Online: We Were Made for These Times – Skillfully Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption
with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Wednesdays, June 15 – July 6th, 2022 | 6:00pm – 7:30pm ET
Learn to meet life’s greatest challenges with wisdom, resilience, and balance.
Life is always full of change: birth, death; losing and starting relationships; switching jobs; turning pages, and beginning new chapters.
In this moment, our society is facing immense uncertainty, collective disruption, and polarization. What once seemed steady and solid is shifting. So many of us are working through grief and personal hardship.
Through this course, Kaira Jewel Lingo will offer a path to help us meet the individual and collective pain of these times — with open hearts, and clear minds. Learn timeless perspectives and attitudes that help us navigate the difficulties and upheaval of the present moment.
Week 1 — This Is It: Coming Home to This Moment Just as It Is
Week 2 — Weathering the Storm: Caring for Our Strong Emotions
Week 3 — Equanimity and Letting Go
Week 4 — Nurturing the Good and Showing Up Fully
What’s included in these teachings?
-Each week of the course offers essential teachings, meditations, and daily life exercises, unfolding a step-by-step process to help us navigate difficult times.
-Each week will present a teaching and related guided meditation, with poetry or song, to nurture deeper freedom and stability in daily life.
-Time-honored Buddhist wisdom about developing ease, trust in life, presence, and self-compassion.
By registering for this course, you’ll receive a 30% discount code on Kaira Jewel’s new book (Paperback & eBook) available now through Parallax Press: “We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving Through Change, Loss and Disruption.”
While the book is not required to join the course, it will act as a companion to the course and offers more teachings than we can cover in the course.
Praise for Kaira Jewel’s Teachings
-“Kaira Jewel is insightful and supportive. Her teachings have been immeasurable in their benefit to me.”
-“I’m deeply grateful for Kaira Jewel’s teachings and the presence she brings to her classes. She holds space with powerful compassion, integrity, and levity.”
-“Kaira Jewel is a kind, compassionate and wise teacher. I enjoyed her talks, insights, group exercises and kind group facilitation. I highly recommend her as a teacher.”
Registration:
Please register at the highest level that your generosity offers.
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
New York Insight Meditation Center has streamlined the registration fee levels. Members of our Circle of Friends are eligible to receive 20% off of the Sustaining Rate via a code provided in the email confirming membership, which you can enter after clicking the Sustaining Level registration.
*Benefactor Level: Supports NYI’s ability to offer the Subsidized Base.
**Sustaining Level: This level reflects the actual costs to support this program. Circle of Friends members eligible for 20% discount with code. Click here to join.
***Subsidized Base: Made possible by the generosity of Benefactor Level above and other donations to ensure participation by those requiring financial assistance.
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Teacher(s)
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Kaira Jewel Lingo is a Dharma teacher with a lifelong interest in spirituality and social justice. Her work continues the Engaged Buddhism developed by Thich Nhat Hanh, and she draws inspiration from her parents’ lives of service and her dad’s work with Martin Luther King, Jr. After living as an ordained nun for 15 years in Thich Nhat Hanh’s monastic community, Kaira Jewel now teaches internationally in the Zen lineage and the Vipassana tradition, as well as in secular mindfulness, at the intersection of racial, climate and social justice with a focus on activists, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, artists, educators, families, and youth. Based in New York, she offers spiritual mentoring to groups and is author of We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption from Parallax Press. Her teachings and writings can be found at www.kairajewel.com.