NYI Urban Weekend Retreat
with Rosemary Blake
Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 10:00am-6:00pm Sunday, January 13th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmA weekend meditation retreat for those who want to deepen their practice. Find out more
Sunday, February 10th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
In this Daylong Retreat in celebration of Valentine's Day, we will look inward to build a stronger understanding of our own hearts and minds before we turn our energy of love outwards.
Find out moreSaturday, February 16th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
Our difficulties require our most compassionate attention and inquiry. We will explore in depth our pain and difficult challenges and learn to open and to relate to them with unconditional presence, in a way that is mindful, wise, compassionate and healing.
Find out moreSunday, February 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
This daylong retreat will be an opportunity to learn and to deepen the practice of Insight Dialogue, a fully engaged relational meditation practice. Insight Dialogue brings together meditative awareness, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha, and the power of relationship to support insight into the nature, source, and release of human suffering.
Find out moreSunday, March 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join us for this Daylong Retreat to learn how meditation and mindfulness and can help you on the one journey we all take, our own personal journey through life to the common end in death. The day will be a mix of talks, meditation and practices with being present with life as it is.
Find out moreSunday, March 17th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
How can we accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and ease, sadness and joy that life brings us? One possible answer is to take refuge in the power of wakefulness, in the Buddha’s teachings and in the community dedicated to harmony and awareness.
Find out moreSunday, March 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
Find out moreSaturday, March 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pm
This daylong retreat will share little-known stories of the first Buddhist women. They offer a more engaged, emotionally alive and gender-balanced Buddhism, filling gaps we have sensed but haven’t named.
Find out moreSunday March 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
We brighten the mind by cultivating the heart quality of appreciative joy. In this daylong retreat, we'll learn to develop appreciative joy in meditation and in daily life.
Find out moreSunday, April 14th, 2019 from 10am-4pm
Mindful awareness brings the choice of relating to experience with wisdom and compassion where practitioners train the mind and thus change the brain. Join us for this Daylong Program with Dr. Paul Epstein who will share recent scientific finding that prove that meditation and mindfulness can actually change the brain.
Find out moreSaturday, April 20th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
This daylong program will present the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and emptiness and through stillness and relational practice, we will tap into the potential which is present in all of us.
Find out moreSunday, April 21st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Due to unforeseen circumstances, this program has been postponed and will be re-scheduled at a future date.
Find out moreFriday, April 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, April 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
In this weekend program, we will explore a different sense of faith. We will discuss how it can connect us to a deeper place of strength within us and to a bigger picture of life. This type of faith increases confidence, openness, and our ability to recognize something outside of our immediate circumstances as describing who we are.
Find out moreSunday, April 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join us for this daylong retreat where we will cultivate our natural capacity for an open and loving heart towards ourselves and all other beings.
Find out moreSunday, May 19th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
Find out moreSaturday, May 25th, 2019 | 10:00am to 4:30pm
In this daylong program, we will examine equanimity, how to recognize and appreciate it, and how it can be developed. We will also explore how we can avoid getting upset and overwhelmed by circumstances, such as conflict, injustice, and suffering.
Find out moreSunday, June 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm
Supported by kind awareness, wisdom, and community we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives. In this retreat we will introduce the six meditative guidelines of Insight Dialogue: Pause, Relax, Open, Attune to Emergence, Listen Deeply, and Speak the Truth.
Find out moreSaturday, June 15th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
The retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. One-on-one meetings with the teacher will also be available.
Find out moreSunday, June 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-1:00pm
This comprehensive three-hour workshop will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life.
Find out moreSaturday, July 13th 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pm
Enjoy a summer day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. We’ll integrate sitting and walking nature meditation throughout the hike.
Find out moreSaturday, October 26th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm
Do you eat when you are stressed out, bored or sad? Have you tried to eat more healthfully but just can’t seem to stick with it? Join Laurence Magro, psychotherapist and certified mindfulness educator on an exploration of habits of mind and heart around food and eating.
Find out moreSaturday, November 9th, 2019 from 10:00am – 5:00pm
Due to extenuating circumstances, this program has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a future date.
Find out moreSunday, December 1st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm
According to the Buddha the mind is forerunner of all experience. The lens through which we see life colors our experience. So often we resist an experience and suffer unnecessarily. On this day of meditation we will investigate living life in harmony with all its joys and sorrows.
Find out moreSaturday, February 17th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
What stops us from seeing things as they really are? It's not their remoteness or obscurity — it is the fact that we have unconsciously erected mental filters that prevent us from seeing what’s right in front of our noses. In this half-day workshop we’ll learn to find ways to take off those mental filters, even if just temporarily.
Find out moreSunday, February 25th, 2024, from 9:30am – 5:00pm ET
Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come.
Find out moreSaturday, March 2nd, 2024 from 10:00am-4:00pm
In this day of practice, we explore how to deepen inner contentment through rest, creating space and simplifying our life. When we allow ourselves to find balance and restore, we are empowered to move into the world and bring about greater justice and peace.
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