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River Wolton's Dharma Talks
River Wolton
River Wolton attended her first Insight Meditation retreat in 2000, and subsequently helped to establish Sheffield Insight Meditation (UK). She is a Community Dharma Leader authorised by Gaia House Teacher Council, and has completed Dharma Teacher Training with Bodhi College. A former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, she has led writing and arts projects for many years, and is an activist in the LGBTQI+ community.
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2023-03-30
Afternoon Guided Meditation
2023-04-01
Afternoon Guided Meditation
2025-08-01
Anchors, Awareness, Attitude
2024-01-28
Creative Engagement with Difficulties - Mind and Body; Short Guided Practice an…
2025-11-26
Creativity, Courage & the Inner Critic (talk & guided Mettā meditation).
2025-07-25
Cultivating Seeds of Friendliness
2024-07-14
Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness
2025-11-19
Curiosity, Cultivation & Creativity (introduction, guided meditation, reflectio…
2025-08-02
Dancing with Mara - Adventures with Aversion & the Inner Critic
2025-10-11
Deepening Practice, Becoming Embodied
2022-07-29
Dharma Talk
2023-12-09
Dharma Talk - Death is the Mother of Beauty
2025-06-20
Dharma Talk - How Can Mortality Awareness Resource Us
2022-04-14
Dharma Talk - Kindfulness of Body
2025-06-18
Dharma Talk - Letting Go Without Getting Low
2022-04-16
Dharma Talks - Joy as Sustenance for Compassion
2023-03-29
Evening Dharma Talk
2023-03-30
Evening Dharma Talk - The Story of Ptolemy the Tortoise and Mettā
2025-12-03
Exploring How We Hold On, & Finding Space to Let Go (talk and guided meditation…
2025-07-26
Fearless Joy
2024-02-12
Field of Care
2023-04-21
Finding Peace Within Impermanence
2023-04-15
Finding Steadiness and Lightness in the Journey of Connecting (River Wolton), M…
2025-07-24
For Nothing is Fixed
2025-12-05
Guided Lovingkindness (Metta) Meditation
2024-04-20
Guided Meditation - Absorbing Friendliness From Trees and Other Beings
2025-06-17
Guided Meditation - Stepping Stones to Boundless Mettā
2024-12-14
Guided Meditation (LB)
Liberating Our Views (RW)
Contemplative Exercise : Mea…
2024-12-14
Guided Meditation (LB)
Mortality & Infinity as Doorways to the Sacred (RW)
Fe…
2024-12-15
Guided Meditation (LB)
Review of the Weekend (LB)
Remembering Lightness (RW)
2024-12-13
Guided Meditation (RW)
The Metaphor of the Beloved (LB)
The Centrality of Kin…
2024-12-14
Guided Meditation (RW)
The Path with the Beloved (LB)
Contemplative Exercise …
2024-02-11
History, Story, Mystery
2025-07-25
Holding Thoughts Lightly
2025-08-10
How Do We Cross the Flood ?
2023-07-05
How's the Weather With You ?
2025-12-06
How's The Weather, and What's a Wise Response ?
2024-04-20
Instructions - Connecting and Returning to Anchors, Walking Practice Guidance
2024-04-27
Instructions - Tips For Steadying with the Breath, Qigong, Guided Meditation.
2022-04-14
Instructions & Guided Meditation
2022-04-15
Instructions & Guided Meditation
2023-12-08
Instructions & Reflections - Ground, Breath, Body, Space
2023-04-16
Interconnected (the three brains, the earth, and qualities of deep connection)…
2022-07-30
Meditation Instructions
2023-03-29
Morning Instructions
2025-06-19
Morning Instructions
2023-03-31
Morning Instructions - Creative Approches to Thoughts and Thinking
2025-06-17
Morning Instructions - Sitting & Walking Meditation
2023-07-04
Multiverse of Mettā - Guided Practice
2025-03-22
Poems, Perceptions & Freedom
2023-07-06
Pride, Joy and Seeing Queerly
2022-04-17
Reflections & Guided Meditation
2022-04-16
Reflections and Guided Meditation
2023-11-04
Reflections on Poetry and Dharma (includes a song)
2025-08-09
Refuge of the Buddha
2025-07-26
Riffing on Mettā
2024-04-21
Talk - Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness
2025-12-06
Talk - Landscapes of the Boundless Heart
2024-04-27
Talk - Mettā in Motion - a Moveable Feast
2024-07-13
Talk - The Dharma of Birdwatching
2024-02-12
The Art of Mettā
2024-07-15
The Extraordinatory Lightness of Being
2023-04-17
The Practice of GRAIN
2025-08-09
The Refuge of Dharma
2025-08-10
The Refuge of Sangha
2023-04-15
Tuning into the Space Around Us and the Anchors of Ground, Body and Breath. Gu…
2024-01-27
Upcycling the Five Hindrances
2025-08-08
What is Refuge ?
2024-02-10
What is Well ?
2024-07-16
Where's This Thought Headed ?
2024-01-27
Why Mettā Matters
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2022-04-13
Insight Meditation and Yoga
2022-07-28
Rainbow Dharma: a retreat for the LGBTQI+ community
2023-03-28
The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion
2023-04-14
Young Person's Retreat - A Path of Connection and Belonging
2023-04-21
Meditation Day - Impermanence as a Way to Peace
2023-07-03
Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community
2023-11-04
Between the Words : Poetry and Meditation
2023-12-07
This Precious Human Life - Contemplating Our Mortality
2024-01-26
Inner Peace and Fierce Compassion (Dana Retreat)
2024-02-09
Rainbow Dharma- A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community
2024-04-19
A Path of Connection - Young Person's Retreat
2024-04-26
Mettā in Motion - Insight Meditation & Qigong
2024-07-12
The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion
2024-12-13
The Call to the Beloved (online)
2025-03-22
Between the Words - Poetry & Meditation
2025-06-16
This Precious Human Life : Contemplating Our Mortality
2025-07-23
Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community
2025-07-31
Young Person's Retreat: A Path of Connection
2025-08-08
Crossing the Flood (online retreat)
2025-11-19
Meditation & Creativity (online series)
2025-12-04
Boundless Heart, Vulnerable Life
