New York Insight Meditation Center

11/13/2025

Thanks to a generous donor, we’re now offering free tickets for anyone under 30 years of age!

Join bestselling author and podcast host Dan Harris and comedian Pete Holmes on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET for a special live taping of the renowned 10% Happier Podcast.

Location: Marble Collegiate Church (1 West 29th Street, New York, NY) or live streamed online

Visit nyimc.org for more information and to pick up your tickets!

11/04/2025

What if your body already carried the wisdom you need to heal, connect, and come home to yourself?

This Thursday, November 6th, former Buddhist nun, Kaira Jewel Lingo and certified InterPlay Leader, Linds West Roberts will lead a gathering exploring the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body.

Together we will create a space that welcomes laughter, tears, rest, and joy — a space where you can move freely, feel deeply, and be held in community. Through this practice, we remember what it feels like to trust ourselves, to breathe fully, and to belong.

We hope you can join us! Visit nyimc.org more info and registration.

11/04/2025

The Buddha taught that freedom from suffering comes from letting go, but many of us have trouble letting go and simply resting, listening, and receiving.

Join meditation teacher Cara Lai on Thursday, December 18th, 2025 for an online evening exploring how to rest, let go, then move back towards action from a place of love instead of fear.

We hope you can join us! Click for more information and program registration.

Online: Liberation Through Deep Rest with Cara Lai Thursday, December 18th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET The Buddha taught that freedom

11/04/2025

As our meditation practice matures, we may recognize the importance of relinquishing opinions, grudges, judgments, and resentments through honest reconciliation.

Join longtime mindfulness teacher and author Bob Stahl, Ph.D. on Thursday, December 4th, 2025, for a special online evening program on The Practices of Reconciliation, exploring how forgiveness and understanding can open the heart to deeper wisdom and ease.

Together we’ll explore four forms of reconciliation:

•With ourselves, for the times we’ve been harsh or unkind
•With those we’ve hurt
•With those who’ve hurt us
•And with the reality of things as they are

Through guided meditation, reflection, and discussion, Bob will help us discover how reconciliation can transform old patterns of resentment into compassion—for ourselves, others, and the world we share.

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Online: Making Peace and Reconciling the Heart with Bob Stahl, PhD Thursday, December 4th, 2025 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm ET As our

10/28/2025

Healing, connection, and freedom begin when you listen to your body.

Join The Body Remembers Freedom on Thursday, November 6, 2025. This monthly gathering with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts blends meditation, dharma, and InterPlay, a joyful embodied practice using movement, voice, and storytelling to awaken your body’s natural wisdom.

Come as you are. No performance, experience, or flexibility required. Just a willingness to be curious and present.

Together we create a space that welcomes laughter, tears, rest, and joy — a place to move freely, feel deeply, and be held in community. Through this practice, we remember what it means to trust ourselves, to breathe fully, and to belong.

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In-Person and Online: The Body Remembers Freedom - Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts

10/24/2025

Join us for an intimate in-person gathering with podcast host , comedian , and meditation teachers , , and on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 from 5:00–6:00pm.

This special benefit event at New York Insight offers a rare opportunity to connect with our benefit’s featured guests in a relaxed and personal setting before our main Benefit Event later in the evening begins. 

Tickets at www.nyimc.org/event/warm-up

10/23/2025

In this two-day weekend retreat, join long-time friends and collaborators Booker Leslie and Dara Silverman on Saturday and Sunday, November 22nd-23rd, 2025 as they weave together somatic (body-based) practices and the heart practices of the Buddha’s teachings on loving-kindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity.

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In-Person and Online: Finding Care in the Overwhelm - Hope as a Counterculture Practice (Weekend Retreat) with Leslie Booker and Dara Silverman

10/23/2025

It’s no fun to get sick, have little stamina, or experience chronic physical pain.

Aside from reminding us that life is uncertain, unpredictable, and often does not conform to our wishes, these challenges can provide a measure of peace if we know how to respond skillfully.

Toni Bernhard, the acclaimed author of How to Be Sick, returns to NYI on Sunday, November 2nd, 2025, for a two-hour online program about adjusting gracefully to life with chronic pain and illness. She’ll use the Buddha’s teachings to address the specific challenges that those who are sick or in pain face.

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Online: A Buddhist Guide to Living with Chronic Pain and Illness with Toni Bernhard Sunday, November 2nd, 2025 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm

10/16/2025

It can often feel like we are rushing through our days, accumulating stress, missing out on meaningful moments, and making reactionary decisions. And even though we know that pace isn’t good for us, it's still hard to slow down.

Join New York Insight Guiding Teacher Leslie Booker on Saturday, November 1st, 2025, for a special daylong silent meditation retreat for those who want to reconnect and deepen their practice.

Together we will pause, reset, and find some much-needed mental space and clarity.

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In-Person and Online: Day of Insight - A Daylong Meditation Retreat with Leslie Booker Saturday, November 1st, 2025 | 10:00am - 4:00pm

10/15/2025

Both Buddhism and Native American traditions teach that gratitude is a powerful medicine—one that can help heal ourselves, our relationships, and our world.

Join meditation teachers Bonnie Duran and Ramona Peters on Thursday, November 20th for a special half-day online program exploring gratitude through meditation, reflection, and group discussion.

You’ll learn practices rooted in Buddhist teachings and enriched by Native American perspectives on thanksgiving and interconnection.

All are welcome, regardless of background or meditation experience.

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Online: Cultivating Thanksgiving with Indigenous and Buddhist Wisdom   with Bonnie Duran and Ramona Peters   Thursday, November 20th, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm

10/14/2025

It’s a turbulent time to be a young person. With countless voices telling them who to be as the world feels on fire with crisis after crisis, finding an authentic, hopeful and loving path forward can feel out of reach.

Join us on Saturday, November 8th, 2025, for brunch and dialogue on how meditation and dharma can support young people now more than ever, and learn about the Contemplative Semester, a powerful new program for young people.

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In-Person: Young People Are Struggling. The Dharma Can Help - A Brunch Conversation for Teens and Young Adults with Shea Riester and Maya Park

10/14/2025

In a time marked by fragmentation, instability, and growing disconnection, it can be difficult to stay open—or to step beyond our individual needs.

In this online half-day retreat with meditation teachers Devin Berry and Gina LaRoche on Sunday, October 19th, 2025, we’ll explore the concept of dāna, the ancient Buddhist teaching of generosity, as a path toward freedom and interconnection.

We’ll explore how generosity can soften the heart, support letting go, and remind us of the inherent reciprocity in all things.

We hope you can join us! Click for more info and to reserve your spot.

Online: Beyond the Scarcity Mindset - Generosity and the Path of Liberation with Devin Berry and Gina LaRoche Sunday, October 19th, 2025