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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
2019-03-18 Freely Allowing 40:53
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Dharma practice is an invitation, and training, in meeting experience spaciously and graciously. These reflections unpack what that means, pointing to the inherently spacious nature of awareness, and the free heart’s capacity to hold experience tenderly.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-03-17 Freely Knowing 46:55
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. This talk looks at the inherently knowing nature of mind. Martin looks at the way we get stuck in knowledge, or knowing about, and generate anxiety and a sense of deficiency about not knowing. He invites us beyond conventional knowing into non-conceptual awareness, and the direct knowing of whatever is happening.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-03-16 Freely Abiding 50:01
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. In this talk Martin explores the capacity to inhabit experience, to be with experience from the inside; to abide in the midst of what is happening. The talk uses the storm that is raging outside the hall as an example of sitting steadily in the midst of turbulence, and all that swirls around our attention.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-02-26 Evening Dharma Talk - If Nothing You Do is Ever Enough, What Do You Do? 66:37
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-26 Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation (and Walking Meditation Instructions) 44:57
Chris Cullen
This recording also includes Kirsten Kratz.
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-25 Morning Instructions - Like Rain Drops on Water - Vedana 51:31
Kirsten Kratz
This recording also includes Chris Cullen.
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-24 Evening Dharma Talk - The Co-Arising of Body, Mind and Heart 58:57
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-24 Guided Meditation on the Elements (and the use of this in walking meditation) 40:13
Chris Cullen
This recording also includes Kirsten Kratz.
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-23 Brief Guidance on Hindrances 16:33
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-23 Inviting the Heart In - Morning Instructions on Sitting & Walking Meditation 53:50
Kirsten Kratz
This recording also includes Chris Cullen
Gaia House Awakening and Liberating the Heart

2019-02-08 Am I A Good Ancestor? 48:18
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying Presence - The Deep Current

2019-02-04 Cultivating Mindfulness of Mental States 30:41
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-03 Cultivating Kindness 47:37
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-03 Instructions - The Four Elements 36:28
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-03 Cultivating Mindfulness of Vedana 34:55
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-02 Cultivating Mindfulness of Body 52:51
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-02 Guidance On Working with the Hindrances 27:41
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-02-02 Morning Instructions 54:24
Jaya Rudgard
This recording also includes Walking Meditation Instructions by Chris Cullen.
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations

2019-01-28 Meditation Instructions 35:58
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Kindness

2019-01-27 Guided Loving Kindness & Compassion Meditation 45:44
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Kindness

2019-01-27 Meditation Instructions 6:24
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Kindness

2019-01-26 Awakening Inner Peace 54:56
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path of Peace and Kindness

2019-01-20 Loving Kindness Towards Oneself - Talk & Guided Meditation 41:12
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Inquiring into the Nature of Experience

2019-01-20 Guided Meditation 34:06
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Inquiring into the Nature of Experience

2019-01-19 Chanting (Namo Chant) 11:50
Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis and Laura Bridgman lead the retreatants in the 'Namo' chant.
Gaia House Inquiring into the Nature of Experience

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