In-Person and Online: New York Insight’s Annual New Year’s Eve Gathering & Celebration
with Lin Wang Gordon and Lani Miller
Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 | 9:00pm – 12:15am ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
New York Insight Meditation Center teachers and staff warmly invite you to our annual 2024 New Years Eve gathering and celebration.
We are delighted to offer an evening of reflection, connection, and intention-setting as we honor the closing of the year and welcome the new one. The evening will include meditation, chanting, space for reflection, and our unique year-end ritual, in which all are invited to participate. Together, we will cultivate a sense of care and community, tending to ourselves and one another as we move into the new year.
This hybrid event will be lovingly held by NewYork Insight teachers and community members, and guests, some of whom will join the evening online.
This is a benefit event for the center, with all proceeds supporting New York Insight’s ongoing work.
Doors will open at 8:00 p.m., allowing time for socializing and sharing light snacks until 9:00 p.m. The formal program will begin promptly at 9:00 p.m. ET. For those joining us online, from 8:45 to 9:00 p.m. we invite you to and will offer online support for you to connect through chat, listen to soothing meditative music, or simply sit in quiet presence with your community.
Please bring yourself, a self-addressed stamped envelope, paper, a pen, and for those online, a bell if you wish.
We look forward to sharing this meaningful evening with you, in the spirit of reflection and renewal, as we enter the new year together.
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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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)
Lin Wang Gordon
Lin has dedicated over a decade to studying insight meditation (Vipassana) and has recently deepened her practice through the Tibetan Dzogchen traditions. Through her meditation journey, she discovers the transformative power of Buddhist philosophy and practices to help live a life of flow, joy, wonder, and resilience.
She graduated from Mark Coleman’s Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Teacher Training in 2017 and is currently enrolled in the Community Dharma Leaders Program (CDL7) at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Lin has gained experience leading ecodharma retreats and co-founded the Sacred Earth Sangha of the New York Insight Meditation Center. In addition to sharing earth-based practices and ecodharma, she hopes to guide others in meditation to foster inner transformation and cultivate a deeper sense of purpose and belonging in everyday life.
Lin has served on the Board of the New York Insight Meditation Center and the Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. linwanggordon.com
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