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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This podcast is dedicated to igniting your power through guided meditations and guided meditation instruction and theory. This content is designed to help people who wish to take control of their lives and their destiny, discover what they truly desire in this life an manifest that vision of the best version of themselves.
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The Conscious Classroom with host Amy Edelstein explores the world of mindfulness in education. Named Top 100 Classroom Podcasts by Feedspot! Amy shares best classroom tools and practices for adolescents, why teaching students about perspectives, worldviews, and context is as important as teaching classic stress reduction tools including breath, body scan, and open awareness mindfulness techniques. We'll look at trauma sensitive approaches, systems thinking, social emotional skills and how t ...
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Mindfulness Meditation is not a thing — it is an activity of doing. It is a key to an eight faceted practice capable of freeing us from discontent. Being mindful is being deeper than the ocean, stronger than practiced aversion, quicker than chronic bad habits, and easier than pie!
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Travel the world through meditation. Perfect for beginners and meditation pros looking for something different to supplement their regular practice. Each episode features a new location varying from fictional towns to iconic landmarks to hidden gems. Escape the day and recharge, or set up your mind up for peaceful dreaming. Hosted by Pam, a yogi with over twenty years of yoga and guided meditation instruction, this podcast is just what you have been searching for. Subscribe so you don’t miss ...
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Weekly Dharma talks from the teachers of Mindfulness Outreach Initiative (MOI) Omaha. Located in Omaha, Nebraska, MOI is a 501(c)3 nonprofit Insight Meditation organization providing meditation instruction rooted in teachings of ethics, compassion, and wisdom. MOI offers weekly in-person and online meditation, retreats, and study groups. Through diverse community outreach efforts MOI works to make meditation and mindfulness training accessible to all.
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Would you like to apply the power of meditation and your heart to improve your health, heal your relationships, and accomplish more in life? The "I Heart Meditation" Podcast provides instruction and guidance so that you can connect with your heart, your breath, and ultimately the greatness of your being. This is your resource to explore an array of topics related to meditation, including: The path of enlightenment and illumination, how to harmonize relationships through meditation, understan ...
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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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Talks by Andrea Fella at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA
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A psychotherapist interviews experts about why humans are the way that they are. When he's not doing that, he's talking psychology and self-development. Slap on your earphones, settle in, and become a better version of yourself!
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Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.
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My greatest joy is giving the gift of love and hope through the dharma, knowing it is possible for humans to transform their hearts. These dharma gifts include paying attention, practicing clarity and kindness and addressing the suffering of the world--which, of course, includes ourselves. Right now I'm most enthusiastic about the first gift, paying attention, because it makes every part of our lives better. Paying attention allows us to become more clear, and each moment of clarity is a gif ...
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Bonnie Duran: Guided metta from benefactor
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This is the John Makransky - Tibetan metta practice of receiving metta from a benefactorBy Bonnie Duran
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Zohar Lavie: Muditā Instructions & Guided Practice
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(Gaia House) This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.By Zohar Lavie
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(Gaia House) The teachings of dependent origination encourage us to meet inner and outer dukkha with creativity and courage. This session includes a guided practice and Dharma reflection.By Nathan Glyde
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Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap
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Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap with Amy Edelstein In this episode of The conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein helps illuminate the little-known history and ongoing influence of resistance to de-segregation within America's education system - and how mindfulness, being conscious and aware of our biases, is an important part of ou…
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Jean Esther: Perfectionism is an impediment to awakening
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What derails us on and off to cushion? This talk is an invitation to investigation perfectionism, the vulnerability that lies beneath it and the power of practicing with the 10 paramis in daily life.By Jean Esther
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Set with deep hypnotic music, it helps the meditator enter a state of trance and connect with these energy centers. This meditation music takes you on a beautiful journey where you keep your awareness on each chakra, acknowledge and consciously bless them with new information of healing, coherence and balance.…
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Jean Esther: Loving kindness for the neutral person
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Understanding that we are all interconnected - offering loving kindness for a neutral person through the sense of a separate selfBy Jean Esther
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Bonnie Duran: Metta meditation: why and how
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reviewed the Karaniya sutta about why and how we do mettaBy Bonnie Duran
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Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless Benevolence in relationship to the difficult
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)By Narayan Helen Liebenson
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Narayan Helen Liebenson: Accessing unconditional joy
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Narayan Helen Liebenson: Guided meditation – boundless self and benefactor
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Nathan Glyde: Remembering To Recollect
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(Gaia House) A commentary and practice on the Five Daily Recollections or Remembrances. Here phrased by Caroline Jones: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember… this body is ageing; this body is vulnerable to illness; this body will die; loss is part of life; to meet this moment with wisdom. This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection,…
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Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless benevolence
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)By Narayan Helen Liebenson
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Barkha to add descriptionBy Yogini Barkha Ram
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(Gaia House)By Zohar Lavie
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Howard Cohn: Guided meditation on the self-like nature of mind
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Laura Bridgman: Reflections on Equanimity
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Howard Cohn: Stepping out of a view of self
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our practice creates a beautiful opportunity to know what we are in real time and the difference between that real time experience and the view of ourselves that plays in our mindsBy Howard Cohn
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Laura Bridgman: Movement Practice, Short Reflections.
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Zohar Lavie: Upekkha - Reflections & Instructions
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Erin Treat: Morning Instructions – Anchor and Choiceless Attention
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the Buddha's sense of fear and dread over the human condition, his process of seeing its origin, and the wisdom that gives rise to peace.By Erin Treat
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Zohar Lavie: Reflections on Joy & Equanimity (Dukkha & Self Sense)
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Nathan Glyde: Beware: Strong Currents
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(Gaia House) An exploration of the āsava teaching: our tendencies or karmic propensities of seeking happiness in sensual pleasures, in becoming, in ignorance, and in views. When we expect them, we are better served to defy them. Includes a guided meditation, refection, and responses to (unrecorded) questions. From the Gaia House Online Dharma Hall.…
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Laura Bridgman: Movement Practice; Reflections on Joy (The Barriers to Joy)
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Laura Bridgman: Dharma Talk - Moving Through the Layers of Suffering
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Laura Bridgman: Reflections on The Barriers to Compassion; Sitting Practice; Movement Practice.
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Zohar Lavie: Compassion : Instructions & Guided Practice
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Zohar Lavie: Mettā & Brahma Viharas as Expressions of Release.
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Erin Treat: At the core of the Citta is brilliant sanity
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The gift of practice, trusting the Dharma, reflecting upon birth, death, and finding our wayBy Erin Treat
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Awareness & Innovation: The Wings of Tomorrow's Education
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Unlock the synergy between mindfulness and innovation as Amy Edelstein explores the relationship between these two orientations in this episode of the Conscious Classroom. Imagine a learning environment where the air is alive with creativity, and students and teachers alike are inspired to view the world through a lens of fresh possibilities. This …
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Dr James Fallon on Psychopaths & Sociopaths | Re-Release
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A re-release of my first interview on the podcast back in 2021. Dr James H Fallon wrote the book The Psychopath Inside where he tracks his story on how he found out he was a "borderline psychopath." We cover that story and a whole lot of other topics in this packed episode. https://www.barnacc.com To access Emil's FREE Academia courses on anxiety, …
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Timeline Therapy | Step-by-Step Instructions | Guided by Emil Barna
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This therapy protocol was adapted from and expands Forrest Knutson's ‘Time Line Therapy Walkthrough’ (find it here) I also integrated other works into this protocol, namely, aspects you can find in Deb Dana's The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Dr Joe Dispenza's You Are the Placebo, Dr Norman Doidge's The Brain’s Way of Healing and Dr Richard Schwartz…
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Barkha Ram of Ignite Your Power Non-Profit Organization presents the music from her classic mountain meditation where you evoke the beneficial qualities of a mountain in yourself.By Yogini Barkha Ram
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Dr Stephen Porges on Polyvagal Theory | Re-Release
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This episode - one of my favourites! - first aired in 2021. I thought it deserved a bump not just because of the guest (Dr Porges is an amazing researcher and visionary) but because more people need to know about how their nervous system is impacted by stress, especially after COVID. Dr Stephen Porges discusses Polyvagal Theory, stress and anxiety,…
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IFS Open Heart Meditation | Trauma & Addiction | Inspired by Richard Schwartz | Guided by Emil Barna
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10-minute IFS Open Heart Protocol inspired by Dr Richard Schwartz's Internal Family Systems approach to psychotherapy. This script incorporates calming music and expanded instructions additional to those found in Anderson, Sweezy, & Schwartz's 2017 manual: Internal Family Systems: Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depre…
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NSDR (Yoga Nidra) (7 mins) Inspired by Dr. Andrew Huberman | Guided by Emil Barna
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7-minute NSDR Protocol (also known as Yoga Nidra) inspired by Dr Andrew Huberman's 10-minute script which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGrmY8OSHM This script incorporates calming music and expanded instructions for those who want a longer version of the original. Recorded by psychotherapist Emil Barna. A 22-minute extended ver…
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Predict Your Future By Creating It - Manifestation Meditation
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Barkha to add a descriptionBy Yogini Barkha Ram
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Safe Place Visualisation Meditation | Promotes Neuroplasticity | Guided by Emil Barna
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This is a 12-minute 'Safe Place' visualisation meditation protocol that helps enhance the brain's learning process, reduces daytime fatigue, and helps improve focus. This exercise can be done before bed to relax your nervous system or any other time during the day to help you reconnect with the present moment. Exercises like this have been found to…
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise attitudeBy Carol Wilson
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Alexis Santos: guided meditation – exploring hindrances
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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How doubt can manifest as the belief that one is not fully on the path if they have chosen the life of the householder. Using nature as affirmation and support.By Cara Lai
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Mindful Joy: The Secret Sauce in Educational Leadership
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In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein unpacks the importance of teacher happiness and how to use mindful awareness and perspectives to improve teacher wellbeing and sense of possibility prior to making practical changes, which undoubtedly also need to occur. Amy explores the impact of educators who tap into their passion, settin…
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NSDR (Yoga Nidra) (20 mins) Inspired by Dr. Andrew Huberman | Guided by Emil Barna
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This 22-minute NSDR Protocol (a.k.a Yoga Nidra) is inspired by Dr Andrew Huberman's 10-minute script which can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKGrmY8OSHM This meditation incorporates calming music and expanded instructions for those who want a longer version of the original. Recorded by psychotherapist Emil Barna. Disclaimer: This ch…
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Mindfulness Is Not A Pill, It's a Perspective
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Discover the keys to unlocking our children's potential in an era where education is at a crossroads and technology's influence is undeniable. This enlightening journey through the world of learning reveals how an evolved mindset, coupled with a transformative educational system, is essential for nurturing the curiosity, purpose, wisdom, and respec…
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Discover how the relationship we forge with AI in our classrooms can go beyond mere functionality to touch the very core of our humanity. Join me, Amy Edelstein, as we unveil the transformative potential of AI when approached with the same reverence we approach the great mysteries and subtleties of sentience and life. It's an invitation to infuse o…
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Scaling Compassion? AI possibilities & Real Life Examples
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In this episode, Amy Edelstein reflects on a recent trip to India, which raised intriguing and inspiring possibilities as she visiting with the founders of the Happiness Curriculum, that reaches 1.7 million students each day. She also explores AI potential and urgency to train AI on compassion and wisdom and scale that use for the benefit of all. S…
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