About Bart van Melik
Bart van Melik has been teaching Insight Dialogue and individual silent meditation since 2009, with a specific focus on working with diverse populations. He has studied with Gregory Kramer and the Insight Dialogue Teaching Community since 2007 and is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society’s Teacher Training Program. Passionate about supporting people finding new ways to relate to stressful life circumstances, Bart brings meditation practice to juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, and NYC public schools. Bart lives in New York City where he regularly offers Insight Dialogue at New York Insight. To learn more about Bart’s offerings, please visit his website.
Events with Bart van Melik
Ease & Freedom: Exploring the Three Characteristics with Insight Dialogue
March 1 - 6, 2024
Barre, MA
The insight that can arise from exploring the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering (dukkha), and not-self is a powerful way to free the heart-mind from clinging. It can be challenging for us to engage with this teaching in an embodied way, to bring it out of the conceptual and into…
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Embodying a Relational Masculinity: An Insight Dialogue Men’s Retreat
May 10 - 16, 2024
Barre, MA, USA
and Brent Beresford Can we envision a masculinity that is relational, attentive to others, and wholesome? Can the Dhamma and Insight Dialogue support us in disentangling from harmful gender conditioning? Whether we identify as men or have simply been conditioned as such, we may have experienced the privilege as well…
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