Willa Thaniya Reid's Dharma Talks
Willa Thaniya Reid
Willa Thaniya Reid (formerly Ajahn Thaniya, top photos), has been practising formal Buddhist meditation since the 80s. Her primary training has been through the Thai Forest Tradition of Luang Por Chah. The Forest Tradition is in harmony with her affinity for the natural world and for reflective teachings. For 18 years she was part of the monastic community of this tradition based in England. As the senior nun of Cittaviveka for eight years, she offered support to the lay and monastic community; teaching retreats in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. She brings to her teaching a love for the original suttas of the Buddha. For the previous six years she served the community in Melbourne, offering spiritual support to the dying and their families. She has a Masters degree in relationship counselling, and clinical pastoral training. In 2015 she returned to New Zealand to develop a meditation community with her partner.
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2023-08-12
01 Opening reflections and guided meditation: Establishing awareness of citta
2023-08-19
01 opening talks and guided meditation
2025-02-21
01 reflection: Entering into the retreat, trusting our inner knowing
2023-06-25
01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring…
2023-06-25
02 meditation: feeling-tone in relation to embodied experience
2023-08-12
02 meditation: sensing into citta
2025-02-21
02 meditation: Settling and steadying through the sense doors
2023-08-20
03 talk: the precepts as support for establishing the wholesome
2023-08-12
05 meditation: establishing skillful qualities in the heart/mind
2023-06-25
05 meditation: feeling tone and responses
2025-02-23
06 instructions and meditation: Coming into embodiment as an antidote to mental…
2023-08-22
06 instructions: following the pathway of the breath
2025-02-23
07 talk: Effort and Energy
2025-02-24
08 instructions and meditation: Practising with right intention
2023-08-12
08 talk: Q&R and closing reflections
2023-06-25
08: Questions and Reflections
2023-08-23
11 talk: an overview of the Four Noble Truths
2025-02-25
12 instructions and meditation: Feeling-tones or vedanā
2023-08-24
13 instructions: vitakka and vicara - placing and receiving
2025-02-25
13 talk: Exploring aspects of vedanā or feeling-tone
2025-02-26
14 instructions and meditation: Exploring citta, heart-mind
2023-08-24
15 instructions: reviewing the four brahmavihāra heart qualities
2025-02-27
18 instructions and meditation: Finding the loveliness of the breath
2023-08-26
19 talk: anicca - uncertainty
2025-02-27
19 talk: Reflections on samādhi
2023-08-27
21 reflection: establishing new pathways
2025-03-01
23 instructions and meditation: Opening to the heart qualities of the brahmavih…
2023-08-28
23 reflection: Third Establishment of Mindfulness, citta or heart-mind
2025-03-01
24 talk: Noble Eightfold Path
2023-08-29
26 talk: An overview of the Five Clinging-Aggregates, based on the Phena Sutta
2023-08-31
29 reflection: Release the grip; come into full awareness
2023-09-01
32 reflections: Navigating transitions
2022-10-22
5 Grasping aggregates of 'me'
2017-08-21
A Taste for Freedom - What Hinders the Mind
2017-08-26
Against the Light Darkness Doesn't Stand a Chance
2015-08-24
Ajita & Tissa Mettaya: waking up out of compassion
2017-08-22
Anapanasati - A Gift from Compassion
2025-07-27
Anicca
2017-08-24
Blending Like Milk and Water
2015-08-26
Brahma Vihara: coming into manifestation. Q&A
2025-07-24
Bringing the sheep home
2021-07-15
Closing Remarks
2021-07-10
Day 1 Q&A – Common Problems
2021-07-11
Day 2 Q&A
2021-07-12
Day 3 Q&A
2021-07-13
Day 4 Q&A
2021-07-14
Day 5 Q&A
2021-07-15
Day 6 Q&A
2021-07-13
Dhamma as Uprighting and Encouraging
2022-10-15
Dhamma reflection, Nothing to hold on to, nothing to push away
2015-08-23
Dukkha: 'the 'head' is split by understanding with its powers in support'.
2025-07-21
editation with the intention to let go
2022-10-15
Establishing embodied presence
2021-07-11
Establishing Path Factors
2017-08-23
Experiencing the Joy and Happiness of the Mind
2015-08-27
Finding balance: the enlightenment factors. Q&A
2025-07-19
Generating well being
2016-08-06
Getting a Taste for Being Here
2022-10-20
Guidance into meditation
2022-10-24
Guided meditation
2017-08-25
Guided Meditation - Breathing into the Present
2021-07-14
Guided Meditation - The capacity to be here
2021-07-10
Guided Meditation - Trusting the Process
2022-10-15
Guided meditation on elements
2017-08-23
Guided Meditation on Welcoming What is Here
2017-08-20
Guided Practice - Resting into Here
2022-10-19
Guided standing, upright & embodied
2022-10-23
Healing presence of the Path factors
2016-08-08
Heart Qualities for Manifestation
2021-07-10
Inflections of Love
2025-07-21
Intention, clarifying the ground
2023-12-17
Introduction to the theme of the day: attending to the Awakening Factors
2022-10-20
Keeping heart with the practice
2021-07-15
Living from Dhamma
2021-07-11
Love, Intrinsic to the 4 Noble Truths
1996-04-10
Loving in Practice
2025-07-23
Many kinds of feeling
2025-07-23
Meditation Noticing feeling
2025-07-22
Meditation on presence
2025-07-20
Meditation Uprighting the mind
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Investigation
2023-12-17
meditation: Awakening Factor of Tranquillity or Passaddhi
2015-08-24
Meditation: the energy of waking up
2015-08-29
Meeting the world: two kinds of thought
2015-08-22
Morning instruction: 'What is it like to be here?'
2017-08-28
Moving Out of Retreat - Maturing the Heart
2025-07-20
Mula sutta Inclining to skilful states
2015-08-26
Nibbana: freedom from conditions
2015-08-27
Nibbana: Kappa & Jatukanni: 'Nothing you need hold onto, nothing you need push …
2022-10-22
Not taking birth on expereince
2015-08-25
Nourishing our hearts: understanding impermanence. Q&A
2016-08-08
Ocean-like Compassion: Softening into prresence
2021-07-14
Open Practice 30 min with bell
2022-10-20
Picking the Dhamma up for Freedom
2022-10-25
Picking the world up
2015-08-29
Pingiya: 'The return'
2015-08-25
Punnaka & Mettagu: 'Where do all the different kinds of suffering come from?'
2022-10-18
Putting dukkha down
2015-08-28
Q&A
2016-08-10
Q&A Day Five
2016-08-06
Q&A Day One
2016-08-08
Q&A Day Three
2016-08-12
Q&A on Heart Cultivation
2016-08-12
Q&A on Living a Heart-full Life
2023-12-17
Q&R session
2017-08-23
Question and Answer Session
2017-08-27
Question and Answer Session
2015-08-22
Questions & Answers (Q&A)
2022-10-21
Raining through awareness
2015-08-22
Reading of Text: Parayana 'The Way to the Beyond'
2022-10-17
Reflection, Meeting feeling and breath
2016-08-10
Refuge in Sangha
2021-07-10
Relaxing into the Flow of Breath
2016-08-10
Resting Back
2025-07-19
Resting into rhythm and opening
2022-10-25
Returning home - final dialogue
2021-07-15
Ripening the heart with friendship
2021-07-13
Serving the Dhamma
2021-07-12
Sitting in the Place of Awakening
2025-07-29
Softening into goodness
2002-04-23
Sparklers For Them
2021-07-11
Standing Meditation - Keeping this Embodied Reference
2021-07-11
Taking care of the citta, putting down what is unhelpful, attuning to what is h…
2025-07-28
Terminating in Nibbana
2015-08-28
The 'Way': Ripening the heart
2016-08-06
The Four Noble Truths: Whose Side are You On?
2017-08-27
The Fruiting of Anapanasati
2021-07-12
The Mettā Sutta and Things as Process
2021-07-15
The place of joy
2025-07-22
The seat of waking up
2016-08-06
The Three Postures
2021-07-14
Upright in the 4 Noble Truths
2017-08-25
Waking into Responsiveness
2025-07-26
Watching washing dry
2025-07-18
What it takes to arrive
2015-08-23
Working with experience
2022-10-19
Working with the direct expereince of anicca
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1996-04-05
9 Day Retreat Buddhist Contemplations
2015-08-22
The Parayana Sutta: The Way to the Beyond
2016-08-05
Integration: Freedom Independent of Conditions
2017-08-20
Anapanasati: The Breath of Liberation
2021-07-10
Love as the Breath of Life - an online retreat with Ajahn Sucitto and Willa Thā…
2022-10-14
‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A …
2023-06-25
Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone
2023-08-12
Online meditation day: Understanding the citta (heart/mind)
2023-08-19
Two-week insight meditation retreat
2023-12-17
Online meditation day: Seven Awakening Factors
2025-02-21
Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties
2025-07-18
Meeting the World with Love: ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is no…
