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
Nathan Glyde: Day 3 - Instructions: This is not Peaceful (A Dukkha Insight Way of Looking)
June 07, 2021 10:23 - 59 minutes - 68 MB(Gaia House) Noticing the unsatisfactory nature of all phenomena might sound bleak. But instead of ruminating on whether it is true or not, consider whether it is useful: notice if this lens of attention brings release and an ever deeper sense of freedom.
Nathan Glyde: The Arrows of Dissatisfaction
June 06, 2021 20:05 - 46 minutes - 52.9 MB(Gaia House) =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =--->
Nathan Glyde: Guided Compassion Practice with Intro
June 06, 2021 16:31 - 43 minutes - 49.8 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Day 2 - Instructions: Whole Body Awareness, Long Breath and Easing Contraction
June 06, 2021 10:18 - 1 hour - 85 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: A Noble Meeting
June 05, 2021 19:58 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MB(Gaia House) Overcoming the hindrances to freedom and well-being
Zohar Lavie: Intro to Metta, and Guided to Easy And Self
June 05, 2021 16:25 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Day 1 - Instructions: Attending to Present Experience
June 05, 2021 10:31 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB(Gaia House) Establishing a mindful presence: relaxing and noticing; sustaining through interest; bringing in kindness and welcoming; enjoying unification.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Relaxing And Opening Meditation
June 04, 2021 20:09 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MB(Gaia House) Opening the retreat with a guided session of calming mindful presence
Nathan Glyde: Meeting Life Well
June 04, 2021 18:06 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MB(Gaia House) Opening the theme of the retreat. A sense of possibility to upgrade the default settings of the heart and mind. And find opportunity even in the challenges of the human condition, for more beauty, wisdom, and courage.
Nathan Glyde: A Moment of Presence and Possibility
June 04, 2021 18:00 - 20 minutes - 23 MB(Gaia House) Establishing simple mindful presence as a foundation for more
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration
May 29, 2021 17:49 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB(Gaia House) An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Nathan Glyde: I Shall Not Hate
May 23, 2021 09:48 - 1 hour - 72.5 MB(Gaia House) A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape good effluences (outward-flows).
Norman Fischer: Online Book Talk -- When You Greet Me I Bow
May 21, 2021 19:30 - 56 minutes - 32.2 MB(Gaia House) In this Dharma talk and discussion Norman Fischer presents his just-out book “When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen,” a collection of thirty years of his Dharma essays, with his own contemporary reflections. Covering topics as wide-ranging as what is a Zen teacher, racism and Buddhism, politics and religion, women in Zen, and the dialogic nature of Zen practice, the book is a broad look at the Buddhist movement in the West, its challenges and changes o...
Martine Batchelor: Morning Instructions
April 11, 2021 09:30 - 56 minutes - 26 MB(Gaia House) The Path of Awakening: how to listen.
Nathan Glyde: The Four Dependently Originating Truths
April 10, 2021 20:43 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB(Gaia House) An exploration of the Dharma teachings of the four ennobling truths as inviting questions into a deep exploration of dependent origination for profound and immediate freedom. Mediation and Dharma Talk
Martine Batchelor: Morning Instructions
April 10, 2021 09:30 - 52 minutes - 30.2 MB(Gaia House) Calm and Brightness: the roots of radical questioning.
Kirsten Kratz: Celebrating Sangha - On Generosity
April 05, 2021 10:30 - 45 minutes - 26 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Sangha as Refuge - reflections and guided practice
April 05, 2021 09:30 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice around Sangha as refuge, explored within the realm of contactfulness and being close to our direct experience.
Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Embodying a 'Just' Awakening
April 04, 2021 19:00 - 55 minutes - 31.7 MB(Gaia House) Reflections on engaging with social justice issues and the climate and ecological emergency, as a natural expression of our spiritual practice.
Juha Penttila: Metta Towards Phenomena
April 04, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 34.8 MB(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice
Kirsten Kratz: The liberating Power of Forgiveness
April 03, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 33.2 MB(Gaia House) Reflections & Guided Practice
Kirsten Kratz: Tuning the Instrument of Body, Mind, Heart
April 03, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 31 MB(Gaia House) Reflections & Guided Practice
Martine Batchelor: Mudita as appreciative joy and altruistic joy in our daily life.
April 02, 2021 17:00 - 41 minutes - 23.5 MB(Gaia House)
Kirsten Kratz: Delight in One's Presence
April 02, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 21.5 MB(Gaia House) Reflections and Guided Practice
Zohar Lavie: The Buddhas Advice on Cultivating Wellbeing and Happiness
March 28, 2021 10:47 - 1 hour - 90.4 MB(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma talk. The Sutta that is mentioned: AN 8.54. To Dighajanu from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, in the Book of the Eights.
Nathan Glyde: The Great Practice of Life
March 27, 2021 18:25 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB(Gaia House) Online Dharma Hall session exploring practice in all four postures, and making the efforts to awaken the paramis and abandon the hindrances, and their roots and routes.
Zohar Lavie: Opening Perspective, Inclining To Well-Being
March 20, 2021 18:39 - 1 hour - 76.4 MB(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
Helen Stephenson: Closing Session for Retreat
March 14, 2021 19:30 - 31 minutes - 18.2 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik.
Helen Stephenson: Yoga and Inquiry Practice (Part 2)
March 14, 2021 16:30 - 1 hour - 64.9 MB(Gaia House)
Helen Stephenson: Yoga and Inquiry Practice (Part 1)
March 14, 2021 14:30 - 29 minutes - 16.7 MB(Gaia House)
Yanai Postelnik: Morning Teachings and Meditation
March 14, 2021 09:30 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB(Gaia House) Opening to the possibility of how freedom, liberation and release can arise when we are not bound by or identified with inner and outer conditions.
Helen Stephenson: Dharma Talk
March 13, 2021 19:30 - 57 minutes - 33 MB(Gaia House) Yoga - A Spiritual Path Explored
Nathan Glyde: All Kinds of Kindness
March 13, 2021 18:41 - 1 hour - 73 MB(Gaia House) What would our practice look like with mettā at the centre, as the goal, or as the heart of all we do. Guided practice and talk.
Yanai Postelnik: Morning Teachings and Guided Meditation
March 13, 2021 09:30 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB(Gaia House) Guidance on turning towards what may be difficult in our experience, with care and kindness.
Helen Stephenson: Afternoon Yoga and Inquiry Practice
March 12, 2021 14:30 - 2 hours - 78.1 MB(Gaia House)
Yanai Postelnik: Morning Teachings and Meditation
March 12, 2021 09:30 - 59 minutes - 33.8 MB(Gaia House) Instructions on practicing Insight Meditation, and a lightly guided meditation.
Zohar Lavie: Truthfulness and Honesty in our Lives and Practice
March 11, 2021 18:44 - 1 hour - 98 MB(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma talk
Yanai Postelnik: Opening Evening of the Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat
March 11, 2021 18:30 - 54 minutes - 31.4 MB(Gaia House) Welcome, orienting within the retreat, short guided yoga and meditation. This recording also includes Helen Stephenson.
Kirsten Kratz: How we Approach the Moment Will Shape the Moment
March 07, 2021 09:30 - 59 minutes - 34.3 MB(Gaia House) Reflections on how we actively, yet often unconsciously, co-create , through our assumptions, believes and perceptions, our experience in practice and in life.
Kirsten Kratz: Dharma Talk - The Dance of ‘Neither-Nor’ – ‘The Dance of ‘This AND That’
March 06, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 40.2 MB(Gaia House) Weaving together different strands of the teachings offered up to now and venturing a little bit further.
Jaya Rudgard: Jaya reads out offerings from retreatants, and then leads a silent meditation.
March 06, 2021 14:30 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(Gaia House)
Kirsten Kratz: Morning Practice: How we Construct Dualities - The Dukkha of ‘Either- Or’
March 05, 2021 09:30 - 1 hour - 36.6 MB(Gaia House) Reflections on how aversion and grasping play a crucial role in the fabrication of dualities. Looking closer we discover that often our ‘either-or’ way of looking does not reflect how experience is unfolding. Followed by a guided meditation.
Jaya Rudgard: Chanting Practice - Om Mani Padme Hum
March 05, 2021 07:30 - 8 minutes - 5.52 MB(Gaia House) Jaya leads some chanting, and talks about how chanting can be a meditative exercise, a way to give voice to our aspirations, and offer protection for the heart and the mind.
Kirsten Kratz: Evening Practice: The Middle Way - The Liberating Art of Avoiding Extremes
March 04, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 38.6 MB(Gaia House) Guided meditation and reflections exploring different ways of conceiving and understanding the important and potentially liberating concept of ‘middle way’.
Jaya Rudgard: Guided Meditation
March 04, 2021 14:30 - 28 minutes - 16.5 MB(Gaia House) Guided Meditation on Equanimity.
Jaya Rudgard: Morning Practice
March 04, 2021 09:30 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB(Gaia House) Jaya reflects on how when we playfully notice the ambiguity of our inner and outer worlds, it can enable us to feel our aliveness with richer textures. This is further explored in a guided meditation.
Jaya Rudgard: Morning Practice
March 04, 2021 09:30 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB(Gaia House) Jaya reflects on how when we playfully notice the ambiguity of our inner and outer worlds, it can enable us to feel our aliveness with richer textures. This is further explored in a guided meditation.
Jaya Rudgard: A short guided meditation on the opening evening of the retreat.
March 03, 2021 19:30 - 14 minutes - 8.08 MB(Gaia House) How steadying and rooting into our contact with the ground can help us to open our awareness to the currents of life moving through us.
Kirsten Kratz: Evening Practice: Stillness Moving
March 03, 2021 17:30 - 59 minutes - 34.3 MB(Gaia House) Laying out the Territory: Exploring the tendency to perceive in simplifying dualities, the potential limitations of this way of seeing and how this plays out in a bigger context. This recording starts with a guided meditation.