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
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A 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Elaine Retholtz
Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pmThis 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, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come. Find out more
Now Online: Jhāna, Step By Step – A Daylong Retreat
with Bodhipaksa
Saturday, March 21st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ETDuring this online program, Bodhipaksa will break down the components of the jhāna experience and introduce a step-by-step approach to cultivating it. Find out more
Online Urban Retreat: Sweeping Our Temple – Remembering Kind Awareness
with Leslie Booker & Bart van Melik
Saturday February 27th, 2021 | 9:00 am - 5:00pm ETSunday, February 28th, 2021 | 9:00am - 3:00pm ET
Through the Buddha's teachings on the 5 Spiritual Powers, (Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom), we will train our ability to bear witness to personal and social pains and immerse ourselves in heart qualities inviting us to dance, and vacuum, in our temple we call home. Find out more
Mindfulness & Ethical Evolution: A Daylong Online Retreat
with Matthew Brensilver
Saturday, March 13th, 2021 from 9:30am - 4:00pm ETIn this daylong, we’ll examine the process – in our direct experience – of maturing our ethical commitments. The process is facilitated by the perception of non-separation, an intimacy with the experience of suffering, a willingness to grieve, a spirit of renunciation and the courage to relinquish familiar understandings of ourselves. Find out more
Online: Deepening Refuge
with Ayya Anandabodhi
Saturday, October 9th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ETThe Buddha recognized the calamitous nature of this world and pointed us to a place of refuge that, with practice and sincere investigation, can bring great peace and happiness in our lives. Coming together as community, exploring the truth-of-the-way-things-are, and bringing awareness to our direct experience, we can rediscover that place of refuge that the Buddha pointed to all those years ago. Find out more
Online: Letting Go of Fear on Behalf of Collective Consciousness
with Deborah Eden Tull
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ETIn this day-long retreat, we will explore how to work with FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) through compassionate inquiry and subtle body awareness. We will cultivate a sense of joyful responsibility to the collective, which supports us to release fear-based conditioning. Find out more
Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying
with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm & Jon Aaron
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET The second of four daylong retreats around living life fully as we explore death, this will be a day of retreat to cultivate the compassionate heart which is in each of us. Find out more
Online: Steady Mind, Open Heart: How to Act Wisely When You’re Angry, Scared, or Confused
with Kimberly Brown
Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 10am - 1pm ET Join teacher and author Kimberly Brown for this useful workshop where we'll explore the three types of Buddhist wise actions—not-harming, being of benefit, and cultivating our wholesome qualities. Find out more
Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying
with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm
Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET This daylong retreat will focus on the 5th of the 5 Reflections and explore its relationship to forgiveness. It will consist of meditation, writing exercises, break-out rooms, dharma talks, and sharing. Find out more
Postponed: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life Retreat
with Donald Rothberg
PostponedIn this weekend retreat, we will be examining how according to the teachings of Buddhism meditation and daily life can be understood as a kind of profound “non-doing” that paradoxically can also be a basis for action and doing, a "doing coming out of a deep not-doing". Find out more
In-Person: Mahapajapati’s Celebration – A Half-Day Retreat For Those Who Identify as Women
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury and Gayah Imani Gillson
Saturday, August 12th, 2023 from 1:00pm - 5:30pm ETMahapajapati, the Buddha's aunt, was known as an exceptional woman with a deep level of dignity, compassion, and wisdom. She was caring and nurturing and an archetype of caregivers, mothers, heroes, and leaders. She was a great Bodhisattva whose life is relatively unknown and little spoken about. Many women today carry patterns that demonstrate Mahapajapati's divine qualities. Yet, many also face challenges that Mahapajapati and women encountered 2600 years ago. If not in our day-to-day lives, perhaps these challenges are printed in our psyches and our relationships. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Do I See My True Self? Do I See You? Do I See Nature? A Half-Day Retreat
Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Saturday, September 16th, 2023 from 1:00pm - 5:30pm ETThe practice of Dharma teaches us to see ourselves, others and nature in very genuine ways. It inspires and guides us to embrace ourselves, others and nature by savoring these relationships and bringing profound spiritual growth. In this half day retreat, inside of a safe and supportive container, we will observe, reflect, and share how we are seeing and relating to ourselves and others. Find out more
In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong
with Jon Aaron
Sunday, February 25th, 2024, 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
In-Person and Online: This is How Civilizations Heal – The Alchemy of the 3 Poisons
with Leslie Booker
Saturday, March 16th, 2024 from 10:00am-4:00pm ETGreed, Aversion and Delusion, collectively known as the Three Poisons, are mind states that cloud the heart and mind; separating us from each other. But these energies contain information that can lead us to a deep healing that can mitigate the chaos of the world. Join us for a daylong program exploring and practicing with the Three Poisons. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Day of Insight – A Daylong Meditation Retreat
with Brian Simmons
Saturday, June 15th, 2024 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ETIn modern society we are surrounded by noise – traffic noise, endless emails and phone calls, the chatter of people, and so forth. A silent retreat day is essentially a period of extended inward reflection, allowing you to achieve a greater clarity of mind. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Day of Insight – A Daylong Meditation Retreat
with Leslie Booker
Saturday, July 20th, 2024 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ETThis 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. Individual interviews will be available. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch to maintain the meditative atmosphere and concentration. Find out more
In-Person and Online: Cultivating Radical Kindness – A Half-Day Retreat
with Amanda Gilbert
Saturday, October 5th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETDuring this half-day retreat, meditation teacher and author Amanda Gilbert will share the timeless teachings of loving kindness with a focus on self-kindness that can expand into the world at large. During these topsy-turvy times, kindness can be the key ingredient that gives us the strength and resilience to navigate our life with skillfulness and clarity. Find out more