Upcoming retreats will be announced soon.
Unshakable - Cultivating Calm and Presence
A one-day meditation retreat to shift towards joy & equanimity.
Saturday, September 23rd | Private Home in Flatiron | Guided by Dina Kaplan & Leon Ford
11:00am - 6:15pm, including lunch, snacks, & an optional celebratory dinner party
This retreat is for all levels from beginner to advanced.
Join us for a meditation retreat to move towards equanimity. And to feel calm, present, and clear. Together we’ll enjoy meditations, inspiring Buddhist wisdom, meals, snacks, conversation — and the joy of being in community. Emerge feeling relaxed, refreshed, and inspired.
Through mindfulness and meditation, we can train our minds to be more even. To feel calm and clear — and not let others set us off our path for the day.
With this, we can live with more equanimity. Moving through our day with kindness, relaxation, and compassion.
On this retreat, in community, we will cultivate this feeling of calm. Learn to live with more lightness. And have fun, too. Dina & Leon live with an infectious joy, and we would love to have you join us & immerse yourself in their positive energy. We are excited to have you join us and find inspiration and wisdom to live with more ease — and delight.
We are welcoming a maximum of 25 retreaters, so please RSVP soon if you’d like to join us. All spots are non-refundable.
Location
We will gather at a beautiful private apartment in Flatiron (address will be shared upon registration).
Agenda
11:00am Gather, enjoy snacks, and meditation as movement - your choice to walk, dance, or shake (we’ll explain!) as we prepare to cultivate calm
11:15am Opening meditation, intention-setting and introductions
12:00pm Teacher intros and wisdom — Being Unshakable
12:20pm Meditation, group discussion, Q&A
1pm Breakout groups
1:30pm Lunch
2:40pm Stretch, walking meditation
3:15pm Wisdom, discussion, meditation
4:30pm Break for nature, games, or journaling
4:50pm Breakout groups
5:20pm Wisdom, group discussion
5:45 Closing meditation
6:15pm Goodbyes or Dinner Party!
Featuring community member and certified meditation teacher Alyssa Gruber.
Your Teachers
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.
About Leon Ford
“A story is only as powerful as the people it touches.” Leon Ford has an amazing story that has reached countless individuals around the world. He has a testimony that instills hope into all, transcending age, gender, race, and even political and religious beliefs.
Leon is a living embodiment of courage, using his story as a catalyst for a change. One day he was a teenager with his whole life ahead of him, and in one instant, his life changed forever. A survivor of police brutality, Leon’s encounter with law enforcement led to him being shot five times at point-blank range, resulting in paralysis. Leon is the voice for so many who are now voiceless because they lost their lives to police brutality. He also uses his voice as an advocate for peace, literacy, mental health, trauma, violence, spinal cord injury research and many other issues. In this endeavor, Leon has taken the task of healing wounds by courageously addressing that they exist and by providing solutions to these severe issues all while using his influence to promote positivity.
When most people could have held on to hate and resentment, Leon Ford chose to live his life with a new resounded purpose. Leon is the subject of two films, a TV show in development, a multiple-time author, student, father, community activist, certified meditation teacher, motivational speaker, mentor, advocate, and artist. His mission: to educate and to heal communities. Leon has spoken across the country, and in doing so, he has garnished a following that also extends internationally. In his resilience, Leon Ford has turned a tragic story into a testimony of love, compassion, and understanding. His story serves as an inspiration to millions of people around the world.
