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2025-11-02
An Ancient Body Scan
2026-01-06
Aspiration and Inspiration to End Suffering
2026-01-28
Attending to This Moment
2024-05-04
Breath as a Barometer and the Wisdom of Vedana
2023-10-25
Class 1: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation-Breathing
2023-11-01
Class 2: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation-Body and Feeling Tone
2023-11-08
Class 3: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation- Emotions
2023-11-15
Class 4: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation -Thinking
2024-09-07
Closing Reflection and Guided Mettā
2017-10-29
Coming home to simplicity of breath, body and mind
2024-11-09
Compassion (Karuṇā) Practice
2025-12-30
Composting the Challenging to Grow What’s Good
2024-12-04
Conditionality and Contentment
2024-10-02
Confidence and Energy (Spiritual Faculties 1 & 2)
2026-01-10
Cultivating Beneficial Growth
2017-04-23
Cultivating Brahmaviharas
2024-10-16
Cultivating Wisdom
2024-04-27
Daylong Dharmette 1: Mindfulness and Settling
2024-04-27
Daylong Dharmette 2: Investigation in Meditation
2024-04-27
Daylong Dharmette 3: Trust and Conditionality
2026-01-11
Dharma Beauty and Inspiration
2024-10-29
Dharma Talk: Ask Me Anything
2024-11-05
Dharma Talk: Equanimity in Your Natural Homeland
2024-06-26
Dharma Talk: Full Awareness in Daily Life and Meditation
2024-10-30
Dharma Talk: The First 2 Ennobling Truths: Kitten Simile
2024-07-03
Dharma Talk: The Four Foundations in Relationship
2024-06-20
Dharma Talk: We are Nature: Elemental Meditation
2024-10-23
Dharma talk:The Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-09-03
Dharmette
2024-10-27
Dharmette and Refuges: Shelter from the Storm
2024-06-26
Dharmette: A Good Spiritual Friend
2025-11-11
Dharmette: Attention Builds Capacity
2025-02-25
Dharmette: Beautiful Action
2025-11-25
Dharmette: Connection and Elevation
2024-12-10
Dharmette: Contentment as Condition and Resource
2024-08-24
Dharmette: Dharma is Nature
2025-01-21
Dharmette: Don't Make Things Worse
2024-04-16
Dharmette: Energy (Spiritual Faculties, 2 of 5)
2024-07-23
Dharmette: Ethical Behavior and Consistency Support Harmony
2024-10-15
Dharmette: Everything is Inviting Awareness
2025-01-28
Dharmette: Get Curious and Stay Interested
2024-04-24
Dharmette: Mindfulness (Spiritual Faculties, 3 of 5)
2024-06-18
Dharmette: Nature Reveals Anicca
2024-03-19
Dharmette: Notice! The Awakening Factors in Daily Life
2024-11-12
Dharmette: On Monkeys and Mindfulness (Be Kind To Your Heart And Mind)
2024-10-22
Dharmette: Practicing with Emotions
2024-04-28
Dharmette: Refuge and Precepts as Joy (includes chanting refuges and precepts)
2024-03-24
Dharmette: Refuge and the one Overarching Precept
2025-02-11
Dharmette: Respect and Strength
2024-09-07
Dharmette: Rhythms and Seasons of Practice
2024-04-30
Dharmette: Settledness and Concentration (Spiritual Faculties, 4 of 5)
2024-03-26
Dharmette: The Acrobats (On Mindfulness and Wise Boundaries)
2025-11-02
Dharmette: The Journey of Embodied Awareness
2024-08-27
Dharmette: The Mind's Magic Show
2024-07-30
Dharmette: The Zen Master and the Psychic
2024-04-09
Dharmette: Trust, Confidence, and Faith (Spiritual Faculties, 1 of 5)
2026-01-27
Dharmette: Violence and Non-Harming
2024-05-07
Dharmette: Wisdom (Spiritual Faculties, 5 of 5).
2025-03-18
Dharmette: Working with Worry
2022-05-22
Discovering Joy in Dharma Practice
2025-07-15
Don't Postpone the Good
2023-04-23
Earth Day
2015-10-15
Eight-Fold Path of Awakening
2025-02-01
Embodying Peace Part 1
2025-02-01
Embodying Peace part 2
2024-11-09
Empathetic Joy (Muditā) Practice
2024-11-09
Equanimity (Upekkhā) Practice
2024-05-04
Every Glimpse Is Onward Leading
2024-11-09
Exploring the Four Immeasurables and Mindfulness Guided Meditation
2017-11-05
Finding respite in the middle of current social environment
2025-08-20
Finding Your Own Wisdom
2020-12-13
Freeing the Heart
2024-03-20
Friendliness Towards Experience Supports the Awakening Factors
2025-06-04
From Identification to Interest: Working with the Five Hindrances
2024-07-31
Full Awareness: Purpose and Suitability
2025-07-02
Gardening Your Practice
2025-01-01
Generosity and Virtue Increase Happiness
2018-04-24
Goals in Meditation
2024-09-03
Guided Meditation
2025-01-22
Guided Meditation
2025-12-30
Guided meditation
2024-05-04
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Anapanasati, a Movement Towards Letting Go, Si…
2023-11-07
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Are you Aware?
2024-01-16
Guided meditation and Dharmette: Attention!
2023-11-21
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Coming Home to the Breath
2026-01-10
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Connect, Sustain, Discern, Let Go
2023-10-31
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Getting Unstuck
2023-12-12
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Inner Wellbeing
2023-11-14
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Interest is a Superpower
2023-10-17
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Levels of Anicca
2023-12-19
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Mindfulness of the Body
2024-01-30
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Practicing with the Elements
2024-01-09
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Trusting the Path
2023-10-24
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Wise Attention to Views
2024-02-13
Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Wise Effort in Meditation
2024-10-29
Guided meditation: All of Embodied Awareness
2025-11-12
Guided Meditation: Allow Awareness to Fill You
2025-01-29
Guided Meditation: Allowing
2025-01-07
Guided Meditation: Allowing Everything to Flow Through
2024-08-24
Guided Meditation: Allowing Simple Presence
2024-11-26
Guided Meditation: Appreciating Awareness
2025-02-05
Guided Meditation: Aware from the Inside Out
2024-11-05
Guided Meditation: Balance
2024-06-18
Guided Meditation: Being with Change in the Breath
2024-12-04
Guided Meditation: Being with the Breath
2025-03-25
Guided Meditation: Breathing for Energy or Relaxation
2024-10-23
Guided Meditation: Embodied Experience of This
2024-04-16
Guided Meditation: Embodied Vibrancy
2025-03-26
Guided Meditation: Everything Included
2025-10-22
Guided Meditation: Flow of the Present
2024-07-03
Guided Meditation: Full Awareness
2024-08-07
Guided Meditation: Full Awareness
2025-01-01
Guided Meditation: Gathering Attention Here
2025-11-11
Guided Meditation: Gathering In Awareness
2025-12-06
Guided Meditation: Gathering in Lovingkindness
2024-06-26
Guided Meditation: Grounded in the Body and Internal Posture
2025-11-25
Guided Meditation: Grounding in Appreciation
2025-02-12
Guided Meditation: Including All of Experience
2024-07-23
Guided Meditation: Integrity of the Body
2026-01-10
Guided Meditation: Intention
2024-07-31
Guided Meditation: Intention and Awareness
2024-09-07
Guided Meditation: Intention and Interest
2025-08-19
Guided Meditation: Internal and External Mindfulness
2024-10-30
Guided Meditation: Just This
2024-06-26
Guided Meditation: Kind Awareness
2024-04-24
Guided Meditation: Kind Mindfulness
2025-01-08
Guided Meditation: Letting Go Into This
2025-07-23
Guided Meditation: Listening with all your Senses
2025-11-23
Guided Meditation: Making Refuge your Heart's Home
2024-11-06
Guided Meditation: Mindfulness and Compassion
2024-06-20
Guided meditation: Mindfulness of the Body
2025-03-04
Guided Meditation: Noticing Balance or Leaning
2024-10-08
Guided Meditation: Noticing the Silence Between
2024-03-19
Guided Meditation: Noticing the Skillful
2025-12-23
Guided Meditation: Offering and Receiving
2024-08-27
Guided Meditation: Opening to All that Arises
2024-10-16
Guided meditation: Opening up to Awareness
2024-12-24
Guided Meditation: Relaxation and Ease
2025-03-05
Guided Meditation: Relaxation and Softening
2025-11-05
Guided Meditation: Releasing the Breath
2024-10-09
Guided Meditation: Returning to Awareness
2024-10-22
Guided Meditation: Returning to the Center Point
2024-07-30
Guided Meditation: Returning to, Resting in, Awareness
2025-01-28
Guided Meditation: Returning with Interest
2024-07-24
Guided Meditation: Riding the Flow of Sensory Experience
2024-04-30
Guided Meditation: Settling into Mindfulness
2025-02-25
Guided Meditation: Sitting in Integrity
2025-01-26
Guided Meditation: Sitting in Your Integrity
2024-08-24
Guided Meditation: Spacious, Kind Awareness
2025-01-21
Guided Meditation: Stabilizing Here
2024-12-10
Guided Meditation: Staying with the Breath
2024-10-02
Guided Meditation: Taking Your Place
2025-03-23
Guided Meditation: Taking Your Seat
2025-05-13
Guided Meditation: The Texture of This Moment
2024-04-09
Guided Meditation: Trust
2026-01-06
Guided meditation: Turning Towards
2024-11-12
Guided Meditation: Welcoming All Experience
2024-09-07
Guided Meditation: Welcoming the Moment
2024-09-04
Guided Meditation: Welcoming Yourself Here
2024-10-27
Guided Meditation: Welcoming Yourself to the Moment
2024-09-07
Guided Meditation: Wholehearted Engagement and Relaxation
2025-02-11
Guided Meditation: With Kindness
2024-11-13
Guided Meditation: Your Internal Posture
2024-05-14
How the Buddha’s Story relates to our Lives (Vesak talk)
2025-04-15
Inner Wealth that Can't be Taken
2026-01-28
Interest and Attention are Mutually Reinforcing
2026-02-04
Interest that is Onward Leading
2025-02-26
Internal and External Beauty (part 1)
2025-03-05
Internal and External Beauty (part 2)
2025-12-23
Internal and External Cultivation of Goodness
2025-02-20
Intro to Lovingkindness class 1
2025-02-28
Intro to Lovingkindness class 2
2025-03-06
Intro to Lovingkindness class 3
2025-03-13
Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty
2026-01-22
Intro to Mindfulness 1: Overview and Breathing
2026-01-30
Intro to Mindfulness 2: Body
2026-02-08
Intro to Mindfulness 3: Emotions
2025-01-17
Intro to Mindfulness Week 1: Breathing
2025-01-30
Intro to Mindfulness Week 3: Emotions
2025-02-06
Intro to Mindfulness Week 4: Thinking
2025-02-06
Intro to Mindfulness, week 4: Thinking
2025-08-13
Inviting Interest
2025-12-06
Kind Awareness is Protective and Contagious
2025-01-29
Kindness and Equanimity
2025-03-25
Learning from Lethargy, Resistance & Freeze (Sloth & Torpor)
2025-12-06
Lightly Guided Meditation
2025-07-23
Listening as Love
2025-07-22
Listening as Mindfulness Practice
2024-11-09
Loving Kindness (Mettā) Practice
2022-01-30
Lucid Awareness Includes How We Relate to What's Happening
2021-11-14
Lucid Awareness of the Body (Kāyagatāsati)
2025-11-23
Making Refuge your Heart's Home
2025-03-04
Meeting Hindrances with Wisdom
2025-08-19
Meeting the Moment with Clear Comprehension
2025-11-02
Metta Meditation
2018-05-22
Milestones on the Path to Freedom: Assessing Progress in Practice Wisely
2024-10-08
Mind the Gap!
2024-10-09
Mindful Awareness and Samadhi (Spiritual Faculties 3 & 4)
2025-02-05
Mindful Awareness the Threefold Way
2025-06-10
Mindfulness in Daily Life
2024-09-04
Mindfulness of Mind: The Core of Practice is How We Relate to Experience
2025-05-27
Mindfulness of the Body
2025-10-22
Mindfulness of the Body Grows Inner Stability
2025-11-05
Mindfulness of the Body: Death
2025-10-29
Mindfulness of the Body: Fear
2025-10-08
Mindfulness of the Body: Internal Ecology
2025-03-23
More Beautiful Than Beautiful (includes Refuges and Precepts)
2025-08-06
Natural Unfolding: Anicca & Anatta
2025-08-06
Open Spacious Awareness
2024-10-15
Opening to the Flow of Now
2025-11-02
Orienting and settling into sensations
2025-03-26
Our Filters and Emotions (3rd & 4th Foundations of Mindfulness)
2025-06-11
Practicing with Emotions and the Six Senses
2022-08-07
Practicing with Stories
2025-05-21
Practicing with the Four Noble Truths
2025-08-05
Process not Perfectionism
2025-08-12
Process, not Perfection
2025-07-08
Putting Your House in Order
2016-02-02
Recollection of Generosity
2016-01-19
Recollective Meditations
2025-03-29
Relaxation and Attitudes of Mind (Guided Meditation and Dharmette)
2025-07-09
Releasing Heaps & Burdens
2021-06-20
Resting at the sense gates: Diversity and Simplicity
2015-11-12
Right Mindfulness
2024-11-09
Self-Compassion Practice
2025-01-08
Simplicity and Wisdom
2025-04-08
Skillful and Unskillful Doubt
2026-01-13
Speak and Act with a Peaceful Mind
2021-12-12
Sunday Night Sit
2021-08-01
Sunday Night Sit with guest teacher Dawn Neal
2025-06-25
Surfing the Senses
2025-01-26
Taking Refuge in Beauty
2024-12-24
Talk: A Sacred Pause
2024-11-06
Talk: Refuge, Balance, and Resilience
2025-04-09
The 4 Foundations and Why They Matter
2025-05-14
The Buddha's Deep Story
2024-07-24
The Buddha’s teachings on the 6 Senses
2024-01-13
The Four Noble Truths: First Noble Truth -- Suffering Exists
2024-04-13
The Four Noble Truths: Fourth Noble Truth -- The Path to the End of Suffering
2024-02-10
The Four Noble Truths: Second Truth - Origin/Arising of Suffering
2024-03-09
The Four Noble Truths: Third Noble Truth -- The Cessation of Suffering
2025-01-07
The Obstacles are the Path
2024-08-07
The Quail and the Hawk: Fields of Full Awareness
2025-03-19
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Seeing Our Own Filters
2023-11-12
The Three-fold way of Cultivating Awareness
2025-02-12
The Threefold way of Wisdom includes Kindness and Ethical Action
2024-01-03
Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 1 (non-greed)
2024-01-10
Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 2 (non-hatred)
2024-01-17
Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 3 (non-delusion)
2025-01-22
Truthfulness and Resolve
2026-02-04
Watching the Waves
2024-11-26
What Supports Gratitude & What Gratitude Supports
2025-05-13
Wisdom
2023-05-28
Wisdom from Stories of the Buddha
2025-10-01
Wisdom of the Body, part 1
2025-12-03
Wisdom of the Body: Benefits (part 1)
2026-01-07
Wisdom of the Body: Liberation
2025-11-12
Wisdom of the Body: Similes
2025-05-28
Wise View in Relational Practice
2024-11-13
Wisely Attention to Stories and Thoughts
2026-01-14
Working with Hindrances
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Select one of Dawn Neal's 14 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2023-10-25
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (four part series)
2024-01-13
Buddhism in a Nutshell: A Series on the Four Noble Truths
2024-10-02
Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series)
2024-11-09
Cultivating a Loving and Courageous Heart
2025-01-17
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
2025-02-01
Embodying Peace: A Daylong Retreat on the 6 Principles of Cordiality
2025-02-19
Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation
2025-03-29
Open and Relaxed Awareness Daylong Retreat
2025-11-02
Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat
2025-12-06
Gathering In Kindness
2026-01-10
Connecting and Sustaining Aspiration
2026-01-22
Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation
