Joe Loizzo

12/02/2025

Please consider donating today to our year-end fundraiser.

No donation is too small!

Thank you for supporting our Year-End Fundraiser, Growing a Wiser Future Together! On this page, you can make a one-time donation or you can become an ongoing partner with a recurring donation. You may also send a check payable to “Nalanda Institute” to 300 Central Park West, Suite 1D, New York...

11/07/2025

Please join Elazar Aslan and me for this remarkable 3-session mini course!

Unlock the Boundless Leader in you this Monday!

Now is the perfect time to focus on being more in sync, having strong values, reacting with skill, and showing genuine care.

If you’re looking for more clarity, confidence, and connection in your personal or professional life, why not explore what’s possible in just three sessions of our Boundless Leadership mini course?

Through a combination of neuroscience, contemplative wisdom, and practical leadership insights, you can learn a methodical and proven process to access your true potential.

Join us in this three-session introduction to the award-winning Boundless Leadership program developed and led by Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan.

Online via Zoom on Mondays, November 10, November 17, and November 24 from 6:30 – 8:00pm ET.

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

10/15/2025

Unlock the Boundless Leader in you!

Self-leadership is not about a specific role or function, it is about how we carry ourselves and move in the world with other people.

These times call for more alignment, embodied integrity, skillful responsiveness, and open-heartedness. If you are yearning for more clarity, confidence, and connection in your personal or professional life, then see what is possible in just three sessions of our Boundless Leadership mini-course.

Through a combination of neuroscience, contemplative wisdom, and practical leadership insights, you can learn a methodical and proven process to access your true potential.

Join us for this three-session introduction to the award-winning Boundless Leadership program developed and led by Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan.

Online via Zoom on Mondays, November 10, November 17, and November 24 from 6:30 – 8:00pm ET.

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

09/17/2025

I am pleased to share reflections about my friend Dr Nida Chenagtsang and to share a video from a prior retreat, “From Fire to Light: Completion Stage Yogas for Transforming Trauma,” on “Non-Dual Wisdom and Embodied Connection,” that we led together.

“Teaching with Dr. Nida for me feels like sharing with a long-lost brother from the other side of history and the planet. Raised and educated in the Mongolian part of Eastern Tibet, Dr. Nida has become an innovative, international voice for the unique tradition of Tibetan medicine, which focuses on embodied Ta***ic healing and transformation, the tradition founded by Yuthog Yonten Gonpo (1127–1203).”

Read our new post featuring reflections from Joe Loizzo about his unique relationship with his friend Dr Nida Chenagtsang, and our upcoming Certificate Program in Embodied Wisdom.

And watch a video excerpt from a prior retreat, “From Fire to Light: Completion Stage Yogas for Transforming Trauma,” on “Non-Dual Wisdom and Embodied Connection.”

Read and watch!
nalandainstitute.org/from-fire-to-light/

08/26/2025

Did you miss our wonderful CPP Open House last week?

Members of the Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy Program (CPP) shared overviews of our upcoming programs, and they answered questions from a remarkable and wide-ranging group of curious seekers who wondered if CPP was the right path for them this Fall.

What is this transformational journey, and is it right for me?

Just what is contemplative psychotherapy?

What kind of work do I need to do to receive a certificate?

Is there homework?

Do I fit into the Nalanda Institute's inclusive and caring community?

If you still have questions, let us know!

Two branches of our CPP program launch this September.

Mindfulness, Insight, and Care, offered in English and Spanish/Portuguese, launches September 12.

Embodied Wisdom, offered in English, launches September 26.

Whether you are a clinician, caregiver of any kind, teacher, or simply a passionate seeker of the deeper wisdom this tradition has to offer, we warmly welcome you to join us.

Las traducciones al español están disponibles. Traduções em português estão disponíveis.

Watch the video and see if CPP is right for you!
https://nalanda.tiny.us/open-house-video

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