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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
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2017-09-13 Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here 53:19
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-12 Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk 28:12
Martin Aylward
Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-06 Reflections on Driven Doing 56:12
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-09-05 Feeling Tone (Vedana) and Reactivity 47:45
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-08-21 Emptiness and Interconnectedness 47:45
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-21 Guided Lovingkindness Meditation (Metta for the Neutral Person) 47:07
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-21 Reflections on Working with Clinging 58:51
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-20 Wisdom, Wellbeing and Awakening 47:08
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-20 Intro to Mudita and Guided Meditation 45:00
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-20 Instructions and Meditation on Joy and Impermanence 58:32
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-19 Fabrication and Freedom 45:51
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-19 Guided Lovingkindness Meditation (Metta for the Benefactor) 41:41
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-19 Reflections on Body Awareness, Working with Pain, Guided Metta Meditation 54:11
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-18 Wise Effort and Working with the Hindrances 51:29
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-18 Instructions and Guided Lovingkindness Meditation 42:57
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-08-18 Meditation Instructions on Patience and Working with the Breath 58:59
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2017-07-28 The Four Great Efforts 47:54
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-27 Secular Wisdom 60:41
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on philosophical scepticism as a framework for practice from Pyrrho to the Buddha.
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-27 Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy 38:35
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-27 Cultivating the Four Brahma Viharas 25:43
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-26 Being With and Letting Go 51:50
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-25 Secular Samadhi 55:12
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the practice of the jhanas, a personal account of the role of meditation in my life.
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-25 Instructions - Hearing and Seeing 24:43
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-24 Mindfulness, Creative Engagement, Feeling Tones (Vedanas) 45:44
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-23 Secular Ethics 57:12
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on the nature of ethics, towards a Buddhist ethics of care rather than justice.
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-23 Introduction to Meditation Practice 25:08
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-18 Ways of Being in This World (Pt2) 41:03
Kirsten Kratz
Ways of being in this world - the play of perception.
Gaia House Being in This World

2017-07-17 In Praise of the Peaceful Heart 53:38
Jaya Rudgard
The value and practice of equanimity.
Gaia House Being in This World

2017-07-16 Ways of Being in This World (I) - Taking the Stance of Loving Kindness 55:16
Kirsten Kratz
Cultivating the stance of Lovingkindness
Gaia House Being in This World

2017-07-15 Being in This World with Dharma Lenses 53:09
Jaya Rudgard
Some thoughts on what it means to "be in this world" from the perspective of the Buddha's teachings.
Gaia House Being in This World

2017-07-09 Equanimity 53:13
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-09 Guided Meditation 42:22
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-09 Instructions and Guided Meditation on Equanimity 53:23
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-08 Joy 56:49
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-08 Guided Meditation on Joy 39:37
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-08 Instructions on Joy 57:11
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-07 Guided Compassion Meditation 43:47
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-07 Instructions on Compassion Practice 55:57
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-06 The Brahma Viharas as Ways of Looking 53:30
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-06 Guided LovingKindness (Metta) Meditation 43:23
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-06 LovingKindness (Metta) Instructions, Guided Meditation, Walking Meditation Instructions 49:29
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2017-07-01 Transition Into Modern Life 33:15
Anushka Fernandopulle
This recording also includes Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-30 True Refuge in a Modern World 58:32
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-30 Guided Meditation on Skilful & Unskilful Intentions 36:49
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-30 Instructions On Mindfulness and How it Can be Lost (and skill when we are caught in a mind spin). 42:19
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Happiness, Wellbeing and Non Self 42:57
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Cracking the Code - Meditation Instructions on Vedana or Feeling Tone 34:36
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-29 Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Viharas, Chanting 44:28
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-28 Your Body as Nature - Guided Meditation on Earth, Air, Fire, Water 43:30
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-28 Meditation Instructions on Intention 40:41
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-27 Dukkha & Refuge - Strain, Stress, Difficulty, Unreliability 48:54
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-27 Guided Meditation on Compassion 47:19
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Guided Meditation on Awareness of Emotions 33:42
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Guided Meditation on Metta Towards the Body 35:41
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Attention As a Sacrad Gift..Where Can Attention Find Refuge? 49:14
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Reflections on Mindful Eating. 13:33
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-26 Instructions - Body-Mind Resting in Heart, Resting in Body, Resting as Earth 52:21
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Finding Refuge in the Truth 40:48
Anushka Fernandopulle
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Bigger Body Meditation 59:40
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes the previous 'Lineage & Offering' recording
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Lineage and Offering 10:27
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-25 Meditation Instructions (Retreat Day 1) 56:37
Anushka Fernandopulle
This recording also includes Catherine McGee
Gaia House Finding True Refuge in a Modern World

2017-06-06 Honouring Life 39:51
Helen Stephenson
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Instead of measuring our progress we engage in the practice with our entire being. This opens us up to the "light" that is in us and around us and we can experience a joy and connection with life that is beyond measure.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-05 Change and Impermanence 59:26
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-04 Here I Am, What a Mess! 47:03
Helen Stephenson
The way we think, feel and experience on retreat is not different from the ways we approach our experience in daily life. Whatever shows up is met with kindness - nothing is excluded. Our difficulties then become the manure for our transformation.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-03 Goodness, Presence & Wisdom - the Foundations of Happiness 52:57
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-05-23 Guided Meditation 39:39
Jean Wilkins
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Bodhicitta - Beyond the Self 50:02
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Exercise on Endings (Pt3) 1:43
Jean Wilkins
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Exercise on Endings (Pt2) 5:14
Jean Wilkins
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Exercise on Endings (Pt1) 14:45
Jean Wilkins
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Guided Meditation 42:56
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-21 A Talk on Creativity 45:24
Jean Wilkins
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-20 Noticing Feeling Tones 53:37
Jaya Rudgard
How mindfulness of the changing nature of feeling tone (vedana) can help to reverse the escalation of stress and suffering
Gaia House Awakening Here and Now

2017-05-20 Gratitude - Opening The Heart 51:58
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-04-28 Ending the Retreat and Re-entry in Daily Life 45:31
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-27 The Paradox of Solitude 65:26
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-25 Emptiness and Not Self (Anatta) 54:03
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-25 Emptiness and Solitude 48:42
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-24 Intro to Questioning and Background 55:19
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-23 The Art of Solitude 63:38
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-17 Guided Meditation on the Four Directions, Above & Below 24:08
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-17 Instructions, Nina Simone Song, Guided Meditation on Freedom & Aliveness 45:51
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-16 Guided Meditation on Sympathetic Joy Pt 2 25:55
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-16 Sympathetic Joy Practice, Guided Meditation 58:59
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-16 Guided Metta Meditation Pt 2 32:24
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-16 Instructions on Metta Practice & Guided Meditation 47:58
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-16 Guided Compassion with Equanimity Meditation 35:21
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-15 Practising the 4 Brahma Viharas, Understanding, Dwelling, Radiating & Cultivating 53:22
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-15 Guided Meditation 26:16
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-15 Guided Meditation on Compassion 44:47
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-15 Guided Meditation on Equanimity 10:47
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-15 Equanimity Practice 60:29
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life

2017-04-07 The Changing Nature of Experience 40:19
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Cultivating Clarity and Compassion

2017-04-02 Shaping Vessels 13:48
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-02 Guarding the Holy Fire 18:03
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Beauty and the Buddha 1:32:44
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) 36:24
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros 26:39
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-31 Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A) 38:17
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-31 Twoness Continued 17:26
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

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