Laura Bridgman's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Laura Bridgman
Laura Bridgman began her Dhamma practice in her early teens, and eventually ordained as a nun with Ajahn Sumedho in 1995. She was resident at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries for eighteen years until moving out to live as a solitary nun in 2010. She has spent extended periods of time with the Burmese teacher Sayadaw U Tejaniya. In 2015 Laura left the monastic tradition to pursue the Diamond Heart (Ridhwan) spiritual path alongside her Vipassana practice. There is much over-lap as it incorporates Buddhist principles and practices.
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2022-03-20
Afternoon Pt 1 - The Qualities of Awareness Itself
2022-03-19
Afternoon Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation& Teachings
2022-03-18
Afternoon Pt 3 - Reflections on Awareness and Feeling
2023-12-03
Afternoon Session Pt 1
2023-12-03
Afternoon Session Pt 2
2020-12-05
Afternoon Teachings and Meditation
2023-07-12
Alms and Food Offering
2021-09-19
Answers to Retreatants Written Questions; Silent Meditation.
2023-12-17
Barriers to Presence & Inquiry into Allowing
2023-05-20
Benevolent Will - How We Apply Effort
2021-09-17
Body Exercises, Silent Meditation, Reflections on Not Identifying with Thoughts
2021-07-17
Body Exercises, Teachings, Guided Meditation
2022-05-21
Body Work
2022-05-22
Body Work
2023-07-20
Closing comments - value of the five precepts
2023-05-21
Closing Session for the Retreat
2022-03-21
Closing Session Pt 2
2022-05-24
Composure and Equanimity
2023-12-17
Conditioning That Goes Beyond Conditioning
2022-11-27
Contemplating Our Emergence from the Retreat
2023-08-27
Contemplating Thoughts & Inner Activity; 2nd Contemplative Exercise
2020-03-13
Contemplating Thoughts and Feelings, and the Relationship Between the Two
2023-07-16
Craving
2022-08-07
Dharma Talk
2024-03-29
Dharma Talk - Moving Through the Layers of Suffering
2021-12-19
Dharma Talk - This Is The Way It Is
2023-11-26
Doubt
2022-11-11
Equanimity as a Process
2022-05-29
Faith
2022-02-05
Fourth Vipallasa
2022-05-22
Further Reflections on Energy - Viriya
2019-01-19
Further Reflections on the Seven Factors of Awakening
2020-12-06
Further Reflections on the Seven Factors of Awakening
2023-05-07
Guided Meditation
2019-01-17
Guided Meditation (Opening Eve of Retreat)
2024-03-09
Guided Mettā Meditation
2024-03-09
Healing into a Bigger Context
2022-05-27
Integrating the Faculties with Meeting Painful Emotion
2023-07-13
Intention - Guided Meditation
2023-12-16
Introducing G.R.A.I.N - Teachings & Guided Meditation
2020-03-12
Introducing the Inquiry Practice
2021-09-16
Introductory Session & Guided Meditation
2022-08-05
Introductory Talk and the Precepts.
2020-12-04
Introductory Teachings and Guided Meditation
2022-05-30
Laura Closing Comments
2021-09-17
Loving Kindness as Openness; The Effects of the Inner Critic
2022-03-18
Morning Pt 1 – Guided Meditation
2022-03-19
Morning Pt 1 – Reflections - Meeting the Inner Activities of Self
2022-03-20
Morning Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation. Teachings - Practicing with Two Quest…
2022-03-30
Morning Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation. Teachings - Practicing with Two Quest…
2023-12-03
Morning Session Pt 1
2023-12-03
Morning Session Pt 2
2023-12-03
Morning Session Pt 3
2023-12-03
Morning Session Pt 4
2023-12-03
Morning Session Pt 5
2024-03-28
Movement Practice, Reflections on Mettā, Walking Meditation Instructions
2024-03-31
Movement Practice, Short Reflections.
2024-03-30
Movement Practice; Reflections on Joy (The Barriers to Joy)
2024-03-27
Opening Session
2022-02-04
Opening Session (Part 2)
2023-07-11
Opening Session and Meditation (LB)
2023-05-16
Opening Session, Guided Meditation, Precepts
2023-07-18
Opening to our natural sensitivity
2024-03-08
Overview - The 4 Contemplations on the Buddha, Mettā, Embodiment & Death
2023-05-05
Overview of the Vipallāsa
2022-08-08
Practice Guidance
2022-05-21
Q&A
2022-05-22
Q&A
2022-05-24
Q&A
2022-05-25
Q&A
2022-05-27
Q&A
2022-05-28
Q&A
2022-05-29
Q&A
2023-07-14
Q&A
2023-07-18
Q&A
2023-07-19
Q&A
2022-11-05
Qualities of Faith and How They Support our Practice
2021-04-28
Reflections and Guided Meditation
2021-09-19
Reflections on Compassion; More on Walking Meditation and Compassion
2022-05-21
Reflections on Energy / Viriya
2024-03-31
Reflections on Equanimity
2022-02-05
Reflections on First and Fourth Vipallasa
2023-12-18
Reflections on Kindness
2024-03-29
Reflections on The Barriers to Compassion; Sitting Practice; Movement Practice.
2023-07-19
Reflections on the Sedaka Sutta: The Bamboo Acrobat (SN47.19)
2024-03-10
Reflections on Upheaval & Change, Learning to be with Fear, Instincts.
2021-04-05
Sangha as Refuge - reflections and guided practice
2022-05-25
Sati with other faculties
2023-05-06
Shifting Attention From Thought to Feeling Tone
2021-09-20
Short Reflection on the Relationship Between Suffering and Joy; Silent Meditai…
2022-08-06
Silent Sit and Teachings
2023-05-18
Skilfully Working with Mindstates
2023-11-11
Spiritual Faculty
2022-05-28
Suffering is to be Understood
2021-08-13
Teachings and Meditation - Finding the Balance Between Ease and Effort
2021-08-13
Teachings And Meditation - Natural Ease, Kindness, and Right Effort
2021-12-19
Teachings, leading into Silent Meditation
2023-05-07
The 3rd Vipallāsa - Taking What is Not-Self as Self
2023-05-06
The 4th Vipallāsa - Taking What is Unbeautiful as Beautiful
2023-07-12
The clinging khandas
2024-03-09
The Gradual Opening of Our Hearts; Mettā.
2022-11-18
The Hindrances
2020-03-13
The Liberating Practice of Turning Towards Our Habits
2023-08-26
The Metaphor of Looking & Seeing; 1st Contemplative Exercise
2023-08-27
The Nuances of Contemplating Craving
2023-11-05
Trust
2022-03-14
Week 2 - Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation
2022-03-21
Week 3 - Guided Meditation
2022-04-04
Week 4 - Dharma Talk
2022-04-11
Week 5 - Guided Meditation
2023-07-18
What's deepened your keel
2023-11-20
Will and Presence
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Select one of Laura Bridgman's 25 retreats
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2019-01-17
Inquiring into the Nature of Experience
2020-03-10
Nurturing the Compassionate Heart: Moving Beyond the Inner Critic
2020-12-04
Waking Up Everywhere
2021-04-01
Gaia House Spring Gathering - Celebrating Sangha
2021-04-28
Meditation Day - Patience, Kindness and Right View
2021-07-16
The Refuge of Awareness
2021-08-13
Meditation Day: Natural Ease in Practice - Exploring Intention and Effort
2021-09-16
Exploring the Brahmaviharas:
Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity
2021-12-17
The Courageous Heart
2022-02-04
Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)
2022-03-07
Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.
2022-03-17
Settling with What Is
2022-03-26
A Seon Questioning and Listening Retreat
2022-05-20
The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-08-05
Persuing the Pleasure That Will Set You Free
2022-11-01
November Solitary
2023-05-05
Penetrating the Veils (online retreat)
2023-05-16
Exploring What Is
2023-07-11
Unrestricted Awareness
2023-08-26
Looking and Seeing: How we Experience the World
2023-11-02
November Solitary Retreat
2023-12-03
Natural Ease in Practice - a One Day Meditation Retreat
2023-12-15
Bringing Body, Speech and Mind to the Path of Practice
2024-03-08
The Dharma Was Made For These Times - The Four Protective Meditations (online)
2024-03-27
The Brahma Viharas: Our Heart's Innate Capacity for Love
2023-07-19
Q&A
41:31
with
Ajahn Sucitto ,
Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised; one live question (Q3) was précised and read into the file: 00:08 Q1 Could you say a few words about dealing with traumatic memories or body memories. 13:47 Q2 I fear that I am not able to connect with non-self. Can you say more about non-self. 20:27 Q3 When I was sitting my timer went off and there was a vague voice that was encouraging and reassuring me that whatever issues I face can be resolved. I find this very exciting. What do you think is happening here?28:34 Q4 If a part of our being nature gets accessed by a higher paced energy, can sati and a slower mode of being lead to loosing access to sides of our being?
Gaia House
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Unrestricted Awareness
2023-07-18
Q&A
57:29
with
Ajahn Sucitto ,
Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised: 00:00 Q1 What do you mean by “re-wilding your mind”? 19:59 Q2 What’s the relation between pitti, sukka and chi. 25:05 Q3 Which comes first after sense contact, sannya (impression/ perception) or vedena (the feeling)? 28:00 Q4 Does the third sattipatana (the establishments of mindfulness) only include citta of mano / manus? 34:21 (LB) Q5 How to contemplate the “gunky” parts of the body – the organs that get diseased etc. 41:35 Q6 I have a sense of the experience of annica like a connection to dynamism. Impermanence has a very time bound quality to it. 42:31 Q7 How can one develop one’s yoniso manisakara to keep attention turned inwards?
Gaia House
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Unrestricted Awareness
2023-07-16
Craving
47:49
In understanding craving, one of my teachers suggests using right view – ‘everything is nature happening’. This helpfully moves craving out of being good or bad.
Gaia House
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Unrestricted Awareness
2023-07-14
Q&A
48:38
with
Ajahn Sucitto ,
Laura Bridgman
00:05 Q1 (AS) You talked about protection during the QiGong. How does protection happen without closure? 09:39 Q2 (LB) Could you explain how the citta can cleanse sankaras? 17:05 (AS response). 36:04 Q3 (AS) Given that I struggle to maintain focus even on a narrow object, it’s very hard to bring the whole body into awareness . Any hints? 45:02 (LB response).
Gaia House
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Unrestricted Awareness
