Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support self-identified people of color, members of marginalized groups (queer people, transgender people, and  people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible). 

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

Find out if spots are available by clicking REGISTER NOW on the event you are interested in.

Safety 

We work to protect the safety of all students. We reserve the right to remove any student from any class, sitting group, retreat, or any event if the student is disruptive to the safe learning environment we maintain for all.

Cancellation & Refunds

We reserve the right to cancel a class or special event due to low enrollment or other circumstances which would make the event non-viable. If InsightLA cancels an event you’ve registered for, you will be offered a full refund. If an event has to be postponed for any reason, you will have the option to either receive a full refund or transfer your registration to the same event at the new, future date. If you cancel, we apply a 5% credit processing fee and the refunded amounts are listed below:

MBSR, MSC, & MBHC, Mindfulness for Beginners & Special Events

7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Fee-Based Non-Residential Retreats (note: Donations are non-refundable)

>7 days – 95% Refund
<7 days – No Refunds – Credit given if requested or donation to InsightLA

Residential Retreats

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $100
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $175
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $300
< 2 weeks – No refund

Residential Retreats with Financial Support:

> 8 weeks – amount paid less $75
4-8 weeks – amount paid less $100
2-4 weeks – amount paid less $200
< 2 weeks – No refund

Spend a day in practice with the InsightLA Community!

Emerging from the pandemic and deciding how to re-engage with social and professional life calls for mindfulness and self-compassion as the pandemic rolls on. A trace of uncertainty still underlies most plans. Everyone’s lives, inner and outer, are always changing but covid highlights the element of intention. How do you want your life to change? What is most important to you now? How will you take the insights born of this unprecedented time and bring them forth into the world?  

Tuning in to the eternal rhythm of life – the ebb and flow of breath, the gift of pulse and heartbeat –naturally helps quiet our minds and open our hearts. With mindful loving awareness, each one of us can find ways to wisely and courageously respond to the troubles of the world.

Schedule: You are welcome to join for the whole day or a portion. 

10am – 12pm Mindful Self-Compassion with Alisa Dennis, Dina Aish, JD Lloyd & James Rosser
12pm – 1pm Meal Break 
1pm – 3pm Teachings & Practice with Trudy Goodman, George Mumford & Jack Kornfield + special performance by Jason Mraz

Come be part of this loving annual benefit for InsightLA! Your presence will support and sustain InsightLA’s mission of calming minds, opening hearts and changing the world. Here are some of the ways you help carry this crucial mission forward by making mindfulness education more accessible:

  • Insight in Action – InsightLA’s social action arm – a community outreach program partnering with other nonprofits and schools to provide free mindfulness training to vulnerable populations, teachers, caregivers, and first responders. 
  • Through providing financial support for marginalized groups and those in financial hardship.
  • Supporting a path to reopen physical centers in Los Angeles.

About InsightLA Meditation:
InsightLA is a non-profit meditation community providing high-quality mindfulness and compassion practices. For close to 20 years, InsightLA has offered classes, retreats, and special events that cater to both beginning meditators and those looking to deepen and sustain their practice. InsightLA is the only organization of it’s kind offering secular, evidenced-based mindfulness training and traditional Buddhist teachings within the Vipassana or Insight tradition.

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This event will be recorded and emailed to everyone who registers.

**Financial support is available for this offering. 

Trudy Goodman, PhD Founding Teacher

Trudy Goodman, PhD, is the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, the first center to combine training in Insight (Vipassana) Meditation and in non-sectarian mindfulness and compassion practices, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). The fourth teacher ever of MBSR, Trudy taught with its creator, Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and studied Buddhist meditation for 40... Read more

Jack Kornfield, PhD Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. After graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967 he joined the Peace Corps and worked on... Read more

George Mumford Dharma Council, Visiting Teacher

George T. Mumford has taught meditation since 1986 in a range of environments, from prisons to Harvard Medical School. Also known as The Mindfulness Performance Whisperer, George is a highly acclaimed and leading expert in sports psychology and performance. He is the author of The Mindful Athlete: Secrets to Pure Performance and is Phil Jackson’s... Read more

Alisa Dennis, PhD Teacher

Alisa Dennis, Ph.D., discovered meditation through her study of metaphysics and ancient mystical traditions during the 1980s.  Since then, she’s trained in the Soto Zen tradition, MBSR, and most recently in the Theravada tradition.  Alisa completed Spirit Rock’s intensive 4-year teacher training program and is an authorized teacher in the Theravada lineage.  Alisa gravitated toward... Read more

Dina Aish, EdD Teacher

Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teacher with the Insight in Schools program and has a passion for supporting teachers with mindfulness and... Read more

JD Lloyd, MFA Teacher

JD Lloyd is a long-time member of the InsightLA Meditation Community, where he completed four years of dedicated Dharma study programs and received training to facilitate mindfulness classes. He completed additional training to conduct courses in Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC), and he has also received specialized education in chaplaincy support, contemplative caregiving, and trauma-sensitive mindfulness. JD... Read more

James Rosser, LCSW Teacher

James has meditated for over 30 years, beginning in 1987 with James Baraz. He graduated from InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and  Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (Inaugural Class). James is also a  Trained Teacher for the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. James leads secular and Buddhist- based mindfulness training, sits, and... Read more

Pricing Options
Class Fee $60

Financial Support

Our mission is to make all of our programs accessible. Every fee-based offering has a limited number of pay-what-you-can spots available to support members of marginalized groups (people of color, queer people, people with disabilities) and those in financial need (those for whom the cost to attend is not financially possible).

These spots are offered on a first come, first served basis. Please pay at the highest level you can afford. In order for this support to be available, we rely on those who can afford to pay the full price to do so.

Register Now

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