The Aligned Center

Weekday Morning Meditation - Online
2023-10-10 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-10-05 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-10-03 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-09-28 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-09-26 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-09-21 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-09-19 08:30 - 09:00, 2023-09-14 08:30 - 09:00 (America/New_York) and 2 more dates | The Aligned Institute Online
Join us online Tuesday and Thursday mornings as we sit together in virtual community. This meditation guided by Jeff Carreira begins and ends with the simple ring of a bell, and is a great opportunity to make mindfulness a regular practice.
Please email info@alignedcenter.com to RSVP.

Sunday Open House Meditation Gathering (In-person)
2023-10-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-24 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-10 10:00 - 12:00 | The Aligned Center, 1 Bridge Street, Foundry Building Suite 64, Irvington, New York, 10533
Sunday Open House Meditation Gathering

Led by Gene Bobker, Charles Olson, and WMC staff
Sundays from 10 am – 12 pm ET
Drop-ins welcome!

On Sunday mornings, the Westchester Meditation Center is hosting community gatherings involving meditation practice, discussion, and readings from The Wisdom of No Escape, and the Path of Loving-Kindness by Pema Chodron.
When life’s events challenge us, we search for ways to change or improve our circumstances. Yet we find difficult life events occur over and over again, bringing the same feelings and frustrations. Meditation helps us discover that while we will never be able to completely control our world, we can train our minds to meet and accept life just as it is, in the present moment.
Pema Chodron’s book is about welcoming life in all its manifestations—embracing the joy, suffering, wisdom and confusion that is the human experience. Meditation guides us to meet our mind, embrace the fullness of our experience, and live a wholehearted life.
At each gathering, you will practice for two sessions with walking meditation in between, share an inspiring reading, and have a group discussion.

Meditation instruction (for those that are brand new to meditation or need a refresher) is available, if needed.
Cost of attendance is by donation. Recommended donation is $10 per meeting
Listen to past Sunday Dharma Talks here. Check out our guest speakers here.

Qigong with Robert Peng (In-person)
2023-10-07 10:30 - 12:00 | The Aligned Center, 1 Bridge Street, Foundry Building Suite 64, Irvington, New York, 10533
Robert Peng, a world-renowned Qigong Master and healer, was born and raised in Hunan, China.
At age eight, he began an intensive apprenticeship under the close guidance of the legendary monk Xiao Yao, an enlightened master known for his profound healing ability and martial arts skill. At age 15, Robert endured a 100-day water fast in a small dark room at a secluded monastery in the remote mountains of Hunan province, which initiated a radical spiritual transformation and awakened amazing healing powers.
After pursuing his training quietly while attending university in Changsha, he began to teach publicly at 29, and within five years had trained over 150,000 students all over China, Australia, and the U.S.
With his deep understanding and practice of Qigong, and with extensive life and teaching experience in the Western world, Robert has developed a unique way to teach Qigong that people from different cultures can easily understand and follow while enjoying the real essence of this ancient Chinese healing art of wisdom, love, and vitality.
This is an in-person event.
Cost: $69.99
Register: Here

Romemu Friday Night Services - Online
2023-10-06 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-29 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Romemu, New York, United States
Friday Night Kabbalat Shabbat Services combine traditional liturgy with chanting, meditation, spontaneous dance and lively song.
Join Rabbi David Ingber for these live-streamed, joy-based and contemplative progressive services that engage the heart, mind, and body.
All are welcome to join in this transformative spiritual practice regardless of religious affiliation, race, gender, sexual orientation, and belief.
Friday Night Kabbalat Shabbat Services are live-streamed and the time changes depending on the time of sunset.
This is an online event.
Cost: Free
More Info: Here

Meditation for Every Day (In-person)
2023-10-04 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-09-27 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-09-20 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-09-13 19:00 - 20:30 | The Aligned Center, 1 Bridge Street, Foundry Building Suite 64, Irvington, New York, 10533
The Westchester Mediation Center hosts a 4-Week course to strengthen your daily meditation practice
September 13, 20, 27, and October 4th

Wednesdays: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM ET
Led by Gene Bobker and Tom Pantaleoni
Suggested offering: $40
Open to all, regardless of background

REGISTER: Here
Why Meditate?
Challenge and change happen to all of us during our lives. While life brings us joy and community, it can also bring us difficulty and struggle. Meditation doesn’t promise to be the answer to all of our problems. But it can help us greet life’s obstacles with a sense of stability and confidence.
Meditation shows us how to work with our minds when we can’t control what’s going on around us. And it connects us with others who experience the same feelings and difficulties we have faced ourselves. Through meditation we develop friendliness and humor toward ourselves, our lives, and to the world around us.
In this course we will discuss meditation technique, individual home practice, learn what is meant by mindfulness and awareness, and how to grow into and celebrate a lifelong practice of meditation.
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“Our life is an endless journey: the practice of meditation allows us to experience all the textures of the roadway, which is what the journey is all about.” — Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche
“When something is bothering us—someone is bugging us, a situation is irritating you, or physical pain is troubling you—you must work with your mind, and that is done through meditation. Working with our mind is the only means through which we’ll actually begin to feel happy and contented with the world we live in.” — Pema Chodron.

Path of Awakening: Introductory Course - Online
2023-10-03 18:45 - 21:00 | https://thealignedcenter.com/event/path-of-awakening-introductory-course-3/2023-10-03/
John Baker trained directly with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche for decades, and worked intimately with Trungpa as he adapted Tibetan meditation to a western audience. In this online course, Path of Awakening, John will help to distill some of the unique insights of his teacher as well as his own, unique take on meditation.
This ongoing online meditation class is for anyone interested in Buddhism and open to anyone. It starts with 30 minutes of meditation followed by a class and discussion. You may prepare by reading the suggested chapter for each week from The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Vol. 2 or just join online via Zoom to meditate, listen to the lecture, and participate in the discussion.
Tuesdays, 6:45 – 9:00 pm ET

6:45 – 7:00 PM ET: Social Conversation
7:00 – 7:30 PM ET: Meditation
7:30 – 9:00 PM ET: Talk and Discussion

Cost: Suggested Donation $10 per class – $100 for 12 classes
Register: Here

The Chemistry of Connection (In-person)
2023-10-01 10:00 - 17:00 | The Aligned Center, 1 Bridge Street, Foundry Building Suite 64, Irvington, New York, 10533
The Chemistry of Connection
(Tara Bennett-Goleman & Daniel Goleman with Aaron Wolf)
Learn how our emotional habits can connect us or keep us at a distance — from ourselves and each other. In this combination of lecture, discussion and experiential exercises we’ll integrate an original synthesis of the neuroscience of connection with methods for enhancing relations, whether inner or interpersonal. A map of emotional habits and attachment modes illuminates relationships of all kinds, transforming emotional patterns that separate into ones that connect, enhancing a more genuine interconnection with ourselves and each other, or with the world at large. Now more than ever we need to work to resolve our differences by acknowledging the shared attunement that facilitates empathy and understanding, while not insisting the other person agree with us. In this tenth year of our workshop we will explore these connections in several dimensions.
This is an in-person event.
Date: Sunday, October 1, 2023
Time: 10am – 5pm*
Location: The Aligned Center (1 Bridge Street – Suite 64, Irvington, NY 10533)
Price: $175 (add tickets for Saturday & Sunday to your cart and save $55 on combo price)
*There will be a 1.5 hour break for lunch. Guests are welcome to bring their lunch or go to a nearby restaurant.
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Tara Bennett-Goleman M.A., is the author of the NY Times best-seller Emotional Alchemy and of Mind Whispering. An educator and psychotherapist, she brings practices and perspectives from Eastern and Western psychologies to repattern modes that separate into patterns that connect.
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is a science journalist best known for his books on emotional intelligence and on meditation. In these workshops he tours us through relevant neuroscience, looking at how the brain can repattern habits, and how the brain’s circuitry for social connection can lead to increase closeness.
Aaron Wolf , Ph.D., is a water resources geographer at Oregon State University who co-directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation. Author of The Spirit of Dialogue, he offers lessons from his work around the world bringing together groups ordinarily at odds but who need to cooperate in managing shared bodies of water, to find an underlying connection.

How the Mind Can Heal the Heart (In-person)
2023-09-30 10:00 - 17:00 | The Aligned Center, 1 Bridge Street, Foundry Building Suite 64, Irvington, New York, 10533
How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
(Tara Bennett-Goleman & Daniel Goleman)

Explore a transformative map of distorted perceptions and symbolic meaning hidden within emotional and cognitive patterns like perfectionism and self-sacrifice. These distortions filter our view rather than letting us see ourselves and others as we genuinely are.
Reparative interventions can allow the opportunity for insight and connection rather than confusion and reactivity. Repatterning emotional habits and calming our reactivity can clarify our awareness.
By challenging distorted assumptions and training the mind to expand its scope of awareness, we can refine the mind’s precision to reach beyond the limiting ways we perceive. We can see ourselves as we genuinely are instead of through these distorting filters.
Applying principles & practices from Emotional Alchemy, cognitive neuroscience and neuroplasticity, emotional intelligence, and an expanded awareness can awaken the part of the mind that sees more clearly and increase empathic understanding as a default mode
Based on Tara Bennett-Goleman’s book Emotional Alchemy and Daniel Goleman’s work on emotional intelligence, this approach integrates methods from East and West that can help relationships of all kinds, from partnerships, to family and friends, to the workplace, and in leadership. Coaches, therapists – anyone interested in transforming emotions might be interested in this innovative integration.
This is an in-person event.
Date: Saturday, September 30, 2023
Time: 10am – 5pm*
Location: The Aligned Center (1 Bridge Street – Suite 64, Irvington, NY 10533)
Price: $175 (add tickets for Saturday & Sunday to your cart and save $55 on combo price)
*There will be a 1.5 hour break for lunch. Guests are welcome to bring their lunch or go to a nearby restaurant.
—
Tara Bennett-Goleman M.A., is the author of the NY Times best-seller Emotional Alchemy and of Mind Whispering. An educator and psychotherapist, she brings practices and perspectives from Eastern and Western psychologies to repattern modes that separate into patterns that connect.
Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., is a science journalist best known for his books on emotional intelligence and on meditation. In these workshops he tours us through relevant neuroscience, looking at how the brain can repattern habits, and how the brain’s circuitry for social connection can lead to increase closeness.

Path of Awakening: Introductory Course - Online
2023-09-26 18:45 - 21:00 | https://thealignedcenter.com/event/path-of-awakening-introductory-course-3/2023-09-26/

Path of Awakening: Introductory Course - Online
2023-09-19 18:45 - 21:00 | https://thealignedcenter.com/event/path-of-awakening-introductory-course-3/2023-09-19/

Path of Awakening: Introductory Course - Online
2023-09-12 18:45 - 21:00 | https://thealignedcenter.com/event/path-of-awakening-introductory-course-3/2023-09-12/
