As a support for increasing your capacity for more subtle awareness of your experience, this daylong will explore the three manifest levels of the Nine Bodies meditation series: the physical, vital, and emotional bodies. As we intentionally direct our a... Read more
This Vulnerable Human Life with Frank Ostaseski
Vulnerability is not weakness; it is non-defensiveness. The absence of defense allows us to be wide open to our experience. Less defended, we are less opaque and more transparent. Then both the horror and beauty of our world can impress itself on our so... Read more
The Antidotes for Our Collective and Individual Burnout
This session will unpack the scientific understanding of burnout and reveal how we can learn to use the feelings and experience of stress and emotional overwhelm as a path to meaning based coping.
We will apply contemplative science tools for investiga... Read more
Liberative Dependent Origination
NOTE August 26ths class will be 7:30-9pm with Michael Zittel: https://zoom.us/j/939386989
August 26ths Class Format:
7:30-8:15pm Dharma Talk
8:15-8:45pm Guided Meditation
8:45-9pm Optional Q&A
Have you ever found yourself caught in diffi... Read more
Meditation and The Buddha’s Teachings: Finding Meaning in Difficult Times
Class will include an essential teaching from The Buddha and meditation. There will be an optional Q&A and group discussion at 11:15-11:45am.
Emphasis will be on practical ways of integrating meditation and the Buddha’s teaching into everyday life.... Read more
The Relaxed Mind
“When we are undistracted and completely resting, this is our true nature. That’s both simple and profound.”
— Dza Kilung Rinpoche
Relaxation can restore us from the depleting shocks of this challenging historic moment. The intention of this retreat i... Read more
MBSR Full Day of Practice (Pre-Requisite Required)
If you have taken the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction class by Jon Kabat-Zinn either with InsightLA or with another group you are welcome to join us for this day of practice.
This a free daylong offering made possible by the continued suppor... Read more
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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