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Kate Munding's Dharma Talks in English
Kate Munding
Kate Munding is co-guiding teacher of IMCB. She has been practicing since 2002 and has done numerous 1-2 month intensive practice periods. Kate is currently in Spirit Rock's Teacher Training program. Kate has also trained approximately 2,000 educators, therapists, and parents in mindful awareness techniques and philosophy in the U.S. and abroad.
2012-02-16 Exploring Sounds with our Practice 56:29
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2016-06-16 Exploring wise responses to the recent tragedy in Orlando including a focus on understanding hatred. It will be timely and enriching. 59:31
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2018-08-13 Facing our dukkha with tenderness - Monday night dharma talk 1:56:38
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2018-12-13 Family, Celebrating, Connections and Friends 59:23
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2014-07-31 Feeling Comfort in "Don't Know" 54:24
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2019-05-23 Finding Refuge in Difficult Times 51:01
I hope coming to the monastery, sitting together, and listening to the Dharma provides you with a sense of refuge in these times of unsettled political climate, social divide, and global uncertainty. I've been thinking about how the practice can provide a "place" to come back to when we need clarity and balance. Unfortunately, that "place" is not always easily accessed when one is stressed or overwhelmed even though it's in those times we need it the most. I want to address this in the meditation instructions and Dharma talk by emphasizing ways to become more grounded in the present moment and understanding of how to familiarize ourselves with the unwholesome mind states that can spin us into more fear and unrest. When we strengthen our capacity in this way, we find we have more agency to meet personal and global realities that are difficult to face while still cultivating deep happiness, equanimity, and joy in life.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2021-08-11 Finding Wisdom in Anxiety 47:15
Dharma talk and guided practice. Anxiety is a contraction and therefore a form of suffering. Sometimes anxiety is the appropriate response to a situation, but there are skillful ways to navigate this experience. This talk and practice examines how we can learn to soothe the body and the mind using somatic exercises and our imagination to bring expansiveness to anxiety's contracted state.
Assaya Sangha Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks
2019-06-17 First Day of Retreat Practice Instruction 25:34
Instructions on how to ground in the body and settle into the retreat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness for Educators
2019-12-19 Freedom of an "Open Heart" 61:33
This talk explores some questions of an "open heart." Can we bring both into our awareness the question, "is it possible to open further?" Where it is a stretch to feel compassionate and unguarded, is forgiveness needed, is self-care and healing needed? Do we always recognize the easy-open freedom of a heart that is fully available and unhindered? Do we take those states and the people connected to those states for granted?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks
2013-10-03 Global Climate Change and the Dharma 55:00
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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