In-Person: Summer Sangha Sundays – Queens Community Gathering in Astoria Park
Sunday, August 20th, 2023 | 4:45pm – 7:00pm ET
Location: Great Lawn at Astoria Park, exact location here: https://goo.gl/maps/Rg8TN4Tm18i6Q3Wk8
Connect with your NYIMC community in parks across the boroughs this summer! We will meditate, meet, and then celebrate with an optional BYO Picnic
The Queens gathering is the second of four outdoor, community events to celebrate the diversity of NYIMC’s sangha throughout New York City. Join us this summer to meditate outside and to meet your NYIMC sangha across the boroughs.
New York Insight teacher Lani Miller, Generation Meditation and Insight OUT Refuge LGBTQI Sangha Leader Seth Hoffman, Queens Sangha and the Friends Leadership Council will offer an evening meditating together, engaging in community connection and simply spending time in our city’s beautiful Astoria Park.
Beginning at 5:00pm, teacher Lani Miller will provide an opportunity for mediation in nature. Collaborating with Lani, our Friends Leadership Council, Insight OUT Refuge and GenMed Sangha leader will then offer interactive activities to engage with new and old sangha friends. When the event ends at 7:00pm, join our optional, BYO Picnic– bring your own meal, something refreshing to drink or share.
We encourage you to bring a blanket, chair, or whatever you may need to support your practice in an outdoor setting.
All are welcome to join this event, whether you’re a longtime community member and practitioner or brand new to meditation and New York Insight. We are looking forward to seeing you this Summer. And look out for our next Summer Sangha Sunday this September– in Brooklyn!
“Breathing in, I am part of a sangha and feel protected. Breathing out, I experience joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Please RSVP Below
Please RSVP so that the event coordinators can communicate with you regarding any updates about this gathering. For those signing up after Friday, August 18th at 7 pm ET, please text the event coordinators at 646-470-8410 with your first and last name.
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All donations are in support of NYInsight.
For the health and safety of our staff and community, please do not come onsite if you are feeling unwell.
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Teacher(s)
Lani Miller
Lani Miller has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1976. She is a graduate of the third Community Dharma Leaders Program. Lani is also a graduate of the MMTCP – “Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program” and “The Mindful Mentor Training Program.”
As a teacher, Lani values the opportunity to be a “channel” for supporting individuals and groups to find and explore spiritual truth through their own present moment experience. As part of this, she feels honored to introduce beginning meditators to meditation.
Lani is also a Singer/ Songwriter who is interested in how music and other creative arts can be a vehicle for sharing spiritual truths and values.
“You must have shadow and light source both. Listen, and lay your head under the tree of awe.” Rumi