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March 2020
Online: Home Together
In response to COVID-19, we welcome you to this four-week class series with founding teacher Trudy Goodman. Begin or sustain YOUR meditation practice in a welcoming environment as we sit together in community. There will be a meditation with some guidance, followed by teaching and conversation. We need each other more than ever right now! We will meet for four Thursdays from 6-7:15pm PST on March 26, April 9, April 16, and April 23 (skipping April 2). If you miss…
Find out more »April 2020
ONLINE: Practices to Steady the Heart with Trudy Goodman & Jack Kornfield
Join us for shared practices, powerful and caring ways to tend the body and steady the heart in this uncertain time. We will connect with and support each other through guided meditations, teachings, and community conversation. All of the revenue generated for this special event will serve as a fundraiser for InsightLA so that we can continue to offer programs online and support caregivers on the front lines of this crisis. Like many of us, InsightLA has become financially unstable…
Find out more »Online: Wildwomen Circle
Wildwomen is a monthly circle for sharing, connection and awakening wild womanhood. Founded and led by Maria Egan and Lulu Toselli and inspired by Women Who Run with the Wolves, the classic text on the fierce feminine by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. We will explore aspects of the "wild woman" including creativity, intuition, passion, and the spiritual elements of female power.
Find out more »Quest for Eternal Sunshine – A Holocaust Survivors Journey for Darkness to Light
Join Trudy Goodman, founding teacher of InsightLA, and Myra Goodman—author, organic farming pioneer and Trudy’s close cousin—for an afternoon devoted to exploring ways to live happily and peacefully in this beautiful, magical world that is also full of intense suffering. We’ll be doing a deep dive into Myra’s new book, Quest for Eternal Sunshine—A Holocaust Survivors Journey for Darkness to Light, co-authored posthumously with her father, Mendek Rubin. Mendek managed to overcome immense trauma and decades of depression to become…
Find out more »May 2020
The Magic of Awareness
The paradox of awareness is very profound and yet very simple. It can’t be described because it has no objective qualities and no limitation. Sometimes it comes naturally to the surface when we are fully in the present moment and no longer lost in thoughts or mental projections. Pure consciousness is neither high nor low, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, neither good nor bad. Join us for this retreat where we will learn how to pay attention to this quality of…
Find out more »InsightLA’s Facilitator Training
InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program is designed for experienced practitioners of mindfulness meditation who have seen the benefits of the practice in their own lives and would like to learn how to share their practice with others in their work and/or community settings. The program objective is to develop the skills to prepare the participants to teach beginning classes in mindfulness practice and to deepen their own practice through study, practice, teachings and engagement with a community of practitioners. The curriculum…
Find out more »December 2020
Open Your Heart in Paradise Retreat
Presented by Love Serve Remember Foundation & Kirtan Wallah Foundation On Line Registration will begin Saturday June 6, 2020 at Noon EST. Retreat will include daily Sunrise Silent Sitting Meditation, Hatha Yoga, Qi-Gong, Dharma Talks – Guided Meditations with Jack Kornfield (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) & Trudy Goodman (InSight LA) and Mirabai Bush (Contemplative Activism) Reflections, Contemplations, Meditations, Morning Words of Wisdom Sessions, Special Afternoon Sessions, Nightly Kirtan’s with Krishna Das and more. Delicious, healthy retreat meals are served buffet…
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