New York Insight Meditation Center

08/25/2025

Next Saturday, August 30th, join Tara Brach and New York Insight Guiding Teacher Leslie Booker for a special program exploring the bodhisattva path—wisdom that strengthens belonging and deepens our capacity for compassionate action.

In-person seats are limited, so please register soon if you’d like to join us at the center. There is still plenty of room to participate online.

The afternoon will include talks, guided reflections, relational practice, and time for Q&A.

We hope to see you there! Click for more information and to reserve your spot.

In-Person and Online: Choosing Love - Bodhisattvas in Perilous Times with Tara Brach (via Zoom) and Leslie Booker (in-person) Saturday, August 30th,

08/18/2025

Learn how to cultivate a meditation practice that will lay the foundation for building a true consistent practice.

During this half-day retreat, with meditation teacher Amanda Gilbert on Saturday, October 4th, 2025, you will learn to build a sustainable meditation practice that will become an integral part of your daily life.

At the end, you will not only know how to meditate consistently, but you will also understand how having the foundation of an inner home through daily meditation shapes your day-to-day external world and lived experience.

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In-Person and Online: How to Build a Consistent Meditation Practice with Amanda Gilbert Saturday, October 4th, 2025 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

08/15/2025

What is the cure for the suffering that comes from feeling isolated and insecure?

Join meditation teacher and author Tracy Cochran for a new five-week course beginning Friday, September 12th, combining mindfulness meditation with mindful writing. Together, we will explore how meditation practice and the Buddha’s teachings can spark creativity and broaden our experience of the world.

This course is open to everyone—no meditation or writing experience required.

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In-Person and Online: Mindful Writing - Finding Our Authentic Voice   with Tracy Cochran   Fridays, September 12th - October 10th, 2025 | 4:00pm

08/15/2025

Many of us come to meditation practice looking for relief from anxiety, depression, or just the busyness of life–only to find those same experiences sitting alongside us on the cushion.

During this half-day workshop on Sunday, September 21st, 2025, Dan Harris, author and host of the10% Happier podcast, and New York Insight’s Guiding Teacher Leslie Booker, will share how the dharma can help us meet these moments with skill, compassion, and maybe even a bit of humor.

In-person seating is limited and expected to fill, so be sure to reserve your spot soon if you'd like to join us. Online participation is also available.

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In-Person and Online: Heavily Meditated - The Dharma of Depression + Anxiety with Dan Harris and Leslie Booker Sunday, September 21st, 2025

08/12/2025

Many of us believe that we have to earn rest and renewal and that overwork is the norm.

Over the course of this online or in-person half-day retreat on Sunday, August 24th, 2025, Buddhist teacher Valerie Brown will invite participants to investigate the connection between radiant rest, peacemaking, and social justice.

Together we’ll explore how we can ground ourselves, and live closer to alignment with our deepest values.

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In-Person and Online: Reclaiming Rest - Nourishing Practices to Renew and Restore Body, Mind, and Spirit with Valerie Brown Sunday, August 24th,

08/06/2025

Being human is hard. Meditation helps in about a million different ways, and one big specific way: it helps us create space around our very human challenges.

Join meditation teacher and New York Times Best Selling Author, Jeff Warren on Thursday, August 14th, 2025 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET for this special in-person or online evening program to explore the sacred mystery of the moment, the weirdness of reality, and the many possibilities inherent in our lived experiences.

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In-Person and Online: Being Human Takes Practice with Jeff Warren Thursday, August 14th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

08/04/2025

Join us for a daylong exploration of ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, as a contemplative mindfulness practice.

Led by Anjie Cho—renowned author, feng shui educator, architect, and longtime ikebana teacher—this program is a chance to slow down, connect with nature, and create something beautiful.

You’ll learn to work with the qi (life force) of flowers, gain insight into Buddhist and Taoist principles of dharma art, and leave with your own flower arrangement to take home.

🗓 This Saturday, August 9th | 11am–1:30pm and 2:30–5pm ET
✨ All materials provided
🌿 No experience necessary
📍at New York Insight Meditation Center at 115 West 29th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY

Visit nyimc.org to learn more and register!

08/04/2025

How can we maintain a mindfulness practice when the external world feels completely beyond our control?

Join Sprit Rock Guiding Teacher and former prosecuting attorney Tuere Sala on Thursday, September 11th, 2025, to explore how to establish mindfulness and a sense of calm—even when things we thought were solid start to change or fluctuate.

Through meditation and reflection, we’ll come to see mindfulness as a source of power and agency, allowing us to move through challenging situations with strength and integrity.

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In-Person and Online: The Importance of Maintaining Inner Stability in External Uncertainty with Tuere Sala Thursday, September 11th, 2025 | 6:30pm -

07/03/2025

Join renowned activist and meditation teacher Fleet Maull on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025, for a special online evening workshop to reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence through Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness—a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based approach to healing and awakening through direct, embodied experience.

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Online: An Embodied Pathway to Liberation with Fleet Maull Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET Many of us struggle

06/09/2025

Too many women live with an invisible ache: the feeling that no matter how much they give, it’s never enough. That they can care for everyone around them—but still struggle to offer that same love to themselves.

This four-week online course with Buddhist teacher Dalya Tamir on Thursdays, July 10th – 31st, 2025, is for all who identify as women. Together, we’ll explore how the Buddhist path can help us understand and begin to heal the deep patterns of self-abandonment—self-doubt, self-judgment, and the belief that we don’t belong.

Through guided meditations, reflection, and community connection, we’ll get to know the voice of our inner judge and learn how to transform it with kindness and understanding. We will turn back to our bodies, embrace and celebrate them no matter what our size, shape, age, ability, or color of skin. We will learn to pause at moments of emotional reactivity and find our way back to balance.

Based on Dalya’s book "Turning Back to Ourselves", this course offers both collective and personal support—including optional one-on-one meetings with Dalya.

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Online: Coming Home to Ourselves - A Four-Week Course for Women with Dalya Tamir Thursdays, July 10th - 31st, 2025 | 6:30pm

06/06/2025

There’s so much to do. And there never seems to be enough time.

Yet, the demands of life only seem to grow amidst the unfolding of our lives and our world, personally and collectively. Is there permission to rest our weary bodies and distressed nervous systems? How can we rest, resource, and find refuge?

Over the course of this evening event with meditation teacher Yong Oh on Thursday, June 12th, 2025, we will explore how rest can permeate our spiritual life and practice in such a way that resting itself becomes a profound and essential doorway on the path of awakening. Drawing from the Buddhist tradition, we’ll examine how this practice is essential and radical for the times we live in.

Through a dharma talk, practice, and discussion, we will reflect on rest as practice and practice as rest, and examine how both are deeply personal and connected to the world around us.

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Online: Resting in the Middle of the Full Catastrophe   with Yong Oh   Thursday, June 12th, 2025 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET     There’s