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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Episodes
Laura Bridgman: Teachings and Meditation - Finding the Balance Between Ease and Effort
August 13, 2021 14:30 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Teachings And Meditation - Natural Ease, Kindness, and Right Effort
August 13, 2021 09:30 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MB(Gaia House)
Jaya Rudgard: Dharma Talk: Karma and Finding a Purpose in the Chaos of Life
August 07, 2021 20:30 - 49 minutes - 67.7 MB(Gaia House)
Gavin Milne: Teachings and Guided Meditation
August 07, 2021 09:30 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB(Gaia House) The Nature of Experience and What This Offers Us
Jaya Rudgard: Reflections on Anatta (non-self)
August 05, 2021 19:30 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MB(Gaia House)
Jaya Rudgard: Teachings and Guided Meditation
August 05, 2021 16:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MB(Gaia House) Mindfulness of the Body
Jaya Rudgard: Teachings and Guided Meditation
August 05, 2021 16:30 - 43 minutes - 59.2 MB(Gaia House) Mindfulness of the Body
Gavin Milne: Guided Meditation
August 04, 2021 14:30 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB(Gaia House) Intention; turning towards ourselves with loving awareness
Jaya Rudgard: Practice Instructions and Guided Meditation
August 04, 2021 09:30 - 57 minutes - 65.5 MB(Gaia House) Settling, grounding and stabilising.
Nathan Glyde: Doing, Not Doing, Undoing
July 31, 2021 18:17 - 1 hour - 89.2 MB(Gaia House) Exploring the skilful application of effort and energy in relationship to engagement of insight and samadhi, and the receptive modes of letting go. Is 'not doing' as powerful as insight and samadhi to undo dukkha?
Nathan Glyde: Guided Meditation, Teachings (Closing Session)
July 29, 2021 11:30 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Instructions: Dukkha as a Way of Looking
July 28, 2021 09:30 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk: There Is a Peace Possible
July 27, 2021 19:30 - 49 minutes - 45 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Instructions: Relaxing Contraction and Letting Go of Craving
July 27, 2021 09:30 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk: Metta as a Freeing Way of Looking
July 26, 2021 19:30 - 41 minutes - 38 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
July 26, 2021 16:30 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Questions and Responses
July 26, 2021 11:30 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Zohar Lavie. Any names or 'live' questions have been removed from the recording.
Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk: Coming to Vibrant Tranquility
July 25, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 61.9 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
July 25, 2021 16:30 - 41 minutes - 38 MB(Gaia House) Metta to an easy person, oneself, and the world.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Metta Meditation
July 25, 2021 16:30 - 41 minutes - 38 MB(Gaia House) Metta to an easy person, oneself, and the world.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation
July 25, 2021 16:30 - 41 minutes - 38 MB(Gaia House) Metta to an easy person, oneself, and the world.
Zohar Lavie: Questions and Responses
July 25, 2021 14:30 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Nathan Glyde. Any names or 'live' questions have been removed from the recording.
Zohar Lavie: Instructions: Attending Skilfully to Body Pain and Discomfort
July 25, 2021 09:30 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Questions and Responses
July 24, 2021 19:30 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Zohar Lavie. Any names or 'live' questions have been removed from the recording.
Nathan Glyde: What is Dukkha?
July 18, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 77.8 MB(Gaia House) An exploration and meditation on understanding dukkha and reducing it. Maybe we can reverse engineer the experience, then reduce or move in the opposite direction
Gavin Milne: Closing Comments
July 18, 2021 14:30 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman. Transitions, and supports for further practice.
Gavin Milne: Dharma Talk - The Challenges to Experiencing Refuge in Awareness
July 17, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 53.3 MB(Gaia House) The recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Gavin Milne: Bringing Awareness to Felt Sense of Experience, and of Posture
July 17, 2021 14:30 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman. Gavin Milne - teachings on bringing the awareness to the felt sense of experience. Laura Bridgman - bringing awareness to the felt sense of our posture.
Laura Bridgman: Body Exercises, Teachings, Guided Meditation
July 17, 2021 11:30 - 57 minutes - 79 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Gavin Milne. Laura Bridgman - body exercises, and teachings on bringing in an attitude of kindness to practice. Gavin Milne - guided meditation, with the intention of kindness.
Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Living in Rental Accommodation
July 10, 2021 19:30 - 53 minutes - 49 MB(Gaia House) The reality of impermanence.
Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Embracing Our Aliveness
July 09, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB(Gaia House)
Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Wholehearted Practice
July 07, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MB(Gaia House)
Yanai Postelnik: Reflections, and Lightly Guided Meditation
July 07, 2021 09:30 - 45 minutes - 51.7 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Investigating
July 03, 2021 17:55 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB(Gaia House) 4th exploration of the bases of success: prior ones are in the: Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021 'retreat album'. This final one explores vīmaṁsa the skilful analysis of experience to develop deeper well-being and freedom on the path of practice. Each exploration stands alone, as well as being part of a series.
Zohar Lavie: Opening Awareness
June 21, 2021 20:21 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MB(Gaia House) A session for the Online Sitting Group at Gaia House, opening to wider field of sound, expanding awareness for deeper well-being.
Zohar Lavie: Kindness to all Kind
June 20, 2021 11:10 - 1 hour - 91.5 MB(Gaia House) A guided practice and talk offered in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House.
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Aspirational Intentionality
June 20, 2021 11:06 - 1 hour - 94.6 MB(Gaia House) Continuing the theme of Bases of Success. An Online Dharma Hall session with a guided meditation and dharma talk, and some responses to questions in the hall (the questions are not recorded for privacy reasons, but are explained if not explicit in the response).
Nathan Glyde: Showing Up (Vīrya)
June 12, 2021 17:45 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB(Gaia House) Vīrya appears second in the list known as the Four Bases of Success. Some translate it as perseverance: the willingness to keep showing up. So essential in our practice, in our lives, and in our times. A practice and dharma talk on this theme, offered in Gaia Houses Online Dharma Hall.
Zohar Lavie: Sharing the Benefits
June 09, 2021 11:56 - 6 minutes - 7.11 MB(Gaia House) The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.
Nathan Glyde: Path Making: A Transition and Continuation
June 09, 2021 11:06 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MB(Gaia House) A review of the practices, and ways we can keep them going, and developing onwards in new creative ways.
Nathan Glyde: The All of the All is Fabricated
June 08, 2021 19:56 - 54 minutes - 63 MB(Gaia House) Maintaining a deep practice across the whole of our life is supported by wisdom and clear intention, and those are rooted well in an understanding of the dependent origination of dukkha and release.
Nathan Glyde: Guided Equanimity Practice with Intro
June 08, 2021 16:37 - 42 minutes - 48.8 MB(Gaia House) The fourth of the brahmavihārās, Upekkhā, is a well rooted flexibility; a deeply steady openness; a kindly unshaken intimacy with all things.
Zohar Lavie: Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness
June 08, 2021 10:27 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MB(Gaia House) Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro
June 07, 2021 15:36 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MB(Gaia House) Muditā meditation