Events for June 26 - May 23

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.

with Mona Chopra

Saturday, August 15th, 2020 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

According to Chinese medicine, the element of fire illuminates, warms, expands, spreads, proliferates, and burns aways impurities. Join us us for an online program exploring how cultivating a healthy expression of the "fire" element can make us feel more joyful, dynamic, spontaneous, and alive.

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.

with Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark

Saturday, September 12th, 2020 from 1:00pm-2:15pm ET

Join Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark for a free online program sponsored by New York Insight and Tricycle Magazine on living with integrity and finding our compass in a world turned upside down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 15th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Pamela Ayo Yetunde & Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips

Saturday, January 16th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:30pm ET

In this MLK Day-inspired retreat, Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips and Community Dharma Leader Pamela Ayo Yetunde will offer dharma reflections on MLK's concept of the Beloved Community, the role of sangha in healing from the Amputated S/self, and Lovingkindness Meditation.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, January 22nd, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, January 29th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, February 16th, 2021 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.

with Lani Miller

Sunday, February 21st, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Have you been wanting to learn how to meditate? Or perhaps looking for a way to refresh or renew your existing practice? This three hour comprehensive workshop includes instructions for experiential meditation practice with guidance from a New York Insight teacher, useful information for developing and continuing a meditation practice with plenty of time for sharing and Q & A.

with Sensei Kritee Kanko, PhD

Monday, March 8th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this gathering, Kritee will dispel what, in her view, are myths around climate science that are common in the activist as well as Buddhist communities. We will then take a deep hard look at the scale of trauma we already face individually and collectively. Last but not the least, Kritee will share her understanding of how we can take meaningful and strategic collective actions for racial healing and putting down the fires of climate crisis.

with Matthew Brensilver

Friday, March 12th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Dharma practice is a form of rigorous honesty, an attempt to resist self-deception, and a commitment to perceive experience in novel ways. In this evening together, we will explore the ways that the pursuit of truth animates Buddhist practice.

with Peter Doobinin

Saturday, March 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

As the Buddha came to discover, we have to learn to establish a skillful relationship to pleasure if dharma practice is going to thrive and if we’re going to know happiness in life. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about skillful pleasure, what it is, how we cultivate it, and why there’s such great benefit in doing so.

with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm, Rosemary Blake

Sunday, March 21st, 2021 | 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

In our Aging As A Spiritual Practice daylong, yogis will explore their fears around aging through the teachings of the Buddha on Impermanence, holding what arises with the Brahma Viharas, and recognizing the wisdom that arises through the cultivation of these practices. This daylong will include meditation, exercises and reflections, dharma talks, as well as small and large group discussions.

with Gregory Kramer and Peace Twesigye

Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET

Join us in a day of relational meditation through Insight Dialogue practice to contemplate how we might meet each moment as embodied beings in relationship to a whole. Turning toward our shared human experience, what is our responsibility to each other and the world as we engage a wholesome path of practice?

with Lin Wang Gordon

Saturday, April 10th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Due to unforeseen circumstances this program is postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date.

with Bodhipaksa

Saturday, April 17th and Sunday, April 18th, 2021 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET

On this weekend workshop Bodhipaksa offers us a rare opportunity to explore the Six Element Practice — a beautiful form of insight meditation taught by the Buddha himself. This reflective practice gently encourages us to question limited assumptions we hold about who and what we are, leading us toward a more open, expansive sense of ourselves. It helps us to connect the world within and the world outside, so we can recognize that they are in reality one non-dual reality.

with Bart van Melik

Fridays, May 7th - May 28th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, May 14th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Ayyā Somā

Sunday, May 16th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Buddhist monk Ayyā Somā will lead us in an exploration of how the Buddha's teachings encourage us to investigate gender—and all identities—and how to ultimately transcend it.

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, May 17th - June 21st from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

This course will offer an opportunity to explore how to practice with and understand the energies of the Five Hindrances in our formal meditation practice as well as in our daily lives so that they can be skillfully abandoned.

with Bart van Melik

Friday, May 21st, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Donald Rothberg

Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET

In this daylong retreat, we will explore the Buddha’s teachings on suffering, the Four Noble Truths, Dependent Origination, and the Two Arrows. We will learn ways to study and implement these teachings both in formal meditation and in everyday life, including in the context of the pandemic and contemporary “social dukkha.”

with Bart van Melik

Friday, May 28th, 2021 from 9:00am - 10:30am ET

During this online course, we’ll look at the Buddha’s teachings on welcoming ALL of our experiences – even in the presence of challenging emotions.

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, June 23rd - July 28th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

If you've been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment.

with Wildecy de Fatima Jury

Tuesday, July 20th, 2021 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.

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, August 4th-25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm 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.

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD

Saturday, August 21st, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

This online program introduces the science of reward-based learning and how it applies to habit formation and habit change. Throughout this daylong program we will practice our new skills with short moments of mindfulness interspersed many times throughout the workshop.

with Elaine Retholtz

with Bart van Melik