Brian Lesage's Dharma Talks
Brian Lesage
Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide.
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2015-02-14
Brahma Viharas Day 14
2021-01-21
1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way
2017-03-13
A Beginning Taste of Emptiness
2025-04-22
A Broader View: What the Leaves Are Teaching
2021-09-07
A Deeper Labor of Love
2023-01-31
A Moment of Kindness
2021-10-31
A Passion For The Path: Falling In Love
2022-06-07
Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma
2018-07-07
AM03-meditation wth songs
2018-07-07
AM04-participants sharing experience of meditation with songs- end of am session
2018-10-15
Ambivalence
2024-07-23
An Introduction to Emptiness
2022-08-09
And The Buddha Cried
2024-12-11
And the Buddha Cried: Practicing with Loss
2018-02-19
Anger/Hatred
2021-06-16
Appreciative Joy
2020-08-24
Appreciative Joy - Mudita
2022-01-08
Appreciative Joy - Mudita: An Introduction and Guided Meditation
2024-08-20
Appreciative Joy on Forested Land
2013-07-29
Awakening & Mystery
2025-02-25
Awakening: Like a Bird Flying in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-12-03
Beautiful friendship and friends with the beautiful
2021-11-06
Beauty And The Seven Factors Of Awakening
2025-07-08
Becoming the River
2015-01-12
Beginning Again
2019-12-30
Beginning Again
2021-01-05
Beginning Again with What is Right Here
2019-08-19
Beginning to Know What We Don't Know
2022-05-03
Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception
2020-11-30
Being Deeply Passionate about our Lives & Spiritual Path
2014-11-25
Being Somebody And Being Nobody
2018-11-10
Being Somebody and Being Nobody
2021-06-16
Being Somebody and Being Nobody
2022-11-05
Being somebody and being nobody.
2023-02-28
Bhavana and the Unfolding of the Dharma Path
2018-08-06
Binary Thinking and the Limits of Language
2012-09-29
Bodhicitta
2016-10-04
Bodhicitta
2015-02-25
Brahma Vihara Day 25
2015-02-05
Brahma Vihara Practice Day #5: Metta
2015-02-11
Brahma Viharas #11
2017-06-14
Brief and simple guided meditation for arriving into retreat.
2019-02-19
Bringing the Dharma into Our Daily Lives
2014-12-04
Bringing the Practice into our Daily Life
2022-03-08
Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma
2022-07-16
Cittānupassanā practice - practical suggestions on how to engage with and culti…
2021-10-11
Climate Change & The Dharma
2024-05-16
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-07-18
Closing Talk
2019-09-28
Coming into Presence through Reflecting on Death and Birth
2021-07-12
Coming Together Again as Community: Sangha and Place
2025-03-11
Compassion: Learning to Love the World
2019-05-13
Conceit/Comparing Mind
2022-06-21
Contentment
2017-06-26
Crossing Over the Flood
2021-07-19
Crossing the Flood
2020-04-13
Crossroads and the Potential for Transformation or Disintegration
2018-02-25
Day 1 Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-14
Day 2 Emptiness and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-24
Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-16
Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock)
2017-05-25
Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-26
Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-27
Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-02
Day 6 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-18
Day 6: Conventional and Liberating Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-23
Decolonizing The Mind On Thanksgiving Day
2022-11-26
Devotion and reverence
2014-09-01
Dharma and Climate Change
2018-06-14
Dharma Debate: Samvega versus Softening and Receiving (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-12-06
Dharma Practice & Writing with the author Ruth Ozeki
2021-06-08
Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
2023-11-23
Dharma Practice As Offering
2018-12-10
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Perfect
2018-12-24
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Permanent
2018-12-17
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Personal
2021-01-22
Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View
2024-09-10
Discovering the Home of the Breath
2016-04-08
Easing into the Boundless
2025-05-20
Embodiment in a Digital Age: A Return to the Living World
2017-11-09
Embodiment Through Mindfulness Of The Body
2017-06-14
Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In.
2021-06-14
Equanimity
2023-02-07
Expanding Joy
2022-08-02
Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma
2023-05-02
Facets of Connection: Being Together and Being Alone
2020-11-03
Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way
2012-09-15
Faith
2018-11-17
Faith and Confidence
2023-10-28
Falling in love with the four iddhipadas
2011-06-08
Family and Lineage on the Spiritual Path
2020-09-07
Finding Freedom from Becoming
2023-06-28
Forested Land as Dharma Teacher
2020-08-13
Foundations for supporting the habit of a daily meditation practice
2017-11-16
Freedom From Unworthiness and Becoming.
2015-02-10
Freedom From Views: Part 1
2018-03-20
Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit …
2021-06-15
Freeing Our Hearts through Forgiveness
2019-10-12
Freeing the Heart from Implicit Bias
2022-04-19
Friendship, Community, and Navigating Criticism
2018-04-23
Generosity
2023-06-30
Generosity and Compassion for Later Generations
2020-11-24
Generosity and De-colonization
2020-05-04
Generosity: Giving the Gift of Fearlessness
2021-07-16
Getting Practical about Practice
2019-09-14
Going for Refuge - A Beautiful Movement of the Heart
2018-05-28
Gratitude
2014-11-11
Guided Compassion Practice
2022-11-03
Guided loving-kindness meditation
2018-06-13
Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-05-20
Guided Meditation - Embodiment: Blurring the Boundaries
2024-09-10
Guided Meditation: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing
2025-06-10
Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence
2019-10-15
Guided Meditation: Loving Kindness for the Difficult Person and All Beings
2018-03-09
Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-14
Guided Metta Instructions
2024-07-09
Honoring Eric Kolvig: Stars in the Night Sky; I am Here Because of Others
2021-01-18
Honoring Martin Luther King Day through Deeply Feeling
2023-12-13
I am Here Because of Others: A Buddhist Practice of Deep Gratitude
2021-05-20
Impermanence
2014-11-19
Impermanence: Entrusting Yourself To The Waves
2016-11-01
Implicit Bias & Suchness
2017-06-18
Implicit bias and the practice of sense restraint
2023-12-19
In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See
2023-10-10
Indigenous People's Day: The Practice of Honoring
2012-09-22
Insight Into Impermanence
2023-01-17
Inspiration & Martin Luther King
2022-02-08
Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta
2025-02-24
Instructions - Noticing Perception and Time
2021-11-06
Instructions For Choiceless Attention and Q&A
2012-06-15
Integrating the Practice
2024-11-19
Intimacy and Sexual Energy
2024-08-19
Intimacy and Stepping Out of Human Centric Perception
2015-11-09
Introduction and Guided Compassion Practice
2023-11-24
Introduction and guided meditation on equanimity
2022-07-13
Introduction to Brahma Viharas and Loving-Kindness
2015-11-10
Introduction To Dependent Origination
2018-06-12
Introduction to Mindfulness on Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-08-19
Introduction to the Three Ways of Perceiving and to the Perception of Impermane…
2025-06-03
It Was Like This
2024-05-07
Kindness: Being Able to Love
2022-03-15
Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma
2022-10-04
Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity
2024-11-05
Learning to Live with Uncertainty
2017-10-09
Learning to Skillfully Navigate the Judgemental Mind
2023-07-11
Learning to Walk with the World
2017-06-20
Lessons From Emptiness: Interdependence
2022-08-23
Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside
2021-01-17
Liberating Intimacy through Beginning Again
2023-04-11
Limping Along in Life: Discovering the Dharma within Our Human Predicament
2021-02-02
Lingering instead of Leaving; Staying instead of Straying
2025-06-10
Listening for the Deeper Silence
2018-07-23
Listening to the Language of the Land
2023-12-02
Listening to the Voice of Another with Wise Attention
2014-10-28
Living An Ethical Life
2021-04-20
Living with Integrity
2024-10-15
Living with Integrity: Two Guardians of the World
2012-06-10
Love Dissolves Selfing
2019-06-03
Loving Kindness
2021-11-04
Loving Kindness For Ourselves And Others
2024-08-18
Loving Kindness with Land As Dharma Teacher
2018-01-15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2014-07-21
Meditation & Emotions
2025-02-18
Meditation Instructions - Everyday is a Good Day
2024-05-28
Memorial Day - Ending the War Within
2021-03-29
Merit & Blessings
2017-03-27
Mind Bubbles
2018-04-30
Mindfulness of Breathing
2014-10-31
Mindfulness Of Vedana
2017-10-26
Morning Guided Meditation
2019-02-18
Morning Instructions
2019-02-20
Morning Instructions
2018-06-13
Morning Instructions - Relaxation and Pleasure (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-30
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation On Emotions
2025-07-17
Morning Instructions for Arriving into Retreat
2017-11-04
Morning Instructions for Practicing with the Awareness of Intention (Cetana)
2015-10-29
Morning Instructions For Working With Thinking In Meditation
2019-09-11
Morning Instructions on relaxation and beginning to connect with an anchor in m…
2019-02-15
Morning Instructions on relaxation and beginning to connect with the breath
2019-09-16
Morning Instructions on working with the hindrances and framing of the importan…
2022-07-12
Morning Instructions: Arriving into retreat
2018-06-15
Morning Instructions: Becoming Unfamiliar With Our Experience (Retreat at Spiri…
2023-11-02
Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention
2018-10-27
Morning Instructions: Guided Meditation Highlighting Sensations
2023-10-27
Morning Instructions: the art of bowing in navigating physical pain
2024-08-19
Morning Instructions: Thinking and Emotions on Forested Land
2018-11-02
Morning Instructions: Using the Tool of Mental Noting.
2016-11-07
Morning Reflection - Crossing the Flood
2016-10-31
Morning Reflection - Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence
2016-10-12
Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation - Beginning to Nurture Samadhi
2016-10-26
Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation on Being Mindful of Thinking
2016-11-02
Morning Reflection - Restraining the Senses and Cultivating the Senses
2016-10-17
Morning Reflection - The Technique of Labeling
2016-10-24
Morning Reflection - Yun Men's Everyday is a Good Day
2024-11-29
Morning Reflection: Effort and Aspiration
2016-10-05
Morning reflection: abandoning the unwholesome
2016-10-03
Morning reflection: cultivating the wholesome
2024-11-24
Morning Reflection: Interbeing and Categories Leak
2016-11-09
Morning Reflection: Navigating Uncertainty and Fear
2023-11-25
morning reflection: the best season of your life – (recording starts about four…
2024-11-04
Morning Reflections on Not-Self and Intention
2024-11-09
Morning Reflections: Placing an Altruistic Intention
2019-04-19
Morning Session: What Obscures the Clarity of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-11-12
Moving Beyond A Sense Of Lack
2023-08-01
Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin
2019-04-08
Mystery
2024-08-06
Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody
2014-02-12
Natural Compassion
2018-03-15
Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice
2021-11-11
Navigating Difficulty Within Our Meditation
2015-02-04
Navigating Difficulty: the Five Hindrances
2024-11-12
Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough
2017-05-27
Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-11-23
Navigating the Holiday Season
2016-11-08
Navigating Uncertainty and Fear
2023-01-10
Noticing the Strands of Experience
2022-11-19
Nurturing samadhi
2022-10-29
Offering the gift of our Dharma practice
2021-12-13
Opening the Heart with Humility
2023-11-18
Opening to beauty
2023-10-17
Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
2024-05-01
Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
2021-03-02
Opening to Inspiration: Dipa Ma
2021-01-06
Opening to Knowing What We Don’t Know
2023-11-04
Opening to Loss
2023-05-10
Opening to the Beautiful, Good and Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-04
Opening To The Pali Chanting Of The Satipatthana Sutta
2018-11-27
Opening to the Pali Chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta
2019-06-24
Pause
2018-12-10
Perceiving the World with Wisdom - Not Perfect
2021-08-24
Perception Changes and a Doorway Opens for the Heart
2025-02-11
Perception: The Arising and Falling of Different Worlds (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-11-11
Perception: The Arising and Passing of Different Worlds
2021-02-11
Playing with Perception
2021-02-25
Playing with Perception - Broadening Our Perception of Others
2021-02-15
Playing with Perception: Being Filled By Inner Beauty
2021-02-14
Playing with Perception: Cultivating the Preconditions for Samadhi
2021-02-17
Playing with Perception: Different Views of Struggle and Challenge
2018-07-07
PM06 intro to Anicca vata Sankhara chant
2018-07-07
PM07 Anicca vata sankhara chant
2020-11-16
Practices Leading Onward Toward Embodiment
2017-11-03
Practicing For Oneself and Others
2018-10-27
Practicing For Oneself And Others.
2017-08-21
Practicing in the Forest: Attending to Mystery and Belonging
2021-05-19
Practicing Receiving Loving-Kindness
2017-05-25
Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-26
Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone
2019-10-04
Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone
2021-06-16
Preliminary Experiential Tastes of Emptiness
2019-02-14
Preliminary Meditation Instructions for Retreat
2016-10-25
Questions and Responses at the Forest Refuge
2020-06-22
Racism and Dharma Practice
2017-11-01
Radiating Loving Kindness
2023-11-07
Radiating loving kindness
2021-06-12
Receiving Kindness
2020-05-18
Reflections on Awakening
2019-06-21
Reflections on Death and Being Born (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-02-18
Reflections on Death and Birth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-11-14
Reflections On Death And Birth That Support Presense
2024-02-06
Reflections on the Kalama Sutta
2017-05-23
Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them
2019-07-30
Renunciation
2024-07-30
Renunciation: Turning Away and Turning Towards
2019-04-21
Resting in the Mystery (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-01-02
Rhythms of the Path And Beginning Again
2019-10-28
Riding the Waves
2018-03-04
Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-07-02
Rohitassa Sutta
2024-10-29
Samadhi and Nourishment
2017-10-27
Samadhi and Pleasure
2016-10-11
Samadhi and the Five Jhana Factors
2018-02-27
Savoring Our Ethical Integrity and Altruistic Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-10-27
Savoring The wholesome
2022-07-16
Sense Restraint: Exploring Implicit Bias
2018-11-03
Sexual Energy and Intimacy
2018-03-10
Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-05-30
Shifting the Perception of Death
2019-04-29
Spiritual Friendship
2020-11-10
Standing in Front of the Other: Going Beyond Divisiveness
2025-05-06
Standing in the Middle: Compassion in a Troubled World
2024-04-16
Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception
2022-02-01
Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception and into Kinship
2024-07-02
Stepping Out of the Place Where We are Right
2025-03-04
Taking Out the Thorn in the Heart
2018-11-24
Taking Out the Thorn: The Third Noble Truth
2018-07-06
TBIF: thanks buddha it's friday
2019-01-07
The 1st Noble Truth
2024-12-10
The 1st Noble Truth
2019-01-14
The 2nd Noble Truth
2019-01-21
The 3rd Noble Truth
2024-04-29
The 5th Precept: The Beauty of Ethical Integrity
2024-01-09
The Art of Nourishing Intentions
2016-04-04
The Art of Samadhi
2017-08-28
The Art of Wholesome Regret
2015-11-17
The Birth Of The Self
2014-11-04
The blessing Of Bodhicatta
2022-12-20
The Coming Out of Nowhere Moment
2021-06-01
The Dharma and Memorial Day
2024-06-13
The Earth Element
2020-08-31
The Empowering Quality of Karma
2020-08-03
The Experience of Meaningfulness
2021-03-09
The Five Daily Reflections
2023-03-14
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2024-12-31
The Fourth Noble Truth: The Journey of the Eightfold Path
2023-08-08
The Gift of Fearlessness
2025-05-26
The Gift of Fearlessness
2017-10-02
The Gift of Impermanence
2019-12-16
The Glass Half Empty: Emptying and Creating the Container to Receive
2013-07-01
The Great Way is not Difficult
2012-06-11
The Hard Stuff
2022-11-12
The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma
2019-06-22
The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-09-03
The Invisible Work of Dharma Practice
2017-07-24
The Kalama Sutta
2014-02-06
The Liberating Power of Loving-kindness
2013-10-14
The Life of Simplicity
2021-05-18
The Lotus Flower and the Pause
2021-08-20
The Many Dimensions of Anger
2015-11-25
The Mystery Of It All
2024-03-18
The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary
2019-12-09
The Practice of Forgiveness
2025-08-05
The Practice of Healing Instead of Harming
2024-12-17
The Second Noble Truth
2015-11-02
The Seed Of Faith
2021-12-28
The Skill of Noticing What Else is Here
2023-12-26
The Thread of Generosity
2019-09-20
The Transformative Power of Seclusion, Solitude, and Silence
2017-06-16
The Two truths: Conventional and Ultimate
2024-06-15
The Water Element
2022-05-10
The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion
2011-06-04
The Why, What and How of Retreat
2021-08-03
The Wisdom and Complexity of Gratitude
2022-10-18
There's a Bluebird in My Heart
2023-04-25
To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time
2022-01-08
To Begin and To Continue
2021-08-10
To Love and Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on Gratification, D…
2023-01-11
To Love and to Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on The Gratificat…
2019-10-18
Touching the Mystery
2020-05-13
Unfurling the Leaves of Our Spiritual Life (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-01-30
Utilizing Views and Being Free of Views
2015-02-15
Views - The Teaching of Not-Self
2015-02-20
Views Part 3: A View of Right Now
2018-05-28
Walking in the World in a Radically Different Way
2016-04-06
Ways of Seeing Experience: Practicing with Dukkha and Anatta
2016-05-29
Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives
2023-05-23
What is Insight?
2025-07-19
What is Insight?
2023-07-18
When Things Don't Work Out the Way You Want Them to
2023-09-05
Wholehearted Livelihood
2022-05-24
Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will
2021-12-21
Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation
2016-10-18
Wise Effort
2019-03-04
Wise Effort
2019-02-25
Wise Livelihood
2015-12-01
Wise Speech
2017-12-01
Wise Speech
2025-01-14
Wise Speech
2025-01-07
Wise View and the Fluidity of Perception
2024-10-22
Words of Encouragement
2011-06-06
Working with Our Sense of Lack
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Select one of Brian Lesage's 43 retreats
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2012-09-08
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2013-07-01
FIMC Monday Night Talks
2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2014-10-25
Three Month - Part 2
2015-01-31
February Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2016-04-03
Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioner…
2016-05-23
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2016-10-01
October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-05-22
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2017-06-13
Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students
2017-08-19
The Natural Path to the Heart's Liberation
2017-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-02-24
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-06-11
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2018-07-06
The Buddhist Teachings and Issues of Cultural Spiritual Bypassing
2018-07-07
The Buddhist Teachings and Issues of Cultural Spiritual Bypassing
2018-07-21
The Natural Path of the Heart's Liberation
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-02-13
Finding Freedom Through Insight Meditation
2019-04-15
Exploring Awareness: Advanced Practitioner Program II
2019-06-17
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-09-10
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-11-12
APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness
2020-05-11
Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online
2021-01-16
Beginning Again Weekend Retreat
2021-01-20
Deepening into the Four Noble Truths with Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Vance P…
2021-05-18
Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage
2021-06-11
Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation
2021-08-18
Three Ways of Perceiving Study Group
2021-10-29
Second 3-Week Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-01-05
Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat
2022-07-11
Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-10-25
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-05-08
Spring Insight
2023-06-25
Deepening the Natural Path to the Heart’s Liberation
2023-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2024-05-11
Spring Insight: Understand the Mechanisms of the Salutary Effects of Mindfulness
2024-06-11
Dharma, Intimacy, and Ecology: Finding the Path in Every Step
2024-08-16
Land as Dharma Teacher
2024-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2025-02-01
2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2025-07-16
Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners -…
