Name: Online: The Subtle Art of Not Doing Anything
Start: 2025-03-20T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-20T20:30:00-04:00
Location: New York Insight Meditation Center

January 2025

In-Person and Online: How to Detox and Transform Our Emotions

with Michel Pascal

Friday, January 17th, 2025 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm ET

Join NYIMC for a night of creativity, meditation, and community. Over the course of two hours, meditation teacher Michel Pascal will lead a guided “emotional detox” to encourage the release of stress and negative emotions, as well as a meditation on how we maintain a calm mind by tapping into our inner groundedness.

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February 2025

Online: Home Body – Being with What Is

with Jill Satterfield

Tuesdays, February 4th - 25th, 2025 from 7:00pm-9:00pm ET

Just like everything, the body—the material form of consciousness—is impermanent and of the nature to arise, shift, and always re-arrange. In this four-week course with Buddhist teacher Jill Satterfield, we’ll learn about how the subtle body is actively communicating with (and altered by) the breath. We’ll also explore how the body affects our thoughts and feelings, imagination, and conditioned beliefs.

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In-Person and Online: Buddhism As a Spiritual Path

with Peter Doobinin

Friday, February 7th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

Suffering can block us from our goodness, from wisdom and love, from our own hearts. All humans are prone to the spiritual disease of suffering, but the cure can be found in the spiritual path the Buddha laid out for us. What relief might we find if we follow his prescribed course of treatment? Find out more

In-Person and Online: True Love – Cultivating Compassion on Valentine’s Day

with Lavina Shamdasani

Friday, February 14th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

This Valentine’s Day, join meditation teacher Lavina Shamdasani for an evening of deepening compassion. Together, we’ll practice metta (loving-kindness) and mindfulness meditation to help ease self-criticism, open our hearts, and learn how to live a more balanced, loving life. Find out more

Online: A Buddhist Guide to Living with Chronic Pain and Illness

with Toni Bernhard

Sunday, February 16th, 2025 from 5:30pm - 7:30pm ET

Join Toni Bernhard, acclaimed author of How to Be Sick, for a two-hour evening program about living with, and getting curious about, chronic pain and illness. Using the Buddha's teachings as a guide, we'll discover profound insights and practices to help us respond to health challenges with grace. Find out more

March 2025

Online: The Subtle Art of Not Doing Anything

with Jeff Warren

Thursday, March 20th, 2025 from 7:00pm - 8:30pm ET

Life is hard! So much happening, so many people doing important things, running helter skelter all over in a flurry of productivity. This 90 minutes is not about any of that. Instead, it is about the art of doing nothing—as an aspiration, as a way to reset the nervous system, and as a deep spiritual practice of undoing a lifetime of chronic stress and control-freak micromanagement. Find out more

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