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September 2020
Finding Peace Through Release: An Online Urban Retreat
with Bart van Melik
Saturday, September 26th, 2020 from 9:00am - 6:00pmOn this daylong retreat we’ll explore the nature of clinging and how we can train ourselves in letting go. All are welcome. Find out more
Fall Foliage Meditative Hike
with Lin Wang Gordon
Sunday, September 27th, 2020 from 8:15am - 3:00pm, ETEnjoy a Fall day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a guided, socially-distanced meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. We’ll integrate sitting and walking nature meditation throughout the hike. Find out more
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
Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering
with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ETThese teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet online with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more
October 2020
Online: Right View, Wise View, Beautiful View, No View
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, October 1st - November 5th, 202 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ETIn this six-week course we will take a deep dive into Right View, the very first factor of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path, considering various suttas and their interpretations, and how this aspect of the Dharma evolved in later Buddhist traditions. Find out more
Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course
with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, October 1st - November 19th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ETMBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment. Find out more
Online: Living the Dharma in a Challenging Time
with Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzberg, Sebene Selassie and Dan Harris
Thursday, October 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETJoin us for an evening discussion with three renowned teachers on how Buddhism has shaped their lives, how they are seeing our world through the lens of dharma and how dharma can lead us through this moment. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart Van Melik
Fridays, October 2nd - October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Effortless Mindfulness – Shifting from Head to Heart-Mind
with Loch Kelly
Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 from 1:00pm -5:00pm ETJoin meditation teacher Loch Kelly for a workshop exploring effortless mindfulness, an advanced, yet simple next step after learning basic mindfulness that makes living an awakened life possible for all of us. Find out more
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
Online People of Color Sangha: Contemplation of the Dharma and Buddhism Within our Lives
with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Monday, October 5th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ETIn this People of Color Sangha meeting led by teacher Wildecy de Fátima Jury, we will together examine various ways that will support our practice and our Buddhist studies, and a few steps on how to experience the profound spaciousness and depth of the dharma. Find out more
Online: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice
with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, October 7th - November 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ETHas your meditation practice been flagging? Are you finding yourself falling into unskillful habits? Give your mindfulness practice a boost with this course for anyone who has recently (or not so recently) completed the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction class and feels “stuck” in their practice. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart Van Melik
Friday, October 9th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. 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
Sacred Earth Sangha: Central Park Meet Up
Sunday, October 11th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm
Please join NYI teachers, Sebene Selassie, Lin Gordon, and Jon Aaron for an Sunday morning of teaching, meditation, and discussion as we create a community around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis.
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart Van Melik
Fridays, October 16th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Interpersonal Challenges in a Time of Tumult – A Buddhist & Psychotherapeutic Perspective
with Dr. Pilar Jennings
Saturday, October 17th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ETIn this workshop, psychoanalyst and Dharma teacher Pilar Jennings will explore the early developmental roots of interpersonal challenges, and bring these insights into conversation with Buddhist wisdom teachings. Together we will explore the key dynamics in our wish to nurture and sustain interpersonal relationships that can withstand the difficulties posed during this unique moment in time. Find out more
Online People of Color Sangha: I Can’t Stop Pointing to the Beauty
with Devin Berry
Monday, October 19th, 2020 from 7-9pm ETJoin meditation teacher Devin Berry for an online talk on the Buddha's teachings on the brahamaviharas as an expression of the wisdom of the liberation narrative. Find out more
Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Time
with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, October 21st - November 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ETDuring these challenging times it's good to know that there are tools we can turn to that offer us support and upliftment. In this course we will explore ways our spiritual and meditation practice can be a refuge and offer us the inner nourishment we long for. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart Van Melik
Friday, October 23rd, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Resilience Club: Emotional Resilience for Politically Charged Times – An Online Urban Retreat
with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, October 24th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pmThe emotional impact of the election season lands on us when we already feel threadbare. It's never been so tough to maintain wellbeing, clarity, compassion, and non-reactivity -- and yet it's never been more important. Join us for a day of truly integrated practice and community connection informed by our complex needs during these times. Find out more
Online: Mind Knowing Mind – Embracing Radical Acceptance Through the Practice of Insight
with Lama Justin von Bujdoss
Sunday, October 25th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ETIn this special online program, Lama Justin von Bujdoss will give a concise, contemporary teaching on a set of six meditation instructions at the core of Vajrayana insight practices known as Mahamudra, or the Great Seal, aimed at directly experiencing mind as it arises. 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: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 6th - November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: A Question of Identity
with Martine Batchelor
Saturday, November 7th, 2020 from 9:00am - 12:00pm ETDuring this special morning online exploration with Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor, we will discover with mindful awareness what our identity is based on and how we relate to it that in a way that is confident, bright, creative and open to others and the world -- without being defined by them. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 20th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice
with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ETStep by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of challenging emotions. This online course will offer empowering instructions enabling us to know the immediate truth of our experience which is so worthy of our application. Find out more
December 2020
Four Beautiful Qualities of Heart: An Urban Retreat at NYI
with Narayan Liebenson
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 10:00am - 6:00pmSunday, December 13th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm
In this weekend retreat we will turn our attention to the Buddha's Brahmaviharas or the Four Beautiful Qualities of Heart; loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. There are specific instructions and practices for cultivating each of the four Brahmaviharas, and over the course of the weekend we will practice with each one. Find out more