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 
    
        2017-08-24
            Blending Like Milk and Water 
    
        2015-08-26
            Brahma Vihara: coming into manifestation. Q&A 
    
        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'. 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        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… 
    
        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 
    
        2016-08-06
            The Three Postures 
    
        2021-07-14
            Upright in the 4 Noble Truths 
    
        2017-08-25
            Waking into Responsiveness 
    
        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