About Bart van Melik
Bart van Melik is a guiding teacher at the Community Meditation Center in New York City. He has been teaching Insight Dialogue and silent meditation since 2009, and has been trained by Joseph Goldstein, Carol Wilson, Gregory Kramer, and Phyllis Hicks. Bart is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program.
Bart teaches residential silent retreats and Insight Dialogue retreats in the U.S. and Europe, and offers monthly Insight Dialogue practice at the Community Meditation Center in New York. For many years, he brought meditation practice into juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, veterans’ programs, and NYC public schools. He remains passionate about supporting people in discovering creative, playful, and caring ways to meet life’s challenges. Bart is also the co-author of Still, in the City: Creating Peace of Mind in the Midst of Urban Chaos.
Originally from Holland, Bart lives with his wife and son in New York City. Learn more at bartvanmelik.com and cmc-ny.org.
Events with Bart van Melik
Finding Freedom in Relaxing the Sense of Self
February 23 - 28, 2027
Barre, MA
Grounded in the teachings of the Buddha, this residential Insight Dialogue retreat explores these questions through both silent and relational practice. Drawing on core Buddhist teachings such as impermanence (anicca) and not-self (anattā), we investigate how the sense of self is continually forming in experience.
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