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2024-01-11 Basic Metta Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:57
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We cover the 3 elements of metta practice: generating the energy of friendliness, visualizing the person/being you are sending metta to, and repeating the phrases. We offer various versions of the phrases and introduce the first few categories of beings we can send metta to: self, benefactor, and dear friend. In the guided practice we begin by feeling held and loved by others and then offer this to ourselves, then move on to benefactor and dear friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta 2024

2024-01-10 Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:33:42
Donald Rothberg, Beth Sternlieb, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta 2024

2024-01-10 Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness 20:22
Tara Brach
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic presence (from the archives). It doesn’t matter how many times the mind drifts. It’s the gentle re-arriving that retrains your heart and mind. Just to choose to come back… Perhaps to sense what might let go a little more… If there’s something that might want to relax a bit more right now… To listen to and feel the changing moment-to-moment experience with an awake, open awareness. ~ Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-01-10 How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 45:53
Tara Brach
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world (a special favorite from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-01-10 How to Be Happy: the Three Rules 44:54
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-01-10 Loving Kindness & the Abandoning of Ill Will; The Chant of Mettā 44:22
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2024-01-10 The heart at home in the body 50:48
Chas DiCapua
How do use the body awareness to create a suitable home for the heart?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart

2024-01-10 Stay With the Intensity ~ Do the Connective Work! 54:37
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-01-10 Guided Movement & Meditation - Aspirational Intentions 55:29
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2024-01-10 Q&A Group A 2:20:52
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat, 2024

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