Jean Esther's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Jean Esther  
 
    
        
                            
      Jean Esther, MSW has been practicing meditation since 1975 and teaching in the dharma since the early 90’s.  She is one of the Guiding Teachers at True North Insight in Canada and teaches locally in the Northeastern US. Trained in Jungian transpersonal psychology and Somatic Experiencing she has been a practicing psychotherapist in Western MA since 1981 with a specialization in the healing of trauma. Her passion is attuning to and supporting the liberating intersection of body, mind and heart and helping others of all ages do the same.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2012-07-02
            "Awe Infinitum"  - Teen Retreat 
    
        2016-07-01
            "I Have Your Back" 
    
        2018-03-02
            "The Power Of Vulnerability And The Courage To Meet It" 
    
        2024-10-05
            Can We ‘Escape’ Suffering? 
    
        2024-05-05
            Closing talk 
    
        2019-04-12
            Communal walking instructions 
    
        2022-02-12
            Compassion: An Organic Response to Wise Understanding 
    
        2020-03-11
            Concentration, One Pointedness, and Renunciation 
    
        2024-10-07
            Difficulty as a Doorway:  Exploring the Five Hindrances 
    
        2024-05-03
            Eating Meditation 
    
        2023-03-21
            Eightfold path – taking the practice into our lives 
    
        2025-03-02
            Embracing Our Lives Through The 4 Noble Truths 
    
        2018-08-10
            Entering the Door of Vulnerability 
    
        2013-07-01
            First Morning Instructions - Teen Retreat 2013 
    
        2023-03-19
            Five hindrances as a doorway to release. 
    
        2019-04-13
            Guided compassion practice 
    
        2023-03-20
            Guided compassion practice 
    
        2024-05-04
            Guided compassion practice - with self and other 
    
        2021-02-27
            Guided Compassion/Lovingkindness Meditation 
    
        2024-05-03
            Guided loving kindness practice for self and/or benefactor 
    
        2019-04-12
            Guided meditation 
    
        2018-08-11
            Guided Meditation: Appreciative Joy 
    
        2024-10-06
            Guided Metta Practice for Easy Person/Benefactor, Self, and Neutral Person 
    
        2018-06-24
            Holding Ourselves Dear With A wise and Compassion Heart 
    
        2024-06-28
            How do we know we're alive? 
    
        2023-03-18
            Introduction to Brahma Vihara practice 
    
        2024-10-08
            Introduction to Equanimity as a Brahma Vihara followed by a guided practice 
    
        2021-12-01
            Introduction to Metta practice 
    
        2010-05-22
            Live Your Life -The Only One There is to Live 
    
        2010-05-20
            Love and Equanimity 
    
        2024-04-15
            Loving kindness for the neutral person 
    
        2019-06-28
            Loving Kindness Meditation 
    
        2025-06-30
            Loving Kindness Meditation 
    
        2015-06-30
            Loving Kindness Practice 
    
        2021-12-04
            Loving kindness practice with the "neutral person" 
    
        2025-03-02
            Meeting The Body With Loving Attention 
    
        2020-03-12
            Metta Meditation (for easy person and self) 
    
        2025-02-10
            Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 
    
        2021-12-02
            Metta Practice For Self 
    
        2018-02-28
            Mindfulness and the Three Roots of Suffering 
    
        2019-09-04
            Mindfulness As A Factor Of Awakening 
    
        2020-03-13
            Mindfulness Of Feelings and Emotions 
    
        2015-07-02
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2017-09-08
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-03-02
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-03-04
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-04-13
            Morning instructions 
    
        2019-06-29
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-09-05
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-09-07
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2025-07-02
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2022-02-12
            Morning Instructions:  Rooting in Embodiment: 
    
        2024-10-05
            Morning Instructions: ‘Establishing Body Awareness as a Base for Mindfulness Pr… 
    
        2023-03-21
            Morning Instructions: feeling tones (vedana) 
    
        2024-05-04
            Morning Instructions: Identifying feeling tones as doorways of release 
    
        2022-02-13
            Morning Instructions: Meeting our Emotions with Wisdom 
    
        2023-03-19
            Morning Instructions: the value of anchoring attention. 
    
        2025-02-11
            Morning Instructions: Working with Thought 
    
        2020-03-14
            Open Choiceless Awareness - Sky Mind 
    
        2025-02-08
            Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 
    
        2024-04-16
            Perfectionism is an impediment to awakening 
    
        2015-07-01
            Practice for the welfare of all beings 
    
        2024-10-07
            Practicing with the sixth sense door of ‘Thinking’ as a means of release from b… 
    
        2024-10-08
            Q and R’s with Jean Esther & nakawe cuebas 
    
        2018-08-11
            Q&A Second Instructions 
    
        2017-06-10
            Relating to Ourselves and Others with Love and Wisdom 
    
        2018-08-11
            Second Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-04-13
            Suffering is Relational 
    
        2024-10-09
            Suitable Ways of Meditation Practice : An Overview. 
    
        2025-02-12
            The 8 Fold Path as a Practice for Living our Lives 
    
        2024-05-03
            The five hindrances: doorways to waking up 
    
        2024-05-04
            The power of equanimity in relating to our worldly life 
    
        2025-07-01
            The Unshareable Liberation of the Heart and Mind 
    
        2019-07-01
            Transforming Our World With the Fuel Of Wisdom and Love 
    
        2019-03-03
            Why Practice 
    
        2019-03-18
            Why Practice? Quelling The Fire 
    
        2021-12-03
            Why Practice? Setting in motion the wheel of truth. 
    
        2019-03-05
            Wise Relating On The Noble Path 
    
        2017-09-07
            Working With The Five Hindrances 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2010-05-16
            Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy &… 
    
        2012-06-30
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2013-06-30
            Teen Retreat  
    
        2015-06-29
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2016-06-30
            Teen Retreat  
    
        2017-06-08
            The Dharma of Relationships 
    
        2017-09-05
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community 
    
        2018-02-27
            Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2018-06-23
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2018-08-09
            Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha 
    
        2019-03-01
            Living Dharma: Mindfulness, Kindness and Wisdom 
    
        2019-03-16
            Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-04-11
            Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha 
    
        2019-06-27
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2019-09-03
            Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI Community 
    
        2020-03-10
            Freedom Here & Now: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2021-02-26
            Navigating Uncertain Times with a Dharma Heart 
    
        2021-11-30
            Freedom of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-02-11
            Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart 
    
        2023-03-17
            The Two Wings of the Dharma: Infusing Our Lives with Wisdom & Compassion 
    
        2024-04-13
            Lovingkindness/Metta Retreat as Ceremony 
    
        2024-05-02
            Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma 
    
        2024-06-25
            Teen Retreat 
    
        2024-09-10
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2024-10-04
            The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives 
    
        2025-02-06
            Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC 
    
        2025-03-01
            Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG 
    
        2025-06-28
            Teen Retreat – 25TR