Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awaren ...
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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IMS’s Forest Refuge has hosted experienced meditators since 2003. Its program is specifically designed to encourage sustained, longer-term retreat practice – a key component in the transmission of Buddhism from Asia to the West. Within a harmonious and secluded environment, meditators can nurture the highest aspiration for liberation. In consultation with visiting insight meditation teachers, a program of training in one or more Early Buddhist practices is created for each participant, allow ...
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The teachings of the Buddha (Dharma) and the practices of Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and loving-kindness meditation (metta) are at the heart of all the programs we offer at Spirit Rock. Practicing Insight Meditation develops mindfulness, the capacity to pay attention to each moment of life and to see clearly the truth of our experience. Studying the Dharma provides insights into the conditions that define and limit our experience of life. And cultivating an attitude of loving-kindness al ...
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Enjoy Dharma's guided visualizations, meditations, yogic insights, mystic musings, and more!
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Do you have a strong sense that there’s something more? More to reality? More to you? Do you feel the weight of your childhood and cultural conditioning and despite having worked to shrug it off, see that it somehow remains? Do you intuit that the world could be a much healthier place? Have you learned about and tried different practices only to dead-end, leaving you to wonder, “Is this it?” Have the models you’ve learned left things out, left your deepest questions unanswered? The emotospir ...
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Nathan Glyde: Caring Goodwill Radiant All Around (a mettā practice)
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Zohar Lavie: Opening, Nourishing & Gladdening - Meditation Instruction
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Zohar Lavie: Meeting Experience with Care and Tenderness (Guided practice)
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Zohar Lavie: Compassion: Meeting Experience Skilfully
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Nathan Glyde: Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 2)
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Nathan Glyde: Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 1)
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Grace Fisher: Breath, Spaciousness and Dread
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk (Group Q/A is not included)By Grace Fisher
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Heidi Bourne : Reclaiming our Strength with the 5 Spiritual Faculties ~ Today's Focus: Energy & Effort
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation, dharma talk & 2 practice related Q/A. All other group discussion has been removed.By Heidi Bourne
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Dana DePalma: Renouncing Compulsive Fixing and Receiving Life
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)By Dana DePalma
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Ajahn Amaro, Ajahn Nyaniko, Jill Satterfield, Ralph Steele: Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Ajahn Amaro: Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)By Chenxing Han
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Rev. Liên Shutt: Enmei Jukku Kannon Gyo chant
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)By Chenxing Han
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Chenxing Han, Rev. Liên Shutt: Homage to the Buddha and Three Refuges Chant
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)By Rev. Liên Shutt
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Ajahn Nyaniko: Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Ajahn Nyaniko: Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Ralph Steele: Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Grace Fisher: Bowing to the Old Interior Angel and the Elements
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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Begins with a 30m meditation and is followed by a Dharma TalkBy Grace Fisher
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Ajahn Nyaniko: Morning Puja and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
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Tara Mulay: Concentration retreat: faith and confidence (saddha)
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Tara Mulay: Concentration retreat: patience
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Winnie Nazarko: Metta talk and Instruction
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding inner resources to strengthen the mind/heart when it is challenging. The uses of reflection for self-support.By Winnie Nazarko
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Nathan Glyde: Sticking to the Plan to Improvise
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(Gaia House) How much we should be spontaneous, and how much more disciplined, feels to be a central question in the development of any skill, meditation included. What do we need more of? How should we go about it? What do we really want? This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded quest…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An unexpected love story. When love and wisdom come together from our practice we meet our lives with the courage to live our fullest selves. Knowing how deeply our lives intertwine.By Jean Esther
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)By Carol Wilson
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Hiri and Ottappa: Jst beingBy Carol Wilson
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Cara Lai: Mudita instructions and practice
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mundane and supramundane right viewBy Carol Wilson
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A contemporary telling of the story of the Buddha and how we can all relateBy Cara Lai
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Some reflections on emptiness and compassionBy Carol Wilson
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How passion can support us in the search towards dispassionBy Cara Lai
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) From the Majjhima Nikaya. The Buddha offers several examples of meeting our experience with wise attention: Purifying the habits of craving and delusionBy Carol Wilson
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to see that which is hard to see - delusion and what brings us to wisdom.By JoAnna Hardy
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise effortBy Carol Wilson
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)By Cara Lai
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) From the Plum Village tradition ceremonyBy Cara Lai
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with fear and anxietyBy Michael Grady
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Michael Grady: Wise effort and the inquiring mind
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating an attitude of open-hearted inquiryBy Michael Grady
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Carol Wilson: Exploring awareness of thought
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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Brief description of some of the ways we experience and can bring awareness to thoughtsBy Carol Wilson
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