Self-Healing Through Mindfulness, Insight and Loving Kindness Retreat | With Joe Loizzo and Sharon Salzberg

Friday, March 13 - Sunday, March 15

Friday | 2:00-5pm ET
Saturday | 10:00am-4pm ET
Sunday | 10:00am-3:00pm ET

Format - Hybrid: In person at Tibet House US or Online via Zoom

$150 regular | $75 supported

Grounded in the rich soil of insight meditation, this retreat focuses on how its careful cultivation naturally yields the flower and fruit of contemplative life: the unfolding of profound liberative wisdom and the nurturing embodiment of unconditional love and compassion. If you’d like to revitalize and deepen the roots of your daily practice, join beloved Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg and contemplative psychotherapist/Buddhist scholar-teacher Joe Loizzo for this welcoming in-person/online weekend. 

Take part in a vibrant cross-pollination between the Insight and Tibetan traditions, between Buddhist psychology and contemporary psychotherapy, and between engaged Buddhist ethics and today’s grass-roots movement towards social justice, climate justice and beloved community. Together we will explore the depth and breadth of what living mindfully with the wisdom of selflessness and the spirit of altruism can mean for us individually and collectively, especially in these challenging times. 

Reframing the foundational teachings and methods of mindful insight and loving kindness practice as the ground we need for awakened living in the world, we apply our collective mind-and-heart power to uncovering the deeper meaning we see for our intertwined lives and embodying our full human potential for flourishing together with one another and all life on planet earth. All are welcome!

In partnership with Nalanda Institute

INSTRUCTORS: Academic Director Joe Loizzo and Core Faculty Sharon Salzberg

Joseph (Joe) Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Columbia-trained Buddhist scholar with over forty years’ experience studying the beneficial effects of contemplative practices on healing, learning and development. He is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Integrative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, where he researches and teaches contemplative self-healing and optimal health. He has taught the philosophy of science and religion, the scientific study of contemplative states, and the Indo-Tibetan mind and health sciences at Columbia University, where he is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Center for Buddhist Studies.

Sharon Salzberg is a meditation teacher, author, and a co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is one of the most prominent Buddhist meditation teachers in the West and has been teaching and leading meditation retreats around the world for over three decades. Her writings have appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Yoga Journal, Tricycle, Buddhadharma, Loin’s Roar, and numerous anthologies. She is the author of ten books, including Love Your Enemies: How to Break the Anger Habit & Be a Whole Lot Happier (co-authored with Robert Thurman), and Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection.