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2019: The Year in Review

By Nalanda Institute Editors

Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) with Joe Loizzo at X-Hale in Toronto
Contemplative Psychotherapy Program (NYC) Graduate Panel
Yoga, Mind & Spirit graduates
Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, the Compassion Year in Zaragoza, Spain
Sonia Sequeira and Joe Loizzo teach the cutting edge of neuroscience and meditation
Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, the Compassion Year in San Francisco
Jasmine Syedullah teaches Radical Dharma praxis
Geshe Tashi Dorge, Tsewang Namgyal, and Emma Seppala at our 10th Annual Benefit
Board member, Elizabeth Rovere praises Joe Loizzo’s wisdom and inspiration at our benefit
Meditation Teacher Training in Compassion graduates

As the year comes to a close, we’d like to take the time to share with you some highlights of all we’ve accomplished together throughout the year!

Late Winter. We brought in 2019 with a trifecta of inspiring courses and trainings: Yoga, Mind & Spirit Training, Sustainable Happiness Course in Compassion, and Meditation Teacher Training in Compassion.

Spring. In the spring, alongside our Toronto partner X-Hale, we successfully launched our new online Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) Teacher’s Program, with outreach worldwide; and graduated the NYC and San Francisco cohorts of our Contemplative Psychotherapy Program.

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Announcing the Fellows Program

By Dr. Joe Loizzo

Editor’s update: Our application period has ended. Fellowship recipient(s) will be announced October 2019. Thank you for your interest in our program

These past ten years developing Nalanda Institute with all of you—students, graduates, colleagues and friends—have been years full of discovery, revelations, opportunities, challenges, and unanticipated rewards. In preparing for our tenth annual benefit on June 12th, I’ve had a rare opportunity to take a long exhale with board members, faculty and graduates to look back over all we’ve accomplished together. In that same breath, hindsight showed with fresh perspective who we’ve become as an Institute and community and where our future must take us.

Every day I’m more in awe of how widely and avidly our popular and professional culture is investing in the healing power of contemplative methods of mindfulness, compassion, and embodiment. This welcome development brings not just the strongest possible validation of our mission, programs and community, but also a timely reminder for us to refine our crucial role in an increasingly broad and complex movement.

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2018: The Year in Review

by Nalanda Institute Editors

1. Joe Loizzo with graduating Canadian bodhisattvas.
2. Susanna Nicholson leading one of our many lunchtime meditation offerings.
3. Yoga, Mind & Spirit Training with Geri Loizzo, Mary Reilly Nichols, and Dr. Sonia Sequeira.
4. Dr. Robert Thurman inspires the NY CPP.
5. Meditation Teacher Training faculty Megan Mook, Dr. Pooja Amy Shah, and Scott Tusa.
6. Joe Loizzo and Stephen Porges share a laugh while discussing Polyvagal theory.
7. Joe Loizzo in SF at a retreat in the Contemplative Psychotherapy Program.
8. Joe Loizzo and a student interacting during Compassion-Based Resilience Training.
9. Lama Rod Owens introduced by CPP Acting Director Helen Park.
10. Pilar Jennings’ inspired students in-person and virtually.

As this year of the Earth Dog comes to an end and we usher in the new year of the Earth Mother Pig, we are happy to look back at just a few of the amazing accomplishments of our community. 2018 has been a pivotal year in which we’ve evolved our teaching methods, deepened our community, and made our programs more widely available.

Extended captions and an elaboration of some of our programs and events in 2018:

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