Where I’ll Be Next
Weekly BIPOC Meditation Sangha
A Weekly Gathering for People of Color We extend a warm invitation to Black/Indigenous/People of Color to join for an hour of meditation, teaching and sharing with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez, who alternate teaching every Thursday from 12-1pm ET.
Recently we celebrated two years of connection in this sangha. Read more here.
Mindfulness & Climate Change
If you’re looking for community and support to apply your spiritual practice to social justice engagement, we warmly invite you to join us for the 2025 Beloved Community Circles training! This is an opportunity for participants to gain skills in our three organizational pillars: community care, mindfulness practice, and strategies to advocate for climate and racial justice together. As we face unprecedented environmental, political, and economic challenges, we offer this training in the spirit of generosity, as a resource and a loving reminder that you and your community that you are not alone in this moment. We can create the world we want together.
The Body Remembers Freedom – Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself
The Body Remembers Freedom – Meditation, InterPlay, and the Art of Coming Home to Yourself Sponsored by New York Insight Meditation Center with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Offered monthly on 1st or 2nd Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET. Open to all. In-person attendance is recommended, but hybrid participation will be available for at least this first session on a trial basis.
What if freedom wasn’t something to earn — but something your body already remembers? What if your body already carried the wisdom you need to heal, connect, and come home to yourself? What if play could be a blessing?
The Body Remembers Freedom is a monthly gathering where we explore the intersection of meditation, dharma, and embodied practice. Each session includes time for stillness and contemplation, a dharma talk or shared inquiry, and InterPlay — a playful, powerful practice using movement, voice, storytelling, and deep listening to unlock the wisdom of the body.
Together we create a space that welcomes laughter, tears, rest, and joy — a space where you can move freely, feel deeply, and be held in community. Through this practice, we remember what it feels like to trust ourselves, to breathe fully, and to belong.
Participants are supported to be:
More grounded and connected to their bodies and each other
Reconnected to joy, creativity, and inner resource
Better able to meet life — and themselves — with compassion and presence
We gather to remember the sacred in the ordinary, to bless our own aliveness, and to reconnect with community, the earth, and the truth in our bones.
More info and to register here for November 6,
and here for December 4.
In Person and Online
115 West 29th Street, 12th floor
New York, NY United States+ Google Map
Contemplative Wisdom, Transformative Action Conference
Anchored in the Fellowship’s four core pillars—contemplative wisdom, the science of interconnection, generative action, and collective healing—this convening is a space to deepen understanding, share field-leading innovations, and cultivate new possibilities for social transformation.
Blessing Our Aliveness – Play, Rest and Practice in Beloved Community
New York Insight Center Day Long with Kaira Jewel Lingo
The wisdom available at New York Insight is grounded in the Pali Canon, the oldest extant record of the Buddha’s original teachings. For over 2,000 years, the Pali Canon has provided the foundation for Theravada Buddhist practice. NYI carries the heritage of the Theravada Buddhist tradition, providing New Yorkers a unique and modern opportunity to connect with the wisdom of these teachings to benefit their everyday lives.
Annual BIPOC Women's Retreat
Hosted by Garrison Institute: Annual Retreat for Black, Indigenous, People of Color with Dr. Marisela Gomez, Kaira Jewel Lingo and Joe Reilly
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Nature Retreat
Nature Retreat at Spirit Rock with Kaira Jewel Lingo MORE INFO TO COME
In Person Retreat
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Teen Retreat
Hosted by Insight Meditation Society with Kaira Jewel Lingo and others
In person retreat
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EcoDharma Exploration: The EcoSattva Journey
The EcoSattva Training: Becoming a Force for Nature with guest speaker Kaira Jewel Lingo sponsored by One Earth Sangha from October 2025 to May 2026
October 2025 to May 2026
Embodying Calm: Mindfulness Practice
Smith College Jandon Center for Community Engagement presents: Embodying Calm: Mindfulness Practice with Kaira Jewel Lingo. An evening of quiet sitting, mindful walking and enjoying a talk. Co-Sponsor: Center for Religious and Spiritual Life.
Held at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, 123 Elm Street, Northampton, MA
Defiance as an Act of Love, Healing & Transforming Ourselves
Hosted by Garrison Institute: Annual Retreat for Black, Indigenous, People of Color with Dr. Marisela Gomez, Kaira Jewel Lingoand Joe Reilly
In person retreat
More info here.
Registration Link here.
Spiritual Radicals: Saints and Bodhisattvas of the Beloved Community
Spiritual Radicals: Saints and Bodhisattvas of the Beloved Community
A Speaker Series with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Father Adam Bucko
May 27 ~ Dr. King As a Nonviolent Spiritual Radical with Kazu Haga
Inner Transformation for Social Changemakers: Clarity, Resilience & Purpose
Sponsored by the Garrison Institute. Please join us for Inner Transformation for Social Changemakers: Clarity, Resilience & Purpose
To be led by Kaira Jewel Lingo, Dr. Dan Siegel, Yuki Imoto, Arawana Hayashi, and Annie Carpenter
In a time of profound global change, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This 5-week online course series offers a space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with what truly matters—so you can lead with clarity, resilience, and purpose.
A Day of Practice in Nature
A Day of Practice in Nature with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Thimo Wittich at Our Lady of the Resurrection Monastery in Lagrangeville, NY
During this day of practice we will reconnect with the natural world and engage in contemplation in the heart of the living world in the abundant beauty of spring.
Register here: https://forms.gle/cp2XgQhw6BsDJSL1A
On the land and in Person only
Words for Wandering
Words for Wandering Sponsored by Parallax Press and Green Writers Press:
Join in conversation with authors Michelle Latvala and Kaira Jewel Lingo as we share our new books.
“The authors will give context regarding their writing processes, share content from their books, and answer guest questions.”
Living Ecodharma: Finding Fulfillment in Healing and Loving the Earth
Sponsored by The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, please join me for Living Ecodharma: Finding Fulfillment in Healing and Loving the Earth by application only.
From Collective Trauma to Collective Healing: Understanding Our Past for a Future to Be Possible
Sponsored by Washington University Arts & Science, please join us for From Collective Trauma to Collective Healing: Understanding Our Past for a Future to Be Possible part of the Mindfulness & Anti-Racism Lectureship Series with Kaira Jewel.
More info here.
Online
'Hearing the Cry of the Earth: Responding Compassionately to Change, Loss and Disruption'
'Hearing the Cry of the Earth: Responding Compassionately to Change, Loss and Disruption' Sponsored by Mindfulness and Compassion Grand Rounds at Harvard Medical School with Kaira Jewel Lingo
Insight Meditation Retreat
Insight Meditation Retreat at Spirit Rock with Gil Fronsdal, DaRa Williams, Tuere Sala and Kaira Jewel Lingo
In Person Retreat
Healing Our Way Home: Ancestral Wisdom for Joy and Liberation
Healing Our Way Home: Ancestral Wisdom for Joy and Liberation sponsored by Spirit Rock, please join me for a half-day of practice.
Weathering the Storms:Caring for Inner and Outer Turmoil
Sponsored by Insight Meditation Community of Western Massachusetts, please join us for Weathering the Storms: Caring for Inner and Outer Turmoil To be led by Kaira Jewel Lingo
The scale and intensity of ecological crises can be overwhelming. As human impacts on the Earth drive extreme weather, “natural” disasters, and global conflict, the Dharma provides much-needed tools for working with inner turmoil. How can our practice bring relief… not only to ourselves but our relationships and community? From the ground of inner stability, can we begin to heal environmental injustice and other collective wounds?
In this gathering, Kaira Jewel Lingo offers wisdom and practices to help us ground in steadiness when crisis and confusion threaten to unseat us. Drawing from her extensive spiritual training, including 15 years as a nun in the Plum Village Zen tradition, she guides us in discovering what lies beneath reactivity—both within and between us—and responding with authenticity.
In Person
More info here
Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love
With DaRa Williams, Kaira Jewel Lingo, Shelly Graff, and Yong Oh at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center.
In person retreat.
BIPOC Day of Mindfulness
A one-day in person sit featuring longer periods of sitting meditation and a dharma talk at the Brooklyn Zen Center. The sit is open to all BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) practitioners. This is the perfect opportunity for newer practitioners to try longer sitting and to build BIPOC sangha (community), as well as for long-term practitioners to recommit to their practice.
The Power of Equanimity in Engaged Spirituality ~ London Insight
Sponsored by London Insight, please join us for The Power of Equanimity in Engaged Spirituality
Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
Sponsored by Spirit Rock, please join me for Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk
“Our Wednesday Morning Meditation & Talk is led by Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg, Heidi Bourne, or other guest teachers. With more community emphasis than the large Monday night gathering, this group welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners to explore Dharma with an emphasis on everyday life, social engagement, and lovingkindness.”
Online
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Living An Ethic of Love – Celebrating Black Dharma Teachings
with Kaira Jewel Lingo, JoAnna Hardy, Lama Rod Owens, Ruth King, Leslie Booker, Kate Johnson, Devin Berry, Angela Dews, Lissa Edmond, Pamela Ayo Yetunde, Rashid Hughes and Tuere Sala
Strength to Love: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Embodying Insight in Action
Strength to Love: Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Embodying Insight in Action, held at the Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center with Nakawe Cuebas and Kaira Jewel Lingo. And Mindful Movement Instructor, Juan Sosa
The teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. guide us to see the urgency of these times and not drown in fear, hatred, or anxiety. Instead, Dr. King’s example calls on us to stand tall in his fierce compassion with the “Strength to Love” (the title of Dr. King’s 1963 book, written largely behind bars) and move forward to heal our lives, communities, and planet.
In person retreat
For more info and to register HERE.
We Were Made for These Times: A Conversation for Black, Indigenous, Asian and People of Color (BIAPoC)
This retreat is reserved for those who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian or People of Color (BIAPOC). Sponsored by The Zen Mountain Monastery
“We all go through times when it feels like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we relied on as steady and solid may change or even appear to vanish. In this era of global disruption, threats to our individual, social, and planetary safety abound, and at times life can feel overwhelming. Not only are loss and separation painful, but even positive changes can cause great stress.”
Cultivating Wholeness in Ourselves and Our Fractured World
Sponsored by Parallax Press, Cultivating Wholeness in Ourselves and Our Fractured World with Richard Brady and Kaira Jewel
Join mindfulness teachers Richard Brady, author of Short Journey Home, and Kaira Jewel Lingo, author of We Were Made for These Times, for a heartfelt conversation on the transformative power of mindfulness for our fractured world and our everyday life. Explore stories of resilience, connection, and the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh that inspire meaningful change and awakening in the present moment.
To register here.
Online
Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
Sponsored by New York Insight, Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation
with Kaira Jewel Lingo and Marisela Gomez
In this two-hour evening event Marisela and Kaira Jewel will talk about their experiences as Black women and Buddhists, and share wisdom from their new book, Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation.
Join these dharma teachers and spiritual friends to learn about how the dharma’s teachings can support the work toward social, racial, and environmental justice.
Together, we’ll learn embodied mindfulness practices and other techniques to help us lean into our individual and collective liberation, as well as our sense of belonging and joy.
More info and to register here.
Online
Buddhist-Christian Community of Meditation and Action
I co-teach this monthly group with my partner, Father Adam Bucko, a Christian contemplative and an Episcopal priest. We will meet on the last or next-to-last Tuesday of the month from 7:30 - 9 pm ET to deepen our study and application of the rich and diverse Buddhist and Christian contemplative practices and how these can support engaged spirituality, or what Andrew Harvey terms sacred activism, “a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world.”
Register here. These sessions are open to the public and offered by donation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
We will record the teachings and meditations for registered participants.
The Power of Equanimity in Engaged Spirituality
The Power of Equanimity in Grounding Engaged Spirituality Please join us for practice, dharma talk, and Q&A with Monday Friends and Kaira Jewel Lingo.
How can we stay clear, peaceful and positive in a world full of suffering? Once we are peaceful within ourselves, how can we share that peace with others in practical, useful ways in the world?
About Monday Friends. Every Monday evening, everyone is invited to begin their week with a relaxed and mindful hour dedicated to:
•Remembering gratitude for this one precious life;
•Gathering in spiritual friendship;
• Practicing the Buddha’s path of liberation from mental habits that create stress, disease, relationship problems, societal breakdown, and block a free-flowing, creative and happy life.
More info and to register here.
Online
Healing Our Way Home: Touching Ancestors, Joy and Liberation
Healing Our Way Home: Touching Ancestors, Joy and Liberation with Valerie Brown, Marisela Gomez MD, and Kaira Jewel Lingo
Our focus will be the book Healing Our Way Home and the importance of ancestors, joy, and liberation. Join us for an exploration of how we can see ourselves in each other’s path of joy and liberation, and take refuge in our individual and collective healing. There will be daily dharma teachings, daily mindful walking/moving, sitting/stationary meditation, mindful eating, singing, dharma writing, and dharma sharing. Reading of the book before the retreat is highly recommended.
In person, held at Garrison Institute, Info and registration here.
Wednesday Evening Dharma
Sponsored by Cambridge Insight Meditation Center: Wednesday Evening Dharma with Kaira Jewel Lingo. Title to be announced.
In Person and Online
More info here.
Contemplative Summit
Please join me for The Contemplative Summit
I’ll be speaking alongside amazing teachers like James Finley, Omid Safi, and Christine Valters Paintner, each of us exploring what it means to deepen our interior lives through the wisdom of mystics, contemplative practices, and psychological insight.
This gathering is an opportunity to step into the sacred spaces of contemplation, to rest in the Mystery, and to discover what it means to live fully present.