{"title": "Daily Lunchtime Meditation | with Annie Bien, Tony Pham (Butterfly), and Nick Shopa | October", "start": "2026-10-30T12:15:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Tibet House US", "address": "West 15th Street 22", "price": "$7", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "Lunchtime Meditation is a daily midday meditation practice held at Tibet House US in New York City. Annie Bien and Tony Pham (Butterfly) host it as a lunchtime reset for the weekday crowd. 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Led by Annie Bien, a poet, translator, and certified Qigong instructor who teaches meditation and Qigong there, it combines movement with mind training. The Qigong part works on breath integration and muscle memory through the Five Stances and the Baduanjin (Eight Brocades), a sequence that can become a daily routine for improved health. The second part focuses on Lojong mind training in sitting meditation, using analytical meditation to transform overwhelming difficulties and challenges into a deeper realization of why our lives are meaningful and worthwhile.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-in-the-floating-world-qigong-and-lojong-with-annie-bien-71901/", "official_url": "https://shop.thus.org/products/here-in-the-floating-world-qigong-and-lojong-sunday-practice-sessions-with-annie-bien-thus", "image": "https://noky.io/images/35bd75abd528c91213796c26d124334bc256f92fec2736f8869aeec403cb6f0d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "NYZ: Zazen and Tai Chi", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York Zendo, 223 E 67th St, New York, NY, 10065", "address": "", "price": "$10 donation requested from non-members, payable online", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen", "wellness/tai-chi"], "description": "NYZ: Zazen and Tai Chi is an evening of seated Zen meditation followed by a tai chi class at New York Zendo. The Zen Studies Society opens the temple on these evenings, offering 40 minutes of zazen and then a tai chi session on the second floor. A quiet setting is essential to the practice, so visitors are asked to avoid scented cosmetics, silence electronic devices, and wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing. Newcomers are asked to first attend an Introduction to Zen Meditation class, held on Thursday evenings, and no registration is needed to join.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nyz-zazen-and-tai-chi-57610/", "official_url": "https://zenstudies.org/event/nyz-zazen-and-tai-chi/2026-10-27/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7387c5517ec1f438681f0731226b6470aa5d52ca15f476126a4ed97d235193d8-1200.webp"}]}