Joe Loizzo

08/18/2025

05/13/2025

We recently wrapped up our Wise Compassion Spring Retreat—Inconceivable Liberation: The Non-Dual Wisdom and Art of Growing Beloved Community—a part of our Contemplative Psychotherapy Program at Tibet House US - NYC. Led by the amazing Jasmine Syedullah and our founder Joe Loizzo, it was a powerful weekend full of connection, reflection, and transformation.

In a world that often feels fragmented, this gathering reminded us of the strength we find in coming together—with open hearts and wise compassion—to build beloved community.

Check out the blog post by Geri Loizzo, our Director of Programs and Community Engagement, who shares a beautiful reflection on the retreat.
https://nalandainstitute.org/seeding-the-field-of-beloved-community

We hope you can attend the next gathering or participate in our Contemplative Psychotherapy Program.

Find out about the life-changing Contemplative Psychotherapy Program at:
https://nalandainstitute.org/contemplative-psychotherapy-program/






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05/04/2025

04/18/2025

Our good friends at Jewel Heart International present an online workshop, “Love, Attachment, and Freeing the Relational Self,” with Joe Loizzo!

Drawing upon his unique experience integrating Buddhist psychology with contemporary psychotherapy, Joe will help participants understand the wisdom of selflessness as a practical way to heal the heartbreak of early trauma and live from our relational Buddha-self of radical openness to loving connection.

Please join us for a half day of deep reflection, shared dialogue, and contemplative practice in a safe and brave communal space to practice awakening together to our primal Buddha-nature of radically open, loving connection and communion!

Saturday, May 10, 10:00am - 1:00pm ET
For more info or to register visit: https://nalanda.tiny.us/jewelheart-joe

04/16/2025

Join us this weekend for a special hybrid Spring retreat as Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program presents “Fire to Light: Completion Stage Yogas for Transforming Trauma” at Tibet House US in New York City!

Our main focus together will be tasting how the flow states sparked by sublimation fuel the light of the supreme yoga, the embodied transformational form of emptiness meditation also known as the great communion (mahamudra) and great perfection (mahanispanna).

Dr Nida Chenagtsang and Joe Loizzo introduce the embodied neuroscience and transformative arts of the completion stage of Unexcelled Ta***ic healing.

Together, we explore how its powerful and accessible Vajra Therapy can help catalyze and speed the dissolution of our fragmented trauma body into our fully awakened, whole humanity at the individual, interpersonal, societal, and planetary levels.

We conclude by exploring how the lucid intuition and joyful care accessed by this profound practice can be applied through embodied psychotherapy and psychosocial change to transform the fragmentation of our individual and collective trauma into the diamond nervous system and rainbow planet prophesied by the Clockwork (Kalachakra) Ta**ra.

When: Friday – Sunday, April 18 – 20
Where: Tibet House US - NYC / Online via Zoom
For more info or to register: https://nalanda.tiny.us/fire-light

If you can’t join live, recordings will be sent to all registrants and available for six weeks!

04/12/2025

03/31/2025

Please join my good friend Dr Nida Chenagtsang and me for this incredible weekend retreat!

Join us for a transformative weekend as Nalanda Institute's Contemplative Psychotherapy Program presents a special hybrid Spring retreat at Tibet House US in New York City!

The weekend introduces the embodied neuroscience and transformative arts of the completion stage of Unexcelled Ta***ic healing. It explores how its powerful and accessible Vajra Therapy can help catalyze and speed the dissolution of our fragmented trauma body into our fully awakened, whole humanity at the individual, interpersonal, societal, and planetary levels.

After reviewing how Vajra Therapy combines the mindful arts of healing imagery and narrative with the somatic arts of self-massage, movement, and breath-work, retreat leaders Dr Nida Chenagtsang and Dr. Joe Loizzo will survey the transformational journey of the completion stage, including the nine yogas that lead from the basic art of inner fire sublimation (tummo) to the supreme yoga (ati-yoga) of fully awakened, full-bodied integration.

When: Friday – Sunday, April 18 – 20
Where: House US - NYC / Online via Zoom
More info or to register: https://nalanda.tiny.us/fire-light

03/25/2025

03/17/2025

Inconceivable Liberation: The Non-Dual Wisdom and Art of Growing Beloved Community

Are you seeking ways to navigate the challenges and difficult emotions we face individually and as a community, such as feelings of helplessness, fear, panic, and rage?

We invite you to a unique weekend retreat designed to help you tap into the transformative wisdom and power of love and joy.

Join Vassar College abolition theorist Jasmine Syedullah and Nalanda Institute Academic Director Dr. Joe Loizzo as we explore the profound connections between contemplative practice and Western traditions of social justice and self-world transformation.

In partnership with Tibet House US - NYC, this unique retreat will bring together the insightful teachings of Universalist (Mahayana) founder Acharya Nagarjuna and the Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti with the powerful and revolutionary visions found in Harriet Jacobs’s abolitionist journal and Audre Lord’s essays.

We believe everyone can benefit from exploring these powerful tools for personal and collective well-being.

This enriching event is part of Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program Wise Compassion year of study. ALL are welcome to attend!

Please join us for a supportive weekend dedicated to cultivating inner strength, joy, and a vision for a more just and loving world!

Online or in person at Tibet House US

Friday, March 28th: 2pm–5pm (ET)
Saturday, March 29th: 10am–4:30pm (ET)
Sunday, March 30th: 10am–3pm (ET)

To register or for more info go to:
https://nalanda.tiny.us/liberation-2025

01/27/2025

We start our special three-session “Boundess Leadership: The New Science of Human Potential Meets the Timeless Art of Flourishing” tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28.

Foster greater meaning, less stress and more joy in 2025.

Join us on this comprehensive, accessible path for individuals not just to achieve success with more clarity, ease and confidence, but also to redefine success as sustainable happiness for self, others and society as a whole.

Tuesdays, January 28, February 4, February 11 from 7:00 – 8:30pm ET

https://nalandainstitute.org/boundless-leadership-introduction-course/

01/25/2025

May this be the year of your best self!

Foster greater meaning, less stress, and more joy in 2025.

Join Nalanda Institute founder along with executive coach and author Elazar Aslan for “Boundless Leadership: The New Science of Human Potential Meets the Timeless Art of Flourishing."

This special 3-session course introduces you to a way of being and working that allows you to be at your best, empower others, and create positive change.

This intensive course offers you an understanding of how to engage your mind, heart, and body to align your intentions, model empowered leadership, and break free of self-imposed limits to set a fearless vision for yourself and others.

We start next week!
Tuesdays, January 28, February 4, February 11 from 7:00 – 8:30pm ET

For more info or to register:
https://nalandainstitute.org/boundless-leadership-introduction-course