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2020-02-22 Walking Meditation: Keep the Whole Body Open 8:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Walking meditation is a whole body experience. Set up the upright and lateral frame, and extend the web of energy across the whole body. ‘Listen’ with the skin as you walk, taking in the space. When the body feels its wholeness it becomes more balanced and relaxed, conducing to release.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal
In collection: A Moving Balance

2020-02-22 Meditation Instructions (Day 2) 35:38
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodied Freedom

2020-02-22 Puja: Brightening the Heart Tone 4:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Based on an upright, open posture, chanting adds vocal tone to breathing. Breath becomes sound through bodily resonators. The release of breathing out, combined with the resonance and the reference to images of purity and compassion is brightening.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-22 Refreshing through Posture 23:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice with opening the body as an energetic formation. Muscles can relax on an upright posture, the boundaries of the bodies can relax. Opening into the surrounding space ventilates stale energies, supporting clearer attitudes and a brighter heart.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-21 Streaming vs Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:27
Tempel Smith
We are in an ever changing universe, yet conventionally don't understand this. Mindfulness brings us so much intimacy with things as they truly are that we wake up to this streaming nature. We have to let go of old habits of clinging to align with the stream we are in.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-21 Dharma Talk 55:23
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodied Freedom

2020-02-21 Samadhi and its Role in Cultivating the Eight-Fold Path - Meditation 29:26
Chas DiCapua
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2020-02-21 Samadhi and its Role in Cultivating the Eight-Fold Path - Talk 1:12:17
Chas DiCapua
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2020-02-21 Metta Chants II 35:43
Ariya B. Baumann
All the metta chants recited by all the meditators
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 6th Annual Metta Retreat - Part 2

2020-02-21 Guided Meditation 32:13
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodied Freedom

2020-02-21 Day 20 Afternoon Instructions: Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:01
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-21 Clearing Is Renewal 39:33
Ajahn Sucitto
We come on retreat to clear the negative, the compulsive, the cluttered. Acknowledging the causal potential to adopt behaviours and attitudes and transmit them to others, there is a need to clear and reset. The warm, safe, cooperative retreat environment allows for new growth after the clearing.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-21 Meditation Instructions (Day 1) time: 09:30 42:55
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodied Freedom

2020-02-21 Anxiety: It's Not All in Your Mind 48:02
Jill Satterfield
Part 1: talk and standing practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-02-20 Practising with Death and Dying 2:35:07
Rob Burbea
CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
Gaia House In Psyche's Orchard

2020-02-20 Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:01
Beth Sternlieb
Fear of letting go and trust in the dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-20 Anchored and Independent with Metta – Metta as Virtue 55:25
Ariya B. Baumann
With metta, one becomes anchored in oneself and independent; a kind, friendly, and benevolent attitude results in virtuous behavior
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 6th Annual Metta Retreat - Part 2

2020-02-19 Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You 22:06
Tara Brach
We begin with a body scan, open to sounds and to listening to and feeling the moment. From spacious awareness the practice is simply to recognize and allow the changing flow of life. The meditation ends with the poem, “Hokusai Says” by Roger Keyes.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-02-19 Working with Trauma: Tara Interviews Jim Gordon, MD 57:14
Tara Brach
Dr. Jim Gordon is author of the new book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. In this interview with Tara, he talks about his work with populations around the globe struggling with trauma, and some of the most powerful practices that can be done on our own in healing trauma. Jim's non-profit organization is the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC - CMBM.org.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-02-19 The Image of Ethics (Part 6 - An Inconclusive Conclusion, or A Prolegomenon) 58:03
Rob Burbea
CRUCIAL NOTE: It is highly unlikely that this talk will be properly or adequately understood without a prior very good working familiarity and competence – both in actual practice and conceptually – with Soulmaking Dharma teachings and practices, as well as with Insight Meditation. Without this background it may be that the talk will in fact be misunderstood, and it is unlikely that the talk will be helpful. Please note too that much of the material in this series of talks (In Psyche’s Orchard) is based on or continues explorations of material laid out in a particular previous series (Four Circles, Four Parables of Stone and Light). In Psyche’s Orchard was recorded by Rob at his home.
Gaia House In Psyche's Orchard

2020-02-19 Three Ways of Practicing Morality - Meditation 33:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-02-19 Three Ways of Practicing Morality - Talk 52:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-02-19 Patience & Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:07
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-19 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 14: Working with Our Psychological Conditioning (Talk Begins at 57:07) 2:00:51
Donald Rothberg
In this session, we explore first in a more general way the complex relationship between transforming our psychological conditioning (including any residues of trauma) and meditative training, pointing to a kind of emerging contemporary map of how these practices come together (and how this map relates to more traditional maps). Near the end of the talk are inquiry questions to help us explore our own unresolved issues of a more psychological nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-02-18 Equanimity: Training The Heart, Responding With Love 52:24
Oren Jay Sofer
How does silent retreat practice apply to our daily life? This talk explores how the Brahma Viharas and equanimity specifically can serve as essential support for meeting the challenges of our times.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart: Lovingkindness Retreat

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