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January 2019
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
The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation
with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Friday, January 25th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pmSaturday, January 26th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pm
Join teacher and author Narayan Helen Liebenson for a workshop on how to live from a compassionate love that guides our lives and warms whatever it shines upon. With metta and compassion as companions and allies, we will discover how our own magnanimous hearts can gently allow our inner knots to untie themselves. Find out more
February 2019
The Three Characteristics: The Characteristic of Impermanence
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, February 9th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmThis daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on impermanence - and how they bring forth the wisdom to let go of what has just passed and open fully to what emerges next. Find out more
Love The One You’re With: Yourself
with Gary Singer
Sunday, February 10th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pmIn 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 more
Mindful Healing: Working with Pain & Difficulty as an Opportunity to Awaken
with Dr Paul Epstein
Saturday, February 16th, 2019 from 10:00am-4:00pmOur 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 more
Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat
with Rosemary Blake
Sunday, February 17th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe 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 more
Who’s Afraid of Jhana? The Perplexed Buddhist’s Guide to Meditative Absorption
with Bodhipaksa
Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmOn this day-long workshop Bodhipaksa will introduce a three-stage approach to meditation that he’s developed in over the last 20 years, helping us to calm the mind, to enter deeply into a relaxed yet vibrant experience of the body and bring joy to the heart. Find out more
Awakening Together: The Power of Generous Presence
with Bart van Melik
Sunday, February 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThis 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 more
March 2019
Event Canceled: Walking Each Other Home: Practices for a More Meaningful Life
with Mirabai Bush
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmJoin 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 more
Vast View, Fine Attention
with Martin Aylward
Saturday, March 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmExplore how we might we bring both a vast view and a fine attention to both our inner practices, and in response to the ecological, political and social crises in which we currently find ourselves. Find out more
The Three Characteristics: The Characteristic of Suffering
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, March 16th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmThis daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on suffering and how they hold the promise of more profound well-being than the simple escape from pain or difficulty. Find out more
The Three Gems
with Bart van Melik
Sunday, March 17th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pmHow 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 more
Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat
with Rosemary Blake and Nancy Glimm
Sunday, March 24th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe 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 more
The First Buddhist Women
with Tracy Cochran and Wendy Garling
Saturday, March 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmThis 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 more
Brightening the Mind
with Peter Doobinin
Sunday March 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmWe 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 more
April 2019
The Three Characteristics: The Characteristic of Non-Self
with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, April 13th, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmThis daylong workshop explores the Buddhist practices and teachings on non-self and how the careful observation of moment-to-moment experience in the mind and body, and has the potential of changing everything. Find out more
Neuroplasticity: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation
with Dr. Paul Epstein
Sunday, April 14th, 2019 from 10am-4pmMindful 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 more