Kirsten Kratz's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Kirsten Kratz
Kirsten Kratz has practiced Buddhist meditation in Asia and the West since 1993. She started teaching in 2006 and since 2015 she has been ‘teacher in residence’ supporting those on personal retreat at Gaia House. Her love and understanding of Dharma has been strongly influenced by, among others, the teachings of her friend and teacher colleague, Rob Burbea. One of her particular passions is exploring how wisdom teachings can foster appropriate responses to the challenges of our time, and Kirsten sees her involvement in activism as an important expression of her practice. Kirsten is co-initiator of the “Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement” (DANCE) and supporting teacher of Freely Given Retreats.
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2023-03-19
'Impossibilities' in Buddhist Teachings; Meeting Life w Courage & Compassion - …
2021-11-18
'To Not Fear Fear'
2023-03-20
'Touching the Earth' Practice III, followed by Reflections On Compassion
2012-07-02
A Journey of Faith
2022-10-08
A Kind Questioning and Meditation on Impermanence
2022-11-03
A Question of Faith
2023-10-13
A Wonderful Companion on the Path: Kindness. Short Reflections and Guided Medit…
2020-09-24
Afternoon Practice
2020-09-25
Afternoon Practice
2020-09-26
Afternoon Practice
2023-10-10
All Along the Way: Fruits of Samadhi and Knowing our Allies
2011-03-06
an Exploration of Joy
2023-12-30
An Invitation to Stop - Rohitassa Sutta
2015-02-14
Are We Happy Yet?
2023-12-29
Arriving & Welcoming - Preparing the Soil of Practice
2024-01-01
Beautiful Questions; Chanting
2016-11-13
Becoming Part of the Healing
2023-11-28
Bringing Wise Understanding to a World of Polarisations
2013-03-23
Calm and Kindness
2021-04-05
Celebrating Sangha - On Generosity
2016-07-09
Challenging Dynamics - Working with the 5 Hindrances
2024-03-19
Compassion & Equanimity
2012-05-05
Connecting or Letting Go?
2018-08-04
Cultivating and Liberating Citta
2023-10-11
Daily Early Morning Dedication & Bowing Practice - 'Touching the Earth'
2021-04-02
Delight in One's Presence
2021-12-29
Dharma Talk
2022-04-05
Dharma Talk
2021-12-18
Dharma Talk - Exploring Courage - Attending to Fear
2021-03-06
Dharma Talk - The Dance of ‘Neither-Nor’ – ‘The Dance of ‘This AND That’
2022-04-07
Dharma Talk : "From Either-Or" to "Neither-Nor"
2022-12-30
Discovering the Landscape of Generosity
2022-10-09
Emptiness, Aggregates, the Path
2019-02-26
Evening Dharma Talk - If Nothing You Do is Ever Enough, What Do You Do?
2019-02-24
Evening Dharma Talk - The Co-Arising of Body, Mind and Heart
2020-09-22
Evening Practice
2020-09-24
Evening Practice
2021-03-04
Evening Practice: The Middle Way - The Liberating Art of Avoiding Extremes
2020-05-21
Evening Reflections
2020-05-18
Evening Reflections and Meditation
2016-04-22
Finding Joy
2022-11-19
Following the Scent of Ease and Wellbeing.
2024-01-01
Forgiveness Reflections & Guided Practice
2023-03-22
Guided Breath Meditation
2021-03-05
Guided Meditation
2021-12-18
Guided Meditation
2021-12-30
Guided Meditation
2022-01-01
Guided Meditation
2021-01-01
Guided Meditation - Becoming Like a Tree
2022-10-07
Guided Meditation - Tuning into Metta
2022-10-06
Guided Meditation and Short Reflection - No Preference
2020-09-27
Guided Meditation from the Closing Session of retreat.
2011-03-05
Guided Meditation on Forgiveness
2012-07-06
Guided Meditation on Loving Kindness Towards All Phenomena
2022-04-07
Guided Meditation: No Preference
2014-03-08
Hello, It's You Again...Meeting the Five Hindrances
2016-07-11
Here and No Further ?
2021-03-07
How we Approach the Moment Will Shape the Moment
2023-03-19
How we Build Experience: On Vedanā
2023-10-12
Impermanence as a Compassionate and Liberating Way of Looking
2012-09-20
In Praise of Loving Kindness
2023-03-18
Instructions - Becoming Aware of the Body & the Dynamic Interplay of Heart, Bod…
2023-01-01
Instructions - Trusting Your Questions
2022-04-08
Instructions & Guided Meditation : Rooted in 'Middleness'
2022-04-06
Instructions & Guided Meditation: Softening Contraction - Bridging the Gap
2012-06-30
Instructions on Loving Kindness and Guided Meditation
2012-07-07
Instructions on Open Awareness and Guided Meditation
2012-07-05
Instructions: Views of Self and Aspects of Freedom
2019-02-23
Inviting the Heart In - Morning Instructions on Sitting & Walking Meditation
2016-12-30
It Depends How You See It
2014-03-10
It Takes Two Wings to Fly
2015-07-04
Kindness and Compassion
2016-12-17
Knowing Presence, Discovering Freedom
2023-03-17
Landing, Arriving, Settling In
2022-10-04
Landing, Arriving, Transitioning into Retreat Mode
2016-04-24
Let Us Live In Joy
2013-08-04
Living in Uncertain Times
2021-11-03
Looking After the Soil - Helpful Attitudes to Practice
2011-12-10
Loving Kindness and Generosity
2011-03-06
Loving Kindness Instructions And Guided Meditation On Working With The Benefact…
2024-03-18
Lying Down Meditation - Being Received by Ground
2013-05-26
Meditation Instructions
2023-03-21
Mental Formations
2023-03-17
Mindfulness Bells, and the Beauty of Sila - Reflections and Exchange Between Ki…
2017-11-06
Mindfulness of Mind and the "Shaping" of Citta
2021-12-29
Morning Instructions
2021-12-31
Morning Instructions
2022-01-02
Morning Instructions
2019-02-25
Morning Instructions - Like Rain Drops on Water - Vedana
2022-12-29
Morning Instructions - Transitioning and Arriving
2020-09-24
Morning Meditation
2020-09-26
Morning Meditation
2020-09-23
Morning Practice
2020-09-25
Morning Practice
2021-03-05
Morning Practice: How we Construct Dualities - The Dukkha of ‘Either- Or’
2020-05-19
Morning Teachings and Meditation
2020-05-21
Morning Teachings and Meditation
2023-12-31
New Years Eve - Celebrating, Pausing, Silence & the Beauty of Darkness
2023-03-18
Nutriments - Mettā & Compassion
2015-11-27
On Faith
2015-11-13
On Perception - Part One
2015-11-19
On Perception - Part Two
2021-03-03
Opening Evening of Retreat: Stillness Moving
2013-08-02
Opening Talk
2022-10-03
Opening Talk
2012-03-30
Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness
2012-12-14
Opening Talk for Kindness, Joy and Compassion: A Metta Retreat
2010-12-11
Opening to Kindness
2018-08-02
Playing with Perceptions of the Body
2016-11-05
Playing with Vedana
2023-11-09
Possibilities of Joy
2015-11-04
Practice In the Presence of the Five Hindrances
2023-10-13
Questions and Responses
2023-10-12
Recognising the Movements of Pushing and Pulling & the Releasing of Dukkha
2014-04-18
Recognising the Taste of Freedom (Part One)
2014-04-19
Recognising the Taste of Freedom (Part Two)
2022-01-02
Reflections
2024-03-18
Reflections
2023-01-01
Reflections & Forgiveness Meditation
2016-11-20
Reflections on Beauty
2012-12-16
Reflections on Compassion and Guided Metta Meditation
2023-03-22
Reflections On Courage, and Exchange with Dene Donalds
2012-12-15
Reflections on Loving Kindness
2023-10-14
Reflections: "Not-Self" as Liberating Perception and the Lessening of Sense of …
2018-11-02
Right Intention
2017-11-20
Seeing "Self" as an Action
2015-12-31
Seeing Sacredness and Making Sacred
2017-12-17
Shaping Citta – Shaping World
2023-03-18
Short Mentioning of 5 Hindrances; Mettā Bhāvanā
2022-10-06
Skilful Creativity and Imagination
2023-10-11
Skillful Shaping of Perception
2022-10-05
Spectra Continua
2023-10-10
Teachers Along the Way: Meeting Waves of Difficulties Skilfully (Conversation Y…
2020-12-29
Teachings and Guided Meditation - Being Welcomed
2020-12-30
Teachings and Guided Meditation - Tuning into Metta (Loving Kindness)
2023-11-17
The Arising of Equanimity
2017-01-01
The Beauty of Connection
2018-12-29
The End of 'Business as Usual'
2013-12-28
The Guest House - Welcoming What Is Difficult
2024-03-19
The Heart-mind Creating Separation, the Heart-mind Knowing Non-separation
2015-02-13
The Heart's Path of Joy
2021-04-03
The liberating Power of Forgiveness
2022-11-26
The Open Heart
2010-09-25
The Path of Compassion
2022-10-05
The Power of Perception
2013-12-30
The Revolutionary Act of Grattitude and Appreciation
2017-11-14
The Spectrum of Self
2014-09-25
The Story of Separation - The Knowing of Interdependence
2018-11-10
To Dare the Impossible
2024-03-17
To Wake Up Together – Bringing Body, Heart and Mind into Position.
2024-03-20
Touching The Earth
2024-01-01
Touching the Earth Practice
2021-04-03
Tuning the Instrument of Body, Mind, Heart
2017-07-16
Ways of Being in This World (I) - Taking the Stance of Loving Kindness
2017-07-18
Ways of Being in This World (Pt2)
2022-01-12
Week 1 - Guided Meditation
2022-01-14
Week 1 - Guided Meditation
2022-01-12
Week 1 - The 4 Immeasurables - An Overview
2022-01-19
Week 2 - Dharma Talk: Exploring Friendliness & Well-Wishing - Metta
2022-01-19
Week 2 - Guided Meditation
2022-01-21
Week 2 - Guided Meditation
2022-01-23
Week 2 - Instructions and Guided Meditation
2022-01-26
Week 3 - Exploring Compassion - Karuna
2022-01-28
Week 3 - Guided Meditation
2022-01-28
Week 3 - Guided Meditation
2022-02-02
Week 4 - Guided Meditation
2022-02-02
Week 4 - Three Versions of the Compassion Mantra
2022-02-09
Week 5 - Exploring Equanimity
2022-02-02
Week4 - Exploring Appreciative Joy - Mudita
2024-03-17
Welcome and Acceptance as Liberating Stances
2023-11-03
Welcoming , Appreciating and Gathering: Tuning into the Retreat
2024-03-16
Welcoming Ourselves and Each Other onto the Retreat.
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2010-09-24
The Path of Compassion
2010-12-10
Loving Kindness Weekend
2011-03-04
Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat
2011-12-09
Loving Kindness and Generosity - a Metta Retreat
2012-03-30
A Path of Peace and Happiness
2012-05-04
Connection and Letting Go
2012-06-29
Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation
2012-09-19
Cultivating Loving Kindness
2012-12-14
Kindness, Joy and Compassion
2013-03-22
Calm, Kindness and Wisdom
2013-05-25
Young Person's Retreat: A Path of Wisdom and Compassion
2013-08-02
A Voyage of Discovery
2013-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2014-03-07
The Wise and Loving Heart
2014-04-16
A Path of Freedom
2014-09-22
Living with Uncertainty - Knowing Freedom
2015-02-13
Discovering the Heart's Path of Joy
2015-07-02
The Wise and Loving Heart
2015-11-01
November Solitary
2015-12-28
New Year Retreat
2016-04-21
Intimate with All Things
2016-07-08
The Wise and Loving Heart
2016-11-02
November Solitary
2016-12-16
Knowing Presence - Discovering Freedom
2016-12-28
New Year Retreat
2017-07-14
Being in This World
2017-11-02
November Solitary
2017-12-15
Remembering and Awakening the Heart's Potential
2018-08-01
Journeying the Landscape of Body, Heart and Mind
2018-11-01
November Solitary
2018-12-27
New Year Retreat
2019-02-22
Awakening and Liberating the Heart
2020-05-18
The Courage to Belong
2020-09-22
The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self
2020-12-29
New Year's Retreat 2020
2021-03-03
Stillness Moving - The Play of Opposites
2021-04-01
Gaia House Spring Gathering - Celebrating Sangha
2021-11-02
November Solitary Retreat
2021-12-17
The Courageous Heart
2021-12-28
New Year's Retreat
2022-01-12
Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)
2022-04-04
Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites
2022-10-03
Liberating Ways of Looking
2022-11-01
November Solitary
2022-12-28
New Year Dana Retreat
2023-03-16
Meeting Life with Compassion and Courage
2023-10-09
Liberating Ways of Looking
2023-11-02
November Solitary Retreat
2023-12-28
New Year Retreat
2024-03-16
Meeting Life with Courage & Compasssion
2022-04-07
Dharma Talk : "From Either-Or" to "Neither-Nor"
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The teachings on the Middle Way, in their different expression, all point to a dynamic, responsive balance that aims to avoid skewing to any side of a perceived polarity. They do not imply a "being stuck in the middle", nor do they promise that we can eventually find a place to land, settle and discover freedom in taking a side in any duality. The teachings on the Middle Way keep us on our feet, questioning, opening, refining. They reveal and offer the liberating perception of "Neither-Nor".
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Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites
2022-04-07
Guided Meditation: No Preference
43:24
A guided meditation inviting us to be wth our experience without aversion or clinging, staying open to whatever is arsing in our awareness. Acknowledging that at times we identify and then soldify and even calcify around a position or way of seeing, we explore if it is possible to engage and take a clear ethical stance, without falling into the trap of extreme polarisation. Attending to experience in this way can potentially soften, calm, and mute our habitual reactions.
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Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites
