2025-07-16 Discernment with regard to hindrances 44:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-12 Practicing with Challenges in Formal Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:48
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
The classic “five hindrances” as applied to formal metta practice. Includes the “near miss” of attached love, and “far neighbor” of aversion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-08 Harmonizing With The Hindrances 59:51
Kristina Bare	Download Listen
How to skillfully work with the 5 Hindrances in concentration practice. Threee Strategies are discussed: Ignoring, anti-dotes, mindfulness/inquiry
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

2025-07-03 No Mud No Lotus 55:19
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Five Hindrances and the Brahmaviharas
Big Bear Retreat Center :  Disentangling the Tangle

2025-06-24 Widening the Scope (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:12
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
Gullu reviews focused awareness and expands the frame to include feeling tone, hindrances, and thoughts and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness for Everyone (232R25)

2025-06-24 Morning Instructions: The Un-United Mental States of Emotions 2:55:39
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): mental states, emotions, sati (to remember), body, breath, hindrances, vedana (feeling tone), train rides.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-22 Morning Instructions: Empty Nature of Hindrances 50:09
Shinmu Tamori Gibson	Download Listen
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 4 (3rd full day): part 2 of the dharma talk titled: “ The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom”
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-15 Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:19
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Awakening Emotions (230R25), with Tuere Sala, in CMC

2025-06-15 The Five Hindrances 58:10
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Jhanas, Insight and Dependent Origination

2025-06-09 Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 53:53
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-08 Breakthrough Defilement Killers 33:45
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Liberating the Sense of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:44
Emily Horn	Download Listen
In this talk, Emily explores the Buddha’s teachings on the Liberating Insights and the Three Characteristics. She explains how suffering and impermanence shape our experience of self—sometimes making it feel solid and fixed, other times more open and fluid. By working skillfully with the hindrances, we can loosen our grip on a rigid sense of self and allow it to move with greater freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-07 Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 42:27
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-05-30 What's in the Way, is the Way 46:16
Bart van Melik	Download Listen
Exploring how the 5 hindrances can become opportunities for growth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-30 The Hindrances of Sense Desire, Aversion & Worry - Whirlpools & Eddies 41:04
Laura Bridgman	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Truth Here and Now

2025-05-30 Morning Instructions, hindrances, sense doors 41:53
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Touching in to normalize the hindrances, then guidance on sense doors, internal/external awareness and curiosity of sensations and experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-19 The Art of Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:59
Susie Harrington	Download Listen
Finding the balance of effort and letting go is the art of meditation practice. This applies both to times of ease in practice and in the greater challenges of meeting the hindrances. We have the opportunity to use every moment as a portal to wisdom and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2025-05-17 The Hindrances 44:51
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Big Bear Retreat Center :  Coming Home to Our Senses

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

2025-05-03 Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:20
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
This talk explores the intersection between the hindrances and naturally arising ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Naturally Arising Ease, Awareness, and Insight

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