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Zohar Lavie
Zohar has been practicing meditation in different traditions since 1995. This journey has taken her from the meditation cushion into exploring further ways of expressing truth and love and in 2004 she co-founded SanghaSeva. She now spends most of her time facilitating retreats that offer service as a spiritual path around the world. Since 2006 she has been teaching on silent retreats and Dharma gatherings in India, Europe and Israel.
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2021-06-05
A Noble Meeting
2016-12-04
A Path of Wisdom and Love
2025-02-11
A Sensitive Self
2020-12-14
A Wise Relationship to Dukkha
2020-08-15
An Attitude Of Kindness & The Inner Critic
2021-06-07
Anicca Brings Possibilities
2016-09-15
Anicca, Equanimity & Bodhichitta
2022-09-24
Appreciating the Uneventful & Opening to Possibilities
2022-05-01
At Ease in the World
2018-07-11
Attention, Perception and the Immeasurables
2020-05-28
Awakening the Heart
2021-10-31
Awareness: Internally, Externally, Both
2022-01-02
Beginning Well
2020-07-01
Beyond the Worldly Winds
2024-01-20
Bringing Insight into the Worldly and Unworldly
2024-03-29
Compassion : Instructions & Guided Practice
2020-05-27
Compassion and Tenderness
2021-02-27
Compassion Guided Practice and Dharma Talk
2023-10-08
Compassion Stills Hostility
2024-07-20
Compassion: Meeting Experience Skilfully
2020-07-16
Conceit And The Sense Of Self
2022-12-30
Connecting to All Life Through the Dana of Breath
2020-04-18
Creativity and Balance - Working with Fabrication
2018-08-19
Cultivating Community
2022-05-22
Cultivating the Wholesome and Letting Go of the Unwholesome
2020-05-29
Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice)
2025-02-14
Dana (Generosity)
2024-04-01
Dana (Generosity) Talk
2021-02-02
Day 2 - Instructions: Expanding and Brightening Attention
2021-06-06
Day 2 - Instructions: Whole Body Awareness, Long Breath and Easing Contraction
2020-05-27
Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Vedanā as a way of looking
2020-12-13
Day 2 Instructions - Getting Comfortable with Discomfort
2021-06-08
Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness
2021-02-04
Day 4 - Instructions: Dukkha and Opening Way of Looking
2020-12-15
Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating
2021-09-08
Dependent Origination - Week 1, Part 1
2021-09-08
Dependent Origination - Week 1, Part 2
2021-09-15
Dependent Origination - Week 2, Part 1
2021-09-15
Dependent Origination - Week 2, Part 2
2021-09-22
Dependent Origination - Week 3, Part 2
2021-09-29
Dependent Origination - Week 4, Part 1
2021-09-29
Dependent Origination - Week 4, Part 2
2025-02-13
Dependent Origination, Appropriate Response
2025-03-05
Developing Insight Through Dependent Origination Teachings
2020-08-20
Dharma Talk
2021-12-05
Dharma Talk
2021-12-07
Dharma Talk
2022-03-05
Dharma Talk
2022-07-22
Dharma Talk
2022-07-23
Dharma Talk
2022-07-12
Dharma Talk
2022-07-14
Dharma Talk
2022-07-16
Dharma Talk
2023-06-04
Dharma Talk
2019-05-26
Dharma Talk - A Wide and Wonderful Path
2021-07-28
Dharma Talk - Coming to Life on the Meditation Seat and in the World
2022-09-14
Dharma Talk - Community of Compassion & Wellbeing
2019-05-24
Dharma Talk - Dharma as Relationship
2022-01-29
Dharma Talk - From Conditioned Habits to Freeing Ways of Relating
2019-08-27
Dharma Talk - From Hindrances to Gladness
2018-07-13
Dharma Talk - Immeasurable Compassion
2018-07-15
Dharma Talk - Immeasurable Emptiness
2023-08-06
Dharma Talk - In Appreciation of Attention
2022-01-31
Dharma Talk - Interrupting the Build-Up of Dukkha
2022-02-02
Dharma Talk - Lingering in Happiness Beyond Retreat Conditions
2023-02-01
Dharma Talk - Mettā and Insight
2023-02-19
Dharma Talk - Mettā Beyond Vedana
2023-03-09
Dharma Talk - Mettā Counters Dukkha
2019-09-04
Dharma Talk - Metta; Resources and Possibilities
2025-03-02
Dharma Talk - Saddha - Faith, Conviction & Trust
2023-01-30
Dharma Talk - The Conditionality of Dukkha.
2022-02-10
Dharma Talk - the Construction of Dukkha and Release
2019-08-29
Dharma Talk - Transforming Suffering at the Root
2023-08-04
Dharma Talk - Unhindered
2019-09-07
Dharma Talk - Unshakeable Tenderness
2023-02-20
Dharma Talk - What Mettā Reveals and Makes Possible
2021-07-26
Dharma Talk: Metta as a Freeing Way of Looking
2021-07-24
Dharma Talk: Ways of Looking - From Dukkha to Freedom
2023-01-28
DharmaTalk - Hindrances as Gateways to Mettā and Insight
2021-06-26
Doing & Non-Doing
2020-05-26
Dukkha, Construction, and Release
2020-12-10
Embodying Intention
2017-08-21
Emptiness and Interconnectedness
2024-02-18
Equanimity
2021-01-16
Equipoise in Challenging Times
2018-12-15
Everything is a Teaching
2020-12-26
Exploring Trustworthy Well-being and Happiness
2025-02-23
Exploring Working With Anger
2017-08-19
Fabrication and Freedom
2022-05-08
Faith and Confidence
2025-02-08
Getting a Feeling for Vedana
2020-07-30
Gratitude, Generosity, And Wellbeing
2021-06-07
Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro
2015-06-26
Guided Compassion Meditation
2016-06-10
Guided Compassion Meditation
2016-09-16
Guided Compassion Meditation
2017-07-07
Guided Compassion Meditation
2019-09-05
Guided Compassion Practice in Pairs
2020-05-07
Guided Compassion with Chanting at the Beginning
2017-07-09
Guided Meditation
2019-05-26
Guided Meditation
2019-08-28
Guided Meditation
2020-08-17
Guided Meditation
2020-08-19
Guided Meditation
2022-02-01
Guided Meditation
2022-02-08
Guided Meditation
2022-02-09
Guided Meditation
2022-02-11
Guided Meditation
2022-03-06
Guided Meditation
2022-07-12
Guided Meditation
2022-07-13
Guided Meditation
2022-07-15
Guided Meditation
2023-01-29
Guided Meditation
2023-06-06
Guided Meditation
2026-05-18
Guided Meditation - Mettā with the Challenging Relationship
2023-08-05
Guided Meditation - Appreciative Joy
2026-08-11
Guided Meditation - Energy Body Mettā , Radiating in all Directions
2026-08-08
Guided Meditation - Establishing Mettā Practice - Easy Relationship and Oneself
2024-08-13
Guided Meditation - Expanding Metta to the Challenging Through Appreciation & C…
2023-08-03
Guided Meditation - Exploring a Comfortable Breath
2023-02-18
Guided Meditation - Introduction to Mettā; Mettā to Easy Person & Self
2023-08-09
Guided Meditation - Lightening the Self Sense
2025-03-04
Guided Meditation - Meditating into Joy and Calm
2023-03-08
Guided Meditation - Mettā Intro & Mettā to Easy Person, Self, World
2023-02-21
Guided Meditation - Mettā to Phenomena
2024-12-15
Guided Meditation - Mettā to Self & Easy Being
2018-07-14
Guided Meditation - Mudita
2018-12-16
Guided Meditation - Mudita
2023-03-10
Guided Meditation - Muditā
2025-03-24
Guided Meditation - Mudita (Appreciative Joy)
2023-08-07
Guided Meditation - Muditā Expansion
2022-07-22
Guided Meditation - Pleasant Breath
2022-07-11
Guided Meditation - Presence with Body, Breath / Sound
2024-08-14
Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta in All Directions
2025-03-01
Guided Meditation - Softening, Opening & Attending to Experience
2025-02-07
Guided Meditation : Breath Energy
2025-02-10
Guided Meditation : Mettā to Sensations
2022-07-13
Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions)
2022-07-15
Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions)
2016-09-16
Guided Meditation on Elements of Our Lives
2016-06-12
Guided Meditation on Equanimity
2016-09-14
Guided meditation on Kindfulness
2019-05-24
Guided Meditation on the Body, and the Pleasant Breath
2018-07-12
Guided Metta Meditation
2021-07-25
Guided Metta Meditation
2021-07-27
Guided Metta Meditation
2021-12-06
Guided Metta Meditation
2022-03-05
Guided Metta Meditation
2022-09-13
Guided Metta Meditation (Easy Person & Self)
2024-12-17
Guided Mettā Practice - Radiating in All Directions
2021-06-05
Guided Mettā Practice with Intro
2018-12-14
Guided Metta to an Easy Relationship, and Oneself
2020-12-13
Guided Mettā to Neutral Relationship
2020-12-15
Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations
2022-01-30
Guided Mudita Meditation
2026-01-19
Guided Practice - Mettā to Oneself & Easy Relationship
2025-06-28
Guided Practice - Unequalled Radiance
2026-01-23
Guided Practice & Closing Talk
2021-02-07
Guided practice and Talk about Ethics
2021-06-04
Guided Relaxing And Opening Meditation
2021-02-01
Hindrances
2015-06-26
Impermanence and Forgiveness
2018-12-17
Insights to Live By
2018-12-14
Instructions - A Full Embodied Breath
2024-08-24
Instructions - Anicca but not Dukkha
2023-02-18
Instructions - Gathering in Receptivity & Kindness; Walking Meditation Instruct…
2016-09-17
Instructions - Hindrances
2026-05-17
Instructions - Meeting Hindrances as Mettā Practice
2026-05-17
Instructions - Meeting Hindrances as Mettā Practice
2024-08-15
Instructions - Meeting Identification with Metta
2023-03-08
Instructions - Mettā as Attitude
2024-08-12
Instructions - Metta Expanded to the Unpleasant
2026-05-19
Instructions - Mettā in Support of Wellbeing
2025-03-06
Instructions - Metta-ful Anatta Practice
2023-03-10
Instructions - Muditā
2016-09-15
Instructions - Opening to Pain & Discomfort
2026-01-21
Instructions - Openness of Heart & Awareness
2024-08-10
Instructions - Receiving Experience in Kindness
2026-06-18
Instructions - Skilful w the Unpleasant
2025-03-23
Instructions - Skilfully Attending to the Unpleasant
2018-12-16
Instructions - Vedana
2026-01-18
Instructions - Welcoming Experience
2025-02-12
Instructions : Releasing Identification & Appropriation
2025-02-09
Instructions : Vedana - the Weakest Link
2017-08-18
Instructions and Guided Lovingkindness Meditation
2020-08-19
Instructions and Guided Meditation
2020-05-06
Instructions Day 1 - Open and Steady
2020-05-08
Instructions Day 3 - Anicca as a Way of Looking
2017-07-08
Instructions on Joy
2021-07-25
Instructions: Attending Skilfully to Body Pain and Discomfort
2021-07-27
Instructions: Relaxing Contraction and Letting Go of Craving
2017-08-20
Intro to Mudita and Guided Meditation
2015-06-26
Introduction to Compassion, Meditation Instructions
2026-05-16
Introduction to Mettā & Guided Practice to Easy Person
2026-06-19
Introduction to Mudita - Appreciative Joy; Guided Meditation
2015-06-28
Introduction to Mudita and Instructions
2017-07-08
Joy
2020-10-03
Joy and Rest As Supports for Viriya
2021-06-20
Kindness to all Kind
2025-07-12
Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk 1—Opening To The Whole of Life
2025-07-12
Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 1—Meeting Experience With Kindn…
2025-07-13
Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 2—Meeting With Appreciati…
2017-07-06
LovingKindness (Metta) Instructions, Guided Meditation, Walking Meditation Inst…
2019-08-28
Meditation Instructions
2019-09-03
Meditation Instructions
2021-12-06
Meditation Instructions
2022-01-30
Meditation Instructions
2022-02-01
Meditation Instructions
2022-02-09
Meditation Instructions
2022-02-11
Meditation Instructions
2022-03-04
Meditation Instructions
2022-03-06
Meditation Instructions
2022-07-23
Meditation Instructions
2023-06-05
Meditation Instructions
2019-05-25
Meditation Instructions - Hindrances, and the Pleasant Breath
2019-09-06
Meditation Instructions - Mudita
2022-09-15
Meditation Instructions - Opening to Wellbeing
2026-08-20
Meditation Instructions - Vast Awareness Permeated with the Brahma Viharas
2016-06-09
Meditation Instructions on Breath
2016-06-11
Meditation Instructions on Feeling Tone
2022-07-22
Meditation Instructions, and Guidance on Posture
2020-05-07
Meditation is Deep Listening
2020-12-11
Meeting Body and Breath with Kindness - Guided Meditation
2024-07-20
Meeting Experience with Care and Tenderness (Guided practice)
2024-03-28
Mettā & Brahma Viharas as Expressions of Release.
2025-06-30
Mettā as a Gateway to Equanimity
2021-02-03
Mettā as a Liberating Way of Looking
2021-02-02
Mettā to an Easy Relationship, towards One Self, to a More Neutral Relationship…
2018-07-16
Metta to Phenomena - Guided Meditation
2021-02-04
Mettā to Sensations
2020-05-29
Mettā to the Sensate World
2022-07-13
Morning Instructions
2022-07-15
Morning Instructions
2023-01-29
Morning Instructions
2023-01-31
Morning Instructions
2023-08-07
Morning Instructions - Appreciating Well-Being
2024-12-16
Morning Instructions - Dukkha & Contraction
2024-12-14
Morning Instructions - Gathering in Kindness
2026-08-18
Morning Instructions - Opening Our Practice with Kindness
2023-08-03
Morning Instructions - Opening to Wellbeing
2025-06-27
Morning Instructions - Radical Allowing, Appropriate Response
2026-08-10
Morning Instructions - Restlessness as Energy We Can Shape
2023-08-05
Morning Instructions - Skilfull in Meeting the Unpleasant
2018-07-13
Morning Teachings - Compassion
2018-07-15
Morning Teachings - Equanimity
2018-07-11
Morning Teachings - The Pleasant Breath
2024-03-28
Movement Practice, Introduction to Mettā, Guided Practice.
2015-06-28
Mudita Guided Meditation
2024-03-30
Muditā Instructions & Guided Practice
2021-01-03
New Year Reflections and Practice
2024-02-11
Nourishment of Generosity
2020-05-25
Opening and Steadying
2021-06-21
Opening Awareness
2025-06-25
Opening Evening - Opening Our Sense of Equanimity
2021-03-20
Opening Perspective, Inclining To Well-Being
2024-03-27
Opening Session
2026-06-16
Opening Session - Short Talk & Guided Meditation
2020-05-25
Opening Talk - Creating the Retreat Together
2026-01-17
Opening Talk - Interdependence is Profound
2026-08-17
Opening Talk for the Retreat
2024-01-18
Opening the Range
2022-08-27
Opening to Appreciation
2021-01-31
Opening, Calming, and Soothing with Breath and Body
2024-07-21
Opening, Nourishing & Gladdening - Meditation Instruction
2016-06-10
Patience and Forgiveness
2020-12-12
Possibilties of Mettā and Insight
2022-09-18
Potential for Wisdom
2016-09-17
Practicing Dharma in Challenging Times
2021-07-25
Questions and Responses
2021-07-27
Questions and Responses
2022-01-29
Questions and Responses
2022-02-01
Questions and Responses
2022-02-09
Questions and Responses
2022-02-11
Questions and Responses
2022-02-02
Questions and Responses
2022-02-10
Questions and Responses
2022-01-30
Questions and Responses
2022-01-30
Questions and Responses: Fabrication
2021-10-23
Radiating Metta
2022-12-14
Reflections of the Theme of Dharma, Service and Awakening
2017-08-19
Reflections on Body Awareness, Working with Pain, Guided Metta Meditation
2024-03-30
Reflections on Joy & Equanimity (Dukkha & Self Sense)
2017-08-21
Reflections on Working with Clinging
2022-01-09
Saddha: Conviction; Trust; Faith
2024-01-20
Samadhi, with Benefits of Insight in Vedanā
2020-05-08
Seeing All Things With Kindness (with Chanting at the Beginning)
2023-05-18
Session 1: Samadhi Practice - Introduction and Review
2023-05-18
Session 1: Samadhi Practice - Introduction and Review
2023-05-25
Session 2: Attuning to Well-being and Exploring Modes of Attention
2023-06-01
Session 3: Including Hindrances as Companions on the Path
2023-06-01
Session 3: Including Hindrances as Companions on the Path
2023-06-08
Session 4: Samadhi and Insight
2023-06-08
Session 4: Samadhi and Insight
2021-06-09
Sharing the Benefits
2024-04-21
Sila (Caring)
2026-01-22
Silent Mettā Meditation (w brief guidance at start)
2020-12-16
Spreading Mist of Metta
2024-02-01
Taking Time For Compassion
2026-05-19
Talk - A Free & Boundless Heart
2025-06-29
Talk - Abundant, Expansive, Immeasurable, Without Hostility or Ill Will
2025-06-26
Talk - Allowing Response, Dissolving Reactivity
2024-08-23
Talk - Anicca but not Dukkha
2025-03-22
Talk - Dukkha, Reactivity & Skilful Response
2026-08-22
Talk - Fulfilling Stillness - Journeying Beyond the Unknown
2024-08-14
Talk - Heaps of Self Metta
2024-12-17
Talk - Letting Go Into Compassion & Wisdom
2026-05-17
Talk - Mettā -Sublime & Immeasurable
2026-08-19
Talk - Opening to the Brahma Viharas
2026-08-12
Talk - Refreshing Confidence
2024-08-16
Talk - Taking An Empowerment to Life
2024-12-14
Talk - the Push and Pull of Dukkha
2026-08-09
Talk - Understanding Dukkha, Skilful Attending to Thinking
2026-01-20
Talk - Understanding the Building of Dukkha
2024-08-11
Talk - Unhindered Goodwill
2026-06-17
Talk - What Builds Dukkha ?
2024-12-15
Talk - What Makes Hindrances Dukkha
2017-07-06
The Brahma Viharas as Ways of Looking
2021-03-28
The Buddhas Advice on Cultivating Wellbeing and Happiness
2015-06-28
The Power of Joy
2022-07-17
The Practice of Dana
2022-04-10
The Sister Selā Discourse
2024-01-19
Tolerance: This Too
2022-03-13
Transformational Attitudes
2022-03-13
Transformational Attitudes
2022-07-17
Transitioning: Keeping the Retreat Alive
2021-03-11
Truthfulness and Honesty in our Lives and Practice
2024-03-31
Upekkha - Reflections & Instructions
2025-07-08
Week 1 - Introduction, Meditation, Teachings
2024-07-02
Week 1, Part 1 - Welcome & Teachings
2024-07-02
Week 1, Part 2 - Instructions & Guided Meditation
2025-07-15
Week 2 - Meditation, Teachings
2024-07-09
Week 2, Part 1 - Teachings & Guided Practice
2024-07-09
Week 2, Part 2 - Teachings
2025-07-22
Week 3 - Meditation, Teachings
2024-07-16
Week 3, Part 2 - Teachings
2025-07-29
Week 4 - Meditation, Teachings, Closing
2024-07-23
Week 4, Part 2 - Teachings, Guided Meditation
2024-07-30
Week 5, Part 2 - Teachings, Guided Meditation
2024-08-06
Week 6, Part 2 - Guided Meditation, Short Teachings
2022-07-11
Welcome
2020-08-23
Wise And Wholesome Effort
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2015-06-25
The Four Immeasurables
2016-06-09
Living with Illness and Loss
2016-09-13
Compassion and Action in a Changing World
2016-12-03
A Path of Wisdom and Love
2017-07-05
The Four Immeasurables
2017-08-17
Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace
2018-07-10
The Four Immeasurables
2018-08-18
Awakening in Daily Life; Cultivating Community
2018-12-13
Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace
2019-05-23
A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-26
Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment
2019-09-02
The Four Immeasurables
2020-04-18
Online Dharma Hall
2020-05-05
Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-25
Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-07-01
Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-08-15
Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2020
2020-08-17
Coming to Life
2020-10-03
Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020
2020-12-01
Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020
2020-12-11
Mettā and Insight
2021-01-01
Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2021
2021-01-31
Relaxed, Open, Awake
2021-02-01
Online Dharma Hall - Feb 2021
2021-03-01
Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2021
2021-06-01
Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021
2021-06-04
Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing…
2021-07-23
Coming to Life: Waking up to Intimacy with Existence
2021-09-08
Dependent Origination; a Path of Liberating Insight
2021-10-01
Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2021
2021-12-05
A Path of Wisdom and Love
2022-01-01
Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2022
2022-01-28
Lingering in Happiness
2022-02-08
Easing into the Middle Way
2022-03-01
Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2022
2022-03-03
The Boundless Heart of Metta
2022-04-01
Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2022
2022-05-01
Online Dharma Hall - May 2022
2022-07-11
The Freedom of an Awakened Heart
2022-07-21
A Path of Wisdom and Compassion
2022-08-01
Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2022
2022-09-10
Online Dharma Hall - Sep 2022
2022-09-12
Living with Illness and Loss
2022-12-14
Dharma, Service and Awakening (online)
2022-12-28
New Year Dana Retreat
2023-01-27
Mettā and Insight
2023-02-17
Liberation Through Loving Awareness
2023-03-07
Awakening the Heart
2023-05-18
Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)
2023-06-03
Living With Illness and Loss
2023-08-02
Expanding the Heart
2023-10-07
Online Dharma Hall - October 2023
2024-01-17
The Nearest Freedom
2024-02-01
Online Dharma Hall - February 2024
2024-03-27
The Brahma Viharas: Our Heart's Innate Capacity for Love
2024-04-06
Online Dharma Hall - April 2024
2024-07-02
Mettā and Insight
2024-07-20
Living With Illness and Loss (online)
2024-08-09
Empowering Kindness
2024-08-21
Meeting Uncertainty; Cultivating a Fearless Heart
2024-12-13
Finding Peace
2025-02-06
An Open Path
2025-02-23
Online Dharma Hall - February 2025
2025-02-28
Radical Freedom, Wise Response
2025-03-21
Living with Illness & Loss
2025-06-25
Unequalled Radiance (Dana Retreat, Livestreamed)
2025-07-08
Unshakeable Tenderness (online series)
2025-07-12
Living With Illness and Loss (online)
2026-01-17
The Heart of Awakening
2026-05-15
A Free & Boundless Heart
2026-05-15
Practice as a Whole Life Path
2026-06-16
Living with Illness & Loss
2026-08-07
Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey
2026-08-17
Fulfilling Stillness; Journeying Beyond the Known
