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Yanai Postelnik's Dharma Talks
Yanai Postelnik
Yanai Postelnik has been engaged in full-time dharma practice and service since 1990. He is inspired by the Thai forest tradition and nourished by time spent in nature, and has been teaching retreats around the world for over 25 years. Yanai is a member of the Guiding Teacher Council of Gaia House, in Devon, England, and of the Core Faculty of Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts. Since 2018, Yanai has been engaged with Extinction Rebellion, seeking to bring about urgent change in the face of the climate and ecological emergency, in the service of all beings.
2008-01-27 Instructions on Loving Kindness and Guided Meditation 41:19
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend
2008-06-28 Releasing, Receiving and Awakening Our Life - A Dana Retreat 48:48
This is the opening talk for a retreat that aims to integrate the practice of meditation with the ideas and doctrines that support and illuminate such practice. This talk also includes Stephen Batchelor.
Gaia House Releasing Receiving And Awakening Our Life A Dana Retreat
2008-06-28 Releasing, Receiving and Awakening Our Life - A Dana Retreat 54:55
Through meditation practice we can learn to release the pressure and demands we place on our experience to be different, and receive life just as it is. Unconditionally engaging with each moment we can awaken to innate peace and freedom.
Gaia House Releasing Receiving And Awakening Our Life A Dana Retreat
2007-10-21 Goodness and Presence 49:12
Gaia House The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion
2007-10-23 The Art of Unknowing 54:58
Gaia House The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion
2007-11-04 Meeting the Challenges - Practicing with the Hindrances 62:39
A reflection on how to work with the challenges we all encounter in meditation. by recognising craving, aversion, sloth, restlessness, and sceptical doubt as visitors which obscure our deeper truth, we can free ourselves from their grip, revealing the natural pure radiance of the heart and mind.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat
2007-11-10 Tender Heart Practice 52:12
Cultivating a gentle and steady meditative attention we can learn to meet difficulty, pain and suffering with kindness and self-forgiveness. With the courage to feel experience deeply, we can embrace our life with a tender heart of love and openness.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat
2007-10-21 Instructions and Guided Meditation of Awareness of Standing and Breathing 46:43
Gaia House The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion
2007-10-20 Opening Talk for the Heart of Wisdom and Compassion Retreat 45:07
Gaia House The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion
2011-01-04 Being Part Of It All 56:28
To deeply realize that we are inextricably a part of a vast web of life, we are invited to open to a deeper inner connection, and to recognize that we are not different to all that is around us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

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