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2017-01-23 Beginning Meditation Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:09
Tempel Smith
On the first morning of retreat we guide our bodies to be still and relaxed as a base for the mind to settle. We can use sounds, body sensations and the breath to gather our attention and start the training not to be lost in thought.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-22 Compassion Meditation 41:09
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-19 Guided Meditation - Connecting to Awareness through Sounds 41:55
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-18 Instructions and Guided Meditation 28:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-17 Instructions et méditation guidée 27:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-15 Overview of the Pali Canon 1:45:50
Kim Allen
The meditation practices taught in the Insight movement trace their origins to the earliest known teachings of the Buddha. These discourses are part of the scriptures called the Pali Canon. This session offers an overview of the texts of the Pali Canon and some historical background on the development of Buddhism. We will also read some suttas (discourses) demonstrating different styles.
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-01-15 Noble Eightfold Path 02 guided meditation: exploring the Four Noble Truths in immediate experience 16:11
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation bringing awareness to dukkha in the moment, and ways of relating to it in light of the Four Noble Truths
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-01-14 Meditation Instructions: Relaxing the Heart 40:40
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-12 Metta meditation. 34:01
Chris Cullen
Guided meditation. Metta is embodied practice– Categories of community, self, benefactor and good friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-11 Full Meditation Instructions for a Work Retreat: Guided in Anandwan 41:39
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-10 The Wisdom Guided Heart: The Safest Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:10
Sylvia Boorstein
Overview of meditation techniques and how they contribute to the development of wisdom and its expression as kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-09 Guided meditation on body & body-awareness 43:21
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-07 14 Meditation: Metta for Benefactor 27:06
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 13 Instructions: Metta meditation 9:29
Jill Shepherd
An overview of how metta works with insight practice, and how to practice it for the category known as the benefactor
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:33
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-07 12 Meditation: Mindfulness of Mind 28:13
Jill Shepherd
Starting with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 Day 6 Meditation Instructions - Anatta Way of Looking (Not-Self) 57:22
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:36
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-06 08 Meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:18
Jill Shepherd
Opening to sound as a meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 07 Instructions: Mental Noting and Mindfulness of Hearing 12:45
Jill Shepherd
Different approaches to mindfulness, including the use of mental noting and using sound as the meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Guided Metta meditation. 45:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Day 5 Meditation Instructions - Dukkha Way of Looking (Unsatisfactoriness) 55:46
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Resting the Monkeymind 23:43
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-05 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:46
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-05 04 Meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in two ways 28:33
Jill Shepherd
Two ways of working with mindfulness of the breath: to settle the mind and/or refine awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Staying Present 43:48
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 02 Instructions: Brief overview of insight practice 3:58
Jill Shepherd
A very brief introduction to the practice and purpose of insight meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation On Foregivness 40:14
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Anicca Way of Looking ( Impermanence ) 51:20
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation: Energy and Embodiment 35:37
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation on energy, breath and embodiment
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 Reflections and Guided Meditation 38:36
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections on the four universal forms of empathy (brahmavihāra) and a brief guided mediation on muditā
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-03 Resting as Awareness 41:22
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-02 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation 1:52:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-02 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Short and Subtle Breath 50:40
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Guided metta meditation 45:58
Catherine McGee
Abiding and pervading with attention to abiding "in" and "as" the bigger body of earth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 On the role of hedonic tone (vedanā) in meditation. 47:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections and an exercise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 Guided Meditation on Compassion 43:21
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body 41:23
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 Reflection on Three Kinds of Thirst and Meditation on Three Kinds of Feeling 26:14
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Long and Deep Breath 50:13
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-01 Awareness of Thoughts, Instructions and Guided Meditation 1:35:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2017-01-01 Guided Meditation: Letting Go of the Meditator 47:57
Ajahn Sucitto
How to maintain the meditation; in Ajahn Sucitto’s words, “meditation is easy – it’s the meditator that complicates everything”. File has been edited for audio quality.
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 Meditation in 4 Postures 41:59
Nathan Glyde
Exploring Meditation in all 4 Postures in the first meditation of the Somnath retreat.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2016-12-31 Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 35:33
Tara Brach
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile to bring a relaxed receptivity to the body. We then engage with our future self (our Being when our heart is fully awake) and explore what it means to embody the fullness of that wisdom and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Morning Meditation Instruction 5:49
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Morning Meditation 32:54
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death 38:40
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-30 Meditation and Letting Go 53:08
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on renunciation and letting go as a foundation for deepening meditation practice and wellbeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-30 Dharma practice in difficult times. 45:57
Caroline Jones
Our world is facing great challenges. This talk explores some of the ways our meditation practice and spiritual friendships can help us meet these.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-30 Benevolent Space, Guided Meditation 57:51
Pascal Auclair
Benevolent Space, Guided Meditation
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-30 Morning Meditation Instructions with Question/Response 12:02
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-30 1st morning instructions and guided meditation 40:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-30 Meditation: A Liberating Awareness - Embodying Full Presence 30:08
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises in a kind, clear presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-29 Reflection and Meditation on Compassion 42:59
Hugh Byrne
Compassion has been called ‘the quivering of the heart in response to suffering.' Cultivating a compassionate heart helps us to hold kindly our own painful feelings and emotions, and engage with the suffering of others, near and far.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-29 Guided Standing Meditation 24:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto guides the retreatants in an introductory standing meditation
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-29 Morning Instruction on Meditation and Awareness 7:29
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-29 Meditation - Nine Breathing Exercises to release Dead Energies 33:00
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-29 Guided Meditation: The Skill of Making Mistakes 39:42
Ajahn Sucitto
A meditation to develop the ability to play, make mistakes, try again
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-29 Metta Meditation 41:13
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-28 Guided Meditation: The Three Fields of Heart 21:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto encourages us to use the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha as a frame of reference, symbols for our minds
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-28 Guided Heart Meditation 44:02
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-28 Walking Meditation Instruction 9:56
Hugh Byrne
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-28 Morning Meditation - Awareness and Aliveness 26:44
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-28 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts 41:26
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-22 Guided metta meditation. 45:23
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-20 Metta: unstoppable friendliness 35:35
Anushka Fernandopulle
Explanation and guided meditation of metta-. Goodwill, lovingkindness, benevolence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-14 Complete class with instructions, guided meditation and talk 61:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-10 Guided Meditation on Spacious Compassionate Awareness 44:25
Zohar Lavie
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-12-10 Spirit Rock, The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness 6:50:32
Howard Cohn
The Buddha was called 'the Happy One'. His teachings and path provide a clear and inspiring vision of our capacity to use our life to fulfill our goal of happiness. This talk of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of mindfulness, concentration and love, illustrating how each of us, through a gradual process of applying loving awareness to our moment-to-moment experience, can move from clinging and attachment to letting go and freedom, from confusion to clarity, and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-07 Spiritual Reparenting 1:12:21
Tara Brach
When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others, and are disconnected from our own body, heart and spirit. This talk explores how meditation offers "spiritual reparenting” as we learn to bring interest, understanding and love to our own inner vulnerability. This process of healing extends to our relationships with others and our larger society - by reaching out to widening circles with interest and care, we bring increasing harmony and peace to our world. "How do we love ourselves into healing?" From a place of caring, ask, "Where does it hurt?"
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-12-05 Reflective meditation on gladdening and steadying the heart 52:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided series of themes based to bring to mind and dwell upon, to support a skillful mental basis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yin Breathing with Manuela Mischke-Reeds 64:53
Heather Sundberg
Recording #4, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yen Breathing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 10 Point Body Scan Lying Down Practice: taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds. 60:58
Heather Sundberg
Session #3, Awakening through the Body taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-03 Guided Unbounded Metta Meditation 41:20
Heather Martin
Contacting our tenderness, through some sweet little stories, and then allowing that heart quality to expand everywhere, in all directions excluding nothing and no being at all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-01 A Guided Meditation on Passive Friendliness 24:36
Heather Martin
A guided session. We can forget that there's a whole range of qualities of friendliness that are non-doing or passive. Listening, caring, empathizing, respecting, allowing, appreciating, honoring and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-28 Sally Armstrong at Spirit Rock - Living in an Imperfect World 62:41
Sally Armstrong
Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock on Monday, November 28th 2016.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-27 Enriching embodied space: Guided Meditation 44:41
Ajahn Sucitto
A series of themes to support a rich, blessed state of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-23 Giving Thanks - Reflections on Meditation as a Way of Life 25:54
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-11-23 Guided meditation: What is needed? 13:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Drop the question into the embodied mind (citta) like dropping a penny down a well. What is the shiver of response?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-20 Orientation around the midline – a standing meditation 51:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-19 Guided Practice 4 -- Attending to the Aggregates 43:26
Donald Rothberg
A guided meditation exploring experience increasingly without a sense of self, through mindfulness of the five "aggregates" (khandhas or skandhas): form, feeling-tone, perception, thoughts and emotions (and other "mental formations), and consciousness.
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-17 What Will Heal Us 22:49
Ayya Medhanandi
Discover the riches of the Noble Eightfold Path again and again. See into the depths of the mind by rightly remembering and using the Buddha's guidance not only in formal meditation practice but in every waking hour of daily life. Begin, sustain, and deepen the practice of clear seeing and understanding the Path. This is how we step out of suffering into true blessing and joyous freedom.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-15 07 Guided Meditation 21:22
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 04 Guided Meditation 11:29
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-13 Four Elements and Guided Meditation 1:11:48
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-11 Strengthening the bodily field through standing 22:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A standing meditation to cultivate a unified, stable and strong bodily field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-10 Meditation: Equanimity 28:52
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-08 Meditation: Metta Practice 34:08
Larry Yang
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-07 Meditation: Metta - Heart Practice 32:00
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-07 Guided meditation: Expanding awareness 43:52
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-05 Heart Meditation: Taking In the Goodness 24:56
Tara Brach
Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins with a lovingkindness practice that spreads the image of a smile into the body, then continues with a practice of seeing the goodness of ourselves and others. “What’s it like when you communicate your appreciation of goodness to another person?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-11-04 Guided Meditation: Concentration Practice 56:23
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-02 Dhamma Talk: Introduction to Wise Meditation 1:15:24
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-02 Guided Meditation: Basic Instructions 20:52
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-10-31 Great is the Matter of Birth and Death 46:08
Eugene Cash
Exploring the celebration & relationship to death on Halloween and through the Zen practice of Segaki. We recognize the normalcy of death through Buddhist teachings, reflecting on our lives and in each moment of practice. Using reflection and meditation we discover how death leads to awakening and living our lives fully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death

2016-10-31 Morning instructions/guided meditation 46:27
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-10-30 Meditation as Medicine (MBSR): An Approach to Stress Reduction, Chronic Pain and Illness 6:59:23
Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-10-29 Morning instructions 43:07
Rebecca Bradshaw
First 16 minutes is guided meditation of mindfulness of emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-10-27 Big Mind Meditation 38:23
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-10-26 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times 63:59
Tara Brach
On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated ways of practice that help us to awaken from a limiting self-sense characterized by “something is wrong with me, or you.” In addition to guided meditations, our time includes sharing from participants.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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