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New York Insight Community Meditation Gathering in Central Park – Sunday, 7/23

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Date: Sunday, 7/23/2023 Time: 5-7pm – group meditation, 7-7:45pm – optional community picnic after Location: Meet at 4:45pm at 100th St., Central Park West New York Insight Community Meditation Gathering in Central Park “Breathing in, I am part of a sangha and feel protected. Breathing out, I experience joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh Join us for a special Harlem & Uptown community gathering, the first of four outdoor community events celebrating NYIMC’s diverse sangha across New York City. Connect with fellow sangha members from different boroughs, meditate outdoors, and enjoy the beauty of Central Park. I will be leading this event along with Harlem and POC Sangha Leaders, and New York Insight’s Friends Leadership Council. This event will feature guided nature meditation practices, community engagement, and interactive activities facilitated by our sangha members. After the event concludes at 7 pm, you are invited to join our optional BYO Picnic, bringing your own meal and something refreshing to drink or share. Feel free to bring a blanket, chair, or anything else you may need to support your …

2023 5-Month Course: Soulcentric Midlife (In-Person, 2/25 – 6/3)

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Are you in your 40s and 50s and thinking about the second half of your life? Every life stage brings its own gifts.  Each life stage has its own purpose in our development as a whole being.  If our life were the four seasons, 40s/50s could be the early fall.  While our culture likes to associate this time in our life with turmoil and crisis, it could also be a great time for inner growth, clarity, and purpose.  

Sun. 11/28/2021: Thanksgiving Weekend Hike to Hook Mountain, Rockland Lake State Park (on the Long Path)

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Enjoy a fall day in the peaceful beauty of the Hudson Valley with a guided, meditative hike to connect with nature and ourselves. This hike takes the scenic route along the Long Path—into the Rockland Lake State Park and up Hook Mountain. Enjoy expansive vistas only 1.5 hours outside of the city, and an extraordinary space designated by the New York Audubon Society as an Important Bird Area. Much of the hike will be observed in silence but we will integrate meditation practices throughout the day — allowing our senses to come alive and our sense of separateness fall away. Turning our attention inward allows us to become receptive to both of our outer and inner experiences. The dynamic outdoor conditions will be a perfect container for mindfulness practices. The hike will be approximately from 10am – 3pm. When: 9:45am-3pm, Sunday, November 28, 2021 Who: Lin Wang Gordon Where: Rockland Lake State Park, South Entrance on Route 9W and Lake Road, Valley Cottage, NY, 10989. (Use “753 Route 9W” for Rockland Roots GPS. The park entrance should …

Sat. 9/25/2021: Tending Grief in Nature – Jamaica Bay Wild Life Preserve

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Grief, if not attended, could often hold us hostage to life’s uncertainty and losses.  How do we open our heart and continue to let our life energy flow while facing and tending our grief intimately?  How do we establish a sense of connection with our loved ones when their bodies are no longer here? We will spend this day  outdoors to meditate, to free write, to experiment the elements, to share dreams…

8/6 – 8/15/2021: Inner Outer Nature – Ecodharma Training Retreat – with Johann Robbins and David Loy

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This is a ten-day experiential immersion into ecodharma, set at the beautiful Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center. Our sense of separation from nature is at the root of the ecological crises our civilization faces, and ecodharma is a path of deconstructing that separation, reuniting our inner nature with outer nature.