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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Settling with What Is

All too often in our daily lives we are gripped by a stressful momentum – feeling a sense of lack and incompleteness, we strain towards some imagined future circumstance which we hope will provide relief from the stress we feel. However, the essence of practice is to see and know, as purely as we can, our direct experience in the moment, finding resolution right within what IS, rather than trying to push past our current circumstances. On this online retreat we emphasise a settling into being present with what IS, so that the deeper layers of being become apparent, and the need to strive for something “other” is allayed.

This online retreat is suitable for all levels of experience.

2022-03-17 (36 days) Gaia House

  
2022-03-17 Welcome, Lightly Guided Meditation, Introductory Teachings 1:14:11
Alan Lewis
This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
2022-03-18 Early Morning Guided Meditation 41:36
Alan Lewis
Settling with Bodily Experience
2022-03-18 Morning Pt 1 – Guided Meditation 26:55
Laura Bridgman
Opening to and allowing experience, noticing how thinking feels.
2022-03-18 Morning Pt 2 - Working with the Churning Mind 43:22
Alan Lewis
This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
2022-03-18 Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Meditation and Teachings 25:04
Alan Lewis
Noticing the flow and change of experience.
2022-03-18 Afternoon Pt 3 - Reflections on Awareness and Feeling 29:17
Laura Bridgman
This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
2022-03-18 Evening - Posture, Energy, Sleepiness, Silent Sit. 32:25
Alan Lewis
2022-03-19 Early Morning - Guided Meditation 42:41
Alan Lewis
Using breath as an anchoring point.
2022-03-19 Morning Pt 1 – Reflections - Meeting the Inner Activities of Self 25:22
Laura Bridgman
Lightly guided meditation. Teachings on and how inner activity can lose its grip on us, changing our perceptions and leading to less suffering.
2022-03-19 Morning Pt 2 – Being Worthy of Love 32:16
Alan Lewis
Teachings - meeting our experience with honesty and inquiry, letting our experience be painful. This recording also includes a short teaching on 'walking with awareness' (walking meditation) led by Laura Bridgman.
2022-03-19 Afternoon Pt 1 – Noticing the Space Within Which Things Arise 29:08
Alan Lewis
Teachings on how we relate to spaciousness and capacity.
2022-03-19 Afternoon Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation& Teachings 41:02
Laura Bridgman
Lightly Guided Meditation - choosing what anchors you into the present moment. Teachings – Seeing and Looking, Listening and Hearing: investigating the difference between these ways of experiencing. This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
2022-03-20 Guided Early Morning Meditation 43:59
Alan Lewis
2022-03-20 Morning Pt 1 - Reflections 38:30
Alan Lewis
2022-03-20 Morning Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation. Teachings - Practicing with Two Questions 29:53
Laura Bridgman
2022-03-20 Afternoon Pt 1 - The Qualities of Awareness Itself 21:04
Laura Bridgman
Noticing what we already know about our learnt experience, and how our willingness to go beyond that can allow for that experience to go deeper and reveal more of itself.
2022-03-20 Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Metta Meditation 37:37
Alan Lewis
Labelling experiences as significant and insignificant. Paying attention to what seems insignificant, finding nourishment in unlikely places.
2022-03-21 Guided Early Morning Meditation 37:53
Alan Lewis
Allowing all experiences to pass through us.
2022-03-21 Closing Session - Pt 1 26:31
Alan Lewis
Teachings - awareness says ‘yes’ to everything. Silent Meditation.
2022-03-21 Closing Session Pt 2 29:05
Laura Bridgman
Integrating Dharma practice into our life. (This recording also includes Alan Lewis)
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