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Yahel Avigur's Dharma Talks
Yahel Avigur
Yahel Avigur is a devoted meditator and Dharma teacher. In 2013, After practicing in Theravada and Insight Meditation traditions, he met the Dharma teacher Rob Burbea and became his student. He was encouraged by Rob to teach the path of Emptiness to its depth; his unique approach to the Jhana practice; and to train in teaching Soulmaking Dharma. Yahel is also trained in Hakomi approach of assisted self study.
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2023-10-13
A Bit More on Practicing Anicca
2026-07-17
A Note on Refinement (Morning Session)
2026-04-04
Afternoon Reflections - Wisdom with Emotions
2026-07-11
An Introduction to the Jhānas: Springs of Pure Joy (Evening Session)
2026-02-28
Anicca: Sensitive to Change (instructions and a guided practice)
2024-10-12
Arriving on a Retreat, Turning Towards Kind Sensitivity
2026-07-13
Attuned Effort (Evening Session)
2022-10-04
Attunement and Relationship with Experience
2026-07-12
Base Practice: Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation and Instructio…
2026-07-11
Base Practice: Energy Body and Breath (Morning Session)
2026-07-11
Base Practice: Mettā as Samādhi (Afternoon Session)
2022-10-04
Bases for Samadhi
2026-02-28
Care & Equanimity
2026-03-01
Closing Session
2023-04-08
Compassion
2023-12-02
Day 1 Instruction
2023-12-03
Day 2 Analytical Practice
2023-12-03
Day 2 Talk
2023-12-04
Day 3 Analytical Practice
2023-12-05
Day 4 Instruction - 1
2023-12-05
Day 4 Instruction - 2
2023-12-06
Day 5 Instruction
2023-12-06
Day 5 Talk
2023-10-11
Dependent Origination: Relaxing the Agitated Classroom of the Heart.
2026-07-14
Developing Pīti: Skill with Delight (Morning Session)
2026-07-14
Developing Pīti: Skill with Delight (Part II) (Evening Session)
2024-06-23
Dharma Reflections (title pending)
2024-06-24
Dharma Reflections (title pending)
2025-08-12
Dharma Talk: Emptiness and/of Awareness
2023-04-09
Emptiness - Parts, Wholes. One, Many.
2023-09-05
Emptiness & the Eye of the Heart
2022-10-16
Emptiness and Otherness
2025-08-10
Emptiness and the Fading of Perceptions
2022-10-09
Emptiness, Aggregates, the Path
2026-03-01
Equanimity Regarding Others: Nothing to Fix Here
2023-10-11
Establishing Samadhi Through Breath / Mettā
2023-09-04
Eve - Emptiness; 'The World as Sacred Text'
2024-06-22
Evening - Guided Practice (title pending)
2026-07-10
Evening – Opening Talk: Introduction to the Jhāna Retreat
2026-04-03
Evening Guidance
2026-04-05
Evening Guidance - Belonging to the Elements
2024-10-17
Fading and the Selfless Nature of Things
2023-04-07
Finding the Body
2026-07-15
First Jhāna: Engaging in a Jhāna (Part II) (Evening Session)
2026-07-16
First Jhāna: Mastery (of the First and of All Jhānas) (Morning Session)
2026-07-15
First Jhāna: Opening to Well-Being (Part I) (Morning Session)
2024-07-06
Freedom From the Hindrances - Instructions & Guided Practice
2023-10-12
Guided Meditation: Feeling and Relaxing the Push/Pull of the Heart
2024-07-05
Guided Practice - Liberating Relationship with Reactivity
2022-10-08
Guided Practices - seeing as 'friend', holding the hall in Metta, elements prac…
2022-10-15
Icon / Image
2024-05-21
Inclining Towards Samadhi
2024-05-25
Instructions & Guided Practice - Absorbing the Pleasure (Born of Meditation)
2024-07-07
Instructions & Guided Practice - Dharma Work That Makes a Difference
2023-04-08
Inviting a Lovng Figure
2026-07-18
Jhāna, Insight, and Awakening (Evening Session)
2026-04-03
Lunchtime Reflections
2024-10-13
Mettā and Samadhi
2025-08-11
Metta Instructions + Guided Meditation
2025-08-09
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation
2022-10-07
More About the Way of Looking of Annica and the 5 Aggregates
2024-06-22
Morning Instructions
2025-08-11
Morning Instructions
2026-04-05
Morning Instructions
2023-09-03
Morning Instructions - 'The Body as Basis' and Guided Practice
2026-04-03
Morning Instructions - Cultivating a Field of Loving Sensitivity
2023-09-04
Morning Instructions - Energy Body and the Brahma Viharas
2024-06-23
Morning Instructions (title pending)
2025-08-09
Morning Instructions + Guided Meditation
2024-10-16
Not-Self
2024-10-14
Nourishing Kindness
2026-02-27
Opening Session
2022-10-03
Opening Talk
2024-06-21
Opening Talk
2024-10-11
Opening Talk
2022-10-15
Opening to Imagination with the Body
2024-07-04
Patience and Acceptance
2026-07-13
Pīti: The Arising of Well-Being (Afternoon Session)
2024-07-07
Questions & Responses
2023-10-13
Questions and Responses
2024-07-05
Questions and Responses
2022-10-05
Recognizing Craving and Clinging
2026-03-01
Relaxing Clinging - Relaxing the World
2022-10-06
Relaxing Craving and Clinging
2025-11-07
Samadhi and Jhana - Orienting to the Journey
2025-11-12
Samadhi and Jhana - The Skills of the Craft
2025-11-18
Samadhi and Jhana Refining the Skills
2025-11-24
Samadhi and Jhana The Shape of the Path - Jhana and Emptiness
2024-08-25
Samadhi in Context (and a short piece about Dana before that)
2024-08-24
Samadhi Teaches You About Emotions; Working with Different Centres of Breathing
2026-07-16
Second Jhāna: Wellspring of Happiness (Evening Session)
2024-08-25
Sensitive to Pleasure
2024-10-15
Settling in Spaciousness
2024-05-22
Short Talk & Guided Practice - Mettā as a Basis for Samadhi
2026-07-12
Skill and Insight with and from the Hindrances: Restlessness and Dullness (Part…
2026-07-12
Skill and Insight with and from the Hindrances: Sense Desire, Aversion, and Sub…
2023-10-10
Skills of Welcoming
2026-05-31
Sunday Pt 1 - Seeing Through Dualities
2024-08-25
Supporting Subtle Skills
2024-05-26
Talk - Beyond Jhana: Emptiness and Awakening
2024-05-24
Talk - Piti, Introductions to the Path of Jhana
2024-05-23
Talk - Relaxing Tension, Encouraging Wellbeing
2024-07-05
Talk - Seeing Through Impatience
2023-10-10
Teachers Along the Way: Meeting Waves of Difficulties Skilfully (Conversation Y…
2023-10-14
The Co-arising of Insight and Mettā
2023-11-13
The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States
2023-11-06
The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States
2023-11-22
The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States
2023-11-27
The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States
2026-07-17
The Third and Fourth Jhānas: Entering and Abiding in Heavenly Realms (Evening S…
2022-10-08
The Way of Looking of Anatta - not self
2022-10-07
The Way of Looking of Annica - Impermanence
2026-02-28
Towards Co-operation of Your Heart; Opening the Perspective of Anicca
2023-04-09
Tuning into Wellbeing
2024-08-25
Unlocking the Heart/Mind
2024-04-14
Week 1 - Introduction to Samadhi Practice
2025-04-02
Week 1, Part 1 - Simple Mettā Meditation for Settling
2025-04-02
Week 1, Part 3 - Opening to the Vastness of Awareness
2024-10-30
Week 1, Pt 1 - Opening of the Retreat & Mettā Meditation
2024-10-30
Week 1, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - Recognising Vedana
2025-04-09
Week 2, Part 1 - Samadhi & Vastness
2024-05-05
Week 3 - Working with the Hindrances.
2025-04-16
Week 3, Part 1 - Mettā-based Samadhi
2025-04-16
Week 3, Part 3 - Allowing into the Vastness
2025-04-16
Week 3, Part 5 - Dana (Generosity)
2024-11-13
Week 3, Pt 1 - Karuna Meditation
2024-11-13
Week 3, Pt 2 - Vedana & Emotions; Unpleasant Vedana
2024-11-13
Week 3, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation
2024-05-12
Week 4 - Overview of the Path of Samadhi, Reationship Between Samadhi & Insight.
2025-04-23
Week 4, Part 1 - Compassion-based Samadhi
2025-04-23
Week 4, Part 2 - Self View; Sense of Self; Identification & Anatta
2025-04-23
Week 4, Part 3 - The Vastness Can Hold This For You
2025-04-30
Week 5, Part 3 - Just Impressions in Awareness
2024-11-27
Week 5, Pt 1 - Mudita Meditation
2024-11-27
Week 5, Pt 2 - Neutral Vedana
2024-11-27
Week 5, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation on Neutral Vedana
2025-05-07
Week 6, Part 2 - Dependent Fading
2024-12-04
Week 6, Pt 1 - Mudita Meditation
2024-12-11
Week 7, Pt 2 - Fabricated Nature of Vedana
2025-05-21
Week 8, Part 2 - The Emptiness of Awareness
2024-12-18
Week 8, Pt 1 - Upekkha Meditation
2024-12-18
Week 8, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - Empty Vedana & Empty Clinging
2024-12-04
Week6, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - Skilful Ways of Looking at Vedana
2022-10-14
Welcome and Opening Talk
2024-08-24
What and How to Samadhi
2024-08-24
Whole Body Breathing
2022-10-15
Whole Body Sensitivity
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Select one of Yahel Avigur's 21 retreats
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2022-10-03
Liberating Ways of Looking
2022-10-14
Compassion, Beauty and Imagination
2023-04-06
Your Body, Buddha's Body
2023-09-02
The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness
2023-10-09
Liberating Ways of Looking
2023-11-02
November Solitary Retreat
2023-12-01
Freedom in Everything, Exploring the View of Emptiness
2024-04-14
Skill in Calm and Happiness - A Short Introduction to Samadhi Practice (online …
2024-05-20
Calm and Contented Heart - A Samadhi Retreat
2024-06-21
The Eye of the Heart
2024-07-04
The Gentle Art of Patience
2024-08-23
Samadhi - Reliable Joy
2024-10-11
Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking
2024-10-30
Vedana - A Path of Easeful Liberation (online series)
2025-04-02
Natural peace - Exploring Vastness of Awareness
2025-08-08
Emptiness: Seeing that Frees Yearlong Course Retreat
2025-11-01
November Solitary Retreat
2026-02-27
Relaxing the Spin of the World - Cultivating Equanimity (online retreat)
2026-04-02
The Power and the Beauty: Soul-Making Dharma with Mettā and Skills of the Heart
2026-05-29
Natural Compassion - Revealing the Heart's Potential
2026-07-10
True Joy: A Samadhi and Jhana retreat
