In-Person and Online: Day of Refuge — Navigating Tumultuous Times with Clarity, Humor, and Strength
with Leslie Booker
Sunday, January 19th, 2025 | 10:00am – 4:00pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
We are in the midst of a great sea change, both politically and socially. We are being asked to divest—in companies, political institutions, or organizations that have disappointed us. Although there is something incredibly powerful in divesting, it’s important to decide what we are choosing to invest in. What clouds the heart and mind so often is centering what we’re fighting against instead of what we’re fighting for.
Over the course of this day of practice, we’ll learn how to invest in ourselves. The poet Audre Lorde wrote, “Caring for myself is not self-indulgent, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.”
Together, we’ll discover how staying present with the breath and in our bodies is actually an act of self-preservation and a tool to build emotional resilience.
On the eve of the inauguration and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, join New York Insight’s Guiding Teacher Leslie Booker for a day of refuge and care. This retreat will be held in Noble Silence.
In-Person Registration:
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Online Registration:
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Volunteering
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Teacher(s)
Leslie Booker
Booker is a heart – centered, spirit – driven activist and meditation teacher committed to creating a culture of belonging through her teaching and writing. She completed Spirit Rock’s 4 year Retreat Teacher Training in 2020, and shared the practices of yoga and mindfulness with New York City’s most vulnerable populations for over a decade. Booker has co – authored and contributed to several publications including the trauma – informed anthology Practicing Liberation and its accompanying workbook, for folks working towards social justice. She is a co-founder of the Yoga Service Council at Omega Institute and the Meditation Working Group of Occupy Wall Street. In 2020 she was invited to be a Sojourner Truth Leadership Fellow through Auburn Seminary and was voted by her peers as one of the 12 Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement.
Booker moved to Philadelphia in August of 2020 to vote in a swing state, and currently serves as the Guiding Teacher of New York Insight.
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