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Dharma Talks given at Gaia House
2015-02-05 Opening Talk 53:03
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Contentment and Joyful Living

2015-02-02 Letting Go - A Practice for a Lifetime 46:54
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Inner Listening

2015-02-01 Inner Listening 41:50
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Inner Listening

2015-01-31 Opening Talk 37:00
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Inner Listening

2015-01-27 The Collective Body - Solidarity, Community and Love 47:13
Martin Aylward
In this final talk of the series, Martin looks at the social implications of widening our sense of identification, including not only the world but also other human beings within the field of our experience. The talk explores the suffering born of the us and them mentality and points to how the need to awaken together and take all beings into our heart.
Gaia House This Body is the Universe

2015-01-26 The Existential Body - From Thing-ness to Process, Knowing to Loving, Subjective to Inclusive 41:26
Martin Aylward
In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
Gaia House This Body is the Universe

2015-01-25 The Psychological Body - Self Image, Self Reinforcement and Self Judgement 51:07
Martin Aylward
Continuing from the previous talk, Martin looks at the ways we imagine, maintain and reinforce our psychological sense of self. The talk explores how we live in images and descriptions of who we think we are, layered by our constant critical self evaluation, and points us beyond our psychology to a fuller and freer embodying of our life.
Gaia House This Body is the Universe

2015-01-24 The Instinctual Body - Sex, Survival and Social Drives 40:14
Martin Aylward
We are bound by our biology, and our health, longevity and death are largely out of our control. This talk explores the way our biology impacts us, including the influences of the sex drive, the survival drive and the social drive. Martin looks at how we can explore and understand our biology in such a way as to inhabit it freely.
Gaia House This Body is the Universe

2015-01-23 The Body is the Universe - Introduction 1:12:28
Martin Aylward
In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
Gaia House This Body is the Universe

2015-01-17 Where are We Trying to Get to ? 56:12
John Peacock
Gaia House Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT/MBSR Retreat)

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