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2025-01-03 Morning reflection on Contemplation of mind states (cittānupassanā). 52:40
Akincano Marc Weber
Citta – at the heart of our experience. The wonders and challenges of the beast. Examples of things Buddhists happily disagree with each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Being Rooted Here 54:57
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Elements as Our Guides
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025

2025-01-02 Vulnerability and Openness 66:04
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on the reality of our human vulnerability and the invitation to embrace this.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Reflections on vedanā (hedonic tone) and guided practice 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber
Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratification and avoidance and to uncouple attention from pleasant or unpleasant feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Practicing with Vedena 58:35
Catherine McGee
Morning Instructions day 4.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-02 Meeting the New Year With All Its Challenges and Blessings 19:57
Ayya Santacitta
Somatic practice followed by a guided meditation
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025

2025-01-01 Kafka – Love, Loss and the Satipaṭṭhāna 68:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Kafka and the girl with a lost doll. Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history. Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursive aspects of mind.) This orientation helps greatly with the actual practice of satipatthana exercises outline elsewhere.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Stepping Out of the Silo of Human Supremacy in 2025 54:40
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on Aspirations for the New Year | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-01-01 Guiding Through the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, and the Four Brahma Viharas (heart qualities). 44:36
Ayya Anandabodhi
An overview of the Satipatthana sutta and the four brahma viharas, with an encouragement to practice with what is accessible and not get lost in a large array of possible meditation practices.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025

2025-01-01 In whose gaze your defenses drop 43:21
Catherine McGee
Practicing resting in and receiving the loving attention of a loving figure.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

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