{"title": "Walking Meditation: Lessons from the Earth", "start": "2026-11-07T09:15:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T10:30:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "$25 ($23 for members)", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["wellness/meditation"], "description": "Walking Meditation: Lessons from the Earth is a class of slow, mindful walking in the garden in late fall, with preregistration required. It is led by instructor Valerie Striar at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The practice cultivates peace, awareness, and inner strength that support one's own well-being and that of the earth. 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Participants meet at the RCSF Tuscan Garden and proceed to the forest and Healing Garden on the south side of Snug Harbor; the event is rain or shine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/shinrin-yoku-united-presents-forest-bathing-nature-therapy-55931/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/shinrin-yoku-united-presents-forest-bathing-nature-therapy/?slot_id=24479", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c77d52021cf6b0fcbc24b601c5f9f127cf8b0b86ebdf976633d8697ecda604c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dharma Moon & Tibet House US 100-Hour Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Tibet House US", "address": "West 15th Street 22", "price": "", "price_from": "69.95", "price_to": "69.95", "tickets_url": "https://shop.thus.org/collections/books", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist", "wellness/meditation"], "description": "The Dharma Moon and Tibet House US 100-Hour Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training is an online training for people who want to deepen their own meditation practice and learn to present mindfulness to others. 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It is hosted by the Garden Circle for its members and President's Circle members, led by birder, poet, and educator Indigo Goodson-Fields. Guests walk through the Native Flora Garden looking for migratory and resident birds while chatting about them. 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The Women's Center & LGBTQ+ Hub hosts them to support present awareness through mindfulness, whether you already practice or want to start. Each session includes instruction, meditation, and discussion with questions and answers. Latecomers will not be admitted once the session begins.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mindfulness-meditation-mondays-53449/", "official_url": "https://www.laguardia.edu/event/mindfulness-meditation-mondays-3/2026-11-02/", "image": ""}]}