Gaia House: dharma talks and meditation instruction
629 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago -Gaia House is a meditation retreat centre offering silent meditation retreats in the Buddhist tradition. We warmly welcome people of every age, ethnicity, cultural heritage and religious background, socio-economic group, sexual orientation and gender identity, and we are actively working to investigate and remove barriers to inclusion. Join us in to explore the teachings of the Buddha, guided by experienced Dharma teachers from all over the world.
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Nathan Glyde: Sticking to the Plan to Improvise
July 06, 2024 18:20 - 1 hour - 46 MB(Gaia House) How much we should be spontaneous, and how much more disciplined, feels to be a central question in the development of any skill, meditation included. What do we need more of? How should we go about it? What do we really want? This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions.
Leela Sarti, Yanai Postelnik: Instructions for 'Free Practice' Morning
June 14, 2024 09:30 - 7 minutes - 6.47 MB(Gaia House)
Leela Sarti: The Cost of the Spiritual Path
June 12, 2024 19:30 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk
Yanai Postelnik: Instructions and Meditation
June 12, 2024 09:30 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB(Gaia House)
Yanai Postelnik: Contemplating Mortality, Deepening Practice
June 11, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk
Leela Sarti: The Nature of Mind; Inside and Outside
June 10, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk
Leela Sarti: Awakening Through the Gateway of Attachment
June 09, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk
Leela Sarti: Exploring the Dimensions of the Human Heart
June 08, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk
Nathan Glyde: Caring for Happiness
June 08, 2024 18:47 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB(Gaia House) This path of freedom is a path of happiness, a happiness based on expressions of wisdom and care. This Online Dharma Hall session for Gaia House includes a meditation and reflection on how we can bring more inner and outer care to our lives, and how that might move us closer to the radical freedom and happiness that these teachings and practices direct us towards.
Leela Sarti: Morning Instructions and Meditation
June 08, 2024 09:30 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB(Gaia House)
Leela Sarti: Morning Instructions and Meditation
June 08, 2024 09:30 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Dukkha Demands Objectification
May 25, 2024 18:41 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB(Gaia House) An exploration of the dependent origination of dukkha down to the level of making things to grasp, demand, and obsess over. If we find things are ungraspable, really, how could we grasp onto them or push them away? What happens to reactivity, stress, and suffering in a world with no thing in it? A lightly guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and responses to (unrecorded questions).
Nathan Glyde: Do You Need A Conceit?
May 18, 2024 18:19 - 40 minutes - 23.2 MB(Gaia House) Exploring the middle way of pride, its positive role, and negative implications in our life and practice. Also, of the benefits and challenges of a comparison-based mind and its necessity in discernment. Apologies for the occasional scratchy sound in the recording: Nathan is wearing a thick scarf due to a persistent cough, and it catches on the microphone. (includes responses to unheard questions)
Nathan Glyde: Talk & Guided Meditation - Teachings & Practices of Freedom
May 14, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Movement Practice; Guided Meditation - Sublime Attitudes to All (4 Elements)
May 14, 2024 14:30 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks: Morning Instructions - Air Element & Mindfulness of Breathing
May 14, 2024 09:30 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks: Talk: The Elements, Nature Connection & Deep Ecology
May 13, 2024 19:30 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Morning Instructions - Fire, Thoughts & Vedanā
May 13, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Movement Practice; Guided Meditation - Exploring the Four Properties
May 12, 2024 14:30 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks: Morning Instructions - Water Element
May 12, 2024 09:30 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks: Talk: Contemplathing the Elements - an Overview
May 11, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks: Movement Practice; Guided Meditation on the Four Elements
May 11, 2024 14:30 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Morning Instructions - Earth Element
May 11, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB(Gaia House)
Jenny Wilks, Nathan Glyde: Opening Talk - Introducing the Themes of the Retreat
May 10, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB(Gaia House)
Martine Batchelor: The Four Qualities, Mindfulness of Feeling Tones and Ethical Actions: Dharma Talk & Meditation
May 04, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MB(Gaia House) Cultivating the four qualities of friendliness, compassion, joy and equanimity to help us creatively engage in wise, harmless, compassionate action, when in contact through our senses with the resulting feeling tones. How to experince feeling tones without grasping?
Jaya Rudgard: Radiating Mettā - Instructions & Guided Meditation
April 28, 2024 09:30 - 37 minutes - 43 MB(Gaia House)
River Wolton: Talk - Mettā in Motion - a Moveable Feast
April 27, 2024 19:00 - 42 minutes - 48.8 MB(Gaia House)
River Wolton: Instructions - Tips For Steadying with the Breath, Qigong, Guided Meditation.
April 27, 2024 09:30 - 57 minutes - 65.8 MB(Gaia House)
River Wolton: Talk - Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness
April 21, 2024 19:30 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Sila (Caring)
April 21, 2024 18:05 - 1 hour - 38.1 MB(Gaia House) This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
Bernat Font: Instructions - Meeting Ourselves with Kind Spaciousness, Gently Questioning.
April 21, 2024 09:30 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MB(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Morning Instructions, Guided Meditation, Daily Life Pratice Instructions.
April 21, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 52.6 MB(Gaia House) Relaxing into practice, taking care of the causes of awakening and freedom. To support this - refreshing wise attitude, keeping Yoniso manasikāra simple, and seeing the eight worldly winds. Embracing the first three factors of awakening, as the ones we always have some agency in. Linking them to connecting with the vertical. Relating to the next four factors, more as results of the first three - qualities of our depth. Guided meditation, exploring experience through the sens...
Bernat Font: Dharma Talk - Meditation is Not About You
April 20, 2024 19:30 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Talk - Turning Towards the Timeless
April 20, 2024 19:00 - 54 minutes - 43.5 MB(Gaia House) The inward turning - parallels across tradition, a natural maturation. Exploring a vertical and horizontal perspective on awakening, and how these trajectories interact. Disentangling from Samsara. Connecting with the vertical - attention, the ground of awareness, and inner peace. Normalising common challenges encountered. The value of beginning again, and infusing the body with wise mindfulness.
Nathan Glyde: Don't Just Sit There
April 20, 2024 18:21 - 1 hour - 41.2 MB(Gaia House) The teachings of dependent origination encourage us to meet inner and outer dukkha with creativity and courage. This session includes a guided practice and Dharma reflection.
River Wolton: Guided Meditation - Absorbing Friendliness From Trees and Other Beings
April 20, 2024 14:30 - 23 minutes - 27.5 MB(Gaia House)
River Wolton: Instructions - Connecting and Returning to Anchors, Walking Practice Guidance
April 20, 2024 09:30 - 50 minutes - 58.3 MB(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Morning Instructions, Guided Meditation, Daily Life Practice Instructions.
April 20, 2024 09:30 - 1 hour - 64 MB(Gaia House) How making teachings more explicit can be helpful for practicing in daily life. Bringing some background assumptions and ideas into the light. Using the 'crossing the river' metaphor for how the path of cultivation works, as a support for gaining trust and momentum in daily life practice. Getting a feel for wise effort and beginners mind. The 'how' of practice - the aliveness of wise attitude, aligning with the timeless, and orientating in terms of the three wholesome roots. ...
Mat Schencks: Dharma Talk - Healing the Heart
April 14, 2024 14:30 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MB(Gaia House)
Mat Schencks: Opening Talk & Instructions (Part 2)
April 14, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes - 20.7 MB(Gaia House)
Mat Schencks: Opening Talk & Instructions (Part 1)
April 14, 2024 09:30 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MB(Gaia House)
Leela Sarti: Guided Lovingkindness Meditation
April 10, 2024 14:30 - 32 minutes - 36.8 MB(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Instructions: Sacred Orientation – The Value of Turning Towards Our Experience.
April 10, 2024 09:30 - 37 minutes - 42.4 MB(Gaia House)