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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 ETMBSR 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 ETMBSR 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, October 14th-28th, 2022, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, October 14th-28th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 11th-25th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 18th & 25th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 25th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 2nd-16th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 9th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 16th, 2022, 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 6th - 27th, 2023 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: 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 13th, 2023 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 20th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, January 23rd - March 6th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ETWe 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 27th, 2023 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, February 1st - March 22nd, 2023 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ETMBSR 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 ETMBSR 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 3, 10, and 24, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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 Brahma-Viharas – A Four Week Course on the Heart
with Amanda Gilbert
Tuesdays, February 7th - 28th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETIn this online four-week series, you’ll discover the heartful magic of the Buddha's Brahma-Vihara while being supported in a community of practitioners joining you in this deep dive. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 10, and 24, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
In-Person and Online: Living Life Through the Dharma
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, February 16th - March 16th, 2023 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ETAs 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
Postponed: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
PostponedStep 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
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 ETIf 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 ETSo 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 ETWhile 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 ETOver 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 ETJoin 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 ETDrawing 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 ETDuring 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: Training the Mind and Heart – Peace, Health and Happiness through Meditation
with Dr. Paul Epstein
Tuesdays, April 18th - May 9th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETKeeping it simple through basic and foundational mindfulness practices and Buddhist teachings, this class will focus on cultivating, balancing and integrating a mindful awareness and a compassionate heart in all aspects of our lives. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 5th, 19th, and 26th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: 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 ETIn 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 ETDaylong 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 ETDaylong 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 19th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 26th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: An Embodied Estuary of Practices
with Jill Satterfield
Thursdays, June 1st - 22nd, 2023 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ETThis 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 2nd, 16th, and 30th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: 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 ETHalf 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 16th and 30th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 30th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
Postponed: Living With Appreciation – Four Week Course
with Bodhipaksa
Thursdays, July 6 - 27, 2023 from 7pm - 8:30pm ETDuring 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 ETIn 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 14th and 28th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Cultivating Faith, Trust, Confidence
with Melissa McKay
Tuesdays, July 18th, 25th, & August 1st, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETSaddha 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, July 28th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
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 ETIf 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 ETAs 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 ETWe 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 15th, 22nd, and 29th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: 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 ETThis 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 ETDaylong: 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 ETDaylong: 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 ETJoin 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 22nd and 29th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, September 29th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
Postponed: The Social Action of Kind Awareness
with Jill Satterfield
PostponedIt 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 ETOn 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 ETIn 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, October 6th and 13th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Socially Engaged Buddhism
with Mike Slott, Seth Segall, Karsten Struhl, and Pamela Weiss
Thursday, October 12th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETIn 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, October 13th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Investigating the Three Characteristics of Existence
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 16th - November 13th, 2023 from 9:30am - 11:30am ETJoin 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 ETIn 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 ETIn 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
PostponedIn 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 3rd, 10th, and 17th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 10th, and 17th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 17th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 1st, 8th, and 15th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Living With Appreciation – A Three Week Course
with Bodhipaksa
Revised Dates: Tuesdays, December 5th - 19th, 2023 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETThrough 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 8th, and 15th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 15th, 2023, from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Get Your Sit Together
with Bodhipaksa
Mondays, January 8th - 29th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETThis 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 ETIf 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 ETIn 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, January 12th, 19th, & 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Malik
Fridays, January 19th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
In Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
In-Person Course: Tuesdays, January 23rd - March 12th, 2024 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ETIn-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 ETIn-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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Malik
Friday, January 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Interpersonal Mindfulness
with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Mondays, January 29th - March 25th, 2024 | 9:15am - 11:45am ETDaylong: 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 ETStep 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 ETStep 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 ETAlthough 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, February 16th & 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, February 23rd, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Creativity and Meditation
with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, March 5th-26th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETBoth 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 ETIn-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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, March 29th, April 5th, 19th, & 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: What’s Vedanā Got to Do With It?
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, April 1st - May 13th, 2024 from 9:30am-11:30am ETVedanā 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 ETTruthfulness (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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, April 5th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Introduction to the Four Noble Truths
with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Saturdays, April 6th - 27th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETWhat 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, April 19th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, April 26th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
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 ETIn 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 3rd - May 17th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 10th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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
Canceled: Celebrating and Embodying Mahapajapati
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Friday, May 10th, 2024, 6:30pm - 9:00pm ETSaturday, 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 - 1:30pmIn 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
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, May 17th, 2024 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep 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: Mahāmudrā – The Direct Path of Meditation On the Nature of Mind
with Scott Tusa
Tuesdays, May 28th - June 18th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETIn this four-session workshop, we will combine experiential learning and meditation to help us experience the essence and fruit of the Buddhist path through the teaching and practice of Mahāmudrā which point us towards our deep awakened nature. 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 ETIf 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 ETWhile 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, 2024Thursday, 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 ETIf 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 ETMetta, 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: Why am I So Hard on Myself – How to Soften, Relax, and Open Your Heart to Yourself and Others
with Kimberly Brown
Tuesdays, September 24th - October 29th, 2024 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETJoin meditation teacher and author Kimberly Brown for and evening course exploring the roots of self-criticism, self-judgment, shame, and blame, and develop tools to open our hearts to ourselves with patience, compassion, and openness. 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 ETThis 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 ETIn 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 - 12:00pmIn-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 ETThis 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 - 9:00pmOnline 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 ETIn 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 ETIf 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 ETIf 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 ETJoin 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 ETThis 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 - 9:00pmIn-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 - 12:00pmIn-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 ETIf 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 ETJust 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 ETMeditation 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 ETWhen 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 ETThe 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 ETThe 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 ETHappy 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 ETYou 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 ETAre 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
Online: Seeing the Dhamma – How Practice Leads to Understanding
with Sean Oakes, PhD
Thursdays, May 22nd - June 19th, 2025, from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETWhat does it mean to be free as we move through the world? In this 5-week course, we will explore a set of foundational teachings on how to understand the world. The heart of this study is the practice of applied mindfulness, where we bring persistent, loving attention to the world as we experience it, with the aim to see how it works and be free of its snares. Find out more
In-Person and Online: From Overthinking to Clarity – A Mindful Approach to Thought
with Margrit Pittman-Polletta
Tuesdays, June 3rd - 24th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETOur thinking can shape our emotions, our actions, and even our well-being. This 4-week course offers practical tools to transform your relationship with thinking—not by stopping it, but by meeting it with mindfulness, curiosity, and compassion. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness and the Middle Way – Cultivating an Authentic Dharma
with Dave Smith and Stephen Batchelor
Tuesdays, June 3rd - June 24th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETWhat does a secular Eightfold Path look like in practice? How can it provide insight and support in our daily lives? In this four-week course, we’ll honor the foundations of the Buddhist tradition while creating a path that feels authentic and accessible in contemporary life. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Online Course: Mondays, June 16 – August 4, 2025 from 12:00 - 2:30pm ETOnline Daylong: Saturday, July 19, 2025 | 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: Coming Home to Ourselves – A Four-Week Course for Women
with Dalya Tamir
Thursdays, July 10th - 31st, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETIn this four-week online course we will explore different aspects of self-abandonment, and with the guidance of teacher Dalya Tamir, apply the Buddhist wisdom and practices to our journey back home to ourselves. As a community of women, we will create a safe environment to share our wisdom and our stories. Through talks, meditations, and small group discussion, we will support each other in taking steps back toward our wise and compassionate selves. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Profound Meditation in the New York Chaos
with Michel Pascal
Thursday, July 10th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETOn Thursdays this summer, Michel Pascal invites you to experience something truly unique. He teaches, guides, and sings profound meditation in the chaos — helping you enter a state of deep calm like you’ve never felt before. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Profound Meditation in the New York Chaos
with Michel Pascal
Thursday, July 24th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETOn Thursdays this summer, Michel Pascal invites you to experience something truly unique. He teaches, guides, and sings profound meditation in the chaos — helping you enter a state of deep calm like you’ve never felt before. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Profound Meditation in the New York Chaos
with Michel Pascal
Thursday, July 31st, 2025 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETOn Thursdays this summer, Michel Pascal invites you to experience something truly unique. He teaches, guides, and sings profound meditation in the chaos — helping you enter a state of deep calm like you’ve never felt before. Find out more
Online: 31 Days of Practice with New York Insight
with Leslie Booker, Joseph Goldstein, Dan Harris, Dawn Mauricio Lama Rod Owens, Koshin Paley Ellison, Devin Berry, Fleet Maull, Mark Coleman, Gina LaRoche, La Sarmiento, David Nichtern, Rashid Hughes, Oren Jay Sofer, Martin Aylward, and many more!
Friday, August 1st - Sunday, August 31st, 2025Update: Registration for this program closes tonight, Tuesday, August 12th at 11:59pm ET! Even though the program began August 1st, you can still join us and catch up at your own pace. All daily videos and recordings are available to stream anytime. Join us for a full month of inspiration, growth, and community through daily practice videos and weekly live sessions with renowned meditation teachers. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Profound Meditation in the New York Chaos
with Michel Pascal
Thursday, August 7th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETOn Thursdays this summer, Michel Pascal invites you to experience something truly unique. He teaches, guides, and sings profound meditation in the chaos — helping you enter a state of deep calm like you’ve never felt before. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing – Finding Our Authentic Voice
with Tracy Cochran
Fridays, September 12th - October 10th, 2025 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm ETWhat is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure? Join Tracy Cochran in this five-week course combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together we will explore the Buddha’s teachings and how they can spark enhanced creativity and expand our experience of the world. Find out more
Online: The Four Ennobling Truths
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 15th - October 6th, 2025 from 9:30am - 11:30am ETThe Four Noble Truths—one of the Buddha’s first teachings—offer a structured yet flexible guide for cultivating wisdom and ethical living in a way that is both practical and transformative. In this four-week program, we will explore how they can be a source of groundedness, clarity, and direction, even when we are experiencing internal or external chaos. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, September 17th, 2025 from 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing – Finding Our Authentic Voice
with Tracy Cochran
Friday, September 19th, 2025 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm ETWhat is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure? Join Tracy Cochran in this five-week course combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together we will explore the Buddha’s teachings and how they can spark enhanced creativity and expand our experience of the world. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 from 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing – Finding Our Authentic Voice
with Tracy Cochran
Friday, September 26th, 2025 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm ETWhat is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure? Join Tracy Cochran in this five-week course combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together we will explore the Buddha’s teachings and how they can spark enhanced creativity and expand our experience of the world. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025 from 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing – Finding Our Authentic Voice
with Tracy Cochran
Friday, October 3rd, 2025 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm ETWhat is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure? Join Tracy Cochran in this five-week course combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together we will explore the Buddha’s teachings and how they can spark enhanced creativity and expand our experience of the world. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Insight 101
with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, October 7th - 28th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETAre 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
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 from 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Body Remembers Freedom – Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself
with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Thursday, October 9th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing – Finding Our Authentic Voice
with Tracy Cochran
Friday, October 10th, 2025 from 4:00pm - 5:30pm ETWhat is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure? Join Tracy Cochran in this five-week course combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together we will explore the Buddha’s teachings and how they can spark enhanced creativity and expand our experience of the world. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Path to Freedom from Habitual Worry, Reactivity, and Obsession
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 20th - December 8th, 2025 from 9:30am - 11:30am ETThe Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path can help us get free from our habitual emotional reactions and cultivate a more wholesome, engaged approach to life. In this eight-week program, we will explore how this path can be a source of groundedness, clarity, and direction that is available at all times, ultimately leading us to complete freedom. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: The Sure Heart – Emotion, Healing, and Buddhist Psychology
with Sean Oakes, PhD
Thursdays, October 23rd - November 20th, 2025, from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ETCan meditation and mindfulness support us in our emotional life? Absolutely. In this 5-week course we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on emotion and healing, exploring how to bring mindfulness, insight, and skillful response to powerful states like love, fear, anger, and grief. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Body Remembers Freedom – Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself
with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, November 6th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Sara Pizzi
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Sara Pizzi, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Body Remembers Freedom – Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself
with Kaira Jewel Lingo and My Tong
Thursday, December 4th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Sara Pizzi
Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Sara Pizzi, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Soul-Centric Mid-Life – A Five-Month Course
with Lin Wang Gordon
Saturdays, January 10th, February 7th, March 7th, April 4th, and May 2nd, 2026 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm ETIf you are in your 40s/50s and thinking about the second half of your life, join us for a 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: The Essential Insight Meditation Toolkit
with David Grogan
Tuesdays, January 13th - February 3rd, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETAre 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
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Tim Abshire
Wednesday, January 14th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin tai chi instructor Tim Abshire to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: What Is Freedom? Rest, Wise Effort, and Nourishing What We Want to Grow
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, January 15th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
Online: Understanding Anger – A Trauma-Informed Approach (Two-Part Workshop)
with Amma Thanasanti
Saturdays, January 17th and 24th, 2026 | 9:30am - 12:30pm ETNot all anger is the same. This two-part series explores different types of anger and their hidden wisdom, helping you discern which angers you can work with in meditation and which need specialized support. Find out more
Online: Mindful Ikebana – The Contemplative Art of Flower Arranging
with Anjie Cho
Sundays, January 18th - February 1st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ETJoin us in this three-week online course as we explore ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement, as a contemplative dharma art to enrich your meditation practice. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Five Spiritual Powers
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, January 26th - March 2nd (skips President's Day, February 16th), 2026 | 9:30am - 11:30am ETNote: Due to severe winter weather, the first class will take place online only.
In a time of what seems like constant stress and confusion, many of us feel vastly under-resourced. But each of us have within us the capacity to develop lasting resources that we can call on in challenging times. In this five-week course, we'll investigate the Five Spiritual Powers of Confidence, Courage, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom, which can lead us to greater degrees of freedom from our habitual habits and reactivity. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Tim Abshire
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin tai chi instructor Tim Abshire to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: When Sh*t Hits the Fan – Broken Heart Dharma (Three-Part Series)
with Jon Aaron
Course Part 1: Thursdays, February 5th - March 12th, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETFull Course: February 5th - June 25th, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
This three-part online series with meditation teacher Jon Aaron explores the Buddha’s teaching on dukkha, often translated as suffering or dissatisfaction, as the starting point of the path rather than something to overcome. Drawing on early Buddhist teachings and the writings of Pema Chödrön, the series offers guided meditation, teaching, and shared inquiry into how clarity, confidence, and steadiness can arise through direct experience, even in times of loss, change, or uncertainty. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Opening to Grief – Making Space for Love, Loss, and What We Carry
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, February 12th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Queer Eye(s) on the Precepts
with Leslie Booker, Jay Michaelson, and Jacoby Ballard, assisted by Steph McIsaac
Evening Classes: Tuesdays, February 17th, March 17th, May 12th, and June 16th 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETHalf-Day Retreat: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The Five Precepts form the foundation of Buddhist ethics in the insight tradition. Yet for queer people in 21st century America, they can also be a little…. fraught. In this 5 month series, we’re going to take an honest, deep, and participatory dive into the precepts. We’ll explore where they serve us, and where they may not. You're welcome to join us for the full course, a single session, or anything in-between. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: Cultivating Simple Joy in Daily Life – A Four-Week Course
with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Saturdays, March 7 - 28, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ETDo you find that you go through your day on automatic pilot, barely paying attention to subtle moments of contentment, peace and joy that arise? In this 4-week course, you will be guided toward the practice of opening your heart and being present to the innate joy within you. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Power of Play – Improvisation, Trust, and The Gift of Aimlessness
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and My Tong
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person and Online: When the Worldly Winds Blow – Resilience in Times of Stress, Fear, and Uncertainty
with David Grogan
Tuesdays, March 17th - April 7th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Buddha called the volatile forces that unsettle hearts and minds the Eight Worldly Winds: gain and loss, praise and blame, status and shame, pleasure and pain. In this four-week course, led by meditation teacher David Grogan, you'll investigate these destabilizing winds and cultivate a greater capacity to weather the blustery stresses of modern life. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Queer Eye(s) on the Precepts
with Leslie Booker, Jay Michaelson, and Jacoby Ballard, assisted by Steph McIsaac
Class 2: Cultivating GenerosityTuesday, March 17th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
The Five Precepts form the foundation of Buddhist ethics in the insight tradition. Yet for queer people in 21st century America, they can also be a little…. fraught. In this 5 month series, we’re going to take an honest, deep, and participatory dive into the precepts. We’ll explore where they serve us, and where they may not. You're welcome to join us for the full course, a single session, or anything in-between. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Becoming a Master Gardener of Your Heart and Mind
Part 1: Recognizing the weeds – exploring the Five Hindrances
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, March 23rd - April 27th (skips April 20th), 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETNo matter what you may think about “meditation,” it is, at its core, a cultivation of the mind and heart. And just as in cultivating a garden, we must learn to distinguish the weeds from the flowers (or vegetables!). In this, the first part of this series, we will learn to identify the “weeds” — known as the Five Hindrances. These are: craving, aversion, restlessness and worry, sleepiness and dullness, and doubt. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, April 8th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: When Sh*t Hits the Fan – Broken Heart Dharma
Part 2: Picking Up the Pieces
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, April 9th to May 14th, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETThis is the second section of a three-part online series exploring the Buddha’s teaching on dukkha, often translated as suffering or dissatisfaction, as the starting point of the path rather than something to overcome. Even if you did not join for Part 1 (Feb - March), you are welcome to sign up for Part 2. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Belonging to the Earth – Touching Interbeing and Our Place in the Whole
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, April 9th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
Online: From Rupture to Repair – The Inner Work of Healing in Relationships
with Dalya Tamir
Thursdays, April 9 - 30, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETOver the course of this four-week course, we will deepen our capacity to be present in challenging relationships by turning toward our inner landscape, meeting our raw experience with mindfulness, and holding ourselves in loving awareness. Using an approach based on Non-Violent Communication, we will learn how to identify our unmet needs and learn how to communicate them in a way that can be heard. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Imprints & Triggers – How Karma Works
with David Nichtern
Tuesdays, April 14th and 21st, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETIn this two-week course, we'll trace karma as the subtle residue of thoughts, words, and actions: imprints that settle in the mind, and the triggers that awaken them, pulling us into automatic responses without our conscious awareness. Through mindfulness and awareness techniques, we'll develop the capacity to see how karmic patterns are created, and how they pull us into unnecessary suffering. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, April 15th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Queer Eye(s) on the Precepts
with Leslie Booker, Jay Michaelson, and Jacoby Ballard, assisted by Steph McIsaac
Class 3 / Half-Day Retreat: The One about SexSaturday, April 18th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The Five Precepts form the foundation of Buddhist ethics in the insight tradition. Yet for queer people in 21st century America, they can also be a little…. fraught. In this 5 month series, we’re going to take an honest, deep, and participatory dive into the precepts. We’ll explore where they serve us, and where they may not. You're welcome to join us for the full course, a single session, or anything in-between. Find out more
In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Margrit Pittman-Polletta
In-Person Course: Mondays, April 20th – June 15th (skips June 1st), 2026 | 6:30pm - 9:00pmIn-Person Daylong: Saturday, May 16th, 2026 | 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: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Tim Abshire
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Tim Abshire, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Elaine Retholtz
In-Person Course: Wednesdays, April 29 – June 24 (skips June 17), 2026 | 9:30am - 12:00pmIn-Person Daylong: Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 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: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Tim Abshire
Wednesday, April 29th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Tim Abshire, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: Nothing Stands Alone – A Four Part Course Exploring the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Thursdays, April 30th - May 21st, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm ETThe Heart Sutra is one of the most frequently used and recited texts in the Buddhist tradition, and presents us with a radical approach for meeting our everyday challenges. Through a combination of experiential learning and meditation, this four-part series will explore the intersections of core Buddhist principles and our everyday lives, where integrative practices meet our own inner and collective potentials for awakening. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Becoming a Master Gardener of Your Heart and Mind – Part 2
Part 2: Exploring the Seven Factors of Awakening - Cultivating the Beautiful
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, May 4th - June 22nd (skips Memorial Day May 25th), 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETNo matter what you may think about “meditation,” it is, at its core, a cultivation of the mind and heart. And just as in cultivating a garden, we must learn to distinguish the weeds from the flowers (or vegetables!). In this series, we will learn how to cultivate "flowers" of our practice, the Seven Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joy, Tranquility, Collectedness and Equanimity. Feel free to sign up even if you haven't taken Part 1! Note: the first session of this course will be online only. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Universe in a Hand – Encountering Our True Nature through the Four Immeasurable Minds of Love
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, May, 7th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET (optionally, bring your dinner at 5:30pm to enjoy in community)The Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Queer Eye(s) on the Precepts
with Leslie Booker, Jay Michaelson, and Jacoby Ballard
Class 4: Skillful SpeechTuesday, May 12th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
The Five Precepts form the foundation of Buddhist ethics in the insight tradition. Yet for queer people in 21st century America, they can also be a little…. fraught. In this 5 month series, we’re going to take an honest, deep, and participatory dive into the precepts. We’ll explore where they serve us, and where they may not. You're welcome to join us for the full course, a single session, or anything in-between. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, May 13th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, May 20th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: When Sh*t Hits the Fan – Broken Heart Dharma
Part 3: Shattered And Whole
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, May 21st to June 25th, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETThis is the second section of a three-part online series exploring the Buddha’s teaching on dukkha, often translated as suffering or dissatisfaction, as the starting point of the path rather than something to overcome. Even if you did not join for Part 1 (Feb - March) or Part 2 (April - May), you are welcome to sign up for Part 3. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, May 27th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Growing Peace and Balance through Life’s Changes – A Four-Week Meditation Course
with Lani Miller
Tuesdays, June 2nd - June 30th (skips June 23rd), 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETHave you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps you’re feeling drawn to refreshing, renewing, or expanding the meditation practice you already have? Beginners and experienced meditators are all welcome to join this four-week meditation course where we will explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation. Come learn and be inspired in a warm, supportive environment. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, June 10th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Queer Eye(s) on the Precepts
with Leslie Booker, Jay Michaelson, and Jacoby Ballard
Class 5: What Is an Intoxicant?Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
The Five Precepts form the foundation of Buddhist ethics in the insight tradition. Yet for queer people in 21st century America, they can also be a little…. fraught. In this 5 month series, we’re going to take an honest, deep, and participatory dive into the precepts. We’ll explore where they serve us, and where they may not. You're welcome to join us for the full course, a single session, or anything in-between. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Online Course: Tuesdays, June 16th - August 4th, 2026 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ETOnline Daylong: Saturday, July 18th, 2026 from 9:30am – 5:00pm ET
This eight-week course 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: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Beyond the Separate Self – Emptiness and the Freedom of Awareness
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and My Tong
Thursday, June 18th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, June 24th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Touching the Sacred in the Ordinary – Finding Meaning, Connection, and Aliveness Right Where We Are
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, July 9th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
In-Person and Online: The Power of Forgiveness – A Five-Week Course
with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, July 13th - August 10th, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ETWhether it is the betrayals, disappointments, and abandonments experienced in our interpersonal lives, the injustices and tragedies perpetrated in society, or the various ways we have failed to live up to our own or others expectations of ourselves, forgiveness practice can begin to loosen the ropes binding us to the past. In this 5-week course, we'll explore the healing potential of forgiveness together. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, July 15th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: Full Bloom – A Meditative Summer Ikebana Immersion
with Anjie Cho
Sundays, July 19th – August 2nd, 2026 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ETJoin ikebana instructor Anjie Cho for this 3-week online experience where you’ll learn the art of Japanese flower arranging as a practice of mindfulness and creative expression. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
In-Person: Tai Chi – Meditation in Motion
with Marijke Eliasberg
Wednesday, July 29th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pmJoin Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind. Find out more
Online: 31 Days of Practice with New York Insight
with Joseph Goldstein, Mark Epstein, JoAnna Hardy, Jeff Warren, Dawn Mauricio, Martin Aylward, Narayan Helen Liebenson, Devin Berry, Fleet Maull, Yong Oh, Shanté Paradigm Smalls, Tenku Ruff, David Nichtern, Rashid Hughes, nico hase, Cara Lai, Leslie Booker, and many more!
Saturday, August 1st - Sunday, August 31st, 2026Join us for a full month of inspiration, growth, and community through daily practice videos and weekly live sessions with renowned meditation teachers. Find out more
In-Person and Online: This Is It – The Opportunity of This Moment
The Body Remembers Freedom with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts
Thursday, August 6th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThe Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body. Find out more
Online: Understanding Anger – From Poison to Presence
with Amma Thanasanti
Thursdays, September 10th - October 1st, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ETThis trauma-informed four-part series offers a practical and compassionate framework for understanding anger more clearly. Together we will explore four distinct forms of anger — everyday, defensive, attachment, and projective — asking what each is trying to communicate, what it protects, and what support it may need. Find out more