Join InsightLAs Mindful Path Program! Develop and deepen your practice while connecting with fellow practitioners in this multi-event cohort. By combining discoveries from a variety of practices, the power of sangha (community), with continuity of pract... Read more
A Gentle New Year’s Eve
Join Melissa McKay for a gentle New Years Eve. We will practice mindfulness and loving kindness meditation and set our intentions for the year. We will share in a toast together to have a gentle, uplifting, onward leading, loving and inspiring year, w... Read more
Essentials of Mindfulness
This is InsightLA’s popular Essentials of Mindfulness Class!
This is our premier introduction to creating and incorporating an effective and ongoing insight meditation practice in all aspects of your life. This 6-week class is appropriate for beginners... Read more
Buddha’s Basic Building Blocks: The Four Noble Truths – Where it All Begins
In this first “turning of the wheel of dharma,” the first talk the Buddha gave after his enlightenment, he laid the groundwork for all that was to come. Let’s begin the new year by engaging with these “truths,” the basic building blocks of the Buddha’s ... Read more
InsightLA BIPOC Teachers & Facilitators Storytelling Workshop Weekend
Since the beginning of humanity people have told and listened to stories to connect, engage, heal, inspire, and co-create shared worlds. Storytelling is one of the essential building blocks of connection and empathy.
In 2020, a group of ILA BIPOC fa... Read more
“To All A Goodnight” A Christmas Eve Meditation featuring Performances from Broadway
This event will be recored and emailed to everyone who registers.
InsightLA would like to invite you and your loved ones to a special night of warmth, music and meditation on Christmas Eve.
Join us for this zoom event where talented Broadway singer... Read more
The Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion
Learn the skills we all need to meet life’s challenges with more wisdom and kindness.
Our new and abridged course, The Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC), will teach you how to hold yourself with tenderness and compassion when you need it... Read more
Mindful Intermittent Fasting
There is a lot of research being done on the health benefits of intermittent fasting in recent years. And interestingly, the Buddha and his monks engaged in the practice all those years ago. Many modern retreat centers still continue with the practic... Read more
Thanksgiving Beach Sit
Start the holiday season by practicing in community and stillness for our annual Thanksgiving Beach Sit.
Directions: Take Ocean Park Blvd. all the way West to where it stops, and turn left on Barnard Way. Take your first right at the stop sign into Par... Read more
Awareness and Wisdom: A 24-Practice for Daily Life (Prerequisite Required)
We tend not to understand what seeing is. The instant tendency of the mind is to think of what it is seeing—a statue of the Buddha, the floor, a cushion. But the seeing is a different thing. Seeing is a very, very obvious object. Just acknowledge that y... Read more