Josh Korda

Josh Korda has been the guiding teacher of Dharma Punx NYC since 2005. He is an empowered teacher in the Against the Stream lineage and a visiting teacher at the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care.

Magazine

When Panic Strikes

A centering practice for when trauma is reactivated

By Josh Korda

Winter 2019

Man standing on pier, silent meditation retreat

Magazine Personal Reflections

Is Silent Retreat Good for Everyone?

Extended contemplative practice can activate buried trauma.

By Josh Korda

Winter 2018

Trike Daily Teachings

Don’t Suffer Alone

Dharma Punx teacher Josh Korda explains the importance of community in Buddhism—and in human evolution.

By Josh Korda

May 14, 2018

buddha statue against a blue sky background for story on spiritual teachers and mental health

Trike Daily Personal Reflections

Why I Come Clean to Students About My Insomnia, Anxiety, and Sobriety

If as Buddhist teachers we fail to reveal our emotional and psychological issues, we do a great disservice to the entire spiritual community.

By Josh Korda

Aug 17, 2017

Unique gelatin silver print photogram depicting working with fear

Magazine Meditation & Practice

A Safe Container for Fear

When you embrace your emotional experience, anxiety fades away.

By Josh Korda

Fall 2017

Dharma Talks

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence

In his second online retreat for Tricycle, the Theravada Buddhist teacher Josh Korda will show us how to use Buddhist practices to develop the ability to recognize and monitor our emotions as well as to discriminate between drives that are safe to act upon and those best contained by awareness and slowly diffused.

By Josh Korda

Jan 2015

Magazine

Flowing Feelings

Acceptance-based inner awareness is not a practice to put off, any more than breathing, sleeping, or consuming nourishment.

By Josh Korda

Fall 2013

Magazine Meditation & Practice

Now What?

Life as a recovering addict

By Josh Korda

Fall 2012

Dharma Talks

Josh Korda on Making Friends with Your Demons

This retreat will explore the use of Buddhist practices, especially mindfulness and meditation, to help people recover from habitually ingrained addictive behaviors. Tools-such as appropriate attention, acceptance, removing obsessive thoughts, cultivation of kindness, generosity, and gratitude-can help break the cycle of addiction. Each week, Korda will introduce a different meditation techniques to help reduce stress and make recovery more tranquil and joyous.

By Josh Korda

Aug 2012