In-Person and Online: Creativity and Meditation – A Daylong Retreat
with Lani Miller
Saturday, March 15th, 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Both meditation and creativity involve opening to and allowing space for what is already present to emerge and be known.
Over the course of this daylong retreat, we will have the opportunity to explore and share how we experience and are inspired by the already present and inherent connection between these two ways of experiencing and opening to life. We will investigate how both meditation and creativity offer us ways to explore, touch, and express what really matters.
We will look at how creativity and art in all their manifestations can inspire us deeply, and also offer the possibility of healing for ourselves and the world around us. Meditation can be part of and enhance this process, by opening us to express and experience our creativity in deep, meaningful, and beautiful ways. We will consider how the sharing of our creativity combined with our spirituality can lead to positive and powerful transformation, for ourselves and others.
This day will include short periods of meditation along with some time for creative processes. There will be time to explore within, and participants will also be able to benefit from sharing their unique ways of experiencing and expressing creativity with each other.
Artists, meditators, creatives, and muses are warmly invited to participate in this day of practice. There will be time for group sharing and connection.
Some previous experience with basic meditation practice is recommended.
Please bring along a notebook and/or paper, pens, and colored pencils or markers.
In-Person Registration:
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Online Registration:
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Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
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