Beth Israel Medical Center. Starting September, 2007, one of the Center's chaplains is offering ongoing meditation instruction and practice for staff, patients and family members at Beth Israel Medical Center. Come relax, reflect, quiet your mind, reduce stress and anxiety on Thursdays, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, in the Meditation Room, Beth Israel Medical Center, Linsky, First Floor Room #20, at 17th Street and 1st Avenue.

Continuum Center for Health & Healing. Since the Spring of 2003, one of the Center’s chaplains has offered meditation instruction and practice to the integrative medical staff, patients, and neighbors of the Continuum Center—an integrative medical center. Cultivate health & well-being through mindfulness meditation each Thursday from 12:30 to 1 pm. All are welcome. 245 Fifth Avenue at 28th Street. www.healthandhealingny.org

Robert Mapplethorpe Residential Treatment Facility. At this residence for people living with AIDS, one of the Center’s chaplains leads a men’s group, a meditation group, and offers spiritual counseling to the residents.