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Jaya Ashmore has guided meditation for people of diverse backgrounds in a dozen countries since 1999. With over 30 years of ripening in diverse meditation traditions, primarily in India, Jaya is internationally known for her fresh, embodied guided meditations. She is at home with techniques and language as diverse as Theravada Buddhism and Advaita (non-duality) and mysticism. Beginning and advanced meditators often notice a subtle and powerful unwinding of unwholesome habit-energies, as well ...
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An international Dharma teacher since 1999, Jaya Ashmore guides listeners to the heart of meditation and freedom in her talks. She draws from and brings to life ancient texts from diverse traditions, modern poetry and science, and the tenderness and power of our puzzling human experience. With over 30 years of meditation experience primarily in India, Jaya evokes transformative depth and joy in all of life--from daily life, to meditation basics and more subtle areas. Her fresh, unique and pr ...
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In this talk, the topic might somewhere be "generosity" and "interdependence" but we are led there through an underground fungal network beneath the forest floor and out through water flying out of the leaves of the trees. Led there joyously.By Jaya Ashmore
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This talk, given during a silent retreat in North Carolina, in the United States, challenges listeners to know our lives as spiritual, and experience the unconscious not only as something dark, but light, wide and unaccountable. Ashmore's warmth, understanding and passion for transformative practice shine through her words.…
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In this talk, on processing big emotions, Ashmore calls upon the wisdom of the traditional village snake-handlers of India, along with contemporary poetry and ancient spiritual texts. With astute sensitivity, Ashmore makes room for the fear to see clearly, as well as our "snake-y alive wish to see clearly anyway." Her approach is imaginative, spont…
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This talk is quite long and discusses some deep concepts but is well worth listening to until the end. In fact, it rewards repeated listening. Beginning with a discussion on the nature of Joy, the talk encourages us to maintain our practice even in the face of difficult emotions. Jaya maps a path through rocky terrain, suggesting we use the tools o…
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This guided meditation leads us through a process of being in within the space of our own capacity to harm and be harmed, and also to forgive and be forgiven. This is not easy territory for many of us, and it can happen such guided meditations can be either too overwhelming or too sugar-coated. We might not be ready to find forgiveness. Jaya is esp…
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Jaya's guided meditations are rich opportunities for developing trust and love, processing past events and trauma, practicing new skills to enhance and deepen experiences in daily life and to simply learn how to enjoy the mysterious beauty of each moment.By Jaya Ashmore
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In her guided meditations, Jaya leads us through deep experiences which invite rich and true presence.Jaya uses a range of narratives and ideas that call on our past experiences and utilize imagination and poetic visualization to walk us through the complex worlds of our internal landscapes. As listeners, we move through strong and subtle sensation…
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This talk speaks about discrimination in a positive sense...seeing what doesn't need anything more from us, and just enjoying. Growing the ability to see what is worthy of our attention. Living what calls us.Through modern poetry and stories from the Buddha’s time, Jaya brings the teachings closer to our daily lives’ practice.…
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Instead of the trying to 'master' something we can try to just relax into this other, softer, trusting space where the opening can happen without pressure, even the title sets up for just letting go of control. Getting anything 'out there' that emphasis this 'resting', this long overdue adventure into something that is so inviting, healthy and cont…
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This talk is an invitation to increase our sensitivity to what’s underneath, into the depth and into listening beneath habit.By Jaya Ashmore
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In her guided meditation, Jaya brings to life the joy that lies just beyond our ideas, and into the vast fullness of our human aliveness.By Jaya Ashmore
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Enjoying the softness of here...the breath breaths the body being itself.Feeling into space in and around the body.Invitation to play a game-remember a time when you felt no pressure to be anything else.Enough...feeling the texture, the space.By Jaya Ashmore
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In this talk Jaya speaks about a friend who recently died, and who was a person who was able to deliver supreme teachings and daily life/lightening teachings and groundedness. Jaya discuss her own experience with turbulence in the mind, with the 5 obstructions and the idea that if you are experiencing turbulence in your meditation, you're in line w…
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The voice and the wisdom we search for is present in each of us. All the things we do to find peace and to reach spiritual enlightenment can mask the reality that the peace we seek is already here. This talk is an invitation to stop reaching outside of ourselves because what we are looking for in the core of our being.…
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