Jon Aaron

Teaching Schedule

8 WEEK MINDFULNESS BASED STRESS REDUCTION CLASSES


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Thursday Evenings 6:30-9:00
May 22nd-July 17th
New York Insight Meditation Center
28 West 27th Street, 10th Floor 
Fee: $425.00 includes materials and Day Long
Free Intro/Orientation on Wednesday, May 14th 6:30-9:00pm
(required for those intending to take the class)
Day Long: Saturday, June 29th,  10:00am-5:00pm
For registration or more information, click here

Friday Mornings, 9:30am - 12 pm
January 17th - March 14th
Yogaworks, Union Square
138 Fifth Avenue (@19th street)
Fee: $425.00 ($375 early registration), includes materials and Day Long
Free Intro/Orientation on Friday, January 10th 9:30-12:00pm
(required for those intending to take the class if you can't attend please contact Jon Aaron directly)
Day Long: Saturday, February 15th  10:00am-5:00pm
For more information and registration click here.

Sunday afternoons 3:30-6:00 pm*
January 26th - March 16th 
New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
119 West 23rd Street, Suite 401 (6th and 7th Ave)
Fee: $425.00, includes materials and Day Long
Free Intro/Orientation on Wednesday, Jan 12th 3:30-6 pm
(Required if you intend to register for the class.) 
Day Long: Saturday, March 8th 10:00am-5:00pm
For registration please click here.
*Note: February 2nd and March 2nd class will exceptionally be from 4:00 to 6:30pm


SPECIAL PROGRAMS:

The Buddha's Direct Path to Awakening
An in-depth exploration of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Thursday Mornings at the Center
10:00am-12:00pm
Three sessions:
January 9-February 13
March 6-March 27
April 17-May 15
New York Insight Meditation Center
28 West 27th St.
For details and registration click here

ON GOING SITTING GROUPS (DROP-INS WELCOME)


Every Wednesday, 5:45-6:45 PM  

At the Makom Center JCC in Manhattan

76th and Amsterdam

No charge, donation requested


PRIVATE SESSIONS

On request. Please email: mindfulnessnyc@gmail.com


CORPORATE SESSIONS

On request. Please email: mindfulnessnyc@gmail.com




Jon Aaron has been practicing various forms of meditation for many years, but began seriously studying mindfulness meditation in 1998 and over the course of the last 10 years his meditation practice has become central to his life. 


Jon Aaron is a teacher at the New York Insight Meditation Center, as well as the guiding teacher of the Makom Meditation Havurah program at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. He also leads a weekly class for the Wellness Program at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has given workshops and classes for the New York Open Center, the NYU Medical School, the Department of Psychology at Einstein College of Medicine, the Beth Israel Medical Center and for the 92nd St Y. He was formerly a member of Yoga Sutra New York's teacher-training program.

Jon trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, where he continues advanced training and supervision for experienced teachers. He continues his studies in Buddhist meditation in the Theravada tradition with his primary teacher Matthew Flickstein and has also completed the Integrated Study and Practice Program, at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. He recently completed the Foundations in Buddhist Contemplative Care program, with the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, and he is now currently training in Somatic ExperiencingTM.

In his worldly life Jon is active as an agent and producer in the Performing Arts.

Jon is available for MBSR classes, mindfulness workshops, on-going corporate classes and private consultations.


To read what people are saying about Jon's teaching, click here.


contact: mindfulnessnyc@gmail.com


Needing a 3 minute guided mindfulness meditation? Check out this short session Jon led at the last TedxTeachersCollege of Columbia.

3 minute meditation


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