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DaRa Williams's Dharma Talks
DaRa Williams
DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist. DaRa has been a meditator for the past 25 years and is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is a Guiding Teacher at IMS. She is the Program Manager and a core teacher in the current IMS Teacher Training. DaRa has been a clinician and administrator in the field of Mental Health for over 25 years and currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a certified trainer and practitioner of Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma. DaRa integrates these skills, understandings, wisdom traditions and worldviews in her intention for contributing to the ending of suffering for all beings. "It is my belief that vipassana meditation and the dharma are ideal for transforming suffering, particularly the trauma of oppression and its many vicissitudes-where the chains around our minds and hearts can be broken and dissolved. Awareness and wisdom become the vehicle for freedom and transforming lives."
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2024-05-17 Taking refuge in the sangha 61:44
An invitation to bring the three jewels front and center in our daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Exploring the Three Refuges in Practice
2024-05-16 Metta - circle of benefactors 48:12
A Receptive, protective, guided meditation of loving kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Exploring the Three Refuges in Practice
2023-11-21 Forgiveness and gratitude: touching into the heart 53:26
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-14 Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace 57:16
Arriving home through the practice of equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-11-06 P2, instructions synthesis, reflection and a poem 55:47
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-10-31 Bring it on: happiness awaits, 54:04
Hindrances – growth along the path, and the utility of engaging them for growth and deepening of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-10-26 Guided meditation breath/body and elements practice 54:43
Rounding in the body, relaxed and engaged with the elements, earth, fire, water, air. Our connectedness to nature!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-06-19 Vedana - Second foundation 40:55
The subtlety of feeling tone. Don't have to react!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center By Any Means Necessary: A Journey to Liberation & Freedom Through Wisdom & the Heart
2023-06-18 Questions and response 66:17
with DaRa Williams, Jeanne Corrigal, Jozen Tamori Gibson, Lissa Edmond, Yong Oh
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center By Any Means Necessary: A Journey to Liberation & Freedom Through Wisdom & the Heart
2023-03-01 All teachers - taking the practice home manzanita, precepts. 1:30:43
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love

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