The Magic of Awareness

ONLINE RETREAT THROUGH SPIRIT ROCK: This at-home retreat is now offered online only, on a sliding scale basis from $280-$1,900. We invite you to try this creative form of practice as we take care of one another and respond skillfully to COVID-19. PLEAS... Read more

Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, & Joy

Join us for a book talk with Shauna Shapiro, PhD and Lorin Roche, PhD on Shaunas new book Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity. & Joy.  So often we feel stuck in our lives, tha... Read more

[SOLD OUT] Being with Grief

How mindfulness, self-compassion and connecting with nature can help us to live with our pain.   There are some pains that cannot be taken away. The grief we feel when we lose someone or something of great significance to us, may be overwhelming and p... Read more

Metta Daylong

NOTE: We will meet on Sat Jan 25th instead of Sun Jan 26th. If you cannot met on Sat Jan 25th please email support@insightla.org   Thoughts matter and for all of us, our thoughts can go into negative places.  Places that create stress and dont bring a... Read more

Riding The Eight Worldly Winds with Equanimity

Let’s face it: life is full of ups and downs, good times and bad.  Not a single one of us is exempt from this. In Buddhism, these constantly shifting conditions are called The Eight Worldly Winds: pleasure and pain, gain and loss, praise and blame, and ... Read more

Requisites to Enlightenment

In numerous sutta’s Buddha refers to the Requisites to Enlightenment [bodhipakkhikā dhammā]; a collection of teachings that form a map toward Awakening. In each week of this 6-week series, we will explore a teaching that groups a cluster of Mental Facto... Read more