2025-05-06 Equanimity internally and externally: practicing with the hindrances 52:14
Rachel Lewis	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Equanimity: A Path to Peace - 25DS

2025-04-19 Holistic Awareness and Right Livelihood 42:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mental consciousness experiences in terms of points and lines, holistic awareness is the mode the body uses for its maintenance, health and balance. This is what we cultivate in meditation, so that the heart attunes to it and is also well-maintained, healthy and liberated from stress. Right livelihood is a matter of sustaining this kind of awareness in terms of duties, collaboration and the welfare of others. These clear mental hindrances and restrictions and bring joy into our daily lives.
Cittaviveka

2025-04-19 Mara and the Buddha (the Five Hindrances) 41:03
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Deepening into Wisdom and Love 2025

2025-04-08 Liberative Dependent Origination: Sukha and Samadhi 55:23
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
The sukha of tranquility supports the mind in happiness and contentment, decreasing the mind's movement away from this moment, and thereby supporting the gathering of samadhi. The 5 jhanic factors also support the decrease in the hindrances and the deepening of samadhi. The pitfall of clinging to samadhi and also the role of samadhi in cultivating insight close the talk.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-08 Presence or Absence of the 5 Hindrances When Meditating (Simile of the Bowl of Water) 30:26
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-08 Introduction to the Hindrances; Seated Meditation; Walking Meditation 57:22
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-07 Monday morning instructions 56:33
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
Continuing with the first foundation of the body, and folding in faith - placing our heart on the practices of simplicity and calming. Also includes ways of meeting the hindrances through mindfulness and kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-06 Liberative Dependent Origination: Suffering and Faith 57:49
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk celebrates the conditions that support the move from the Dependent Origination wheel of suffering to Liberative Dependent Arising. Faith can develop naturally, especially as we meet the hindrances with wisdom and begin to see the three insight themes. In this way, we can begin to taste liberation, even at this early stage in the 12 links.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-03-25 Light on concentration – a skilful gathering of factors and fruits 55:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Samadhi is generally translated as 'concentration' but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Cittaviveka :  End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-08 Dharma Reflection - Beautiful Qualities of the Heart 20:38
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Guided practice on the five jhana factors and how they antidote the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-02 Instructions - Meeting the Hindrances with our Practice 52:52
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-02-27 The Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances: Part 2 49:14
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-25 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances 46:40
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 10 talk: Five Hindrances 29:28
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 The Hindrances and Insight 56:26
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
How our experience of the hindrances interacts with our understanding of impermanence and emptiness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-21 The Four Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances. Part 1. 45:26
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-14 Understanding and working with the hindrances, Part 2 49:38
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-11 The Hindrances and Mindfulness 47:27
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
There is tremendous power in being mindful in the midst of the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-08 Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 1:46:10
Jean Esther	Download Listen
When we bring mindfulness and non-identification to difficult mind states such as the hindrances they become less of an obstacle and more of doorway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-07 Understanding and Relating to the Hindrances 44:03
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-04 The Hindrances and Concentration 51:33
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
How the hindrances interfere with concentration, and the Buddha's instructions for dealing with them
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-02 Morning instructions, hindrances and vedana 64:54
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Short talk and 30 min. guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-01-17 Module III: Working with The Hindrances 1:47:27
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Working with the Hindrances 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness :  Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-11 Working with the 5 Hindrances as a pathway to Wisdom 62:15
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
No doubt there are challenges that may come up when we practice meditation and so helpful to learn how to work with them wisely so they can transform as gifts of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-07 Morning Instructions: Practicing with Mind States, Emotions, and Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:15
Tara Mulay	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Winter Insight Retreat

2025-01-01 Meditation instructions - sustaining attention and meeting the challenges/hindrances 42:10
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2024-12-29 In Appreciation of the Five Hindrances 50:44
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year Retreat

2024-12-20 How to Work with the Hindrances 57:15
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Stories and teachings on working with Nivaranas - they are not hindrances if we know them with mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2024-12-16 Working with the Hindrances 1:46:23
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Day 3, Module III: Hindrances
One World Mindfulness :  Opening to Wisdom and Love

2024-12-15 Talk - What Makes Hindrances Dukkha 49:00
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Finding Peace

2024-12-12 Morning Reflection: Working with the hindrances 18:49
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2024

2024-12-07 The Five Hindrances and Three Kinds of Desire 45:53
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
An overview of the five hindrances and clarifying the place of desire in the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat

2024-11-24 Working with the Five Hindrances 53:06
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Jhanas, Insight & Dependent Origination

2024-11-23 Morning Instructions : Illuminating the Hindrances 1:29:35
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awake in the World (4) - Living & Liberating Who You Really Are (online series)

2024-11-05 The Hindrances 43:52
Juha Penttilä	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2024-10-26 The Hindrances, Part 2 62:54
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
The Sacredness of the Hindrances generally. Working with sloth and torpor, restlessness, and doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2024-10-25 Desire and discontent for the world 47:27
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Revisiting the hindrances of sense-desire and ill-will
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2024-10-24 Knowing What is Good for Oneself and What is Good for Others 56:20
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
a Reflection and Guided Meditation on the Five Hindrances and Earth Awareness
Big Bear Retreat Center :  Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life

2024-10-19 Restrain of the sense faculties and abandoning the hindrances 43:37
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
London Insight Meditation :  Leigh Brasington – The Gradual Training to Awakening

2024-10-13 Hindrances and the Thinking Mind - Instructions & Guided Meditation 41:43
Juha Penttilä	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking

2024-10-07 Difficulty as a Doorway: Exploring the Five Hindrances 53:35
Jean Esther	Download Listen
This talk, focused primarily on Sense Desire and Aversion also emphasizes all hindrances as a doorway for awakening.
True North Insight :  The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-05 Guided Reflection: Opening to Hindrances 42:06
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
An attitude of gratitude and acceptance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2024

2024-09-08 Feeling the Story and Stepping Out of the Stream 50:22
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Hindrances, Vedanā, and Reactivity, and How it Feels to Feel, and to Free
SanghaSeva :  Feeling Freedom

2024-08-30 The Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:18
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Understanding the necessity and importance of the hindrances in our awakening practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-07-20 Morning Instructions - Hindrances in Awareness Practice 57:21
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-19 Working with the Hindrances in Awareness Practice 56:00
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 Morning Instructions – hindrances in awareness practice 60:08
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-06 Freedom From the Hindrances - Instructions & Guided Practice 49:00
Yahel Avigur	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Gentle Art of Patience

2024-06-24 Going to Battle or Changing Course: The Five Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:49
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
Gullu explores the 5 hindrances (nirvanas) and how to work with them skillfully, allowing them to be teachers rather than enemies.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-20 The five hindrances 48:26
Cara Lai	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC