Events for August 10 - May 30

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, July 6th, 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. Find out more

Online: Mindful Self-Compassion

with Bodhipaksa
Thursdays, July 8th - July 29th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Drawing on lessons from life, the Buddhist tradition, and neuroscience, Bodhipaksa offers a four-step approach to the practice of self-compassion during this special four-week online course to sustain us during times of suffering and help us to deepen the compassion we offer not just to ourselves, but to others as well. Find out more

Online: Creating a Life of Integrity – A Year of Wholehearted Practice

with Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET 

Join Joseph Goldstein and Gail Stark for a free online evening in conclusion of their yearlong course as they discuss the 10 Paramis, talk about their view of the process a year later, and hear students ask questions and share their insights after a year of wholehearted practice. Find out more

Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training

Friday, July 16th, 2021 from 6:30pm – 7:45pm, ET

New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.

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Online: The Gradual Teaching

with Bhante Suddhaso
Sunday, July 18th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Join Buddhist monk Bhante Suddhaso for a discussion of the step-by-step path the Buddha laid for spiritual growth, a path that leads onwards to the highest goal. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

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. Find out more

Online: A Path of Devotion

with Oren Jay Sofer
Friday, July 23rd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

A core part of the Noble Eightfold Path is cultivating a heart that is enriched by qualities like faith, confidence, and devotion. How can we understand these qualities and their relevance on the path in modern life today? What resources do we have to access a meaningful connection with them in our lives? Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this evening of practice and exploration. Find out more

Online: The Heart of Devotion

with Oren Jay Sofer
Saturday, July 24th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:30pm ET

What role does devotion play on the Buddhist path? How can we understand and cultivate this quality in a direct and meaningful way in our lives? This half-day program will explore these and other questions related to devotion and its role in contemplative practice. Find out more

Community Picnic

Sunday, July 25th, 2021 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm ET

New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.

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Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Tuesday, July 27th, 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. Find out more

Postponed: Do Dharma and Abolition Go Together? Maybe…?

with karen g. williams, Peace Twesigye, and Kiki Williams
Friday, July 30th, 2021 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Saturday, July 31st, 2021 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET
Sunday, August 1st, 2021 from 11:00am - 1:00pm ET (optional)

Do to unforeseen circumstances, this program will be postponed to a later date. We will be in touch with all program registrants to give a refund or credit. We apologize for any inconvenience. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, August 3rd, 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.

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Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

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. Find out more

Online: Healing America’s Racial Fractures – An Asian American Buddhist View

with Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams
Wednesday, August 4th 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Rev. Duncan Ryuken Williams draws on Buddhist teachings to offer a perspective that can heal the karmic legacy of racial violence, division, and trauma of the United States. He will offer insight from the history and lived experiences of Asian American Buddhist ancestors who built the foundations of the American sangha. Find out more

Sangha Latinx!

con Nakawe Cuebas Berrios y Isabel Adon

Second Sunday of the Month, August 8th, 2021 from 11:30am - 12:30pm ET

Únete a nosotr@s una vez al mes por medio de Zoom para meditar en español con la Sangha Latinx!

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, August 10th, 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. Find out more

Online: Relationship as a Liberatory Path – A Daylong for Cultivating Care

with Devon Hase & Peace Twesigye
Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

The whole of spiritual practice can be framed as relationship: to ourselves, each other, and the natural world around us. Through dialogue, discussion, meditation, and movement, we'll explore the territory of noble relationship and what it means for how we relate to ourselves in practice, in community, and in friendship to the world. Find out more

Community Picnic

Saturday, August 14th, 2021 from 5:30pm - 7:00pm ET

New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park.

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Online: Purifying the Mind – An Explanation of the Sabbāsava Sutta

with Ayyā Somā
Sunday, August 15th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Buddha's teachings is their flexibility: the Buddha offered countless ways of responding appropriately to any circumstance. Join Ayyā Somā as she discusses the Sabbāsava Sutta and how to apply it's teachings to both our meditation and our daily experience. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, August 17th, 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. Find out more

Online: Fundamentals of Mindful Habit Change

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. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, August 24th, 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. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, August 31st, 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. Find out more

Online: The Dharma of Relationship

with Devon Hase
Three Wednesdays, September 1st, 15th & 29th, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm ET

Through small group practice, stories, silent meditation, and mindful speaking and listening, we’ll explore the multi-faceted world of relational mindfulness, including embodied awareness, the art of radical self-acceptance, and the possibility of finding freedom right in the middle of the tangle and dance of day-to-day relating. Find out more

Online: Trust Fall – How to Meet Vulnerability and Uncertainty with Compassion and Wisdom 

with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, September 4th, 2021 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Whether it's falling in love, surviving a pandemic, claiming your identity, having a child, re-entering society, or having a difficult conversation... life throws us into vulnerable and uncertain situations over and over again. Join author and psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa for a half day workshop exploring how to meet the challenges we face in this unique moment and excavate them for awakening. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, September 7th, 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. Find out more

Online: Gentle Perseverance and Courage

with Tara Mulay
Thursday, September 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

While the Pali word “viriya” is often translated simply as “energy,” this heart quality actually involves cultivation of a kind of courage and gentle perseverance that sustains us and supports resilience. We will dedicate this evening of practice together to an exploration of the liberating potential of viriya. Find out more

Online: The True Heart’s Refuge

with Martin Aylward
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm, ET

During this program we will explore how to wisely and lovingly respond to our own and others’ suffering, and contemplate the traditional Buddhist ’triple gem’ of refuge as a way to steady, gladden and liberate the heart, amidst the ongoing and infinite challenges of our imperfect and unperfectable world. Find out more

In-Person: Sacred Earth Sangha in Greenwood Cemetery

with Lin Wang Gordon and Jon Aaron
Saturday, September 11th, 2021 from 2:00pm–5:00pm

For this month's Sacred Earth Sangha meeting, we will have a special gathering in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn as we cultivate relationships with our personal genealogical ancestors as well as practice reflections and meditations that touch the truth of the whole of nature as "all my relations." Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, September 14th, 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.

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Postponed: Imperfect Perfections – A Six Week Course on the Ten Paramis

with Gary Singer
Wednesdays, September 15th - October 20th, 2021 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The ten perfections (paramis) are ten qualities of character which support both your practice and your compassionate involvement in the world, whether you’re working with your family at home, at the office, or on the cushion. In this 6 week course, we’ll investigate the paramis with an emphasis on how we can bring them practically into our lives. Find out more

Online: Yom Kippur – A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz
Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 10:00am – 7:00pm ET

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 an online day of silence and reflection. Find out more

Online: The Art of Self-Forgiveness

with Bodhipaksa
Thursday, September 16th 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

There’s no way to instantly forgive ourselves. It takes time and practice. But on this evening with Bodhipaksa we’ll explore several powerful tools, drawn from Buddhist teachings, to help us let go, move on, and be more at peace with ourselves. Find out more

Online: Radical Friendship Roundtable – Sangha in a Pandemic

with Kate Johnson, Stacy McClendon, Dawn Mauricio, Jozen Tamori Gibson and JD Doyle
Friday, September 17th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

How can we give and receive true spiritual friendship in a time of isolation and uprising? Join us as we celebrate the release of dharma teacher Kate Johnson’s first book, Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World, with a round table discussion on what radical friendship means within Buddhist communities and beyond. Find out more

Online: A Life of Inner Worth

with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

In this program, we’ll learn about the qualities, in the teaching of the Buddha, that comprise our inner worth. We’ll learn how we develop these qualities and about the benefits in doing so. Find out more

Online: Touching the Ground of the Body with Kindness

with Scott Tusa
Saturday, September 18th, 2021 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

In this online workshop, we will dive deep into transformational embodied awareness practices that engage a unified and joyful loving presence. Through periods of meditation and discussion we will explore and develop our connection to a calmer, more resilient, and interconnected state of being and learn how to move beyond the self-fragmentation that causes unnecessary suffering. Find out more

Online: Insights on Kindfulness 

with Bhante Sumitta
Sunday, September 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

What do you get when you combine kindness and mindfulness? Kindfulness! Bhante Sumitta, a senior monk from Sri Lanka, explains how to cultivate "kindfulness" and why it's a critical part of Buddhist practice. Find out more

Online: The Power of Forgiveness – A Five Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, September 20th - October 25th, 2021 from 9:30am - 11:30m ET

Forgiveness can allow us to come more fully into our hearts and can be a catalyst that transforms bitterness, anger, and grief into compassion and lovingkindness. Join us for an online course examining forgiveness and how to heal our relationships with others, ourselves and the past. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, September 21st, 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.

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Online: Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD

Thursdays, September 23rd - October 14th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.

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In-Person: Tending Grief in Nature

with Lin Wang Gordon and Peace Twesigye
Saturday, September 25th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:30pm ET

Grief, if not attended to, can often hold us hostage to life’s uncertainty and losses. How do we open our hearts and continue to let our life energy flow while facing and tending to our grief intimately? How do we establish a sense of connection with our loved ones when their bodies are no longer here? Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, September 28th, 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.

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In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron
Wednesdays, September 29th - Nov 17th, 2021 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

Postponed: Awakening – Joy to Stillness

with Tara Mulay
Saturday, October 2nd, 2021 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET

During this practice period together, we will explore the conditions that progressively lead to awakening. When we practice mindfulness with these as our foundation, we begin to develop a sense of empowerment based on an initial confidence in the practice, which leads to joy and stillness. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildency de Fátima Jury

Tuesday, October 5th, 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

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Postponed: A Life of Inner Worth – A Four Week Course

with Peter Doobinin

Thursdays, October 7th - October 28th, 2021 from 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ET

In practicing the dharma, we seek to develop our inner worth. What does this mean? How do we do this? And what are the benefits of doing so? In this four-week course with meditation teacher, Peter Doobinin, we’ll explore these crucial questions and learn about our innate goodness and our capacity to develop it.

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In-Person: Monthly Community Picnic

Friday, October 8th, 2021 from 5:30:00pm – 7:00pm ET

New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you to celebrate summer in the great outdoors for a community picnic in Madison Square Park (11 Madison Avenue). We look forward to being together!

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Online: Finding Refuge

with Ayya Anandabodhi
Friday, October 8th, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

By settling into our direct experience, aligning with the truth-of-the-way-things-are, we can find peace, even in the midst of challenging times. Find out more

Online: Deepening Refuge

with Ayya Anandabodhi
Saturday, October 9th, 2021 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

The Buddha recognized the calamitous nature of this world and pointed us to a place of refuge that, with practice and sincere investigation, can bring great peace and happiness in our lives. Coming together as community, exploring the truth-of-the-way-things-are, and bringing awareness to our direct experience, we can rediscover that place of refuge that the Buddha pointed to all those years ago. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, October 12th, 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. Find out more

Online: Stages of Awakening

Bhante Suddhāso
Sunday, October 17th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

According to the Buddhist teachings, there are ten obstacles to overcome on the way to Awakening. As each is progressively abandoned, one attains to progressively higher stages of awakening. In this talk, Bhante Suddhaso will explain each of the ten fetters and how we can overcome them. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, October 19th, 2021 | 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, October 20th - December 15th, 2021 | 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: Cultivating Courage in Changing Times

with Deborah Eden Tull
Friday, October 22nd, 2021 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Discomfort and perceived obstacles are not our challenge but our invitation; not a sign of something to turn away from, but a welcoming threshold to move directly towards. Join dharma teacher Deborah Eden Tull as we explore the innate courage of true nature and how to follow that tendril of courage in the face of fear. Find out more

Online: Letting Go of Fear on Behalf of Collective Consciousness

with Deborah Eden Tull
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET

In this day-long retreat, we will explore how to work with FEAR (False Evidence Appearing Real) through compassionate inquiry and subtle body awareness. We will cultivate a sense of joyful responsibility to the collective, which supports us to release fear-based conditioning. Find out more

Online: Gladdening the Mind as We Grow in Our Confidence

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm

Sundays, October 24th - November 14th, 2021 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

We feel empowered when we are able to free our mind rather than being caught in our habits and patterns. In this course, we will deepen our understanding of finding ease in our daily lives and increase our awareness when faced with difficulties.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, October 26th, 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. Find out more

Online: The Wisdom of Self Compassion

with Kimberly Brown
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Practicing self-compassion also enables us cultivate equanimity and courage—the wisdom we need to navigate the ever-changing circumstances of life with openness, patience, and clarity. Join us for this special evening of discussion, Q&A, and guided Metta (aka lovingkindness) meditation. Find out more

Online: The Generous Heart

with Rachel Lewis
Thursday, November 4th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

What if generosity were in itself a profound teaching about interconnection and non-self? In this evening we will explore the potential of generosity to deepen our practice Find out more

Online Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, November 5th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 8:30pm ET

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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Gary Singer
Tuesday, November 9th, 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. Find out more

Online: Outsmart Your Pain – Mindfulness Tools for Chronic Pain

with Christiane Wolf, MD, PhD
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Mindfulness helps us to turn towards what is already here (painful or not) and act in the most kind and wisest way possible in that moment. While the principles taught in this introductory class can also be applied for emotional pain, it is geared towards those who suffer chronic physical pain or from a chronic illness. Find out more

Online: Loving Others, Loving Ourselves

with Bhante Sumano
Thursday, November 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Sincere Buddhist practice leads to a radical opening of the heart, which benefits everyone around us. Through meditation, reflections, and dialogue—Bhante Sumano will explore how we can cultivate unconditional love for all beings, including ourselves. Find out more

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World: An Online Benefit

with Thanissara, Ajahn Sucitto, Joseph Goldstein, JoAnna Hardy, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Tuere Sala and others
Saturday, November 13th, 2021 from 11:00am to 6:15pm ET
Sunday, November 14th, 2021 from 11:00am to 12:45pm ET

Give your heart a much-needed opportunity to come together with others for an inspiring weekend event with world-renowned Buddhist teachers and other speakers benefitting Cambridge Insight and New York Insight Meditation Centers. Find out more

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our World: An Online Benefit

with Dan Harris and Mark Epstein
Sunday, November 14th, 2021 from 11:00am to 12:45pm ET

Join Dan Harris and Mark Epstein for a special online dialogue on healing ourselves to heal our world. All proceeds for this program go to benefit Cambridge Insight and New York Insight Meditation Centers. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, November 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. Find out more

Online: The Power of Seeing Impermanence

with Walt Opie
Thursday, November 18th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

The very purpose of cultivating mindfulness is to enable us to see the impermanent nature of things--their arising and passing away--directly in our own experience. This leads to the liberating understanding that there really is nothing worth clinging to because everything will inevitably change. Find out more

Online: Self-Lovingkindness – A Day of Deep Practice

with Ralph De La Rosa
Saturday, November 20th, 2021 | 1:00pm - 5:00pm

The relationship we have to ourselves inside has a direct correlation to how we show up in our outer relationships, work, and free time. Join Internal Family Systems therapist and author Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW for an immersive half-day of self-love meditation. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, November 23rd, 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. Find out more

Online: Be Not Afraid – Messages From Buddha Nature

with Larry Ward
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this insight meditation practice, we come to see that every aspect of our being is in a permanent state of flux, and we learn how to appreciate the reality of our interconnectedness with the universe. It liberates us from a limited view of ourselves and helps us to see that we are nothing less than the universe becoming conscious of itself. Find out more

Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, December 7th, 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. Find out more

Online: What is Health? A Buddhist View in the Time of Pandemic

with Dr. Eliot Tokar
Thursday, December 9th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Tibetan medicine provides the modern world with an enormous wealth of accumulated information regarding health and healthcare, contextualized within a Buddhist perspective that becomes even more relevant as we face this watershed moment in public health worldwide. Find out more

Online: Wise Self-Care and Overcoming Resentment

with Bodhipaksa
Saturday, December 11th, 2021 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET

On this half-day retreat, Bodhipaksa will introduce us to what it means to practice “wise self-care,” so that in forgiving others we don’t inadvertently invite them to behave in ways that are harmful to us. Find out more

Online Monthly Community Potluck

Saturday, December 11th, 2021 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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.

Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, December 14th, 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. Find out more

Online: Finding Motivation, Cultivating Compassion – The Four Reminders

with Dr. Shanté Paradigm Smalls
Thursday, December 16th, 2021 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

During this evening program, Dr. Smalls will (re)introduce attendees to the Four Reminders, a pithy and powerful teaching that emphasizes what is actually real and important: the preciousness of human birth, the reality of death and impermanence, the pitfalls and possibilities of karma, and lure of samsara. Find out more

Online: Enlightened Women

with Ayya Soma
Sunday, December 19th, 2021 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

During this talk, Buddhist monk Ayya Soma will share some verses and stories of enlightened bhikkhunis and eminent lay disciples from the time of the Buddha. These stories provide inspiration and guidance for our own practice of attaining awakening. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Angela Dews
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022 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: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginner’s Meditation Course

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, January 5th - February 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm 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. Find out more

Online: Still Like Winter, Clear Like Water – A Half Day Retreat

with Mona Chopra
Saturday, January 8th, 2022 from 10:00am - 2:00pm ET

Similar to what we observe in the natural world, the winter offers us a precious time to connect with the deeper layers of our experience, our consciousness, our being - to tend to the vast depths of the ocean underlying the surface waves of our experience. This half day retreat will support us in opening up to these depths within as we move into the new year. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 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: Four Noble Truths Four Week Course

with Gary Singer

Wednesdays, January 12th - February 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET

The teachings of the Four Noble Truths—which are about suffering and the cessation of suffering—are both simple and profound and contain the essence of the Buddha’s way. Over the course of four weeks, we’ll study portions of the Buddha’s teaching, as well as contemporary writings on the Four Noble Truths, to help us bring the teachings into our everyday lives.

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Online: The Zen of Therapy – Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life

with Mark Epstein
Thursday, January 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In his new book, The Zen of Therapy, Mark Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist sensibility influences the way he works. How are minds jolted in therapy? How is the ego disrupted and the soul made aware? How can Buddhism enhance (or obstruct) therapy? Find out more

Online: The Skill of Acceptance

with Peter Doobinin
Saturday, January 15th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

As we make our way along the path to a greater happiness, it’s essential that we learn to practice acceptance. In this three-hour class, we’ll learn about the skill for developing acceptance, in meditation practice and in life. Find out more

Online: Introduction to Mindful Habit Change for Unwanted Eating Patterns

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

So many people find themselves stuck in unhealthy and or uncomfortable relationships with food, weight, or body image! Learn about an evidence-based model of habit change that can help you develop sustainable patterns of self-care for eating and relating to your body. Find out more

Online: A New Year Invitation – The Five Daily Reflections

with Nikki Mirghafori
Thursday, January 20th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

The Buddha advised all practitioners, lay and monastic alike, to engage with the Five Daily Reflections. The more we welcome these five friends into our awareness, the more they shake us out of complacency of wasting time, motivate us to live aligned with our values, open our hearts in generosity and letting go, keep us from falling into the trap of self-pity, moisten our hearts in compassion for ourselves and others, and more. Find out more

Online Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, January 21st, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 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: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, January 26th - March 16th, 2022 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.

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Cancelled: Skillful Self-Healing in a Traumatized World

with Patricia Mushim Ikeda
Thursday, January 27th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Our worlds have changed completely in the last two years. How can social justice-informed mindfulness practices help us regain a sense of wholeness and daily well being in a deeply wounded and polarized society and world? How can self-healing and community-healing be understood as two ways of describing the same thing that is needed to go forward? During this evening with Patricia Mushim Ikeda, we'll explore these inquiries, and more, together. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 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: Mindful Eating – Habit Change for Self-Care 6 Week Course

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue

Wednesday, February 2nd - March 9th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Join Laurence Magro and Nancy Logue, psychotherapists and certified mindfulness educators, for a six week course to explore our habits of mind and heart around food and eating. Discover an innovative and compassionate approach to healing your relationship to this everyday life-sustaining activity.

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Online: Right View & Right Resolve

with Peter Doobinin
Thursdays, February 3rd - February 24th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

Right view informs the steps we take as we make our way on the path to a greater happiness. And right resolve provides us with the wholehearted intention and sense of purpose that’s needed in order to take these steps. In this four week course, we’ll learn about these elemental components of the Buddha’s path and how to skillfully apply these understandings as we make the journey along the path. Find out more

Online: Inner Dialogue and Dharma

with Oren Jay Sofer
Friday, February 4th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Dharma practice offers encouragement to develop a wise and kind inner voice, to become an ally, companion and advocate for ourselves in life. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for an evening of meditation and exploration on how we can transform our inner dialogue. Find out more

Online: The Heart of the Matter – Cultivating Lovingkindness Practice

with Elaine Retholtz
Mondays, February 7th - March 21st, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In this course we will explore the various facets of Lovingkindness practice. There will be ongoing home practices each week, including questions for reflection. In every class there will be time to ask questions and share insights, as well as time to be in breakout rooms sharing, reflecting and learning from each other in smaller groups. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 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.

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Online: Interpersonal Mindfulness Course Eight Week Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Wednesdays, February 9th - March 30th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

The program was specifically designed for graduates of MBSR programs but is suitable for anyone with a mindfulness practice who has experience or is willing to experience stepping out of silent practice and applying mindfulness in human interaction.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 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.

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Online: Cultivating Emotional Wisdom

with Celeste Brooke Young
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Join InsightLA core teacher, Celeste Young for an engaging evening exploring some of the traditional Buddhist teachings on how to work mindfully with emotion, as well as modern approaches drawing on the latest research in positive psychology and neuroscience. Find out more

Online: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

with Lani Miller
Wednesdays, February 16th - March 9th, 2022 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

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Course: Thursday, February 17th - April 7th, 2022 | 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Sunday, March 27th, 2022 | 9:30am - 5:00pm 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.

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Online: Buddhist Practice for Modern Westerners

with Seth Zuiho Segall
Thursday, February 17th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

Buddhism is a living tradition that has, throughout its history, adapted to the needs of the cultures that have adopted it. This evening will focus on how the goals of Western Buddhist practice are evolving, and how meditation can be understood within this evolving context. Find out more

Online: Making Meditation Easy – Good Ethics and Right View

with Ayya Santussika
Sunday, February 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

Meditation doesn't need to be difficult - and if we establish the right foundations for our practice, meditation becomes much easier. In this session, bhikkhuni Ayyā Santussikā will draw on the Buddha's teachings to explain how we can use activities and concepts to strengthen our meditation. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 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.

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Online: Belonging through Lovingkindness

with Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio & Noliwe Alexander
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Join us for an afternoon/evening of discovering what it means to belong to ourselves and each other through the lens of deep reflection and Lovingkindness practice. Starting wherever you are, we’ll look at how to meet ourselves with friendliness in our own hearts and extend that grounded awareness into the world. Find out more

Online: Monthly Community Potluck and Movie Night

Friday, February 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET

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

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Postponed: Embodied Communication in a Digital World

with Jenny Hannah
Saturday, February 26th, 2022 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Join this workshop as we explore ways to deepen our relationships, and unstick our image based and verbal processing, both with ourselves and others. Through moving meditation, short investigative talks, group inquiry, discussions, and experiential breathing and movement exercises, we will fully embody our authentic felt presence and communicate with whole body expression. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 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 are a chance 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

Postponed: Mindful Politics

with Bodhipaksa

Wednesdays, March 2nd - March 30th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

With the help of traditional Buddhist teachings and insights from social psychology, and through exploring our own minds and emotions in meditative practice, we’ll seek a way to practice a more compassionate, wiser, and more mindful politics.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron

Tuesday, March 8th, 2022 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 are a chance 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.

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Online: Indigenous Presence

with Jeanne Corrigal
Thursday, March 10th, 2022 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this online session, we will explore the intersections of indigenous culture and Insight Meditation and the guidance they offer for living in a sacred, kind, wise way in the world, in the midst of these times. Find out more

Online: Befriending Mortality – Living An Awakened Life Through Mindfulness of Death

with Nikki Mirghafori
Saturday, March 12th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET

Rather than running away from our inevitable mortality, we can harness the power of this reflection to stay aligned with our deepest values and to live and love more fully. Fully embracing our life’s impermanence can give rise to a deep letting go and freedom, so that we can be fearlessly, peacefully prepared for our death as a potentially liberative moment. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: Calm and Steadiness, Insight and Wisdom

with Narayan Helen Liebenson
Saturday, March 19th, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:30pm ET

The Buddha taught the basic practices of Shamata Vipassana meditation. However, we shouldn’t mistake “basic” to mean simply applicable for beginners. The understanding of how to cultivate calm and steadiness, as well as insight and wisdom, is an important, ongoing arena of exploration and discovery for both new and experienced practitioners. Find out more

Online: Wise Awareness – The Four Foundations of Mindfulness

with Bhante Kusala
Sunday, March 20th, 2022 from 9:00am - 11:00am ET

In Buddhism, the term 'mindfulness' means far more than just 'awareness' - it also incorporates the development of incisive, mind-transforming wisdom. Bhante Kusala will walk us through the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and discuss how we can relate it to our contemplative practice, to take us far beyond mere attention and deep into the domain of profound insight. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022 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 are a chance 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.

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Online: Monthly Community Potluck

Friday, March 25th, 2022 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET 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: Beginner’s Meditation Workshop

with Lani Miller
Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET In this three hour comprehensive workshop, we'll learn the basics of Insight /Mindfulness Meditation Practice in a warm supportive environment and look at what draws us to explore meditation. There will be instructions for and time to practice meditation , as well as suggestions on how to develop and maintain an ongoing meditation practice. Find out more

Online: Kindness Even Now?! Making Loving-Kindness a Real Part of Your Meditation and Life

with Amanda Gilbert and Jay Michaelson
Thursday, March 31st, 2022 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET Join Amanda Gilbert and author, editor and teacher, Jay Michaelson, for an intimate and personal discussion on why Loving-Kindness and these practices of the heart are a leading practice and primary means to engage with ourselves and each other in today’s world. We will explore how these heart practices can guide us towards deeper transformation, personal growth, and connection to our authentic self. Find out more

Online: Waking Up to Your Life – Intimate Presence

with Seth Zuihō Segall
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET This half-day retreat utilizes insight meditation and Zen practices to cultivate intimate, whole-hearted presence with our bodies, hearts, and minds, and our fundamental connection to others and the world. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Jon Aaron
Tuesday, April 5th, 2022, 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 are a chance 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: Sensing the Subtle Body in the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – Practices to Cultivate Embodied Awareness

with Jill Satterfield
Fridays, April 8th - 29th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:30pm ET The union of body/mind is integral to full understanding and liberation of heart. Being embodied isn’t necessarily innate, but can definitely be cultivated. We can become aware of how a feeling tone feels, how thoughts and emotions are sensed in sensations and how the mind can be felt energetically in terms of expanded or contracted shapes. Find out more

Online: New York Insight Event Volunteer Training

Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 from 6:30pm – 8:00pm ET New York Insight relies on volunteers to create a welcome and organized atmosphere for all our events. The center needs you to help prepare the online space for our events and support participants and teachers.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: The Healing Journey Meets The Spiritual Path – How Pain and Illness Can Be a Vehicle for Awakening

with Dr. Paul Epstein
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET How we are with and relate to our pain and life's difficult challenges is as important as what we do to treat them. This workshop will be an exploration of how the teachings of the Buddha and mindfulness and compassion practice can be integrated in the process of facing and healing the dis-eases of our bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022 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 are a chance 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

CANCELLED: Remembering the Already Awakened State – Waking Down to the Wisdom of Our Bodies

with Deborah Eden Tull
Friday, April 22nd, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET It is through embodied presence, rather than mental effort or philosophizing, that we remember the already awakened state. Our bodies know the way home. Awareness is the key that allows us to recognize this, beyond habits of hierarchical perception. In this experiential teaching, we will explore the subtle body as guide to both inner-connection and interconnection, both on and off the cushion. Find out more

CANCELLED: Love, Courage, Collective Awakening – Embodying the Nine Principles of Relational Mindfulness

with Deborah Eden Tull
Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET At this moment in history, there is a significant tear in the fabric of human relationship, and we all long for deeper connection and understanding. This retreat teaches the dharma of relational intelligence, which is the ability to see ourselves and one another clearly with the heart, beyond the mind of separation. Find out more

Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying

with Amy Selzer, Nancy Glimm & Jon Aaron

Saturday, April 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

The second of four daylong retreats around living life fully as we explore death, this will be a day of retreat to cultivate the compassionate heart which is in each of us.

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Online: Cultivating the Seven Factors of Awakening

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, April 25th - June 20th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

In our culture there can be a tendency to dwell on the negative – what we need to be rid of. In this course we will be investigating and practicing the cultivation of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy or rapture, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: Community Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, April 28th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET This Town Hall will provide an opportunity for you to connect with each other and share your thoughts with all of us on how NYI can continue to support your practice and serve as your spiritual home. We will also share a brief report from our committees and the board president and update you on how we plan to celebrate our 25th Anniversary.

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Postponed: The Synergy of Dharma and Abolition

with karen g. williams, Peace Twesigye & Kierstin Williams
Friday, April 29th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET Saturday, April 30th, 2022 from 11:00am - 5:00pm ET Whether within systems, relational spaces, or within our own minds, abolition speaks to the process of unlearning and undoing, moving towards greater freedom and non-harming. Join us for this weekend of fun, liberating inquiry, and practice in community. Find out more

Cancelled: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022 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 are a chance 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

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, May 4th - June 29th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm 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: Meditating With the Eyes

with Bodhipaksa
Thursday, May 5th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET Join Bodhipaksa for this evening exploring how the practice of kind eyes can transform our practice of lovingkindness, giving us effortless access to feelings of warmth, appreciation, and caring both for others and for ourselves. Even after a brief experience of these approaches to meditation, your practice may never be the same again. Find out more

Online: Touching the Earth

with Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday, May 7th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET Indigenous teaching is based in the knowledge of our relationship and reciprocity with nature. In this daylong program, we will come together to practice and touch the earth with our hearts, minds, and bodies. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: Cultivating Conscious Intentions

with Melissa McKay
Thursday, May 12th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET Intentions are the seeds we plant that will determine what will arise in life. In this class, we will practice mindfulness with an emphasis on learning to be more aware of our intentions and set aspirations that align more favorably in our lives. Find out more

Online: Exploring The Beautiful – Creativity and Meditation Daylong

with Lani Miller
Sunday, May 15th, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm ET During this daylong workshop/ retreat we will have the opportunity to explore together the relationship between meditation practice and creativity. Through our direct experience during this workshop, we will explore the already present and inherent interconnection between meditation practice and creative expression. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Leslie Booker
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 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 are a chance 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

In-Person: Community Picnic

Friday, May 20th, 2022 from 5:45pm – 7:30pm ET New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you as we gather again to celebrate Spring in the great outdoors. Our Community Picnic  will once again be in Madison Square Park.

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Postponed: Healing Ourselves, Healing our World

with Aaron Solomon
Saturday, May 21st, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET This is a half-day workshop and practice space to explore the intersection of mindfulness, embodiment, and trauma healing. We will practice in large and small groups to build a sense of presence, connection, and embodied communication in order to hold space for processes of healing and transformation. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, May 24th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: Three Branches of the Buddhist Path in Daily Life

with Vance Pryor
Thursday, May 26th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET The path of Dharma practice is said to consist of ethical conduct, continuity of awareness, and discerning wisdom. This talk will emphasize the relationships between these three courses of training, and the benefits of making these pillars of our spiritual path. Find out more

Online: Being Boundaried – (Un)Knowing Your Selves

with sadada jackson
Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET During this evening program, we will reflect on our boundary practice and engage in a wide range of wisdom teachings and dharma to deepen our understanding of our boundaries and the practices of our boundaries. Find out more

Online: The Many Faces of a Buddhist Text

with Bradley Donaldson
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET Join Bradley Donaldson (previously Buddhist monk Bhante Sumano) for an evening talk on approaching the Buddhist discourses (or suttas/sutras) from a variety of perspectives, which allows us to not only enjoy the teachings in a literary sense, but also apply them to our personal concerns—even across boundaries of time and space. Find out more

Online: Neuroplasticity – Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain!

with Paul Epstein
Saturday, June 4th 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET During this program we will discuss neuroplasticity, how it happens, what it can result from along with its bright and dark sides. With understanding and applying neuroplasticity, one can “re-wire” and “hardwire” the brain leading to more peace and happiness in our daily lives. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Lani Miller
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022 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 are a chance 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

In-Person: Community Picnic

Friday, June 10th, 2022 from 5:45pm – 7:30pm ET New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you as we gather again to celebrate Spring in the great outdoors. Our Community Picnic will once again be in Madison Square Park.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Tuesday, June 14th, 2022 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 are a chance 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: We Were Made for These Times – Skillfully Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption

with Kaira Jewel Lingo

Wednesdays, June 15 - July 6th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

So many of us are working through grief and personal hardship. Through this course, Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer a path to help us meet the individual and collective pain of these times — with open hearts, and clear minds. Learn timeless perspectives and attitudes that help us navigate the difficulties and upheaval of the present moment.

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Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Amy Selzer
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 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 are a chance 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

Postponed: Insight 101 – Six Week Beginners Meditation Course

with Lani Miller
Postponed:Wednesdays, June 22nd - July 27th, 2022 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET Due to unforeseen circumstances, the program has been postponed. 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. Find out more

Online: Tuesday Dharma Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 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 are a chance 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

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Canceled: Collective Healing Through Mindful Presence

with Aaron Solomon
Wednesdays, July 6th - 27th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET This multi-day course will invite us to build a collective container for in-depth exploration at the intersection of mindfulness, embodiment, and trauma healing. Healing our collective, ancestral and individual trauma (unresolved suffering) supports not only our personal wellbeing but also makes possible the transformation we so need to respond to the ecological and social crises we face in this century. Find out more

Online: Buddhism and Human Flourishing

with Seth Zuiho Segall

Thursdays, July 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

This online course explores how Buddhism is changing during the course of its transmission to the West and how it will continue to evolve to remain relevant to how we—as modern people—understand and construct our lives.

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Online: Meditating With Space

with Bodhipaksa
Saturday and Sunday, July 9th-10th, 2022 from 9:30am - 1:00pm ET Over the course of this two-morning workshop, Buddhist teacher Bodhipaksa will guide us step-by-step through a series of simple meditations that fundamentally change our sense of who (and where) we are. Find out more

Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Wednesdays, July 13th - August 17th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives.

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Gary Singer
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Spiritual Bypassing – When We Do Not Want to Look Honestly

with Bhikkhu Sukhacitto and Rachel Hammerman
Sunday, July 17th, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET Sometimes we want to escape in meditation our problems and challenges of life and just like to have a rest and experience quite and peace. How can we use Dhamma practice to integrate it more fully into our life? Can Dhamma principles guide us in ALL what is happening? In this daylong we explore these questions by meditating, short talks & reflections and dialogue in small groups. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Lani Miller
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

In-Person: Community Picnic

Friday, July 22nd, 2022 from 5:45pm – 7:30pm ET New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you as we gather again to celebrate summer in the great outdoors. Our Community Picnic will once again be in Madison Square Park.

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Online: There Is More to Death Than Dying

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm

Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET

This daylong retreat will focus on the 5th of the 5 Reflections and explore its relationship to forgiveness. It will consist of meditation, writing exercises, break-out rooms, dharma talks, and sharing.

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, July 27th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

In-Person: A Community Gathering in Central Park

Friday, July 29th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET Join us at Central Park's Pilgrim Hill, East 72nd Street, for an evening celebrating the success of our Dharma Rhythms fundraiser. We will be meditating together, engaging in community connecting activities and just spending time in this beautiful location at Central Park.

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Online: Ungendering the Heart – The Brahma Viharas Are Contemporary Medicine for Modern Times

with Arisika Razak
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET Emphasis on the Buddha's teachings known as the Brahma Viharas can provide an antidote to patriarchal assumptions about "male" and "female" behavior, remindings us that these constructions are culturally scripted rather than biologically based - and they can provide a sense of freedom and wholeness that is both modern and timeless. Find out more

Online: Stand Up and Sit Down (The Courage of a Noble Heart)

with Joseph Mauricio
Thursday, August 11th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET We are living in challenging times, and while it's tempting to bypass suffering, the challenges of our life are part of the world we’ve inherited. The problems will be waiting for us, nonetheless. This online talk with meditation teacher Joseph Mauricio is on developing the spiritual resilience to face our world, as it arises, with engaged compassion. Find out more

In-Person: Community Picnic

Friday, August 12th, 2022 from 6:00pm – 7:45pm ET New York Insight is happy and excited to invite you as we gather again to celebrate summer in the great outdoors. Our Community Picnic will once again be in Madison Square Park.

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Postponed: Kindness in the Midst

with Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday, August 13th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 5:00pm ET Our practice of metta - kindness, friendliness, or good will - is a companion for all times. This session will offer an overview for those new to metta, and also explore the infinitely creative and fun ways we can practice kindness over our entire life. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone – Why Does It Matter?

with Bruni Dávila
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET Practicing with the feeling-tone of experience can be a transformative, powerful, and liberating experience. During this evening discussion with Insight Meditation Teacher Bruni Dávila, we will explore how we can gain insight into the nature of experiences and discover that we have more choices on how to engage life with ease, peace, and contentment. Find out more

Online: Buddhist Wisdom Perspectives and the Transformation of Racism

with Donald Rothberg
Friday, August 19th, 2022 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET In this evening talk, Donald Rothberg will particularly focus on the core wisdom teachings of the Buddha, integrated with attention to the history of race, whiteness and blackness, and racism in the English colonies and later the United States. How are the phenomena of race and racism in particular rooted in greed and ignorance, individual and collective, that then lead to hatred and massive dukkha? How can more clarity about these wisdom teachings and historical perspectives guide our current practice to transform racism? Find out more

Online: The Thinning of the Self – Exploring and Practicing Anattā (Not-Self)

with Donald Rothberg
Saturday, August 20th, 2022 from 10:00am - 5:00pm ET The teaching of anattā (“not-self”) points to one of the fundamental areas of liberating insight taught by the Buddha. Yet anattā can be very challenging and confusing for contemporary practitioners. Is there “no self”? How do we understand our senses of individuality, identity, ancestry and ethnicity, and vocation? How do we address our own personal experiences of woundedness, trauma, and oppression? Find out more

Online: Peaceful Mind, Peaceful Heart

with Lani Miller

Wednesdays, August 24th - September 14th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

In this four week course we will explore the beautiful practice of equanimity together. We will learn from observing our individual patterns of reactivity and noticing how it feels when we are able to respond to life's circumstances rather than reacting to them.

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Establishing Self Love and Confidence

with Melissa McKay

Wednesdays, September 7th - 28th, 2022 from 6:00pm - 7:30pm ET

In this online four-week series with Melissa McKay, we'll talk about some Buddhist and modern tools for developing self love and confidence. We will learn to make these a habit for our lives and to overcome negativity in the mind whenever it arises.

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Online: Insight 101 – A Six Week Meditation Beginner’s Course

with Lani Miller

Thursdays, September 8th - October 13th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET

We invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and learn how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives.

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Online: The Four Noble Truths

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, September 12th, 19th, October 3rd, 17th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

We often hear of the Four Noble Truths when we are first introduced to the Buddha’s teachings. Some of us continue to learn, study and remember these teachings … but how many of us take the time to truly investigate the meanings and implication of the teachings in our own lives with the aspiration that we embody our understanding?

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Jon Aaron

Course: Wednesdays, September 14th - November 9th, 2022 from 6:30 - 9:00pm ET
Daylong: Saturday, October 29th, 2022 | 9:30am - 5:00pm 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.

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Online: Metta & Karuna – Love in Action

Leslie Booker & Devin Berry

Four Wednesdays, September 14th - October 5th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

The protection and focus of lovingkindness coupled with the fierceness of compassion, are together LOVE IN ACTION. These two heart practices can be cultivated and experienced in the meditative process, but really come alive when we know them in our everyday lives.

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Online: Trauma and Meditation

with Amma Thanasanti
Thursday, September 15th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET The promise of meditation is to reduce or eliminate sorrow, pain and distress and to realize freedom from suffering. Accomplishing this goal becomes more complex with unresolved trauma. This introductory talk on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness -The Satipatthana Sutta- will summarize the meditation tools and teachings it contains, ways to use them to minimize trauma activation and as a support for trauma resolution. Find out more

In-Person: A Community Gathering in Central Park

Friday, September 16th, 2022 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm ET Join us at Central Park's Pilgrim Hill, East 72nd Street, for an evening in the park. We will be meditating together, engaging in community connecting activities and just spending time in this beautiful location at Central Park.

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Online: Perspectives on Secular Dharma

with Stephen Batchelor, Seth Zuihō Segall, Karsten Struhl & Mike Slott
Saturday, September 17th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET In this special panel discussion with renowned teachers, Stephen Batchelor, Seth Zuiho Segall, and Karsten Struhl will explore perspectives of a secular or naturalistic approach to the dharma. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Lani Miller
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Unwinding Anxiety – Mindful Habit Change for Anxiety and Related Behaviors

with Laurence Magro & Nancy Logue, PhD

Thursdays, September 22nd - October 27th, 2022 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm ET

This interactive online course, based on the work of neuroscientist & addiction psychiatrist Dr. Judson Brewer, explores the science of habit change and teaches a step by step model to understand and outgrow unwanted habits such as anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism, and unwanted behaviors.

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Online: Imagination, Intention, and a Dash of Desire

with Jill Satterfield
Saturday, September 24th, 2022 from 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET With intention and the imagination to envision, along with a dash of desire to be more expansive, joyful, and at ease, we can swim against the stream and move towards choices that help us liberate our hearts. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Finding Balance in our Lives

with Tenku Ruff
Thursday, September 29th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET During this online evening of practice, Zen Teacher Tenku Ruff Osho will focus on finding balance, allowing our bodies show us the way, and letting go of the places where we feel stuck. Find out more

In-Person and Online: Yom Kippur – A Day of Silence and Reflection

with Jon Aaron and Elaine Retholtz
Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 from 10:00am – 7:00pm ET

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 an In-Person and Online day of silence and reflection. Find out more

Online: The Precepts & Paramis – A Half-Day Retreat on Bringing Practice Alive through Ethics and Daily Practice

with Amanda Gilbert
Saturday, October 8th, 2022 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET How we live our lives can be an expression of our practice. The Buddha’s teachings offer us a path and framework on how to apply practice in a direct way to all the ways we show up and behave. In this half-day retreat you will learn how the Paramis and the Precepts can be guiding principles and allies as you develop your practice of ethics in daily life. Find out more

In-Person: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, October 12th - December 7th, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:00pm ET

Daylong: Sunday November 20th, 2022 from 9:30am - 5:00pm 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.

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Course

with Elaine Retholtz

Course: Wednesdays, October 12th - December 7th, 2022, 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

In-Person and Online: Living Life Through the Dharma

with Jon Aaron

Thursdays, October 13th - November 10th, 2022 from 10:00am - Noon ET

This extensive series will cover four major areas of the teachings over 20 weeks. One can sign up for the whole 20 weeks or each part separately. Part 1 is entitled Unquenchable Thirst and will cover the Buddha's teachings on dukkah or suffering.

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Online: Lessons From the Fall – The Art of Letting Go

with Mona Chopra
Saturday, October 15th, 2022 from 10:00am -1:00pm ET In this half day workshop, we will honor the fall season and its profound and ever-relevant teaching - the art of letting go. Drawing on the wisdom of the Buddha dharma, we will make space for greater awareness to arise, nurture compassionate acceptance of what is, and, through practicing together, support one another in the courageous and liberating art of letting go. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Lani Miller
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Meeting Grief and Loss with Wisdom and Kindness

with Kimberly Brown
Thursday, October 20th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET In this evening talk, Kimberly Brown will lead brief mediations and explore aspects of her book, Navigating Grief and Loss: 25 Buddhist Practices to Keep your Heart Open to Yourself and Others, to help anyone suffering with loss—of any kind—access and benefit from their own beautiful qualities of love, compassion, and wisdom. Find out more

Online: Making Sense of Anatta

with Paul Fulton
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET Many Buddhist teachings just seem to make good sense, until we encounter the often vexing teachings on anatta, not-self. In this half-day event, we’ll examine the self from perspectives of Buddhism, a bit of social science, psychoanalytic psychology, and experience. Find out more

Online: The Eightfold Path

with Elaine Retholtz

Mondays, October 24th - December 12th, 2022 from 9:30am - 11:30am ET

The Buddha's teachings on The Eightfold Path is not some belief system to take on, nor a philosophy to be debated. Rather it is a very accessible (if sometimes challenging) guide for living and practicing in the world.

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Postponed: Meditation – Tools for Our Times

Postponed: Meditation - Tools for Our Times with Lani Miller Due to unforeseen change in circumstances, the course is postponed Wednesdays, October 26th-November 16th, 2022 | 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 […]

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In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Finding Calm in a Crisis

with Bodhipaksa

Wednesdays October 26th - November 16th, 2022 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Join Bodhipaksa for a four-week course and learn simple practices that can help us dramatically change our experience of life, so that we become islands of calm and reassurance for the world, bringing peace not just to ourselves, but to others as well.

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Online: Mindfulness, Neuroplasticity and Emotional Resilience

with Dr. Paul Epstein, ND
Saturday, October 29th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET Training in mindful awareness brings the choice of relating to our experience with wisdom and compassion which changes the brain creating new neural pathways.Join us to learn how to move beyond surviving life’s challenges to actively participating in our own deep healing while building resilience for a brighter present and future. Find out more

Online: Aging as a Spiritual Practice

with Amy Selzer & Nancy Glimm
Sundays, October 30th - November 20th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET This four- week course will be about upending our fixed ideas about aging. Together we will share our cultural beliefs toward aging and challenge them with the tools of meditation and the Buddha’s teachings. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Brian Simmons
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022, from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more

Online: Imagination, Interdependence, and Liberation

with Ben Connelly
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 from 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET Buddhism's teachings on the Three Natures show how imagination and awareness of interdependence can be harnessed to heal and transform systems of harm within ourselves and our communities, even as we realize that we are already inseparable from what is whole and complete. Find out more

Online: Don’t Panic! Not Losing It in the Face of the Unknown

with Rev. Tenku Ruff
Saturday, November 5th, 2022 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET Please join us on this pre-election day of practice. Tenku Ruff Osho will draw upon her many years of Soto Zen monastic practice to skillfully lead us straight through whatever emotions, or lack thereof, we are feeling. We will practice silent meditation together, hear a Dharma talk, engage in experiential body practices, and have time for Q&A. Find out more

In-Person Community Meditation Gathering

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022, from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET New York Insight is excited to offer a brand new series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome. Find out more
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