 14th - 28th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Over this three-week course, we will explore and share how we experience and are inspired by the already present and inherent connection between meditation practice and creativity. Both involve opening to and allowing what is already present to emerge. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Living Life Through the Dharma

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, March 23rd - April 20th, 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Join us for this five-week course to look closely at how the Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path and other teachings from both the early and later teachings can bring us to place of ease and balance and equanimity. Find out more

Online: Get Your Sit Together

with Bodhipaksa
Thursdays, April 6th - 27th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Drawing on the latest psychological research on motivation and habit-building, along with timeless insights from Buddhist psychology, we'll explore how we can build a rock solid meditation practice and commit to sit daily, no matter what, so that we can all experience the benefits of regular meditation. Find out more

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. Find out more

Online: Embodying Wisdom – A Four-Week Exploration of Somatic Practices for Cultivating Spaciousness and Non-Duality

with Scott Tusa
Tuesdays, May 9th - 30th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this four-week class series you will be guided through a process of somatic practices and approaches aimed at helping you to develop more spaciousness within and around your thoughts and emotions, a broader and more grounded meditative awareness, and how to connect these to the practice of non-duality in Buddhism. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course Sessions: Wednesdays, May 10th - June 28th, 2023, from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong Session: Saturday, June 10th, 2023, 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course Sessions: Wednesdays, May 10th - June 28th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong Session: Sunday, June 11th, 2023, 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: An Embodied Estuary of Practices

with Jill Satterfield
Thursdays, June 1st - 22nd, 2023 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

This series is designed to enliven practice and create the conditions for nervous system balance to foster ease of being with, guided embodiment practices for further insight into the consciousness of the body, and open awareness to support being with the inevitable joys and sorrows of our life. Find out more

Online: Meeting Grief and Loss with Wisdom and Kindness

with Kimberly Brown
Course: Tuesdays, June 6th - July 18th, 2023 (skip July 4th) | 7:00pm-8:30pm ET
Half Day Retreat: Saturday, July 15th, | 10:00am-1:00pm ET

Though all of us will encounter death and change, we can do so with kindness and wisdom, and develop the skills and heart to mourn loss with patience, tenderness, and clarity. In this weekly class, you will learn to bring gentleness and care to your body, mind, and spirit with traditional Buddhist practices, modern therapeutic tools, compassionate listening and friendship. You’ll cultivate your inherent compassion and good sense to support yourself and those closest to you through the pain and sadness of mourning, loss, and grief. Find out more

Postponed: Living With Appreciation – Four Week Course

with Bodhipaksa
Thursdays, July 6 - 27, 2023 from 7pm - 8:30pm ET

During this course we will explore how to recognize the skillful even when we find it hard. We’ll see how we can overcome the cynical approach of always finding the flaws in others. We’ll look at how we can support and encourage the arising of skillful qualities in ourselves and others. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll experience the benefits of appreciating skillful qualities in ourselves and others, and how it is the single most important way for us to bring joy and peace into our own lives and into the world. Find out more

Online: The Heart of the Matter – Cultivating Lovingkindness Practice

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, July 10 - August 14th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In this course we will explore the various facets of Lovingkindness practice. There will be ongoing home practices each week, including questions for reflection. In every class there will be time to ask questions and share insights, as well as time to be in breakout rooms sharing, reflecting and learning from each other in smaller groups. Find out more

Online: Cultivating Faith, Trust, Confidence

with Melissa McKay
Tuesdays, July 18th, 25th, & August 1st, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Saddha is a Pali word often translated as faith, trust or confidence and is one of the Buddha's teachings on the 5 Spiritual Faculties. Join Melissa McKay for this enlightening three-week journey to nurture this extraordinary quality and strengthening it in our meditation practice and lives so we can live with more trust, confidence, and serenity. Find out more

In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five Month Course

with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturdays, August 12th, September 23rd, October 21st, November 18, December 2nd, 2023, from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

If you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a new in-person course exploring many areas of our lives (health, career, money, family, relationship, kids/no kids) and the gifts of this mid-life stage. Find out more

Online: The Healing Gift Of Being With What Is

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, August 15th, 22nd, 29th & September 12th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

As living beings we experience and carry our share of wounds and places in need of healing. The Buddha's teachings include a path that ultimately offers us healing from all suffering. In this course we will explore how learning to be fully present in each moment with what is happening in our bodies, hearts, and minds can be deeply healing. Bringing qualities of interest and kindness to our exploration, we will investigate how the qualities of allowing what is and letting go can enhance and create space for this opening and healing to occur. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller
Thursdays, September 7th - October 12th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Unwinding Anxiety – Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue
Tuesdays, September 19th - October 24th, 2023 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET

This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors. Find out more

In Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, September 20th - November 8th, 2023, from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, October 28th, 2023, 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

Postponed: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, September 20th - November 8th, 2023 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, October 29th, 2023 | 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

In-Person and Online: Cultivating Joy in the Refuge of Uncertainty

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, September 21st - November 16th, 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Join us for a new in-person and online course with New York Insight Teacher Jon Aaron exploring how we can live with uncertainty, not from a place of fear but with buoyancy, curiosity, and ease. We'll discover how the teachings provide practical ways of coping with these various threats and how we can cultivate joy in uncertainty instead of clinging to certainties that ultimately will not last. Find out more

Postponed: The Social Action of Kind Awareness

with Jill Satterfield
Postponed

It can be difficult to know where to start in terms of taking some form of social, compassionate action in our troubled world. This series will explore a variety of practices and teachings that will facilitate the direct experiences and benefits of living with kind awareness for ourselves, our community and the world around us. Find out more

Online: At the Crossroads of Secular and Socially Engaged Buddhism – Four Week Course

with Mike Slott, Katya de Kadt, and Karsten Struhl
Thursdays, October 5th - 26th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

On this four-evening workshop series we’ll explore two key trends in Buddhism today: a secular or naturalistic approach to the dharma and socially engaged Buddhism. We will discuss how the secular dharma and socially engaged Buddhism contribute both to individual transformation and social change. Find out more

Online: Secular Buddhism

with Mike Slott, Ted Meissner, Lenorë Lambert, and Winton Higgins
Thursday, October 5th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this workshop, we’ll explore the development of secular Buddhism, the relationship of secular Buddhism to the broader trend of “Buddhist modernism”, and the application of secular Buddhist ideas and practices to everyday life. Find out more

Online: Socially Engaged Buddhism

with Mike Slott, Seth Segall, Karsten Struhl, and Pamela Weiss
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this workshop, we’ll explore different approaches to socially engaged Buddhism based on a variety of perspectives, including feminism, theories of human flourishing, and radical critiques of our social, economic, and political systems. Find out more

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: Socially Engaged Buddhist Approaches to the Climate Crisis

with Tom Carling, Mark Graham, Mike Slott and Karsten Struhl
Thursday, October 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this workshop, we will discuss how the climate crisis is rooted in a broader systemic crisis and identify a variety of dharmic responses to the climate crisis, including forms of non-violent, direct action, community action, and the creation of broad, popular movements. Find out more

Online: Socially Engaged Buddhist Approaches to Racism

with Patrisse Cullors, Reggie Hubbard, Barbara Barnes and Katya de Kadt
Thursday, October 26th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In this workshop, we’ll explore how Buddhists – both white people and people of color – can respond to the structural roots of racism and the ways in which racism is internalized. Find out more

Postponed: Finding Refuge In Daily Life – The Gifts of the Three Jewels

with Lani Miller
Postponed

In these times of great change and uncertainty, knowing that refuge is possible and that direct access to it can be found through connection with our own body, heart, and mind is reassuring. In this four-week course, we will explore the powerful and transformative teachings of The Three Jewels and how we can make them accessible and applicable in our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Living With Appreciation – A Three Week Course

with Bodhipaksa
Revised Dates: Tuesdays, December 5th - 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Through talks, reflection, and meditation, we’ll explore how to recognize the skillful even when we find that hard. During this course, we’ll see how we can overcome the cynical approach of always finding the flaws in others. We’ll look at how we can support and encourage the arising of skillful qualities in ourselves and others. And we’ll see how admiration leads to emulation. Perhaps most importantly, we’ll experience the benefits of appreciating skillful qualities in ourselves and others, and how it is the single most important way for us to bring joy and peace into our own lives and into the world. Find out more

Online: Get Your Sit Together

with Bodhipaksa
Mondays, January 8th - 29th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

This four-week course is designed to help you become a rock-solid daily meditator. Drawing on the latest psychological research on motivation and habit-building, along with timeless insights from Buddhist psychology, we'll explore how we can commit to sit daily, no matter what, so that we can all experience the benefits of regular meditation. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, January 9th - February 13th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. Find out more

Online: Mindful Eating in 2024 – Changing Habits for Self-Care

with Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue
Thursdays, January 11th - February 15th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET

In this six-session course, you will learn the practices of Mindfulness-Based Habit Change, pioneered by psychiatrist, addiction expert, and longtime meditation practitioner Dr. Judson Brewer. This proven method combines combine the tools of mindfulness practice and behavioral science to fundamentally change how we relate to our eating and other consuming behaviors. It is an innovative and compassionate approach that builds a balanced relationship to these everyday activities. Find out more

In Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
In-Person Course: Tuesdays, January 23rd - March 12th, 2024 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 | 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

In Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
In-Person Course: Wednesdays, January 24th - March 13th, 2024 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
In-Person Daylong: Saturday, March 2nd, 2024 | 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: Interpersonal Mindfulness

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Mondays, January 29th - March 25th, 2024 | 9:15am - 11:45am ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 | 9:30am - 5:00pm ET

Is it possible that human relationships are one of the best ways of cultivating mindfulness? This interpersonal mindfulness course explores how to be more fully present with others and oneself. It is designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience with or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 2nd, 9th, 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 9th, 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step by step during this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even the presence of challenging emotions. Find out more

Online: The Powerful Energy of Sangha – An Online Retreat for the BIPOC Community

with Wildecy de Fatima Jury and Gayah (Imani) Gillson
Saturday, February 10th, 2024 from 1:00pm - 5:30pm ET

Although we celebrate Valentines Day – the day of love and friendship – in February, many also experience loneliness and social isolation during this time. So this is a great time to connect to sangha, a community of people who together strive to offer support, practice the dharma, and obtain understanding, acceptance, harmony and love. Find out more

Online: Creativity and Meditation

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, March 5th-26th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Both meditation and creativity involve opening to and allowing what is already present to emerge. Over this four-week course, we will have the opportunity to explore and share how we experience and are inspired by the already present and inherent connection between these two ways of experiencing and opening to life. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
In-Person Course: Wednesdays, March 27th - May 22nd, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, May 5th, 2024 | 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: 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

Online: Truthfulness – A course for the LGBTQIA+ and Allied Community

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah (Imani) Gillson
Thursdays, April 4th - 25th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Truthfulness (sacca in Pali) helps us to free the mind from distortion, tunnel vision, and detrimental social constructs and paradigms. As LGBTQIA+ people and allies we might internalize these false beliefs that limit our capacity to really be our full selves. Join us for an online course exploring the power of truthfulness, and cultivating its essence proudly, yields clarity, acceptance, freedom and love. Find out more

Online: Introduction to the Four Noble Truths

with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Saturdays, April 6th - 27th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

What we often forget is that we have a choice to deepen our experiences of joy, and lessen our experiences of dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness, or stress). In this four-week class we will look at the truth of our experiences, and practice how these truths can move us toward more skillful choices and contentment. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Liberation through Relationship – The Four Wise Efforts

with Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson
Thursdays, May 2nd - 23rd, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

In the Four Wise Efforts, the Buddha offers us a path of skillful action that leads to a liberated mind. Join us in this four week course, as dharma teachers and longtime friends Leslie Booker and Kate Johnson apply the Four Wise Efforts to the practice of wise relationships. Together, we will develop an embodied, relational understanding of this time-honored Buddhist teaching, and learn how to better protect our energy, let go of what does not serve, cultivate the good, and sustain our liberated relationships over the long term. Find out more

Canceled: Celebrating and Embodying Mahapajapati

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Friday, May 10th, 2024, 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Saturday, May 11th, 2024, 1:00pm - 5:30pm ET

Mahapajapati, the Buddha’s aunt who raised him, is as a symbol of wisdom, care, nurturing, and leadership—an embodiment of caregivers, mothers, heroes, and leaders alike. Despite her significant role as a great Bodhisattva, her story remains untold and underappreciated in many discussions even today. During this two-day program, we will delve deeper into the life of Mahapajapati, drawing connections to our modern-day experiences. Find out more

In-Person: Self-Compassion 101

with Gary Singer
Wednesdays, May 15th - June 26th, 2024 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm

In this course, we’ll use mindfulness to investigate how we treat ourselves in the privacy of our own minds. Why does our Inner Critic tend to treat ourselves worse than we would anyone else? What stories might we be telling about ourselves and others that might simply be untrue? Can we stop the incessant comparison to others? Can we finally befriend ourselves? Find out more

In-Person or Online: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginner’s Course

with Jon Aaron
Tuesdays, June 11th - July 23rd, 2024 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. Find out more

In-Person: Obstacles to Practice – Exploring the Five Hindrances

with Elaine Retholtz
Wednesdays July 10th - August 7th, 2024 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

While we may come to meditation hoping to experience calmness of mind, as we practice, we find that we are visited by “guests” such as desire, ill will, restlessness and worry, sleepiness, and doubt. These are the energies of the “Five Hindrances”. 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

Online: 31 Days of Practice with New York Insight

with Dan Harris, Sharon Salzberg, Leslie Booker, JoAnna Hardy, Jeff Warren, Anu Gupta, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Oren Jay Sofer, Alexis Santos, Devin Berry, Ayya Santacitta, Ethan Nichtern, Ayo Yetunde, Lin Wang Gordon, Gary Singer, Jon Aaron, Elaine Retholtz and others!
There is still time to join this program but registration closes today, Wednesday, August 7th, 2024

Thursday, August 1st - Saturday, August 31st, 2024

Join us for a special program featuring a full month of daily emails featuring pre-recorded practice videos from renowned meditation teachers designed to inspire and support your daily meditation practice. Each Thursday will feature a live zoom session with one of our teachers to ask questions and discuss meditation practice. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or new to mindfulness, this program offers something for everyone. Join us for a month of inspiration, growth, and community! Find out more

In-Person and Online: Insight 101 – Intro to Vipassana Meditation

with Lani Miller
Thursdays, September 12th - October 24th, 2024 from 6:30 - 8:30pm ET

If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Beyond Metta – Cultivating All of the Brahma Viharas

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 16th - October 21st, 2024 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

Metta, also known as “lovingkindness,” is just one of four Buddhist practices of love. These practices are collectively known as the Brahma Viharas. In this course, we will explore each of the Brahma Viharas, putting them into practice and uncovering the insights that arise from each. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Watering the Seeds of Forgiveness – A Four Day Intensive

with Jon Aaron
October 7th, 8th, 10th & 11th, 2024 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

This intensive class, held in a supportive and nurturing environment, will explore the nature of resentment and aversion we may have toward ourselves and others as a result of past actions. Through self-compassion and forgiveness, we can learn to let go of these harmful feelings, allowing our innate kindness to shine through. Find out more

Postponed: Breaking Bias – A Three-Part Course Series

with Anu Gupta
Thursdays, October 10th, November 7th, and December 5th, 2024 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

In this special three-part course, you’ll work with Breaking Bias author Anu Gupta to become more aware of your internalized biases—especially beliefs and perceptions you may hold about yourself and others—and how to transform them. Find out more

Sold Out: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
In-Person Course: Wednesdays, October 16th - December 11th, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, November 17th, 2024 | 9:30am - 5:00pm

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

Online: The Blessings and Burdens of Aging – A Three-Week Course

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm
Sundays, October 20th, 27th & November 3rd, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This course is a space to share the things that are coming up for us as we age—both what we appreciate and what we don’t—and cultivate the inner resources that can help with dealing with the challenges of confronting our impermanence. We will look at our relationship to change and how change can include the cultivation of the heart and mind. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Tushar D. Bhagat
Online Course: Mondays, October 21st - December 9th, 2024 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Online Daylong: Saturday, November 23rd, 2024 from 9:30am - 5:00pm

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

Online: Getting Well in an Unwell World – Walking the Buddha’s Path of Meditation and Relationality

with Sean Oakes, PhD
Wednesdays, October 23rd - November 20th, 2024 from 12:00pm - 2:00pm ET

In this 5-week course designed for those looking to deepen their practice— the first in a series of deepening practice and study courses—we will build the foundations of a sustainable and dynamic Buddhist training. We’ll learn the basic skills of relationship and community-tending, establish a solid meditation practice, and engage with the early-Buddhist Pāli Canon as both a teaching source and a literature of extraordinary beauty and depth. Find out more

In-Person: Soulcentric Mid-Life – A Five-Month Course

with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturdays November 2nd, December 14th, 2024, January 11th, February 8th, March 8th, 2025 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

If you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a new five-month course exploring our underlying emotions around midlife issues. What are our fears, doubts, agitation, hopes, and dreams? How do we make peace with the life we have led so far? How do we live a fulfilling life with the time we have left? How do we let go of our former selves and keep evolving? Find out more

In-Person and Online: Insight 101 – Intro to Vipassana Meditation

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, January 7th - February 11th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and explore how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Finding Joy and Grace in Uncertainty – An Eight-Week Course

with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, January 8th - February 26th, 2025 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Join us for an online eight-week course with New York Insight Teacher Jon Aaron exploring how we can live with uncertainty, not from a place of fear but with buoyancy, curiosity, and ease. We’ll discover how the teachings provide practical ways of coping with various threats and how we can cultivate joy in uncertainty instead of battling it in the hope of clinging to certainties that ultimately will not last. Find out more

Online: Life and Death Through the Eyes and Heart of the Buddha

with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Sunday, January 12th, February 2nd, March 2nd, April 6th, May 4th, June 8th, July 6th, August 3rd, September 7th, October 5th, November 2nd, December 7th, 2025 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This yearlong course is about living fully in each moment of your life through the Buddha’s perspective—his core teachings. We will explore our thoughts and feelings about dying and how this process awakens us all to the preciousness of this life. Once a month for all of 2025, we will meet to discuss how Buddhist teachings can help us greet death with an open, loving mind. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Margrit Pittman-Polletta
In-Person Course: Tuesdays, January 14th - March 11th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 | 9:30am - 5:00pm

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

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
In-Person Course: Wednesdays, January 22nd - March 12th, 2025 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
In-Person Daylong:Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 | 9:30am - 5:00pm

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

In-Person and Online: Insight 101 – Intro to Vipassana Meditation

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, January 27th - March 10th, 2025 (skips President's Day 2/17) from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and explore how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives. Find out more

Online: Home Body – Being with What Is

with Jill Satterfield
Tuesdays, February 4th - 25th, 2025 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

Just like everything, the body—the material form of consciousness—is impermanent and of the nature to arise, shift, and always re-arrange. In this four-week course with Buddhist teacher Jill Satterfield, we’ll learn about how the subtle body is actively communicating with (and altered by) the breath. We’ll also explore how the body affects our thoughts and feelings, imagination, and conditioned beliefs. Find out more

Online: Rebuild Your Attention – Buddhist Practices for Focus, Clarity, and Joy

with Sean Oakes, PhD
Thursdays, February 27th - March 27th, 2025, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
 
Meditation has never been easy, but our sped-up, information-saturated culture makes it harder than ever. In this 5-week course, we will look at developing focus, concentration, and strong inner energy, and why these are the core skills in meditation and mindfulness. You'll come away with actionable skills for slowing down and bringing focus back into your everyday life. Find out more

In-Person: Speaking from the Heart – Dharma Practice in Relationship

with Peace Twesigye
Thursdays, March 6th - 27th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET
 
When emotions run high—whether in our families, with friends, our communities, or the wider world—how do we stay grounded in compassion and honesty? This four-week course will offer a practical and supportive space to explore these questions and feel into a dedicated time to practice relational dharma. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Heart – A Five-Week Course

with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, March 11th - April 8th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
 
The possibilities for us to be truly happy and peaceful in this life greatly increase when we are able to respond to life’s changes with awareness and balance. In this five week course, we will explore the beautiful practice of equanimity together. We will learn from observing our individual patterns of reactivity and noticing how it feels when we are able to respond, instead of react, to life’s circumstances. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Investigating the Three Characteristics of Existence

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, March 17th - April 21st, 2025 (skips April 14th) from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
 
The Three Characteristics of Existence (not-self, impermanence, and unsatisfactoriness) are essential Buddhist teachings on the nature of our experience. In this five-part course, we will explore how understanding (and misunderstanding) these fundamental pillars of existence can deeply impact how we live our lives. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Nurturing Happy and Healthy Relationships – A Six-Week Course

with Kimberly Brown
Tuesdays, March 18th - April 22nd, 2025, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET
 
Happy relationships are possible—for everyone. In this course, you’ll learn to develop positive connections with yourself and those close to you, and practice using your communication and actions to foster gratitude, set wise boundaries, and create deeper and long-lasting attachments of mutual support and caring. This program is appropriate for and open to anyone who wants to rekindle their connections and rediscover the beauty of supportive, loving relationships. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Rediscovering Your Super Powers – Cultivating the 5 Spiritual Faculties

with Leslie Booker and David Grogan
Thursdays, April 10th - May 15th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
 
You already have within you the capacity to empower your practice. The Buddha identified five innate human faculties—faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom—that can serve us in working toward liberation for ourselves and others. This six-week course will be a practical exploration of these five powers, both on and off the cushion. Find out more

In-Person and Online: The Essential Insight Meditation Toolkit

with David Grogan
Tuesdays, May 6th - June 10th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

Are you new to meditation? Or an experienced meditator looking to refresh your practice? In this experiential course, you’ll learn how to use the essential tools in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, the Buddha’s systematic guide to practicing insight meditation. You’ll also get tips on how to establish and sustain a formal meditation practice, as well as how to make mindfulness an integral part of your daily routine. Find out more
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