Mela & Friends | NYC Meditation & Dinner
Happy Mindfulness Meditation & Dinner Party (New York)
Saturday, May 18th | Private Home in Soho | Guided by Dina Kaplan
6:00pm - 8:45pm, including snacks, meditation & dinner
The meditation is for all levels from beginning to longtime practitioners.
Gather for a beautiful evening in community. Enjoy an expertly guided meditation, conversation, dinner — and the joy of being in mindful company in a spectacular location. Connect with old friends, meet new friends, and emerge feeling refreshed & expanded.
We are limiting numbers so please RSVP soon if you’d like to join us. All spots are non-refundable.
We will gather at a spectacular soho penthouse with beautiful rooftop views across Manhattan.
Agenda
6:00pm Welcome, snacks & social time
6:30pm Meditation, wisdom & discussion
7:30pm Dinner & social
8:00pm Sunset rooftop toast
Your Teacher | About Dina Kaplan
Dina Kaplan is Founder/CEO of the The Path, which teaches meditation for the modern mind. The Path has taught thousands of people to meditate around the world and at festivals including SXSW and Sundance.
Dina is a certified meditation teacher and leads meditations and retreats around the world, including at conferences and for brands, corporations and individuals. She has studied and practiced dozens of meditation techniques, including Vipassana, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Vedic (or “mantra”) meditation, loving-kindness or (“metta”) meditation and more. Dina is the lead teacher for The Path’s certificate meditation teacher training program.
Before founding The Path, Dina was co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the tech start-up Blip.tv in web video. Before Blip, Dina was an Emmy-award winning television news reporter for local NBC stations. Prior to reporting, Dina worked as an associate producer for MTV News and at the White House as Director of Research for the Office of the White House Counsel. Dina was named one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs and Fast Company’s Most Influential Women of Web 2.0. She has a column about meditation for entrepreneurs on Forbes.com and writes about meditation and related topics for the New York Times, today.com, Time Magazine’s Motto, Marie Claire, Medium & Town & Country.
Dina has taught classes at Columbia Business School, Columbia Journalism School, NYU’s Stern School of Business and NYU’s ITP program for engineers and designers. She has spoken at SXSW, the World Economic Forum, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit, Le Web (Paris), TEDx Athens, DLD (Munich), Cannes Lions, CeBit and more.