Gaia House: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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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: What Skilful Means

February 10, 2024 19:38 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring what (being) skilful means, and what (are) skilful means. The Dharma is not simple, and it is not overly complex. We need to find a middle way that is sufficiently dynamic and appropriate. This is from an Online Dharma Hall session with a meditation, a reflection, and responses to questions. The questions are not recorded for privacy reasons, the responses are shaped to allow for comprehension despite this.

Katrin Auf der Heyde: Minding the Gap

February 10, 2024 16:45 - 40 minutes - 23.1 MB

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River Wolton: What is Well ?

February 10, 2024 14:45

(Gaia House) Soothing the nervous system and becoming aware of what is well and pleasant.

Bernat Font: Going to the Forest

February 10, 2024 09:30 - 45 minutes - 26.3 MB

(Gaia House) Meditation Instructions

Bernat Font, Katrin Auf der Heyde, River Wolton: Opening Reflections, Intentions, Short Guided Practice

February 09, 2024 19:30 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MB

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Tony O'Connor: Heavan and Earth are Set Apart

February 04, 2024 19:30 - 39 minutes - 45.7 MB

(Gaia House) Dharma Talk

Katrin Auf der Heyde: Working with Difficult Emotions and Mindstates

February 04, 2024 09:30 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

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Katrin Auf der Heyde: Questioning: What's With the Question Mark ?

February 03, 2024 19:30 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB

(Gaia House) Dharma Talk

Tony O'Connor: Asking the Question - 'What Is This ?'

February 03, 2024 09:30 - 21 minutes - 24.3 MB

(Gaia House) Meditation Instructions

Zohar Lavie: Taking Time For Compassion

February 01, 2024 15:18 - 1 hour - 37.9 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Inner Peace and Fierce Compassion

January 28, 2024 14:30 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

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River Wolton: Creative Engagement with Difficulties - Mind and Body; Short Guided Practice and Walking Instructions.

January 28, 2024 09:30 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MB

(Gaia House) This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik.

River Wolton: Upcycling the Five Hindrances

January 27, 2024 19:30 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MB

(Gaia House) Creatively engaging with what clouds our minds and hearts, particularly in the context of social engagement.

River Wolton: Why Mettā Matters

January 27, 2024 14:30 - 29 minutes - 33.8 MB

(Gaia House) Short reflections on mettā for changemaking, and guided practice.

Yanai Postelnik: Instructions - Sitting and Walking

January 27, 2024 09:30 - 42 minutes - 49.1 MB

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Zohar Lavie: Bringing Insight into the Worldly and Unworldly

January 20, 2024 19:30 - 49 minutes - 28.3 MB

(Gaia House) Dharma Talk

Zohar Lavie: Samadhi, with Benefits of Insight in Vedanā

January 20, 2024 14:30 - 43 minutes - 20 MB

(Gaia House) Guided Practice

Nathan Glyde: Playing: How and What we Attend

January 20, 2024 09:30 - 56 minutes - 32.3 MB

(Gaia House) Meditation Instruction

Nathan Glyde: May All Beings Be Happy?

December 23, 2023 20:41 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring what it means to wish for all beings to be happy. Looking at a couple of ways we compromise on the fullness of 'all', or limit our understanding of where happiness comes from and depends upon; Bringing head and heart together à la Thānissaro Bhikku, we can find a new drive to wish lasting blameless happiness for all beings, now, gone, and yet to come. Sabbe Satta Sukita Hontu.

River Wolton: Dharma Talk - Death is the Mother of Beauty

December 09, 2023 15:45 - 41 minutes - 48 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Reflections and Meditation Instructions

December 09, 2023 09:30 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Contemplating Our Mortality

December 08, 2023 19:30 - 50 minutes - 29 MB

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River Wolton: Instructions & Reflections - Ground, Breath, Body, Space

December 08, 2023 09:30 - 52 minutes - 24.1 MB

(Gaia House) This recording includes Walking Meditation Instructions by Yanai Postelnik

Kirsten Kratz: Bringing Wise Understanding to a World of Polarisations

November 28, 2023 15:30 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MB

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Laura Bridgman: Doubt

November 26, 2023 15:30 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB

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Yahel Avigur: The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States

November 22, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

(Gaia House) Part 3: Approaching the phenomena of self

Yahel Avigur: The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States

November 22, 2023 15:30 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

(Gaia House) Part 3: Approaching the phenomena of self

Laura Bridgman: Will and Presence

November 20, 2023 15:30 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Questions and Responses

November 18, 2023 15:30 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

(Gaia House) Yanai answers questions (submitted beforehand) from retreatants

Kirsten Kratz: The Arising of Equanimity

November 17, 2023 15:30 - 51 minutes - 46.8 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Vedanā - Contemplating Hedonic Tone

November 14, 2023 15:30 - 40 minutes - 37 MB

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Yahel Avigur: The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States

November 13, 2023 15:30 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB

(Gaia House) Part 2: Modes of attunement

Laura Bridgman: Spiritual Faculty

November 11, 2023 15:30 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MB

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Kirsten Kratz: Possibilities of Joy

November 09, 2023 15:30 - 51 minutes - 58.8 MB

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Nathan Glyde: The Usefulness of Truth

August 19, 2023 20:35 - 1 hour - 117 MB

(Gaia House) The Buddha asked us to speak what is true and useful. Are those the same things? What is more important, usefulness or truth? And what is truly useful? Guided meditation, reflection, and (just Nathan's part of a Q&R session) Bear in mind, this is not speaking about truth as an objective exploration of scientific understanding, but an exploration of the truth of first person subjective knowledge: which is all a meditator can know about their experience.

Nathan Glyde: Transcending, Transforming, Embracing The Difficult

August 12, 2023 17:46 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring if how we meet the painful, and transform it wisely and kindly towards less reactivity and contraction, can open a kind of freedom with other difficult relationships. And even allow us to be able to embrace being difficult, or with what seems difficult.