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Yanai Postelnik's Dharma Talks at Gaia House
Yanai Postelnik
Yanai Postelnik has been engaged in full-time dharma practice and service since 1990. He is inspired by the Thai forest tradition and nourished by time spent in nature, and has been teaching retreats around the world for over 25 years. Yanai is a member of the Guiding Teacher Council of Gaia House, in Devon, England, and of the Core Faculty of Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts. Since 2018, Yanai has been engaged with Extinction Rebellion, seeking to bring about urgent change in the face of the climate and ecological emergency, in the service of all beings.
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2011-10-26 Greatness of Heart 57:07
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Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart
2011-10-24 Engaging with the Practice 56:59
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Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart
2011-10-09 Seeing the Way Things Are 55:43
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Gaia House :  Stillness and Movement:Insight Meditation and Qi Gong
2011-06-28 Being Part of it All 61:19
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Meditation practice invites us to see that we are an inseparable part of the vast web of life, despite the appearance of our separate individuality. This realisation opens our heart to a sense of deep inner connection, and enables us to live in harmony and at peace with the way things are.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-06-27 Living in Rental Accomodation - The Reality of Impermanence 61:30
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All conditioned things turn out to be unreliable and subject to change. Recognising and accepting the truth of impermanence and the insecurity of our fluid existence allows us to let go of holding and resistance, and release our limited sense of self into the flow of life.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-06-25 Meditation Instructions: Sitting and Walking 56:24
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Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-06-25 Meeting the Challenges - Working with the Hindrances in Meditation 62:53
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A reflection on how to work with the challenges we all encounter in meditation. Craving, aversion, sleepiness, restlessness, and sceptical doubt are challenging but temporary visitors which obscure our deeper truth. By recognising them as such and learning to work skillfully with them we can free ourselves from their grip, revealing the natural purity and radiance of our heart and mind.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-06-24 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat 57:47
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This talk also includes Helen Stephenson. Meditation and yoga are natural partners in the spiritual life. This talk introduces a retreat that draws on the Buddh's teachings of mindfulness and awakening, and the yoga teachings of Patanjali, combining the practices of Hatha Yoga and Insight Meditation. The yoga on this retreat is offered as a spiritual path rather than simply an exercise system.
Gaia House :  Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-03-26 Going Against the Stream 49:01
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Gaia House :  A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat
2011-03-26 Instructions: Walking and Sitting Meditation 52:22
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This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House :  A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat
2011-03-25 Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 69:39
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This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House :  A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat
2011-03-07 A Compassionate Response 52:39
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True compassion is founded on recognising that we are not separate from others, and expresses itself as a heartfelt responsiveness, wishing to heal sufferings and contribute to the welfare and liberation of all beings.
Gaia House :  Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2011-03-07 Instructions And Guided Meditation On Cultivating Appreciative Joy 48:06
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Gaia House :  Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2011-03-05 Loving Kindness Instructions 53:03
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Gaia House :  Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2011-03-05 Guided Meditation: Loving Kindness for Ourselves 41:28
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Gaia House :  Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2011-03-05 Loving Kindness and Forgiveness 51:18
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This talk looks at how we can cultivate our hearts capacity for kindness and forgiveness, as we open into a deepening friendliness towards ourselves and others.
Gaia House :  Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2010-12-12 Closing Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend 43:22
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This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House :  Loving Kindness Weekend
2010-12-12 Metta Practice for Forgiveness of a Difficult Person 41:34
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Gaia House :  Loving Kindness Weekend
2010-12-11 Loving Kindness Meditation Instructions 55:10
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These instructions also include Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House :  Loving Kindness Weekend
2010-12-10 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend 48:16
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This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House :  Loving Kindness Weekend
2010-11-17 Investigation, Noble Uncertainty, Spiritual Inquiry 56:51
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The awakening factor of investigation moves us to look deeply into our experience, acknowledging that there is always more to understand in the simplicity and mystery of being alive here and now. As we learn to bring a deep and open-hearted curiousity to our each moment and to our very existence itself, without taking any position on our self or this world, life can open to reveal the deepest truth of freedom.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-11 Goodness and Joy : Uplifting the Heart 53:34
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Spiritual practice rests on a deep trust in the fundamental wholesomeness of our hearts seeking for happiness. We can learn to honour the goodness of our core motivation, even as we recognise our need to deepen the skill and wisdom with which we pursue genuine wellbeing. This includes recognising the importance of connecting with that which brings joy to our heart as part of our spiritual practice, and honouring our own wholsesome qualities and actions.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-07 Seasons of the Heart: the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 49:49
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This talk reflects on ways of practicing skillfully with mind states and emotions. These sometimes challenging areas of experience are a gateway to deepening clarity and opening the heart, when met in the present moment with understanding, acceptance and kindness.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat
2010-11-03 Inspiration and Ardency 34:52
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Connecting with whatever inspires us is an essential part of practice and supports a sense of heartfelt purpose and energy in meditation, expressed as ardency. Rather than 'effort-ing' in practice, born of a sense of obligation or fear, the quality of ardency through which we are moved to engage with our spiritual journey wholeheartedly, is born out of energised love and a clear commitment to what we value and hold as most important in life.
Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat
2010-10-29 The Heart of Dharma 52:52
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In our hearts we all long to be released from the ongoing suffering inherent in unsuccessfully seeking satisfaction through sensory experience. The liberating heart of dharma is revealed when we come to rest in the realisation that what we are looking for has been right here all along.
Gaia House :  Awakening the Heart

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