Friday, December 20th, 2024 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm ET
New York Insight's Artist Salon and Café is a monthly gathering is designed for artists and art lovers to come together, socialize, and exchange ideas in a mindful and creative space.
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Saturday, December 21st, 2024 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
It’s natural to fear change — but it is possible to transform those fears into courage and ease. This daylong program will provide you with effective skills to reframe and navigate the emotional challenges of major life changes and transitions with a sense of equanimity and purpose. If you are facing a major life transition: career changes, graduation, relationship endings and beginnings, illness, children leaving the nest, going back to school, retiring, aging, the full catastrophe… this program is for YOU!
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Thursday, December 26th, 2024 from 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session hosted and curated by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Inspired by works of art from the Rubin’s collection and guided by expert teachers, each session is framed around a monthly theme. The sessions are open to beginners and skilled meditators alike and include an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
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Tuesday, December 31st, 2024 from 9:00pm - 12:15am ET
Ring in the new year with purpose at New York Insight! Everyone is welcome to join this community gathering, whether you’re brand new to practice or a seasoned meditator. Come honor the losses and triumphs of 2024 and set your intentions for 2025. Together we will meditate, chant, and welcome the new year with a traditional ringing of our bell 108 times.
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Thursday, January 2nd, 2025 from 1:00pm - 2:00pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Friday, January 3, 2025 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Join us for a warm and welcoming volunteer orientation at New York Insight! Whether you're a current volunteer, considering returning, or new to volunteering with us, we invite you to an in-person orientation in our new home.
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Sunday, January 5th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
This retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. Individual interviews will be available. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch to maintain the meditative atmosphere and concentration.
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Monday, January 6th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
In this yoga class, you’ll enjoy flowing sequences and smooth transitions designed to help you release tension, restore energy, and bring more ease into your movement. The class is not about perfecting poses, but about finding balance, feeling great, and creating energy that lasts beyond the mat.
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Tuesdays, January 7th - February 11th from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and explore how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives.
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Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm
In this free MBSR session, we will explore mindfulness practices that are accessible to individuals of any background and experience level. It will also offer insight into reclaiming control over one's well-being, cultivating resilience, and embracing a life of mindful presence.
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Wednesdays, January 8th - February 26th, 2025 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
Join us for an online eight-week course with New York Insight Teacher Jon Aaron exploring how we can live with uncertainty, not from a place of fear but with buoyancy, curiosity, and ease. We’ll discover how the teachings provide practical ways of coping with various threats and how we can cultivate joy in uncertainty instead of battling it in the hope of clinging to certainties that ultimately will not last.
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind.
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Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2025 from 12:00pm - 12:45pm
In these 45-minute chair-based yoga classes, we’ll focus on mind-body awareness, emotional regulation, and gently building strength and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to bring this practice home into your daily life, and how, just like with your meditation practice, even small practice sessions, done consistently, can result in transformational changes in your life.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2025 from 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session hosted and curated by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Inspired by works of art from the Rubin’s collection and guided by expert teachers, each session is framed around a monthly theme. The sessions are open to beginners and skilled meditators alike and include an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
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Thursday, January 9th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Over the course of this evening, you’ll learn somatic meditation, Buddhist mindfulness, and Somatic Experiencing® (SE) techniques to help you reconnect deeply with yourself. Drawing on the combined wisdom of mindfulness and SE, this class offers powerful practices to regulate the nervous system, access embodied awareness, and develop a compassionate relationship with your inner experience.
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Sunday, January 12th, February 2nd, March 2nd, April 6th, May 4th, June 8th, July 6th, August 3rd, September 7th, October 5th, November 2nd, December 7th, 2025 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
This yearlong course is about living fully in each moment of your life through the Buddha’s perspective—his core teachings. We will explore our thoughts and feelings about dying and how this process awakens us all to the preciousness of this life. Once a month for all of 2025, we will meet to discuss how Buddhist teachings can help us greet death with an open, loving mind.
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Sunday, January 12th, 2025 from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Whether you’ve been a part of our community for years or are brand new to NYIMC and meditation, we invite you to join us for our Monthly Sangha Potluck in our new home on 29th street!
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In-Person Course: Tuesdays, January 14th - March 11th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm
In-Person Daylong: Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 | 9:30am - 5:00pm
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 from 9:30am - 12:00pm
In this free MBSR session, we will explore mindfulness practices that are accessible to individuals of any background and experience level. It will also offer insight into reclaiming control over one's well-being, cultivating resilience, and embracing a life of mindful presence.
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind.
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, January 16th, 2025 from 12:00pm - 12:45pm
In these 45-minute chair-based yoga classes, we’ll focus on mind-body awareness, emotional regulation, and gently building strength and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to bring this practice home into your daily life, and how, just like with your meditation practice, even small practice sessions, done consistently, can result in transformational changes in your life.
Find out more
Thursday, January 16th, 2025 from 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session hosted and curated by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Inspired by works of art from the Rubin’s collection and guided by expert teachers, each session is framed around a monthly theme. The sessions are open to beginners and skilled meditators alike and include an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
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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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Friday, January 17th, 2025 from 8:00pm - 9:30pm ET
New York Insight's Artist Salon and Café is a monthly gathering is designed for artists and art lovers to come together, socialize, and exchange ideas in a mindful and creative space.
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Saturday, January 18th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
Self-compassion could heal every part of you, if you stayed with it long enough. It also 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. Drawing on the integration of Buddhist principles and the Internal Family Systems model, as explored in Ralph De La Rosa’s new book Outshining Trauma, this retreat invites you into a transformative practice of presence and healing.
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Sunday, January 19th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
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. 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.
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Monday, January 20th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
In this yoga class, you’ll enjoy flowing sequences and smooth transitions designed to help you release tension, restore energy, and bring more ease into your movement. The class is not about perfecting poses, but about finding balance, feeling great, and creating energy that lasts beyond the mat.
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In-Person Course: Wednesdays, January 22nd - March 12th, 2025 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
In-Person Daylong:Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 | 9:30am - 5:00pm
MBSR has helped thousands of people decrease the effects of stress in their lives, allowing them to reduce the symptoms of both physical and psychological problems, and to live their lives with more ease, vitality, and enjoyment.
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind.
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 from 12:00pm - 12:45pm
In these 45-minute chair-based yoga classes, we’ll focus on mind-body awareness, emotional regulation, and gently building strength and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to bring this practice home into your daily life, and how, just like with your meditation practice, even small practice sessions, done consistently, can result in transformational changes in your life.
Find out more
Thursday, January 23rd, 2025 from 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session hosted and curated by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Inspired by works of art from the Rubin’s collection and guided by expert teachers, each session is framed around a monthly theme. The sessions are open to beginners and skilled meditators alike and include an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
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Saturday, January 25th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
As our climate, society, and collective values change and shift, it can be hard to know how to sit with it all. In this day-long retreat, Bart van Melik and Booker will share wisdom on navigating critical or anxious inner dialogue, finding peace amidst life's challenges, and uncovering the innate qualities of the heart.
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
This monthly Sunday morning practice is led by one of NYI’s seasoned teachers, who will guide participants in both seated and moving meditation, offer a Dharma talk, and engage in dialogue with the community.
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Sunday, January 26th, 2025 from 2:00pm - 5:00pm ET
The promise of meditation is to reduce or eliminate sorrow, pain, and distress, and to realize freedom from suffering. Yet, accomplishing this is much more complex for those of us with unresolved trauma. This class will include both classical and trauma-informed meditation instructions on working with sensations in the body, and delve into ways we can practice with, and not against, our fear, anger, and anxiety.
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Mondays, January 27th - March 10th (skips President's Day 2/17) from 9:30am - 11:30am ET
If you’ve been wanting to learn how to meditate or refresh and renew the meditation practice you already have, we invite you to join this six-week meditation course to explore the practice of Insight (Vipassana) meditation in a warm, supportive environment. We will emphasize experiential practice, including instructions for sitting and walking meditation, and explore how we can bring this practice of presence into our everyday lives.
Find out more
Monday, January 27th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
In this yoga class, you’ll enjoy flowing sequences and smooth transitions designed to help you release tension, restore energy, and bring more ease into your movement. The class is not about perfecting poses, but about finding balance, feeling great, and creating energy that lasts beyond the mat.
Find out more
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind.
Find out more
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Find out more
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 from 12:00pm - 12:45pm
In these 45-minute chair-based yoga classes, we’ll focus on mind-body awareness, emotional regulation, and gently building strength and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to bring this practice home into your daily life, and how, just like with your meditation practice, even small practice sessions, done consistently, can result in transformational changes in your life.
Find out more
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 from 1:00pm - 1:45pm
Practice the art of attention in this weekly meditation session hosted and curated by the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. Inspired by works of art from the Rubin’s collection and guided by expert teachers, each session is framed around a monthly theme. The sessions are open to beginners and skilled meditators alike and include an opening talk, a 20-minute meditation session, and a closing discussion.
Find out more
Monday, February 3rd, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
In this yoga class, you’ll enjoy flowing sequences and smooth transitions designed to help you release tension, restore energy, and bring more ease into your movement. The class is not about perfecting poses, but about finding balance, feeling great, and creating energy that lasts beyond the mat.
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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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Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 from 5:15pm - 6:00pm
Join Marijke Eliasberg, a certified teacher of tai chi, to reconnect with your body and breath, and empower yourself with basic tools to help maintain a balanced and healthy mind.
Find out more
Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
Find out more
Thursday, February 6th, 2025 from 12:00pm - 12:45pm
In these 45-minute chair-based yoga classes, we’ll focus on mind-body awareness, emotional regulation, and gently building strength and flexibility. You’ll also learn how to bring this practice home into your daily life, and how, just like with your meditation practice, even small practice sessions, done consistently, can result in transformational changes in your life.
Find out more
Thursday, February 6th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
Learn the basics of Insight/Mindfulness meditation practice in a warm, supportive environment. This evening workshop includes clear instructions and time to meditate, with guidance from a New York Insight teacher and plenty of time for sharing and Q&A.
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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?
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Sunday, February 9th, 2025 from 10:00am - 4:00pm ET
This retreat day will be one of noble silence for those who want to deepen their practice. It will include sitting, walking, and select inspirational readings for contemplation. Individual interviews will be available. Participants are welcome to bring their lunch to maintain the meditative atmosphere and concentration.
Find out more
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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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.
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Sunday, February 16th, 2025 from 10:00am - 12:00pm ET
This monthly Sunday morning practice is led by one of NYI’s seasoned teachers, who will guide participants in both seated and moving meditation, offer a Dharma talk, and engage in dialogue with the community.
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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.
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
New York Insight now offers this series of in-person community gatherings consisting of guided meditation, a talk by one of our teachers, followed by group discussion, and opportunities to socialize and connect with like-minded practitioners. All are welcome.
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Friday, February 28th, 2025 from 6:00pm - 9:00pm ET
New York Insight's Artist Salon and Café is a monthly gathering is designed for artists and art lovers to come together, socialize, and exchange ideas in a mindful and creative space.