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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
Mindfulness, Compassion and the Wisdom of Emptiness
with Jon Aaron
Saturday, April 20th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThis 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 more
Postponed: The Island of Sangha
with Angela Dews and nakawe cuebas
Sunday, April 21st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmDue to unforeseen circumstances, this program has been postponed and will be re-scheduled at a future date. Find out more
Faith: A Buddhist Perspective
with Sharon Salzberg and Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Friday, April 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm Saturday, April 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIn 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 more
Loving Kindness Meditation
with Gary Singer
Sunday, April 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmJoin 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 more
May 2019
Day of Insight: A Daylong Meditation Retreat
with Rosemary Blake and Nancy Glimm
Sunday, May 19th, 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
Equanimity: Dancing with the Unpredictability of Life
with Dr. Stephen Fulder
Saturday, May 25th, 2019 | 10:00am to 4:30pmIn 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 more
June 2019
The Great Potential of Change
with Bhante Sukhacitto and Bart van Melik
Sunday, June 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmSupported 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 more
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Elaine Retholtz
Saturday, June 8th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pmThis MBSR Daylong is for MBSR alumni, and those currently taking the course, to 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 more
How Mindfulness Meditation Leads to Insight
with Jon Aaron
Sunday, June 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIn this Daylong, we will explore the concept of meditation, how it leads to insight and what concepts support us in our meditation practice. This program is open to meditators of all levels. Find out more
Day of Mindfulness Meditation
with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik
Saturday, June 15th, 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
Mindful Writing Workshop
with Tracy Cochran
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 4:00pmJoin us as we combine mindfulness meditation with short writing exercises geared toward personal reflection, discovering our ways of being heroic, including relaxing and letting go. Find out more
Aging As a Spiritual Practice Daylong Retreat
with Rosemary Blake, Amy Selzer, and Nancy Glimm
Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am-5:00pmJoin us for a day exploring aging as a spiritual practice through direct meditation practice, Dharma offerings from the three teachers, open discussions as well as dyad and triad work among participants. Find out more
The Way of Effortless Mindfulness Daylong Retreat
with Loch Kelly
Saturday, June 29th, 2019 from 10:00am – 5:00pmIn this daylong retreat we will learn to intentionally shift into awake awareness, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus. Effortless mindfulness helps us shift from a self-centered identity to an empty, yet open-hearted, way of seeing and being. Find out more
Beginner’s Workshop
with Lani Miller
Sunday, June 30th, 2019 from 10:00am-1:00pmThis 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 more
July 2019
Summer Meditative Hike to Hook Mountain
with Lin Gordon
Saturday, July 13th 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pmEnjoy 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 more
Cultivating the Five Spiritual Powers – A POC & Allies Daylong
with nakawe cuebas and Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Sunday, July 14th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIn this daylong program for People of Color (POC) and allies, we will be exploring how the Buddha's Five Spiritual Faculties can be used to work with the Five Mental Hindrances in our everyday world. We will reflect as a group on how to free ourselves from these Hindrances and how to empower ourselves with the Five Spiritual Faculties. Find out more
Day of Mindfulness Meditation
with Rosemary Blake and Angela Dews
Saturday, July 20th, 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
Hungry Ghosts & Angry Demons: Addressing the Roots of Addictive Behaviors
with Josh Korda & Kathy Cherry
Sunday, July 21st, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pmIn this daylong event we'll discuss the mental processes and early relational wounds underlying maladaptive, compulsive tendencies that are difficult to alleviate. Find out more
Mindfulness of Thinking
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, July 27th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmIn this daylong retreat, we'll explore how we can use the practices of mindfulness of mind in our meditation practice and in our lives in in order to find a greater happiness. Find out more
When Thoughts Scream: Transforming Inner Critics and Intrusive Mindstates
with Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Sunday, July 28th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmDrawing from Tibetan Buddhism, neuroscience, the “parts work” of Internal Family Systems, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, and evolutionary psychology, this daylong retreat will give you a three-step method for engaging and healing from our counter productive inner voices. Find out more
August 2019
Cultivating a Heart of Gold
with Venerable Pannavati
Friday, August 9th, 2019 | 7:00pm - 9:00pmSaturday, August 10th, 2019 | 10:00am - 5:00pm
Join visiting teacher Ven Pannavati for a daylong program of renewal to move beyond mindfulness, contemplating key passages in the Buddhist suttas that awaken us to the necessity of cultivating joy and compassion. Find out more
That’s Life! Navigating Major Life Changes with Confidence and Clarity
with Brian Simmons
Sunday, August 25th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmOften we fear the unknown of change. But it is possible transform our doubts and fear into courage and ease. This daylong program will provide you with effective skills to reframe and navigate the emotional trauma of major life changes and transitions with a sense of equanimity and purpose. Find out more
Setting Things in Motion: Cultivating Kind Intentions
with Karen G. Williams and Rae Houseman
Saturday, August 31st, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmOur thoughts, emotions, and mind-states are constantly in flux and come from specific causes. This doesn’t mean that we don’t take responsibility. In this daylong we will explore the impact of our motivations and how to practice with intentions. We will take a deep dive into what it is to bring kind intentions to our practice and lives. Find out more
September 2019
Right Action in the Anthropocene: A Buddhist Response to Global Warming
with Bhikkhu Bodhi and Guests
Friday, September 6th, 2019 from 7pm - 9pmSaturday, September 7th, 2019 from 10am - 5pm
Join us for this important event as we explore the causes and conditions that have brought us to the climate crisis, the dukkha of extinction and human suffering, and the solutions that we can bring to bear in this critical time of our world. Find out more
Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly
with Martin Aylward
Sunday, September 8th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmJoin visiting teacher Martin Aylward for a day of teachings and practices for activating and exploring the 3 principal centers of experience: the Belly centre of embodiment, the Heart centre of love, and the Head centre of intuition and wisdom. Find out more
Mindfulness & Trauma: Healing Our Wounds with Wisdom and Compassion
with Dr. Paul Epstein
Sunday, September 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmMost of us have experienced some form of trauma in our lives, to greater or lesser degrees. What is unprocessed can, and does, show up in our bodies, minds, hearts and spirit in our daily lives and in our meditation practice. In this retreat, we'll explore the pain and suffering that arises from unresolved, unprocessed trauma. Find out more
Shifting From Head To Heart-Mind
with Loch Kelly
Saturday, September 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmHaving experienced some of the initial benefits of mindfulness, is it now possible to awaken to the deep sense of well-being, creativity, and unconditional love that is our true nature? In this daylong retreat, you will learn contemporary versions of effortless mindfulness that help you live from your heart-mind. Find out more
Day of Mindfulness Meditation: Spiritual Friendship
with Bart van Melik and Rosemary Blake
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe Buddha often emphasized the importance of friends and said that friendship is a prerequisite for awakening. On this day of silence we’ll reflect on this ancient teaching and investigate how friendship can support us in cultivating a kind heart in this challenging world. Find out more
October 2019
Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection
with Jon Aaron, Elaine Retholtz and Sandra Weinberg
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 7:00pmYom Kippur is the Jewish Day of Atonement, a day when, as a community, Jews are asked to reflect on their actions of the past year and to ask for atonement for any actions that were unskillful. In support of this day, NYI hosts a day of silence and reflection. Find out more
When Awareness Becomes Natural: An IMS Urban Retreat
with Alexis Santos and Susa Talan
Saturday, October 12th, 2019 from 9:00am - 6:00pmSunday, October 13th, 2019 from 9:00am - 4:00pm
Through relaxing the body and mind, we can come to understand the effortless nature of being mindful. Join us for this first IMS Urban Retreat at New York Insight to learn how natural awareness leads to the blossoming of wisdom and compassion. Find out more
Freeing Ourselves from Mental Slavery With the Power of the Breath
with Vimalasara Valerie Mason-John
Saturday, October 19th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmFreeing our minds and transformation of any situation must come from our own personal work. Join us for a daylong program exploring the power of the breath and the challenging task of coming home to the body. Find out more
Anxiety: It’s Not All In Your Mind
with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmThe seeds of anxiety originate from a variety of sources: repeated trauma, illness, chronic pain, hormonal imbalance, a mind caught in fear of the unknown future. By developing mindfulness, we cultivate internal awareness to address anxiety before it spreads, give kind attention to our bodies, and learn to recognize the progression of thoughts and emotions that arise prior to anxiety taking hold. Find out more
Mindful Eating for Self-Care
with Laurence Magro
Saturday, October 26th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pmDo 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 more
Mindful Healing: Working with Pain & Difficulty
with Jon Aaron
Sunday, October 27th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe Buddha taught of suffering and the end of suffering but for those with physical pain, particularly chronic physical pain, this end of suffering seems like it might never happen. This day of practice will focus on physical pain and how mindfulness practice and some specific Buddhist teachings can open up a pathway to freedom through our pain. Find out more
November 2019
Citta: A Union of the Heart, Mind, and Body
with Leslie Booker
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIn this daylong retreat, we'll unpack the mysteries of Buddha's Third Foundation of Mindfulness by moving through the body, feeling tones, and how we can use it to gain freedom from the turbulence of unexamined emotional experiences. Find out more
Joyful Awakening Through Creative Self-Expression
with Nina Wise
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:30pmContemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release robust creative self-expression. Find out more
Cancelled – Loving Kindness Meditation
with Gary Singer
Saturday, November 9th, 2019 from 10:00am – 5:00pmDue to extenuating circumstances, this program has been cancelled and will be rescheduled at a future date. Find out more
Transforming the Judgmental Mind: A NYI Weekend Retreat
with Donald Rothberg
Saturday, November 16th, 2019 | 9:00am - 5:00pmSunday, November 17th, 2019 | 9:00am - 4:00pm
In this retreat, we will cultivate mindfulness around our judgments; inquiry into the deep roots of judgments; and heart practices such as lovingkindness, forgiveness, and compassion. We will also explore the somatic and social dimensions of judgments--how we internalize dominant views (e.g., of race, gender, etc.) Find out more
We Are Nature: Remembering Our Sacred Connection to Earth
with Sebene Selassie, DaRa Williams and Lin Gordon
Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pmIn this daylong program, we will take time to reconnect to our bodies, hearts and minds remembering that we are nature. Centering land and ancestors, we will cultivate meditative awareness to sense the sacred connection to earth that is always present when we open to it. Find out more
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi
Sunday, November 24th, 2019 from 9:30am – 5:00pmThis MBSR Daylong is for MBSR alumni, and those currently taking the course, to 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 more
December 2019
A Day of Mindfulness Meditation: In Touch with Wise View
with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik
Sunday, December 1st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmAccording 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 more
That’s Life: Embracing Change with Courage & Awareness
with Brian Simmons
Sunday, December 8th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pmEmbracing change is a moment-to-moment challenge on the path to peace and happiness. This daylong workshop will provide a practical roadmap for those facing a major life transition. Find out more
The Growth Choice: Developing the Resilience, Courage and Inner Resources to Alleviate Shame, Imposter Syndrome and Avoidance Coping
with Josh Korda and Kathy Cherry
Sunday, December 15th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pmIn this daylong event with visiting teachers Josh Korda and Kathy Cherry, we will discuss the relational wounds that underly low self-worth, procrastination, perfectionism and core shame, all of which are implicit behaviors which are resistant to change. Find out more
January 2020
Let Go of the Past and Embrace the Present Moment
with Bhante Buddharakkhita
Sunday, January 5th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIn this daylong program, visiting teacher Bhante Buddharakkhita will explore the Buddha’s teachings on letting go, forgiveness and mindfulness. Find out more
The RAIN of Compassion
with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust
Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 7:00pm – 9:00pmSaturday, January 11th, 2020 | 9:30am – 5:00pm
Location: Marble Collegiate Church, 1 West 29th Street at Fifth Avenue
Please join us for this special evening and daylong program with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust as they explore the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guide us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential. Find out more
Finding the Way Home to Kind Awareness: An IMS Urban Retreat
with Bart van Melik and Leslie Booker
Saturday, January 25th, 2020 from 9:30am – 6:00pmSunday, January 26th, 2020 from 9:30am – 4:00pm
Insight Meditation Society (IMS) is pleased to present this weekend urban retreat at New York Insight. During this retreat, we will explore the heart of the Buddha’s teaching: suffering and its causes and freedom from its causes. With the help and cultivation of our kind and natural awareness, we can become intimate with what it is like to be human. Find out more
February 2020
The Power of “No”: On Self-Love, Setting Boundaries, and Difficult Conversations
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, February 1st, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIntegrating the wisdom of Buddhism with trauma theory; somatic psychology; and the evidence-based “parts work” of Internal Family Systems therapy; this daylong is about learning to navigate such vulnerable conditions with clarity, intelligence, and grace. Find out more
Radical Friendship: Loving Yourself and Finding Your People in an Unjust World
with Kate Johnson
Sunday, February 9th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pmThe Buddha's teachings on spiritual friendship are good medicine for times of injustice, and can help us practice freedom even in unfree places. Find out more
What’s Up with Waking Up
with Jon Aaron
Saturday, February 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmIf we aren’t practicing meditation to wake up, then why are we bothering? What does waking up really mean? What are we waking up from or to? There is a Buddha in each of us waiting to wake up to a life without fear even in a world with much to be fearful of. In this daylong, we will practice directly with some of the Buddha’s teachings on freedom and investigate how to integrate these into every moment of our lives. Find out more
Beginner’s Workshop
with Bart van Melik
Sunday, February 16th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:30pmThis comprehensive three-hour workshop provides fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life. Find out more
Bodhichitta: Developing the Mind of Awakening
with Scott Tusa
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 from 10:00am-5:00pmIn this daylong workshop we will dive deep into the heart of the Buddha’s inner transformation and the spiritual tradition that arose from it. Through a combination of experiential learning, guided/silent meditation, and discussion we will explore how to access and develop a grounded open heart, a more available and open space of mindful awareness, and deeper insight into how to better overcome mental and emotional habits that cause us unnecessary suffering. Find out more
March 2020
Opening the Hand of Thought: Releasing Mental, Emotional and Physical Clinging
with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, March 1st, 2020 from 10:00am -5:00pmCultivating spaciousness in the body leads to spaciousness in heart/mind and vice versa. In this daylong workshop we will practice somatically releasing, cognitively understanding and emotionally allowing whatever it is that we meet with. Find out more
Exploring The Five Wisdom Energies of Tantric Buddhism
with Ethan Nichtern
Saturday, March 7th, 2020 from 10am - 5pmThe Five Wisdoms offers one of the deepest and most spiritually useful bodies of teaching in the tantric Buddhist tradition. By exploring different emotional patterns as they arise in meditation and in daily life, we begin to see the wisdom-potential that exists in every state of mind and every personality type. Find out more
The Healing Journey Meets the Spiritual Path
with Dr Paul Epstein
Sunday, March 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pmThis daylong program will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness meditation and compassion practice can be integrated and applied in the process of healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. Find out more
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Saturday, March 14th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pmThis MBSR Daylong will be offered in-person at NYI and online. 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 more
Postponed: Exploring the Power of the Feminine – A Daylong Workshop for Women
with Tracy Cochran and Sebene Selassie
Saturday, March 28th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmWhat is feminine power? Is it something to be acquired? Or uncovered and reclaimed? Join us for a day of meditation, writing exercises, and group sharing aimed at exploring these rich questions. Find out more
Now Online: Finding a Refuge in the Body
with Peter Doobinin
Sunday, March 29th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, ESTOne of the most important aspects of the Buddha’s teachings is developing the ability to find refuge. In a world that is always changing and often presents difficulty, it is essential that we have this skill if we’re to know true happiness in our lives. Find out more
April 2020
Now Online: There Is No Problem
with Martin Aylward
Saturday, April 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, ESTDuring this online program, we will explore how to respond skillfully and actively to the ‘cries of the world’ while also discovering and resting in the realization that our true nature is free and unobstructed in its essence, and has always been so. Find out more
Now Online: Holistic Spirituality, Part 1 – Finding Courage and Steadiness with Uncertainty
with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, April 11th, 20201:00pm - 4:30pm, ET / 10:00am – 1:30pm, PT
Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for a half-day online retreat exploring ways to calm the mind and body, manage fear and anxiety effectively, and offer loving support to others in distress. Find out more
Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Sunday, April 19th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm ETPracticing 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 more
Now Online: Fearlessness in the Midst of Fear
with Koshin Paley Ellison
Saturday, April 25th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ETIn our time of social isolation in the midst of this pandemic, how do we take refuge in the teachings to support our path? Join Zen teacher Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison for an online workshop on cultivating the freshness of feeling our feelings of fear without becoming them. Find out more
Postponed: Wisdom & Compassion – Guiding Our Life
with Joseph Goldstein and Bart van Melik
Details forthcoming Find out more
Now Online: Surviving Modern Life – A Daylong Workshop
with Devon and Craig Hase
Sunday, April 26, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, ETIn this online daylong workshop, based on their new book, How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life, Devon and Craig Hase will be leading participants through meditations, contemplations, dialogues, and exercises to help them tap into their resilience, so that they can face these unprecedented difficulties with warmth, kindness, and some measure of equanimity. Find out more
May 2020
Now Online: Already Home – Resting in Peace, Contentment, and Love
with Rick Hanson
Saturday, May 9th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm ETJoin New York Times bestselling author Dr. Rick Hanson as we explore the Buddhist analysis of the mind as a road map for strengthening the neural circuitry of deep calm, contentment, kindness, and wisdom—qualities we all need to succeed in the face of adversity. Find out more
Now Online: Compassion as a Guide Through Transition and Transformation
with Jane Chun
Saturday, May 16th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETIn this online half-day workshop, we will explore the unfolding of grief and meeting reality as it is, fear and finding ground in groundlessness and examining our illusion of control, fear of change and impermanence and uncovering of who we really are and what’s really important to us. Find out more
Now Online: Interdependence Day – The Buddha’s Teaching on Dependent Arising
with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Saturday, May 30th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ETIn this time of home-sheltering and social distancing, what do the Buddha's teachings on interdependence tell us about the meaning of “true connection”? What is the difference between being alone and feeling isolated? What does it mean to be “independent”? How do we create grace within the nature of interdependent relationships? Find out more
Now Online: That’s Life – Navigating Major Life Changes with Confidence and Clarity
with Brian Simmons
Sunday, May 31st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:30pmDrawing from both classical Buddhist practices and non-Buddhist techniques from a variety of sources, the program is designed to inspire courage, confidence and context for powerful transformation. If you are facing a major life transition, this course is for YOU! Find out more
June 2020
Now Online: Free At Last – Identifying Our Suffering Around Race
with DaRa Williams and Karen Williams
Saturday, June 6th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:30pmIn this workshop open to all self-identified People of Color, we will create connection and build sangha in order to explore our individual and group level relationships to systems of oppression. We will also explore how we can integrate wisdom from the Dharma with contemplative practice to find freedom from pain and suffering. Find out more
Now Online: Indigenous Presence – Decolonizing Our Hearts
with Bonnie Duran
Saturday, June 13th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETThis online workshop will provide a conceptual framework and practice guidelines for “Indigenous Presence” meditation - a way of coming into harmony with the present moment and our world; and provides space for acceptance, and the cultivation of clarity, confidence, resilience and strength. Find out more
Now Online: Resting into the Body of Awareness
with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, June 14th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ETThrough meditation, breath practices and a restorative posture to calm the central nervous system, we’ll explore somatically, compassionately and tenderly. Together, we’ll rejuvenate and resource the body of awareness to navigate our own ways home. Find out more
Now Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop
with Gary Singer
Saturday, June 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETThis 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 more
Now Online: Tibetan Mindfulness – Beyond the Breath
with Lama Surya Das
Saturday, June 27th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETExperience an afternoon immersion with renowned bestselling author, and spiritual elder, Lama Surya Das. Learn experiential tools for dealing with distraction and interruption, a way to work with desire and aversion, of wanting and not wanting, and a means of dealing with the difficult emotions and life situations we are all currently experiencing. Find out more
Postponed: Calm Abiding, Creative Awakening
with Nina Wise
Sunday, June 28th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETContemplative practices and expressive practices enhance one another; in concert they quiet the mind, calm the heart, give rise to insight and happiness, and release our wildness. In this half-day online retreat, we will practice both silent meditation and robust creative self-expression. Find out more
July 2020
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Saturday, July 11, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pmPracticing 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 more
Now Online: The Fierce Vulnerability of Heart Practice – A New Look at the Brahmaviharas
with Leslie Booker
Sunday, July 12th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThis daylong will be a way to explore and cultivate the Buddha's teachings on the four brahma-viharas: loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. Imbued with the virtues of these four states, we are better able to embrace ourselves, our current situation and the entire world. Find out more
Online: A Happiness That Doesn’t Die
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday July 18th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETThe Buddha’s happiness is sometimes known as “true happiness” because it’s a happiness that’s true, reliable, and always there. In this three-hour online class, we’ll learn about this quality of true happiness, what it is, and how we can come to know it. Find out more
August 2020
Online: The Wisdom of Prajnaparamita – A Half-Day Retreat Exploring The Essence of the Heart Sutra
with Scott Tusa
Saturday, August 22nd, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETIn this half-day online retreat we will explore the wisdom teachings of the bodhisattva Prajnaparamita as found in the Heart Sutra. Find out more
Online: Resilience Club – Bringing Compassion to Our Anger and Overwhelm
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, August 29th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETOur nervous systems have never been so raw. The loss, the upheaval, the uncertainty, the hope, the fear – it’s never been more real. For meditators committed to keeping our eyes and our hearts wide open through all of this, it can be particularly challenging. This half-day workshop will offer practices for meeting the complexities of our situation directly. Through meditations, breathwork, lively talks, and group discussion, this workshop will offer sustenance and insight that is free of platitudes and spiritual bypassing. Find out more
September 2020
Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection
with Elaine Retholtz and Jon Aaron
Monday, September 28th, 2020 from 10:00am - 7:00pm ETThis year, New York Insight will continue the annual tradition of A Day of Silence and Reflection for Yom Kippur. As an act of care and compassion for our fellow practitioners during these times it will be offered as an online event. Find out more
October 2020
Online: Learning a New Embodied Relationship to Pain
with Joan Griffiths Vega
Sunday, October 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ETPain, acute or chronic, requires a multifaceted, multi-dimensional approach to manage its overwhelming domination. Join us for a workshop on how mindfulness supports a kind, curious awareness towards pain contains practices to soften pain and open the body to greater ease. Find out more
Online: Listen Deeply and Speak the Truth – An Insight Dialogue Course on Wise Speech
with Bart van Melik
Course: Mondays, October 5th - October 26th, 2020 from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ETDaylong: Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET
As a community, we'll investigate the Buddha's timeless instructions on Wise Speech with the support of Insight Dialogue, an interpersonal meditation practice that brings together mindfulness and concentration, the wisdom teachings of the Buddha and the power of relationship to support insight into the causes and release of human suffering. Find out more
Understanding the Law of Karma: How We Find a Greater Happiness
with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, October 10th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pmIn this online workshop, we’ll learn about karma and how we change it. We will learn how to take skillful action that enables us to know a greater happiness: happiness of heart. Find out more
November 2020
Online: Awakening Together – The Great Potential of Change
Bart van Melik
Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ETFor the sake of our well-being the Buddha asks us to understand and radically accept the universal truth of change. Supported by kind awareness, wisdom and community during this daylong program for experienced Insight Dialogue practitioners, we’ll explore the potential and difficulty of changes in our lives. Find out more
Online: Cultivating Thanksgiving
with Bonnie Duran, Ramona Peters and Jeff Haozous
Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ETGiving thanks is a tradition in both Buddhism and Native American cultures. Thanksgiving ceremony is a medicine that we can use to begin to heal to ourselves, our relationships, and our world. In this half day program, the teachers will offer meditation practices to develop gratitude which are grounded in Buddhist teachings and informed by their perspectives as Native Americans. Find out more
December 2020
Online: The Profound and the Profane – Bringing the Whole of Life into the Alchemy of our Practice
with Martin Aylward
Saturday, December 5th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETJoin Martin Aylward to give some close and caring attention together to life, love and letting go. We’ll invoke the radical freeness to which our practice invites us; explore how to meet and metabolise the habit patterns that get in our way, and feel our way into meeting the uncertainties and complexities of our lives more fluidly, fearlessly and freely. Find out more
February 2021
Online: Cultivating Peace Within You in a Chaotic World
with Bhante Buddharakkhita
Saturday, February 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETThe world is on fire. Many countries are experiencing injustice, political unrest and a COVID-19 pandemic. How can you find balance and cultivate peace within you? The online retreat will include guided mindfulness and equanimity meditation, Dhamma talk, and a question and answer session. Find out more
March 2021
Online: MBSR Alumni Daylong
with Elaine Retholtz
Saturday, March 6th, 2021 from 9:30am - 5:00pm ETHave you taken an MBSR course? Would you like to spend time practicing in community with support of a teacher to help you refine your skills of mindfulness? This MBSR Daylong is for you! Practicing with other MBSR alumni and those currently taking the course, you will have a day to focus on mindfulness, explore how it is manifesting in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come. Find out more
May 2021
Online: Continuity of Awareness and the Art of Living Meaningfully
with Alexis Santos & Susa Talan
Saturday, May 8th, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ETInspired by the teachings of Theravādin Buddhist monk, Sayadaw U Tejaniya, during this daylong retreat we will explore the practice of meditation as a foundation for developing the heart and mind. Together we’ll practice cultivating moment by moment awareness, in a relaxed and natural way--leading us to an embodied sense of clarity, resilience and connection. Find out more
August 2021
Online: Relationship as a Liberatory Path – A Daylong for Cultivating Care
with Devon Hase & Peace Twesigye
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ETThe whole of spiritual practice can be framed as relationship: to ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us. Through dialogue, discussion, meditation, and movement, we'll explore the territory of noble relationship and what it means for how we relate to ourselves in practice, in community, and in friendship to the world. Find out more
September 2021
In-Person: Tending Grief in Nature
with Lin Wang Gordon and Peace Twesigye
Saturday, September 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:30pm ETGrief, if not attended to, can often hold us hostage to life’s uncertainty and losses. How do we open our hearts and continue to let our life energy flow while facing and tending to our grief intimately? How do we establish a sense of connection with our loved ones when their bodies are no longer here? Find out more