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Taking Refuge
in Your Body
Hosted by Cyndi Lee
The latest online course from Lion’s Roar features insight meditation practitioner and teacher JoAnna Hardy.
The Buddhist word metta is often translated into English as “Loving-Kindness”, this course explores the practice of metta that offers an opportunity to develop inner calm and focus. This centuries-old meditation technique can be a tool for those struggling with the suffering of the world. It is a way to make sense of the helplessness and turn it into action. It is a powerful tool for reflection and action in situations where you may feel helpless.
Learn how to cultivate more compassion and kindness – towards yourself and the world – in this new online course from Lion’s Roar.
Imagine a World with More Love
…It Begins with You.
How to Cultivate a Loving Heart: The Buddhist Practice of Metta is taught by JoAnna Hardy, meditation practitioner and teacher. Together with Lion’s Roar, she guides you through all you need to know to begin and deepen the practice of loving-kindness meditation.
Learn to take control of habitual patterns where you can––and make peace with them where you can’t.
Taking Refuge
in Your Body
Hosted by Cyndi Lee
You can view the summit for free from March 25-29 (with free replays for 48 hours after each session airs).
We’re delighted to offer all of the enriching teachings, dialogues, guided practices, and creative offerings from 32 incredible summit presenters in a free online experience. If you want to return to all these helpful resources to support and deepen your ongoing practice and reflection, we invite you to upgrade to own the Summit Resource Package.
By upgrading you get lifetime access to the full collection of summit content, plus a rich collection of additional resources to support your exploration and practice of contemplative care.
Owning the Summit Resource Package offers a precious opportunity to cultivate greater presence in your relationships, resilience in your life, and compassion in the face of suffering with an unprecedented collection of insight and guidance co-produced and hosted by New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care – a distinguished leader in contemplative care training.
Visionary insight and expert guidance in the practice of contemplative care.
Your purchase of the Summit Resource Package also includes all of these bonus resources:
Receive 5 Essential Teachings on Habitual Patterns to download instantly when you register.
Your purchase of the Summit Resource Package also includes all of these bonus resources:
Downloadable PDF transcripts of each summit session for convenient offline study and reflection.
Your 1-year digital subscription includes the best of Lion's Roar magazine, 15+ year archive, and mobile app access
15+ additional articles and practices curated and compiled in 3 PDF volumes:
- Self-Care
- Buddhist Advice for Working with Others
- Wisdom for Working with Illness & Death
4-Part Video Series
Select teachings and practices from New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care’s Foundations in Contemplative Care training program
The full collection of summit guided meditations and reflections, available in one place to download and listen.
3-Part Audio Series
- What the Buddha Taught About Death
- Facing Impermanence & Living Wholeheartedly
- Relating to Death & Life Through Tibetan Buddhism's Bardo System
Your purchase of the Summit Resource Package also includes all of these bonus resources:
How do I access the summit sessions?
Once you register for free, we’ll send you a reminder email with a link to access the sessions each day. The summit content will be released daily at 6:00 am PDT | 9:00 am EDT (North American time zones) on The Contemplative Care Summit event site.
The sessions for each day will be available free for 48 hours from the time they are released.
Learn to wake up from negative patterns and transform habits into healthy practices
Explore your power to transform suffering into wisdom and discover true happiness.
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Get Lifetime Access To All The Insightful Presentations From The Contemplative Care Summit
Over the course of this FREE 5-day event, some of today’s most respected Buddhist figures will teach you how to wake up to your habitual patterns, so you’ll know what causes you to get “stuck”, and how to get — and stay — unstuck.
How to Die a Good Death – Audio Series
Additional teachings and meditation from Koshin Paley Ellison, Chodo Robert Campbell, Trudy Goodman, and Judy Lief
Zen in Everyday Life – Video Series
Select teachings and practices from the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care’s Foundations in Contemplative Care training program
3 Special E-Books
Self-Care; Buddhist Advice for Working with Others; and Wisdom for Working with Illness & Death
Lion’s Roar Subscription
One-year digital subscription to Lion’s Roar magazine, offering the best of Buddhist wisdom and meditation guidance all year long
Session Transcripts
Downloadable PDFs for convenient offline study and reflection
Lifetime Access
Own the summit to watch or listen any time
All Event Sessions
Receive 17 hours of downloadable video and audio content
Learn at your own pace, on your own schedule, with the Summit Resource Package.
Guided Meditation Library
A collection of 15 audio meditations and reflections from summit teachers
Upgrading gives you lifetime access to every presentation from Love & Resilience: The Contemplative Care Summit.
We think you’ll love this Summit Resource Package, so we don’t want anything holding you back from enrolling.
We’re therefore offering an unconditional 30-day guarantee: If you decide that this program isn’t right for you, we’ll give you a full refund within the first 30 days of the scheduled start date.
Get Lifetime Access to All the Insightful Talks and Teachings from The Contemplative Care Summit
$329
SINGLE PAYMENT
40+ summit sessions in downloadable video, audio, and transcript formats
Plus all the bonus resources
Visionary insight and expert guidance in the practice of contemplative care.
Scholarships
We hope to make these profound teachings available to those who want to go deeper with the Love & Resilience Contemplative Care Summit but cannot afford the full cost of the Summit Resource Package.
Thanks to our generous donors, and proceeds from events like this, we have a limited number of scholarships available.
PAYMENT PLAN
$115/month
(3 monthly payments)
40+ summit sessions in downloadable video, audio, and transcript formats
Plus all the bonus resources
The summit recordings include:
TALK 1: Trudy Goodman & Jack Kornfield
It Comes Down to Presence and Caring
+ Guided practice: "Metta Body Scan"
TALK 2: Sebene Selassie & Frederic Fasano
The Adventure of Commitment
TALK 3: V (formerly Eve Ensler) & Celeste Lecesne
A Different Story About What Love Is
TALK 4: Dan & Bianca Harris
"The ‘Ongoing Exploration’ of Relationship"
+ Guided loving-kindness meditation
TALK 5: Koshin Paley Ellison & Chodo Robert Campbell
The Challenges & Joys of Being Together
TALK 1: Jerry Colonna
Better Humans Make Better Leaders
TALK 2: Andres Gonzalez, Ali Smith, and Atman Smith of Holistic Life Foundation
Resilience in Work for Caregivers
+ 3 guided practices: "Loving-kindness"; "The Stress Breath"; and "Observing Your Thoughts / Mental Stillness"
TALK 3: Anushka Fernandopulle
Contemplation & Love in Leadership & Work
+ Guided goodwill practice
TALK 4: Dawa Tarchin Phillips:
The Path of Self-Mastery and Compassionate Contribution
+ Guided meditation: "Infusing Benevolence into Relationships of Conflict"
TALK 5: Seth Godin
Mindfulness & Creativity at Work
TALK 1: Tieraona Low Dog, M.D. in conversation with Chodo Robert Campbell
Love & Resilience in a Horrible Year
TALK 2: Cynthia Carter Perrilliat & Jasmine Hill
Cumulative Grief: Contemplating the Toll of Illness & Dying on Black & Brown Communities .
+ Reflection: "5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Value Equity"
TALK 3: Pamela Ayo Yetunde
Befriending Aging, Illness, and Death
+ Guided practice: "The Five Remembrances"
TALK 4: Ira Byock
Love and Resilience During Illness and Aging
+ Guided meditation: "An Inner Journey to Outer Space"
TALK 5: Chodo Robert Campbell & Koshin Paley Ellison
Meeting the Call: Contemplative Medicine for Challenging Times
+ Guided practice with Chodo and his teacher, Sensei Dorothy Dai En Friedman
TALK 1: Michael Hebb
Death Is Medicine
+ Helpful thinking/writing prompts for speaking frankly about end-of-life care
TALK 2: Dr. Carolyn Jacobs
4 Kaleidoscopic Memories of Dying
+ 5 minutes of guided practice
TALK 3: Judy Lief
Relaxing the Tight Bindings of Grief
+ Guided contemplation on grief
TALK 4: Issho Fujita
Zen Teaching on Death & How to Be Loving to the Dying Person and Their Loved Ones
+ Guided meditation: "Shikantaza Zazen"
TALK 5: Shoshana Ungerleider, MD
From "'What's the Matter?' to What Really Matters”
+ Guided exercise: "Helpful Prompts"
Naomi Shihab Nye & James Crews
Doesn’t This Belong to Everybody?
The two poets share their work and discuss the power of space and expression.
Marie Howe & Chodo Robert Campbell
Right Here As It Is; Right Now As It Is
The writer (and former New York poet laureate) shares poems and joins Chodo Robert Campbell for a conversation about the power of ritual, language, and poetry to help us process pain and loss and foster equanimity.
Ross Gay
Gratitude and Delights
A lively reading of poems and essays of appreciation, joy, connection, and the seeking of meaning.
Yogetsu Akasaka
Zen Music Meditation
The Zen Buddhist monk and musician improvises an exclusive soundscape comprising Buddhism’s Heart Sutra, Kanzeon Sutra, and loving-kindness phrases.
Musical and poetic meditations and discussion
Musical and poetic meditations & discussion
$329
SINGLE PAYMENT
40+ summit sessions in downloadable video, audio, and transcript formats
Plus all the bonus resources
PAYMENT PLAN
$115/month
(3 monthly payments)
40+ summit sessions in downloadable video, audio, and transcript formats
Plus all the bonus resources
The New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care (NYZC) offers guidance for people interested in beginning meditation or continuing in their existing practice; we train people from all walks of life— including medical professionals, parents, lawyers, artists and bankers—in compassionate caregiving; we support people and their loved ones through serious illness and death, and assist family and friends during their grieving process. We also celebrate and honor many of life’s meaningful moments.
Since opening in 2007, our center has been a trailblazer in researching, testing and developing contemplative care methodologies. Today, New York Zen Center’s techniques are internationally recognized—and have touched the lives of tens of thousands of individuals.
When does the summit start and finish?
When you upgrade to purchase the summit you get lifetime access to all the teachings, guided meditations, plus all the special event bonuses.
** Ownership of the Summit Resource Package begins on Tuesday March 30.
Learn at your own pace, on your own schedule, with the Summit Resource Package.
Upgrading gives you lifetime access to every presentation from Love & Resilience: The Contemplative Care Summit.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Contemplative care is about developing the inner discipline to be fully present to those we are trying to serve.
Our patients know when we are there and when we are just going through the motions. Being there is what NYZC does. I cannot think of anything our healthcare system needs more.”
DIANE E. MEIER, MD
Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care; Professor, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
NYZC brings the wisdom of Zen Buddhism into a unique contemplative care training program and clinical practice benefiting patients, families and caregivers alike.
CRAIG D. BLINDERMAN, MD
Director, Adult Palliative Care Service, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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