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Dharma Talks

    Class Schedule

    First Wednesday of every month
    7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern

    Class Info

    HELD ON-SITE AT MINDFUL HARLEM

    Join us for Dharma Talks—an opportunity to explore timeless teachings that offer clarity and guidance for navigating modern life. Each talk provides insight into cultivating mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom, fostering a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Perfect for both newcomers and seasoned practitioners looking to deepen their practice.

    Instructor

    Angela Dews

    Dharma Instructor

    Angela Dews found the dharma in 1996, at Vallecitos Mountain Ranch in New Mexico, and began dedicated practice at Deer Park In California with Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. She is a graduate of the fourth Community Dharma Leaders Program at Spirit Rock and her primary teachers are Gina Sharpe and Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia. Angela co-leads the NYI Harlem Insight Sangha.

    “I walk for my ancestors.” ~Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh. Because the ancestors seldom walked slowly and empty-handed and sometimes had to run.


    Cristina Zaccheo

    Instructor

    Cristina Zaccheo is a Certified Meditation & Mindfulness teacher who received her primary training at The Interdependence Project (IPD) in New York. Her eclectic past includes working as a massage therapist in the Caribbean, studying yoga at the Kailash Tribal Yoga School in Dharamsala, India, volunteering as a translator for a Hare Krishna ashram in Florence, Italy, and performing dinner theater at Caesar’s Palace in the Poconos. She has led classes at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and Mindful Astoria. She also offers personal coaching through Dolce Life & Mind. Cristina views her teaching and coaching practice as an extension of her spiritual practice and strives to create a safe and welcoming space where curiosity and awareness can thrive.


    Dan Lee Vazquez, Jr.

    Instructor

    Dan is a mindfulness teacher, writer, organizational trainer, speaker and coach, who lives in New York City and offers transformative teachings and practices that help people and organizations awaken to and realize their potential.

    Dan fell in love with mindfulness in his early 20s when he was having what people nowadays call a quarter-life crisis.  Everything on the outside seemed fine: a graduate of Harvard, he was working for the LA times in Mexico City, in a great relationship, making good money, had lots of friends, but something didn’t feel right from the inside-out.  There was a nagging sense that “there’s more to life” than just succeeding and “making it.”  Dan went on a search for something that would help bring clarity, reduce suffering and bring greater ease.

    In his search, Dan met a Zen monk living on Stone Island off the coast of Mazatlán who taught him a simple meditation practice.  He felt like he had been on a long journey in the desert without any water, and somebody had finally offered him a glass of water—the cool, refreshing taste of mindfulness; of being present to whatever was happening without being caught in it and pushed around by it; of touching into a loving, caring awareness at the very core of our being.

    Dan was inspired to explore the practice of mindfulness in northern India, where it originated 2,600 years ago, and lived for 10 months in the foothills of the Himalayas.  He worked in a school, practiced regularly, and gained clarity about his life path: to help others awaken to the potential we all have to cultivate inner peace and meet life with courage, wisdom, grace, care and love.

    As a professional educator and coach, Dan has worked with a range of individuals—from elementary school students to corporate executives—and a range of organizations—from universities and non profits to corporations.  Dan is trained as an MBSR teacher, Search Inside Yourself teacher, and iBme teacher.

    He welcomes working with anyone interested in living with less suffering and more peace.

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