In-Person and Online: Buddhist Meditation and Internal Family Systems – A Daylong Retreat
with Ralph de la Rosa
Saturday, January 18th, 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
The Buddha taught that radical compassion is synonymous with full awakening, and that one must begin with compassion for oneself. Compassion is a healer, an alchemical force, a grossly underestimated state of heart and mind. Self-compassion could heal every part of you, if you stayed with it long enough. Self-compassion opens the door to the deepest of insights.
This daylong retreat is a primer in how to open to this presence in meditation and extend it towards parts of the psyche stuck on the treadmill of affliction. Utilizing the integration of Buddhism and the Internal Family Systems model presented in Ralph De La Rosa’s new book Outshining Trauma, this daylong retreat will offer you:
•Teachings from the Buddhist Lojong
•A crash course in IFS and why it complements the Dharma so well
•Breath techniques for opening space in the heart-mind
•Meditations for directly experiencing of buddha nature
•Meditations for extending self-compassion to parts of the psyche caught in affliction
This retreat is open to all levels and experience of practice. Please bring pen and paper.
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:
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.)
If you are registering via a mobile device such as a phone or tablet, you can scroll right and left and up and down within the below form if it is partially obscured or cut off.
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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)
Ralph De La Rosa, LCSW
Ralph De La Rosa (they/he) is the author of three books, including the new Outshining Trauma: A New Vision of Radical Compassion (foreword by Richard Schwartz). He is a psychotherapist in private practice and a longtime meditation teacher known for his radically honest and humorous approach.
Perhaps most crucial is that Ralph walks the path of outshining trauma alongside the people he works with. He is a survivor of PTSD, heroin addiction, Borderline Personality Disorder, ADHD, and liver failure. Walking through these matters with the help of profound therapists and mentors has been an empowerment no school could have offered. It is simply part of his path to offer back what he’s been shown.
Ralph has mentored personally with Richard Schwartz, founder of the Internal Family Systems model of psychotherapy, known for its efficacy in healing trauma. Ralph has completed an invite-only advanced teacher training with Jack Kornfield. His work has been featured in GQ, CNN, NY Post, Tricycle, Mindful Magazine, and beyond.
He began practicing meditation in 1996 and has trained in a spectrum of yogic and healing traditions, including devotional Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Ralph began teaching Buddhist-inspired meditation in 2008. Today, Ralph identifies as practitioner and teacher of human spirituality. He teaches a highly specialized hybrid of IFS and Buddhism to offer students a direct path of conscious evolution and self-discovery.
Ralph is an intersectional activist, musician, wannabe acrobat, and outdoor enthusiast currently residing in Seattle, WA.