Events for January 8, 2025 - January 15, 2025 › Open to All

with Bodhipaksa

Saturday, September 28th, 2024 from 9:30am – 1:00pm ET

We all have problems with anger, resentment, and even hatred and contempt. Some of those emotions may have even become more entrenched in us during this election season. The Buddhist tradition offers us reflections and meditation practices designed to outwit and uproot our aversive tendencies. Join meditation teacher Bodhipaksa for a half-day workshop about learning how we can find our way back to a loving state when it seems that love has failed.

with Maho Kawachi

Saturday, September 28th, 2024 from 10:00am – 12:00pm

Join us for an in-person half-day sitting and walking meditation in the beautiful Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

with Bart van Melik

Sunday, September 29th, 2024 from 10:30am - 12:30pm ET

Join us for a special morning of in-person or online meditation, dharma talk, and dialogue, hosted by the Community Meditation Center. Led by meditation teacher Bart van Melin, we’ll explore how a moment of skillful pause can transform our communication—bringing more clarity, kindness, and harmony in our daily lives.

with Wildecy de Fátima Jury

Sunday, October 6th, 2024 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.

with Stephen Fulder

Sunday, October 13th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

During this 3-hour mini-retreat, we will explore how to face personal challenges and the many conflicts around the world with steadiness, from a more universal and less personal point of view. We will practice meditation that helps us remember our big soul and listen to our wise, kind, and liberating inner voices.

with nico hase

Saturday, October 19th, 2024 from 9:45am - 5:00pm ET

The process of walking often gives rise to insights, healing, and a deep sense of letting go. Join visiting Insight meditation teacher nico hase for a day of outer and inner pilgrimage, and a deepening into the sacred in the everyday of city life.

with Maho Kawachi

Sunday, October 20th, 2024 from 9:30am – 12:00pm

As we head into the depths of Autumn, join us for a morning of urban nature meditation practice. We will explore the colors, smells, and sounds of autumn in Central Park.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 from 6:30pm-8:30pm ET

Overwhelmed by election-related anxiety? Not sure if you want to spend the evening of Tuesday, November 5th manically refreshing your news apps and biting your fingernails? New York Insight is offering a meditation space for anyone who seeks an alternative to a frantic election night. Allow yourself some space from what the rest of the evening, and the days to come, will bring.

with Bonnie Duran and Ramona Peters

Saturday, November 30th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Gratitude and related practices can bring peace, calm and happiness. Thanksgiving ceremony is a medicine that we can use to begin to heal ourselves, our relationships, and our world. In this half day program, the teachers will offer meditation practices to develop gratitude which are grounded in Buddhist teachings and informed by their perspectives as Native Americans.

with Maho Kawachi

Saturday, December 7th, 2024 from 10:30am to 12:15pm

Come and walk with us at Inwood Hill Park, in largest remaining old-growth forest on the northern tip of Manhattan. During the 80-minute excursion (apx 1.5 miles), we will practice walking and standing meditation while contemplating this unique terrain and beautiful vistas of the Hudson River.

with Rebecca Bradshaw

Saturday, December 14th, 2024 from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

Most of us are used to living busy, productive, independent lives, but we have less experience with letting go, listening deeply, and embracing vulnerability. Join Insight meditation teacher Rebecca Bradshaw for this half-day retreat exploring the practice of receptive mindfulness, allowing ourselves to be touched by life and recognizing our deep belonging in this world. By practicing dropping out of our usual mind-oriented relationship with the world and down into the body, we will nourish awakening from the heart.