New York Insight Meditation Center

03/09/2026

Work, s*x, and money are three of the most charged areas of our everyday lives, yet their potency is often ignored in our practice.

Over the course of this weekend retreat with longtime Dharma Teacher and author Martin Aylward, we’ll explore each domain in depth.

The optional online follow-up sessions after the week allow you to integrate your insights as you continue to practice in your daily roles and relationships where these areas impact us.

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03/03/2026

Meditation practice brings us right to our edge:

The edge between acceptance and resistance. Between leaning into difficulty and seeking safety. Between staying open and shutting down.

In this interactive half-day retreat on Sunday, March 29th, 2026, with Harvard psychologist and meditation teacher Paul Fulton, we’ll explore these tensions in the context of your actual, lived challenges. Through meditation and guided inquiry, we’ll look at how to stay grounded without numbing out, how to bear witness without becoming overwhelmed, and how to cultivate equanimity without drifting into indifference.

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In-Person and Online: Am I Supposed To Be OK With This? Practice at the Cutting Edge with Paul Fulton Sunday, March 29th,

03/03/2026

These are hard times, and many of us are asking: how do I keep going?

This half-day retreat on Saturday, March 21st, with yoga and meditation teacher Oneika Mays offers space to resource yourself through gentle yoga, mindfulness, and deep rest.

Everyone is welcome. Click for more info and to reserve your spot!

In-Person: Moving with Kindness - A Half-Day Yoga Retreat with Oneika Mays Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET

03/03/2026

The Buddha called the volatile forces that unsettle hearts and minds the Eight Worldly Winds: gain and loss, praise and blame, status and shame, pleasure and pain.

In this four-week course, led by meditation teacher David Grogan, beginning on Tuesday, March 17th, you'll investigate these destabilizing winds and cultivate a greater capacity to weather the blustery stresses of modern life.

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In-Person and Online: When the Worldly Winds Blow - Resilience in Times of Stress, Fear, and Uncertainty with David Grogan Tuesdays, March

02/23/2026

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 Teachers Lani Miller and Elaine Retholtz on Saturday, February 28th, 2026, for a special in-person or online 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 Elaine Retholtz and Lani Miller Saturday, February 28th, 2026 |

02/23/2026

Most of us want to act with wisdom and compassion, yet we often find ourselves repeating patterns that cause harm or frustration.

The meditative path encourages us to let go — but what does that really mean? And how can we release old habits without withdrawing from life?

In this three-hour online program on Saturday, March 21st, 2026, renowned Buddhist teacher Martine Batchelor will guide us through four stages of letting go. Through meditation and reflection, we’ll explore our triggers, habits, and conditioned reactions, and discover how mindfulness opens space for wiser, more creative responses.

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Online: Letting Go in Four Stages with Martine Batchelor Saturday, March 21st, 2026 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET Most of us try

02/18/2026

On Thursday, March 12th, 2026 (6:30–8:30pm ET), join Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds Roberts for a live, experiential workshop exploring what happens when the body is given a break from effort.

Through gentle InterPlay and meditation practices, we’ll create space to:

• Step out of striving and productivity
• Reconnect with natural spontaneity
• Let creativity arise without pressure or performance

Part of The Body Remembers Freedom series, this evening is an invitation to experience what becomes possible when nothing needs to be achieved.

Join online or in person. Reserve your spot now.

In-Person and Online: The Power of Play - Improvisation, Trust, and The Gift of Aimlessness Part of The Body Remembers Freedom Series

02/18/2026

Are you caught in an addiction relapse cycle and ready to heal the deeper patterns that fuel it?

Join us on Saturday, April 11th, 2026 , for a daylong retreat led by meditation teacher George Haas that integrates meditation, attachment repair, and relapse prevention to heal addiction at its root.

This offering is for you if…

•You’re interested in learning more about attachment theory and addiction (no need to identify as an addict to attend).
•You’re in recovery and/or navigating addiction (or have in the past) and are ready to move beyond “just staying sober” into healing the attachment patterns that drive relapse and chronic disconnection.

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In-Person and Online: The Heart of Addiction - Working with Shame, Repairing Attachment Wounds with George Haas Saturday, April 11th, 2026 |

02/12/2026

Joy shouldn't be something we have to chase or dependent on circumstances lining up just right.

In the Buddhist tradition, joy is understood as an inner capacity—something that can be cultivated, strengthened, and lived into with practice.

In this 4-week course with meditation teachers Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm on Saturdays, March 7th – 28th, 2026, you’ll learn to open the heart and train your attention toward the subtle moments where joy is already present.

Through meditation, reflection, and teachings from the Buddha—especially the Brahma Viharas—we’ll explore how to recognize and deepen well-being in everyday life.

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Online: Cultivating Simple Joy in Daily Life - A Four-Week Course with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm Saturdays, March 7th – 28th,

02/11/2026

🏮🌕 Lunar New Year Meditation Sit and Potluck 🌕🏮

Led by meditation teacher Lin Wang Gordon, the New York Insight's Asian Diaspora Sangha invites you to gather on Friday, February 20th, 2026 from 6:30–9:00pm ET for an in-person evening of reflection, connection, and celebration as we welcome the Lunar New Year.

Together we’ll honor ancestry and heritage, share what this holiday means to us, and enjoy a vegetarian potluck in community.

Offered by donation, this is a dedicated space for those who self-identify as members of the Asian Diaspora.

We look forward to celebrating together in joy and presence.

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In-Person: Lunar New Year Sit and Potluck for the Asian Diaspora Sangha   with Lin Wang Gordon   Friday, February 20th, 2026 | 6:30pm

02/11/2026

Join us for an evening exploring ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, as a contemplative mindfulness practice.

Led by renowned author, feng shui educator, architect, and longtime ikebana teacher, Anjie Cho, 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.

🗓 Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET
✨ All materials provided
🌿 No experience necessary
📍at New York Insight Meditation Center at 115 West 29th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY

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In-Person: The Way of Flowers - Evening Ikebana with Anjie Cho Thursday, March 5th, 2026 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm ET

02/11/2026

Grief doesn’t just show up after a major loss.

It shows up in quieter ways too—through unexpected change, uncertainty, the accumulation of what hasn’t gone as hoped, or the simple ache of caring deeply in a fragile world.

In our next The Body Remembers Freedom Series on Thursday, February 12th, 2026, teachers Kaira Jewel Lingo and Linds West Roberts invite us to gently open to grief as a living, embodied experience—one we can meet with care rather than avoidance.

Through meditation, reflection, simple movement, and welcoming our voices, we’ll practice staying connected to ourselves and one another while touching what has been lost. Rather than trying to fix or bypass grief, the evening offers space to listen to it, honor it, and allow it to move through the body with compassion.

When grief is met in this way, it can soften isolation and deepen our capacity for love, connection, and belonging.

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In-Person and Online: Opening to Grief - Making Space for Love, Loss, and What We Carry Part of The Body Remembers Freedom Series