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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer and Janusz Welin
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Right Action in the Anthropocene: A Buddhist Response to Global Warming

with Bhikkhu Bodhi and Guests
Friday, September 6th, 2019 from 7pm - 9pm
Saturday, 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

The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 9th-23rd, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

Join us for a 3-week course examining forgiveness and how it can allow us to come more fully into our hearts and be a catalyst that transforms bitterness, anger, and grief into compassion and lovingkindness. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews and Lani Miller
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Mindfulness for Caregivers: An Introduction

with Joan Griffiths Vega
Thursday, September 12th, 2019 from 1:30pm - 3:30pm

This program is an introduction to the "Mindfulness for Caregivers" course, and offers a set of teachings to help us learn how to reduce daily stress and increase stamina, vitality and well-being in our caregiving relationships. Find out more

Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, September 13th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Monthly Sangha Potluck. Please bring a vegetarian or vegan offering to add to our shared meal.

Find out more

Beginner’s Workshop

with Lani Miller
Saturday, September 14th, 2019 from 10:00am - 1:00pm

This 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Janusz Welin and Amy Selzer
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Thursday, Sept 19th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Thursdays, October 3rd - November 21st, 2019 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm

MBSR 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

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Orientation: Friday, September 20th, 2019 from 9:30am -12:00pm
Course: Fridays, October 4th - November 22nd, 2019 from 9:30am - 12:00pm

MBSR 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

Mindfulness & Trauma: Healing Our Wounds with Wisdom and Compassion

with Dr. Paul Epstein
Sunday, September 22nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Most 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Karen Williams and Angela Dews
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice Find out more

The True Promise of Mindfulness

with Mark Coleman
Wednesday, September 25th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the "true promise of mindfulness". Find out more

The Way of Effortless Mindfulness

with Loch Kelly
Friday, September 27th, 2019 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

This evening of meditation and book signing is based on Loch Kelly’s new book, The Way of Effortless Mindfulness. Meditation is often taught in two stages. The first is deliberate mindfulness, which includes one-pointed focus and nonjudgmentally observing the changing contents of our mind and body. The second practice is called effortless mindfulness, not because no initial effort is made, but because of the discovery of an awareness that is already awake and able to focus effortlessly. Find out more

Shifting From Head To Heart-Mind

with Loch Kelly
Saturday, September 28th, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

Having 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 - 5:00pm

The 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

Insight and Resilience in Times of Change

with Oren Jay Sofer
Monday, September 30th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this evening of practice, contemplation, and reflection on how can our spiritual practice be a source of healing and guidance in troubled times. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron and Savanna Jo (Upayadhi) Luraschi
Orientation: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm
Course: Wednesdays, October 16th - December 4th, 2019 from 6:30pm-9:00pm

MBSR 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Janusz Welin
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Yom Kippur: A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Jon Aaron, Elaine Retholtz and Sandra Weinberg
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 from 10:00am - 7:00pm

Yom 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

Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom

with Alexis Santos
Friday, October 11th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. This evening of meditation and discussion will explore how to cultivate these essential qualities. Find out more

When Awareness Becomes Natural: An IMS Urban Retreat

with Alexis Santos and Susa Talan
Saturday, October 12th, 2019 from 9:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Amy Selzer
Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Meditative Hike to Hook Mountain

with Lin Gordon
Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 8:15am - 3:00pm

Enjoy a Fall 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

Anxiety: It’s Not All In Your Mind

with Jill Satterfield
Sunday, October 20th, 2019 from 10:00am to 5:00pm

The 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

Cultivating Lovingkindness as an Insight Practice

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, October 21st - November 18th, 2019 from 9:30am - 11:30am

Join New York Insight teacher Elaine Retholtz for a five week course on cultivating Lovingkindness and the other Brahma Viharas: Compassion, Empathetic Joy, and Equanimity. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Gary Singer
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

An Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation

with Brian Simmons
Wednesdays, October 23rd - November 20th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

This 5-week course is designed to provide a clear and practical path for people wanting to experience the profound benefits of mindfulness meditation both on and off the cushion. Ancient techniques and teachings of Buddhist meditation will be made abundantly practical and relevant for modern city dwellers in the 21st century. Find out more

Mindful Eating for Self-Care

with Laurence Magro
Saturday, October 26th, 2019 from 10:00am to 4:00pm

Do 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 - 5:00pm

The 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Exploring Peace in Our Hearts

with Nina Wise
Friday, November 1st, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

During these troubled times when we are witnessing so much polarization, fear and hatred in our world, this is a time to come together to experience the peace that lies at the heart of our being. Find out more

Citta: A Union of the Heart, Mind, and Body

with Leslie Booker
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In 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 4:30pm

Contemplative 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Jon Aaron
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Janusz Welin
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019 from 7pm-9pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey

with Donald Rothberg
Friday November 15th, 2019 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm

In this evening talk, we will examine the seven stages of the spiritual journey, starting with taking life for granted, being caught up in habitual and conditioned mind and behavior, and ending with (some degree of) awakening and then re-entering the “ordinary” world, often bringing gifts from the journey. Find out more

Transforming the Judgmental Mind: A NYI Weekend Retreat

with Donald Rothberg
Saturday, November 16th, 2019 | 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday, 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

Annual Thanksgiving Potluck

Sunday, November 17th, 2019 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s Annual Thanksgiving Celebration. The event begins with a meditation sit from 6:30pm-7pm, followed by a delicious vegetarian or vegan meal that we will share together.

Find out more

Creativity, Spirituality & Making a Buck

with David Nichtern
Monday November, 18th, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Join David Nichtern, a four-time Emmy award-winning and two-time Grammy-nominated composer-guitarist-producer, entrepreneur and Senior Buddhist teacher for an evening exploring how to integrate the creative process with our spiritual practice and livelihood. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Elaine Retholz
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Buddhist Teachings for the Natural World

with David Loy
Friday, November 22nd, 2019 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

The evening will focus on three aspects: practice in the natural world, a curious parallel between our usual individual predicament and our current collective predicament, and the new ecosattva path. 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 5:00pm

In 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 – 5:00pm

This 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons and Gary Singer
Tuesday, November 26th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

A Day of Mindfulness Meditation: In Touch with Wise View

with Rosemary Blake and Bart van Melik
Sunday, December 1st, 2019 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

According 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Gary Singer
Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity for the Sangha to meet with NYI teachers for meditation, hear a Dharma talk and discuss practice. Find out more

Dharma Rhythms Holiday Fest

Saturday, December 14th, 2019 from 1:00pm - 6:00pm

Join us for an afternoon of amazing music, homemade refreshments and irresistible raffle prizes—from $5 up. We are celebrating New York Insight and and all the people who have made it a sangha, a refuge of peace and sanity in the city.

Find out more

Death and the Poignancy of Life

with Matthew Brensilver
Tuesday, December 17th, 2019 from 7pm – 9pm

In this evening program, we’ll consider the way death can harden or soften our heart – and how dharma practice might lead us to a life that feels complete. Find out more

Mindful New Year’s Eve Gathering

with Jon Aaron, Brian Simmons, Lani Miller and Upayadhi (Savanna) Luraschi as 'Chant Leader'
Tuesday, December 31st, 2019 from 8:00pm-12:30am

Join us for New Year's Eve as we come together in reflection and celebration, in compassionate community, to welcome the New Year. Find out more

Life and Death – Is That All There Is?

with Rosemary Blake, Jon Aaron, Nancy Glimm and Amy Selzer
Saturday, January 4th - Saturday, December 12th, 2020

This yearlong course is about living fully each moment of our lives. Over twelve months we will live as though this is our last year. We will reflect upon life and death from the Buddhist perspective while incorporating powerful teachings from other spiritual traditions. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Required Free Orientation: Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 9:30am-12:00pm 8 Week Course: Fridays, January 17th - March 13th, 2020 | 9:30am-12:00pm

MBSR 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

The RAIN of Compassion

with Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust
Friday, January 10th, 2020 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday, 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Interpersonal Mindfulness: An 8-Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Course: Wednesdays, January 15th - March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Daylong: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

In this course, participants will learn how to pause in midst of the habit mind, notice tensions and relax, kindly accept present moment experience, open and trust emergence as we listen deeply and speak the truth of our subjective experience. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Lani Miller
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Required Free Orientation: Thursday, January 23rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm 8 Week Course: Thursdays February 6th - March 26th, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm

MBSR 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

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 – 6:00pm
Sunday, 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews and Brian Simmons
Tuesday, January 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik and Lani Miller
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Angela Dews and Gary Singer
Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

What’s Up with Waking Up

with Jon Aaron
Saturday, February 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm

If 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 - 12:30pm

This 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more
Buddha Statue

Bodhichitta: Developing the Mind of Awakening

with Scott Tusa
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020 from 10:00am-5:00pm

In 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons
Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Community Town Hall Meeting

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

New York Insight staff, teachers, and board directors invite you to join us for a Town Hall Meeting to share news about the new opportunities, challenges and transitions we will be facing in 2020. Most importantly, this evening, open to all, is an opportunity to share your thoughts about how NYI can support your practice and better serve as your spiritual home.

Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Elaine Retholtz
Saturday, February 29th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

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, what it looks in your life now, and build some momentum to continue these practices for time to come. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Bart van Melik and Angela Dews
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Required Free Orientation: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm
8 Week Course: Wednesdays, March 11th- May 6th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9pm

MBSR 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

Exploring The Five Wisdom Energies of Tantric Buddhism

with Ethan Nichtern
Saturday, March 7th, 2020 from 10am - 5pm

The 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 - 4:00pm

This 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

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Amy Selzer and Brian Simmons
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Alumni Daylong

with Jon Aaron
Saturday, March 14th, 2020 from 9:30am – 5:00pm

This 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

Beginner’s Workshop

with Lani Miller
Sunday, March 15th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:30pm

This 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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

Jon Aaron and Lani Miller
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an online opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz and Brian Simmons
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm, ET

These teacher-led sittings provide an opportunity to meet with the NYI community and teachers for meditation, a Dharma talk and discussion. Find out more

Now Online: How Mindfulness Is and Is Not a Psychotherapy

with Matthew Brensilver
Friday, March 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In what ways does mindfulness practice function as a kind of ‘self-psychotherapy’? In what ways is practice entirely unlike psychotherapy? During our evening together, we’ll explore how the mindfulness overlaps with the healing we might find in psychotherapy. Find out more

Now Online: Finding a Refuge in the Body

with Peter Doobinin
Sunday, March 29th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, EST

One 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

Now Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm, ET

These 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

Now Online: There Is No Problem

with Martin Aylward
Saturday, April 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, EST

During 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie
Tuesday, April 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm EST

These 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: The Dharma is Your Life – A Six-Week Course

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, April 16th - May 21st, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Within the Buddha’s own teaching the word Dharma has a number of meanings—the truth, the teachings, the way, the nature of life, qualities of the mind, etc. We will integrate all these meanings into this exploration of practice. Each week we will explore a very specific teaching and see how it reflects our lives, and how our lives reflect the teaching. Find out more

Now Online: The Power of Forgiveness

with Elaine Retholtz
Every other Monday, April 20th - June 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for a course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past. We will meet in person every other Monday evening and have home practice in the weeks between. This course appropriate is for meditation practitioners of all levels. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx
Free Orientation: Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
8 Week Course: Thursdays, April 30th - June 18th, 2020 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET

MBSR 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

Now Online: Fearlessness in the Midst of Fear

with Koshin Paley Ellison
Saturday, April 25th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In 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

Now Online: Surviving Modern Life – A Daylong Workshop

with Devon and Craig Hase
Sunday, April 26, 2020 from 10:00am - 4:00pm, ET

In 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
8 Week Course: Fridays, May 1st - June 26th, 2020 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

MBSR 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Bart van Melik
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. 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

Now Online: Compassion as a Guide Through Transition and Transformation

with Jane Chun
Saturday, May 16th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In 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: Finding Peace in the Storm – Facing Anxiety and Uncertainty with Mindfulness and Compassion

with Paul Epstein
Sunday, May 17th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 3:30pm, ET

In this online workshop, we'll discuss practical strategies to face and manage anxiety, and learn ways to deal effectively with uncertainty. We'll integrate dharma teachings, guided meditation practices and learn mind-body skills that cultivate resilience and support finding calm within the COVID-19 global crisis. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller and Jon Aaron
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, May 26th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, May 8th - May 29th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am, ET

Step by step we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences - even the presence of greed, hatred and confusion. 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

Now Online: Interdependence Day – The Buddha’s Teaching on Dependent Arising

with Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
Saturday, May 30th, 2020 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

In 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Katherine Marx
Orientation: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET
Course: Wednesdays, June 10th - July 29th, 2020 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm ET

MBSR 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, June 9th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 12th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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

Now Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Orientation: Friday, June 5th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET Course: Fridays, June 12th - July 31st, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

MBSR 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

Now Online: Indigenous Presence – Decolonizing Our Hearts

with Bonnie Duran
Saturday, June 13th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

This 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 ET

Through 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: A Meditator’s Practical Guide to Daily Life

with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, June 17th - July 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

You’ve learned to meditate and started to develop a daily practice and perhaps are wondering “now what”? If so, this course is for you. Each session in this online, four-week class will include meditation and discussion of how we bring our meditation practices to life and life to our practice. Find out more

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, June 19th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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

Now Online: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Gary Singer
Saturday, June 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

This 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: Born This Way – The Liberating Practice of Self-Acceptance

with La Sarmiento
Monday, June 22nd, 2020 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm, ET

For this online gathering in the month of Pride, La Sarmiento will share their journey from assimilation to liberation through the teachings and practices of the Buddha. Through guided meditation, mindful movement, chanting, small and large group sharing, and song, may we know and trust our rainbow-infused buddhanature and share it with the world for the liberation of all beings! This Insight Out LGBTQI Sangha evening sit is open to all. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, June 26th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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

Now Online: Tibetan Mindfulness – Beyond the Breath

with Lama Surya Das
Saturday, June 27th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Experience 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 ET

Contemplative 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Janusz Welin
Tuesday, June 30th, 2020 | 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Wednesdays, July 1st - August 5th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 3rd - July 24th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Now Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 10th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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

Now Online: Surprised by Joy

with Bhante Suddhaso
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Buddhist teacher Bhante Suddhaso will give an online talk about the joy that comes through cultivating faith in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha and how that joy serves as a basis for deepening Samadhi and Vipassana. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 17th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Happiness That Doesn’t Die

with Peter Doobinin
Saturday July 18th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

The 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

Postponed: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller
Sunday, July 19th, 2020 from 10:00am-1:00pm ET

This comprehensive online 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, July 24th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Resourcing, Resiliency and Inquiry

Amma Thanasanti
Saturday, July 25th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

The Buddha taught the first foundation of mindfulness – awareness of body and breath – as a cornerstone to enlightenment. With body centered practices, during this online half day retreat, we will open our focus and rest in awareness itself. Find out more

Online: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz and Gary Singer
Mondays, July 27th - August 31st from 6:30pm – 9:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Fridays, August 7th - August 28th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: An Artful Path to Mindfulness

with Janet Slom
Saturday, August 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Join us for a creative, mindfulness workshop to cultivate resilience, calm, focus, and openness. Through creative exploration and compassion-based practices, we will inspire inclusivity, equality, and right action. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Friday, August 14th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Community Potluck

Friday, August 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

Find out more

Online: Trauma Informed Mindfulness

with Jenny Hannah
Sunday, August 16th, 2020 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Join psychotherapist and meditation teacher Jenny Hannah for an online workshop for meditation instructors, counselors, and therapists exploring a foundational understanding of types of trauma, how to respond skillfully and prevent retraumatization, and examine assumptions surrounding mindfulness meditation. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, August 18th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Belonging and Change

with Sebene Selassie and Sharon Salzberg
Wednesday, August 19th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Sebene Selassie and Sharon Salzberg as they come together for an online discussion on the themes of each of their forthcoming books, "You Belong" and "Real Change". Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Friday, August 21st, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Nature Meditation – Cultivating Wisdom and Resilience Through Nature-Based Mindfulness Practice

with Lin Gordon
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020 from 9:30am - 4:45pm ET

As we go through an intense year of pandemic and social transformation, how do we access our inner resources regardless of external circumstances? Through this day online and outdoors, you’ll be guided through nature meditation practices that connect to your senses and explore your internal and external experiences intimately. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Thursday, August 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Resilience Club – Bringing Compassion to Our Anger and Overwhelm

with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, August 29th, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Our 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

Online: Dispelling Delusion

with Ayya Soma
Tuesday, September 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist monk Ayya Soma for an online talk about the ways we can ensure our practice of the Dhamma is geared towards undoing ignorance. After a guided meditation and talk, we will leave space for Q&A and discussion. Find out more

Online: Liberation Teachings of Embodied Wisdom and Compassion Through Presence and Somatic Listening

with Peace Twesigye and Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Thursdays, September 3rd, 2020 - March 11th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

Join us for a weekly BIPOC guided practice and inquiry group to delve deeply into the dynamic book, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem. The author is a Black trauma therapist, and offers embodied practices to explore the somatic experience while looking at racialized trauma in the United States. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Insight Meditation 101 – Six-Week Beginners’ Course

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, September 9th - October 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

This course will provide fundamental instruction in insight meditation. Emphasis is placed on the practices of sitting and walking meditation and developing mindfulness in daily life. The course is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators who wish to maintain their “beginner’s mind.” Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 11th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: The Dharma of Deep Time

with Deborah Eden Tull
Sunday, September 13th, 2020 from 3:00pm - 6:00pm, ET

The myth of "not enough time" is one of the most pervasive stories of today’s world, but in this age of global uncertainty, we have a rare opportunity to improve our relationship with time. This online retreat is inspired by the Zen teaching of Uji or “being time.” Resting in present moment awareness, we reconnect with “all time being” and “all being’s time.” We will also apply our practice to the systemic distortions that influence our relationship with time, including domination over nature, patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism. Join us for a restorative, experiential online retreat. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 18th from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Contemplating Death to Liberate Your Life

with Martin Aylward
Sunday, September 20th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Dharma practice shows us how to lean into the stark truth of death and impermanence- meeting and embracing our dying nature so as to live more fully and freely. Join us for this online day of potent practices and liberating teachings for living fully and dying freely. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Postponed: White Awake

with Elaine Retholtz & Gary Singer
Wednesdays, September 23rd - October 28th, 2020 from 9:30am – 12:00pm ET

New York Insight is offering an online course for white practitioners to create a space to examine our privilege, blind spots, and racial conditioning in the context of Dharma teachings and practice. Find out more

Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, September 4th - September 25th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET
br> Step 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 Community Potluck

Friday, September 25th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

Find out more

Fall Foliage Meditative Hike

with Lin Wang Gordon
Sunday, September 27th, 2020 from 8:15am - 3:00pm, ET

Enjoy 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 ET

This 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 ET

These 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

Online: Right View, Wise View, Beautiful View, No View

with Jon Aaron
Thursdays, October 1st - November 5th, 202 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

In 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 ET

MBSR 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 ET

Join 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 ET

Step 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Fridays, October 2nd - November 20th, 2020 | 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

MBSR 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: Learning a New Embodied Relationship to Pain

with Joan Griffiths Vega
Sunday, October 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Pain, 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 ET
Daylong: 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Postponed: Watering the Plants, Weeding the Garden – Maintaining Your Meditation Practice

with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, October 7th - November 4th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

Has 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 ET

Step 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

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.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart Van Melik
Fridays, October 16th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Community Potluck

Friday, October 16th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s new online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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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 ET

In 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, October 21st - November 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

During 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 ET

Step 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 - 5:00pm

The 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 Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Awakening Together – The Great Potential of Change

Bart van Melik
Sunday, November 1st, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

For 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

Stability in the Storm: IMS invites you to a pre-election Day Meditation Sit

with Sharon Salzberg
Monday, November 2nd, 2020 from 7:00pm – 8:00pm

On November 2, the day before election Tuesday, renowned meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg will offer a free, hour long online program sharing words of wisdom and encouragement as we navigate this difficult time. She will also lead several guided meditations to cultivate calm and stability and help restore our connection to ourselves and to one another. Find out more

Online: Living a Principled Life

with Bhante Pamutto
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

How do we stay on the path through the ups and downs of life? Bhante Pamutto will discuss the Eightfold Path not just as a blueprint for liberation, but a description of the stable core to a life that is beautiful from beginning to end. 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 ET

Step 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 ET

During 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: Metta-Vipassana – Integrating the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Heart Practices

with Dave Smith
Sunday, November 8th, 2020 from 10:00am - 12:00pm

Vipassana meditation (insight or mindfulness practice) unites the stillness of concentration with the immediacy of moment to moment experience. As we learn to calm the body and mind, intuitive wisdom arises. This allows us to open to the truth of each moment’s experience within and around us. In this way, we increase our ability to meet life’s ups and downs with ease and presence. During this event, students will be guided on how to deepen their liberation practice in an atmosphere of kind awareness. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, November 10th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

These 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

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, November 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Metaphors of Mindfulness

with Andrew Olendzki
Saturday, November 14th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

In this program we will look closely at some of the images, similes, and other literary devices used in the Pali Canon, and in some later literature, to define and describe the practice of mindfulness. We will pause from time to time to examine some of these images experientially as an aid to our own meditation practice. Find out more

Online: Practice in Challenging Times

with Mark Coleman
Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

How can Dharma wisdom teachings and practices of mindfulness and compassion support us during these times? Mark Coleman will explore key Dharma teachings and practices that help us find clarity, heartfulness and balance in the midst of life. Find out more

Online: Thanksgiving Community Potluck

Sunday, November 15th, 2020 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm

Join the New York Insight community as we continue our tradition of our lovely yearly Thanksgiving gatherings. It will be a virtual event this year and there will not be the usual actual table filled with the Thanksgiving treats but we will share in other lovely ways this year and "feast on" each other's company.

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Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 20th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Cultivating Thanksgiving

with Bonnie Duran, Ramona Peters and Jeff Haozous
Saturday, November 21st, 2020 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Giving 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, November 24th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, November 27th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Developing (Not Destroying) the Spiritual Faculties

with Venerable Santi
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join us for an evening dharma talk with Buddhist Insights and Buddhist monastic Venerable Santi exploring the spiritual faculties that can propel us to deep and lasting awakening, and how these qualities can be carefully seeded, watered, and cultivated for the benefit of ourselves and all living beings. Find out more

Online: MWe and the Integration of Identity

with Dan Siegel
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Who you are is both an internal (Me) and an interconnected (We) self that shapes your identity and sense of belonging. But how can you be both within the body and between the body and in relationship to people and the planet? In this talk we will explore how you can combine an inner “Me” and an inter “We” to become a whole integrated self – a MWe! Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Fridays, December 4th - December 18th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: 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 ET

Join 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Booker Leslie
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 11th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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 Community Potluck

Friday, December 11th, 2020 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

All are welcome! In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”.

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How to Practice at a Time Like This: An Online Urban Retreat

with Narayan Liebenson
Saturday, December 12th, 2020 from 9:00am - 6:00pm ET
Sunday, December 13th, 2020 from 9:00am - 3:00pm ET

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

Online Sacred Earth Sangha: Being a Sacred Warrior – Lessons from Standing Rock

with Thanissara
Monday, December 14th, 2020 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET

The NYI Sacred Earth Sangha is a community formed around deep practice and conscious engagement of the challenges of the climate crisis. For this session of the SES we are delighted to host Thanissara, who’s deeply engaged in activism informed by decades of Buddhist practice and teaching, her time at Standing Rock, and with Baba Mandaza Kandemwa of Zimbabwe. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Back to Basics to Strengthen Your Practice

with Bart van Melik
Friday, December 18th, 2020 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

Step 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: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Bart van Melik
Saturday, December 19th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm

This 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

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Elaine Retholtz
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews
Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

The Tuesday Dharma Gathering provides an introduction to Insight Meditation, as well as an opportunity to meditate in a supportive environment. These teacher-led gatherings offer the opportunity to meet teachers, hear a dharma talk, and participate in a dialogue about how to apply the principles of Buddhist meditation to our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Principles of Causality

with Bhante Suddhāso
Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The core aspect of the Buddha's awakening was the realization that all phenomena are governed by causality. Join Bhante Suddhāso for an online talk exploring the basic principles of causality in the Buddhist framework and how to apply them to our practice. Find out more

From ME to WE: An Online Course on the Six Paramitas

with Susan Piver & David Nichtern
Tuesdays, January 5th-February 9th, 2021 from 7:00-9:00pm ET

Join Buddhist teacher and Emmy-award winning musician, David Nichtern and New York Times best-selling author and founder of the Open Heart Project, Susan Piver for a special online course series on cultivating the transcendent qualities known as the Six Paramitas: Generosity, Discipline, Patience, Exertion, Meditation, & Wisdom. Find out more

Monthly Online Community Potluck

Friday, January 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

In the warm spirit of Sangha, please join us for New York Insight’s online Monthly Sangha “Potluck”. Looking forward to virtually sharing this community meal with you in gratitude and appreciation.

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Online: Reclaiming the Sacred

with Scott Tusa
Saturday, January 9th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET

When there's truth, when there's something profound, we can sense the sacred. Though we can feel it, sacredness can sometimes be this thing that we put outside of ourselves, which is impressive and worthy of our time and attention. In this halfway workshop, we will explore bringing the sacred more into our lives via dharma talks, meditation, and discussion. Find out more

Online: A Journey Inward and Finding Refuge

with Tuere Sala
Sunday, January 10th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

The journey inward towards awakening asks more of us than force of will. It is a gradual unfolding of understanding and equanimity. This evening will be both an introduction and an exploration into what is possible when we find a genuine refuge. Find out more
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