Jenny Wilks's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Jenny Wilks
Jenny Wilks has practised Buddhist meditation for many years and has an MA in Indian religions. She has taught on retreats and dharma gatherings since 2005, is a regular teacher at the Barn retreat centre at Sharpham in Devon, and has been teaching at Gaia House since 2008. Jenny trained as a clinical psychologist; she leads mindfulness-based therapy groups in healthcare settings and for the general public and teaches and supervises on the MBCT diploma course at Exeter University.
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2018-11-09
Anapanasati Sutta
2016-08-23
Befriending the Unruly Mind
2013-12-29
Beginner's Mind
2019-07-09
Compassion - How it is Supported by Mindfulness and Joy?
2016-09-16
Compassion and its Near Enemies
2012-01-07
Compassion and Mindfulness
2023-06-14
Contemplating the Four Elements, Dissatisfaction, and Nature Connection
2023-06-07
Contemplating the Four Elements, Impermanence, and the Sense of Self
2014-12-29
Dependent Arising - Deconstructing The Causes of Suffering
2018-11-21
Dependent Arising and Mental Proliferation
2009-04-19
Dependent Origination and Mindfulness
2023-02-28
Dharma Reflections - Intentions, Actions, Results
2021-12-30
Dharma Talk
2022-01-01
Dharma Talk
2022-04-18
Dharma Talk
2022-09-25
Dharma Talk - 4 Establishments of Mindfulness
2019-09-05
Dharma Talk - Empathy and Compassion
2022-09-27
Dharma Talk - Insight, Compassion, the 4 Brahma Viharas
2017-07-09
Equanimity
2023-12-17
Feeling Tone - Intructions and Guided Meditation
2017-09-05
Feeling Tone (Vedana) and Reactivity
2018-12-28
Four Tasks
2018-05-21
From Impermanence to Awakening
2013-04-28
From Mindfulness to Liberation
2022-12-29
Generosity - the Positive Practice of the Second Precept
2020-03-15
Giving and Receiving Compassion
2024-05-13
Guided Gaia Meditation
2016-06-09
Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
2017-07-06
Guided LovingKindness (Metta) Meditation
2021-12-29
Guided Meditation
2021-12-31
Guided Meditation
2022-01-02
Guided Meditation
2022-09-25
Guided Meditation - Metta for Friend & Benefactor
2022-09-27
Guided Meditation - Metta, Including the Difficult Person
2019-09-03
Guided Meditation - Mindfulness with Kindness
2018-05-18
Guided Meditation 1 - Mindfulness with Breath and Body
2018-05-20
Guided Meditation 3 - Mindfulness with the Mind
2016-09-17
Guided Meditation on Equanimity
2017-07-08
Guided Meditation on Joy
2025-01-13
Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Feeling Tones.
2016-06-11
Guided Meditation on Mudita
2025-01-27
Guided Meditation on the Four Tasks (noble truths).
2025-04-19
Guided Mettā Practice
2019-09-06
Guided Mudita Practice with Insight Dialogue
2020-03-14
How Craving Feeds the Inner Critic
2013-12-01
Insight Meditation and Other Buddhist Traditions
2016-09-14
Instructions - Mindfulness of Body
2025-04-17
Instructions - Mindfulness of Body
2022-09-28
Instructions - Mindfulness of Experiences; Dharma & the 7 Factors of Awakening
2016-09-16
Instructions - Vedana
2022-09-26
Instructions & Guided Body Scan Meditation - Feeling Tone
2025-04-20
Instructions & Meditation - Mindfulness of Experience in the Light of the Dharma
2022-09-24
Instructions & Meditation - Settling, Grounding, Anchoring Body
2020-03-11
Instructions and Guided Meditation
2017-07-09
Instructions and Guided Meditation on Equanimity
2022-12-30
Instructions and Metta Meditation
2017-07-07
Instructions on Compassion Practice
2011-12-29
Intention, Conditionality and Change
2016-09-15
Intro to Metta & Guided Meditation
2023-12-16
Introduction to Insight Dialogue
2018-05-19
Investigating Feelings and Reactivity
2015-05-24
Joy and the Brahma Viharas
2012-12-30
Living in the Light of Death
2012-09-19
Loving Kindness and the Brahma Viharas
2016-06-12
Meditation Instructions
2021-12-30
Meditation Instructions
2019-09-07
Meditation Instructions - Equanimity
2019-09-04
Meditation Instructions - Metta
2016-06-10
Meditation Instructions - The Body and Intensity
2018-05-19
Meditation Instructions 2 - Mindfulness with Feelings
2018-05-21
Meditation Instructions 4 - Mindfulness with Contemplation of Impermanence
2022-12-31
Mid Winter and New Year's Reflections
2009-12-19
Mind The Gap
2019-01-11
Mindfully Responding to Suffering
2019-07-08
Mindfulness - The Foundation of Wellbeing and Compassion
2019-01-09
Mindfulness - What is it and Why Practice it?
2014-08-04
Mindfulness and Compassion
2018-11-03
Mindfulness of Body and Guided Reflection on the Elements
2024-01-29
Mindfulness of Breathing and Cultivating Insight
2024-01-15
Mindfulness of Breathing with Awareness of Feeling Tones
2024-01-22
Mindfulness of Breathing with Awareness of States of Mind
2024-01-08
Mindfulness of Breathing with Awareness of the Body
2018-09-01
Mindfulness of Feeling Tones
2022-01-01
Morning Instructions
2024-05-14
Morning Instructions - Air Element & Mindfulness of Breathing
2024-05-12
Morning Instructions - Water Element
2024-05-11
Movement Practice; Guided Meditation on the Four Elements
2009-06-14
Myth and Metaphor in the Life of the Buddha
2014-02-18
Non-Judgement and Wise Discernment
2024-05-10
Opening Talk - Introducing the Themes of the Retreat
2025-01-06
Overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and Reflections on Embodied Mi…
2016-06-09
Pain and Reactivity - The Two Arrows
2011-01-21
Papanca - Understanding the Proliferating Mind
2022-08-30
Reflections and Guided Meditation
2022-08-30
Reflections and Guided Meditation
2022-08-30
Reflections and Guided Meditation
2020-03-15
Reflections on Compassion
2023-12-18
Reflections on Cultivation and Metta Bhavana Practice
2023-12-16
Reflections on Ethics - 10 Skilfull Paths & Right Speech
2025-02-01
Reflections on Kindness as Part of Mindfulness Practice; Guided Meditation : Br…
2025-01-20
Reflections on Mind-States and Bringing Kindness into our Practice.
2025-02-02
Reflections on the 4 Traditional Elements; Guided Meditation on the Elements.
2020-03-12
Reflections on the Inner Critic
2025-04-18
Talk - Feeling Tones, and the Difference Between Reacting & Responding
2024-05-11
Talk: Contemplathing the Elements - an Overview
2024-05-13
Talk: The Elements, Nature Connection & Deep Ecology
2023-03-02
Teaching Suggestions - Kindness and Compassion
2023-02-28
Teaching Suggestions -- Grounding and Gathering
2025-02-01
The 7 Factors of Awakening
2016-06-11
The Brahma Viharas
2010-09-13
The Buddhas Instructions on Mindfulness
2011-09-19
The Ending of Suffering
2016-12-31
The Five Recollections
2016-09-14
the Human Condition
2015-09-07
The Metta Sutta - a commentary on the Buddhas teaching on cultivating goodwill
2022-03-07
Week 1 - Overview and Guided Meditation
2022-03-21
Week 3 - Dharma Talk
2022-04-04
Week 4 - Guided Meditation
2022-04-11
Week 5 - Dharma Talk
2013-02-28
What Do We Really Mean By Mindfulness?
2014-09-24
What Does it Mean to be Free ?
2014-07-31
Why Mindfulness is Liberating
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Select one of Jenny Wilks's 47 retreats
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2009-04-19
One Day retreat
2009-06-14
One Day Retreat
2009-12-18
Stillness, Clarity and Freedom
2010-09-10
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR
2011-01-19
An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat
2011-09-16
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR
2011-12-27
New Years Retreat
2012-01-04
Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat
2012-09-19
Cultivating Loving Kindness
2012-12-27
New Year Retreat
2013-02-27
Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT and MBSR Retreat)
2013-04-28
From Mindfulness to Liberation
2013-11-30
Keeping Our Practice Alive
2013-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2014-02-15
Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Retreat
2014-07-30
Mindfulness and Awakening
2014-09-22
Living with Uncertainty - Knowing Freedom
2014-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2015-05-22
The Joy of Awakening
2015-09-02
Friendliness, Mindfulness and Liberation
2016-06-09
Living with Illness and Loss
2016-08-23
Meditation Day - Befriending The Unruly Mind
2016-09-13
Compassion and Action in a Changing World
2016-12-28
New Year Retreat
2017-07-05
The Four Immeasurables
2017-09-04
Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course
2018-05-17
Awakening, Breath by Breath
2018-08-31
Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course
2018-11-01
November Solitary
2018-12-27
New Year Retreat
2019-01-08
Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life
2019-07-07
Opening the Heart with Mindfulness and Compassion
2019-09-02
The Four Immeasurables
2020-03-10
Nurturing the Compassionate Heart: Moving Beyond the Inner Critic
2021-12-28
New Year's Retreat
2022-03-07
Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.
2022-08-30
Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness
2022-09-23
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/MBSR Foundations
2022-12-28
New Year Dana Retreat
2023-02-27
Perspectives on Meditation - Cultivating a Path of Freedom
2023-06-07
The Four Elements (onine series)
2023-12-15
Bringing Body, Speech and Mind to the Path of Practice
2024-01-08
Mindfulness, Breath by Breath
2024-05-10
Contemplating the Four Elements
2025-01-06
Freedom in Daily Life (online series)
2025-01-31
Freedom in Daily Life (online weekend retreat)
2025-04-16
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
