Sunday, March 1st, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
This monthly Sunday morning practice is led by seasoned teachers at NY Insight, who will guide participants in both seated and moving meditation, offer a Dharma talk, and engage in dialogue with the community.
Sunday, March 1st, 2026 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Whether you’ve been a part of our community for years or are brand new to NYIMC and meditation, we invite you to join us for our Monthly Sangha Potluck at our center.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
These days, we hear a lot about “being in the body.” But what might this really mean? In this two-hour online event, teacher Bob Stahl will guide us through a unique Buddhist practice known as the Contemplation of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. This practice is recommended for those seeking new, healing ways to relate to their bodies.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us as we explore the season of early spring with ikebana—the Japanese art of flower arrangement—as a contemplative dharma mindfulness practice to invite art into your everyday life.
Friday, March 6th, 2026 | 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Join us for a warm and welcoming volunteer orientation at New York Insight! Whether you're a current volunteer, considering returning, or new to volunteering with us, we invite you to an in-person orientation in our new home.
Saturdays, March 7 - 28, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Do 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.
Sunday, March 8th, 2026 | 10:15am - 12:30pm ET
Join us for a special morning of meditation, dharma talk, and dialogue at our Sacred Sunday Pause, hosted by the Community Meditation Center. In this gathering, we’ll reflect on a core teaching of the Buddha and explore how a simple moment of mindful pause can transform us—bringing more clarity, kindness, and harmony into our lives.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Mindful Tuneup is a free two-hour workshop for beginners and intermittent meditators looking to jump-start a more consistent practice. Just as a musician tunes their instrument for optimal sound, you'll explore how to tune your body and mind for meditation.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
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.
Hybrid Weekend Retreat: Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Optional Online Follow-Up Sessions: Tuesday - Thursday, March 17-19, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Work, sex, and money are three of the most charged areas of our everyday lives, yet their potency is often ignored. Over the course of a full weekend retreat, we’ll explore each domain in depth. The (online) follow-up sessions during the week allow you to integrate your insights as you continue to practice in your daily roles and relationships where these areas impact us.
Tuesdays, March 17th - April 7th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
The 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.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 19th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursdays, February 19th and March 19th, 2026 | 6:30pm-8:30pm ET
The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community of practice dedicated to meeting the urgent realities of our global ecological and climate crisis with wisdom, compassion, and courage. At our monthly gatherings, we come together to reflect on the personal and collective impact of this planetary emergency, exploring how our Dharma practice can support grounded, creative, and heartfelt responses.
Thursday, March 19th, 2026 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this evening program, we'll explore how to work skillfully with emotions—not by transcending or suppressing them, but by meeting them with embodied compassion. Drawing on practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, we'll discover how bringing compassionate presence to our felt experience naturally unlocks insight and freedom.
Friday, March 20th, 2026 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm ET
New York Insight's Artist Salon and Café is a monthly gathering is designed for artists and art lovers to come together, socialize, and exchange ideas in a mindful and creative space.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The meditative path encourages us to let go of patterns that cause hurt to ourselves and others. But how can we truly “let go” and re-engage with the world? During this 3-hour program, we will look at the four stages of letting go, with support from the practice of mindfulness.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
These are hard times, and many of us are asking: how do I keep going? This half-day retreat offers space to resource yourself through gentle yoga, mindfulness, and deep rest. Everyone is welcome.
Sunday, March 22nd, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Throughout this day of somatic meditation, you’ll have repeated opportunities to slow down, practice, and directly experience how safety becomes more available through embodied awareness. Together we'll explore how our survival responses express an intelligent body seeking stability.
Part 1: Recognizing the weeds – exploring the Five Hindrances
Mondays, March 23rd - April 27th (skips April 20th), 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
No 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.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Amidst all the things going on today, we cannot forget that there is still an ecological crisis happening in our world. As Buddhists, how are we supposed to respond? Over the course of this evening program, we'll explore Buddhist perspectives on the natural world, and how we might use them to energize our intentions to be good stewards of the earth today.
Saturday, March 28th, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Join us for a special in-person or online daylong silent meditation retreat for those who want to reconnect and deepen their practice. Together we will pause, reset, and find some much-needed mental space and clarity.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
When we give ourselves wholly to practice, we find we are standing at the edge; the edge between what we can accept and what we cannot; the edge between what we understand and what we do not; the edge of clinging and letting go. Over the course of this interactive half-day retreat, together we’ll inquire about these (and other) edges with reference to your own active, living challenges.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Saturday, April 4th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
It's impossible to move through life without experiencing heartbreak. In these three hours of practice, we will explore how to fully inhabit the broken heart, releasing ourselves from the grip of our stories—the "What ifs," the "If onlys," the "I should haves"—and open to what is actually here.
Sunday, March 1st, 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
This monthly Sunday morning practice is led by seasoned teachers at NY Insight, who will guide participants in both seated and moving meditation, offer a Dharma talk, and engage in dialogue with the community.
Sunday, March 1st, 2026 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Whether you’ve been a part of our community for years or are brand new to NYIMC and meditation, we invite you to join us for our Monthly Sangha Potluck at our center.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
These days, we hear a lot about “being in the body.” But what might this really mean? In this two-hour online event, teacher Bob Stahl will guide us through a unique Buddhist practice known as the Contemplation of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. This practice is recommended for those seeking new, healing ways to relate to their bodies.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Join us as we explore the season of early spring with ikebana—the Japanese art of flower arrangement—as a contemplative dharma mindfulness practice to invite art into your everyday life.
Friday, March 6th, 2026 | 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Join us for a warm and welcoming volunteer orientation at New York Insight! Whether you're a current volunteer, considering returning, or new to volunteering with us, we invite you to an in-person orientation in our new home.
Saturdays, March 7 - 28, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
Do 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.
Sunday, March 8th, 2026 | 10:15am - 12:30pm ET
Join us for a special morning of meditation, dharma talk, and dialogue at our Sacred Sunday Pause, hosted by the Community Meditation Center. In this gathering, we’ll reflect on a core teaching of the Buddha and explore how a simple moment of mindful pause can transform us—bringing more clarity, kindness, and harmony into our lives.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Mindful Tuneup is a free two-hour workshop for beginners and intermittent meditators looking to jump-start a more consistent practice. Just as a musician tunes their instrument for optimal sound, you'll explore how to tune your body and mind for meditation.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
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.
Hybrid Weekend Retreat: Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Optional Online Follow-Up Sessions: Tuesday - Thursday, March 17-19, 2026 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET
Work, sex, and money are three of the most charged areas of our everyday lives, yet their potency is often ignored. Over the course of a full weekend retreat, we’ll explore each domain in depth. The (online) follow-up sessions during the week allow you to integrate your insights as you continue to practice in your daily roles and relationships where these areas impact us.
Tuesdays, March 17th - April 7th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
The 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.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 19th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursdays, February 19th and March 19th, 2026 | 6:30pm-8:30pm ET
The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community of practice dedicated to meeting the urgent realities of our global ecological and climate crisis with wisdom, compassion, and courage. At our monthly gatherings, we come together to reflect on the personal and collective impact of this planetary emergency, exploring how our Dharma practice can support grounded, creative, and heartfelt responses.
Thursday, March 19th, 2026 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET
In this evening program, we'll explore how to work skillfully with emotions—not by transcending or suppressing them, but by meeting them with embodied compassion. Drawing on practices from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, we'll discover how bringing compassionate presence to our felt experience naturally unlocks insight and freedom.
Friday, March 20th, 2026 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm ET
New York Insight's Artist Salon and Café is a monthly gathering is designed for artists and art lovers to come together, socialize, and exchange ideas in a mindful and creative space.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
The meditative path encourages us to let go of patterns that cause hurt to ourselves and others. But how can we truly “let go” and re-engage with the world? During this 3-hour program, we will look at the four stages of letting go, with support from the practice of mindfulness.
Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
These are hard times, and many of us are asking: how do I keep going? This half-day retreat offers space to resource yourself through gentle yoga, mindfulness, and deep rest. Everyone is welcome.
Sunday, March 22nd, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Throughout this day of somatic meditation, you’ll have repeated opportunities to slow down, practice, and directly experience how safety becomes more available through embodied awareness. Together we'll explore how our survival responses express an intelligent body seeking stability.
Part 1: Recognizing the weeds – exploring the Five Hindrances
Mondays, March 23rd - April 27th (skips April 20th), 2026 | 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
No 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.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Thursday, March 26th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Amidst all the things going on today, we cannot forget that there is still an ecological crisis happening in our world. As Buddhists, how are we supposed to respond? Over the course of this evening program, we'll explore Buddhist perspectives on the natural world, and how we might use them to energize our intentions to be good stewards of the earth today.
Saturday, March 28th, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm ET
Join us for a special in-person or online daylong silent meditation retreat for those who want to reconnect and deepen their practice. Together we will pause, reset, and find some much-needed mental space and clarity.
Sunday, March 29th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
When we give ourselves wholly to practice, we find we are standing at the edge; the edge between what we can accept and what we cannot; the edge between what we understand and what we do not; the edge of clinging and letting go. Over the course of this interactive half-day retreat, together we’ll inquire about these (and other) edges with reference to your own active, living challenges.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Join 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.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight offers this series of in-person and online community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight offers this meditation space for anyone who seeks an opportunity to ground on Thursday afternoons. Allow yourself some space and embrace the stillness during your lunch break. Everyone is welcome.
Saturday, April 4th, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
It's impossible to move through life without experiencing heartbreak. In these three hours of practice, we will explore how to fully inhabit the broken heart, releasing ourselves from the grip of our stories—the "What ifs," the "If onlys," the "I should haves"—and open to what is actually here.