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Retreat Dharma Talks at Gaia House

Insight Meditation - Relaxing into Presence

This retreat offers a gentle introduction to insight meditation – learning through our own experience how suffering is created and the way to free ourselves from it.

Using core Buddhist frameworks such as the reflections on impermanence and insubstantiality, we investigate our experience through sitting and walking meditation and the flow of life as it happens to us. The retreat includes guided meditations and Q&A sessions.

The retreat is suitable for beginners and those looking to refresh their practice. Through meditation we can come to a deeper understanding of how desire, fear, doubt, and anxiety arise and move within us, which can deactivate our reactivity and lead to a sense of inner peace, clarity and compassion.

2025-08-07 (5 days) Gaia House

  
2025-08-08 Morning Reflections & Guided Meditation 48:58
Alan Lewis
This recording also includes Ramiro Ortega offering instructions for walking meditation.
2025-08-08 Four Moments of Insight 58:41
Alan Lewis
Dharma Talk
2025-08-09 Morning Reflections 39:23
Ramiro Ortega
2025-08-10 Afternoon Reflections & Guided Meditation 54:33
Alan Lewis
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