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
Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 1
March 20, 2022 09:30 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MB(Gaia House) Lightly Guided Meditation on receptive listening. Teachings – Practicing with two questions - do I want anything & do I want to get rid of anything ?
Alan Lewis: Guided Early Morning Meditation
March 20, 2022 07:30 - 43 minutes - 20.2 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Afternoon Pt 2
March 19, 2022 15:30 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MB(Gaia House) Lightly Guided Meditation - choosing what anchors you into the present moment. Teachings – Seeing and Looking, Listening and Hearing: investigating the difference between these ways of experiencing. This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
Alan Lewis: Afternoon Pt 1 – Noticing the Space Within Which Things Arise
March 19, 2022 14:30 - 29 minutes - 16.7 MB(Gaia House) Teachings on how we relate to spaciousness and capacity.
Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 2 – Being Worthy of Love
March 19, 2022 11:30 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB(Gaia House) Teachings - meeting our experience with honesty and inquiry, letting our experience be painful. This recording also includes a short teaching on 'walking with awareness' (walking meditation) led by Laura Bridgman.
Laura Bridgman: Morning Pt 1 – Reflections - Meeting the Inner Activities of Self
March 19, 2022 09:30 - 25 minutes - 14.5 MB(Gaia House) Lightly guided meditation. Teachings on and how inner activity can lose its grip on us, changing our perceptions and leading to less suffering.
Alan Lewis: Early Morning - Guided Meditation
March 19, 2022 07:30 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MB(Gaia House) Using breath as an anchoring point.
Alan Lewis: Evening - Posture, Energy, Sleepiness, Silent Sit.
March 18, 2022 19:30 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Afternoon Pt 3 - Reflections on Awareness and Feeling
March 18, 2022 16:30 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
Alan Lewis: Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Meditation and Teachings
March 18, 2022 15:30 - 25 minutes - 11.5 MB(Gaia House) Noticing the flow and change of experience.
Alan Lewis: Morning Pt 2 - Working with the Churning Mind
March 18, 2022 11:30 - 43 minutes - 24.8 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Laura Bridgman: Morning Pt 1 – Guided Meditation
March 18, 2022 09:30 - 26 minutes - 12.3 MB(Gaia House) Opening to and allowing experience, noticing how thinking feels.
Alan Lewis: Early Morning Guided Meditation
March 18, 2022 07:30 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB(Gaia House) Settling with Bodily Experience
Alan Lewis: Welcome, Lightly Guided Meditation, Introductory Teachings
March 17, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 34 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Zohar Lavie: Transformational Attitudes
March 13, 2022 16:43 - 1 hour - 98 MB(Gaia House) Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Zohar Lavie: Transformational Attitudes
March 13, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 98 MB(Gaia House) Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Nathan Glyde: Connecting Into Interconnection
March 12, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 116 MB(Gaia House) Can we live in a sense of interconnection: where meaningfulness has meaning; and sensitivity takes priority? And can we be willing to live from there? Where the necessary renunciations call us into deeper, nourishing connection. Includes a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and responses to questions.
Jake Dartington: Dharma Talk - Active Hope and Joy
March 06, 2022 19:30 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Guided Meditation
March 06, 2022 14:30 - 40 minutes - 32.7 MB(Gaia House) Metta to sensations.
Nathan Glyde: Wise Acceptance and Wise Non-acceptance
March 05, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 120 MB(Gaia House) Getting to know our experience is so essential, and that is greatly deepened by accepting what has already arisen. But the Dharma is also about cultivation of beautiful, skilful, and wholesome qualities. And that also means abandoning unhelpful habitual ways of being and acting: wise non-acceptance is a part of wise and timely acceptance. This recording contains a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and questions.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Metta Meditation
March 05, 2022 14:30 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB(Gaia House) Metta to self, neutral person, and all.
Jake Dartington: Meditation Instructions
March 05, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 55 MB(Gaia House) Metta to the neutral person, and the benefits of Metta practice.
Jake Dartington: Dharma Talk - Metta and R.A.I.N
March 04, 2022 19:30 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB(Gaia House)
Jake Dartington: Mindful Movemen,t and Guided Metta Meditation
March 04, 2022 14:30 - 46 minutes - 43 MB(Gaia House) Metta to easy person, self and to all.
Nathan Glyde: Responsive to a Fluid Self
February 19, 2022 19:47 - 1 hour - 114 MB(Gaia House) We can habitually and instinctively feel like our self, and apparent things of the world have the nature of fixity and stability. Yet, when we look deeper, what appeared independent and inherently there, seems to melt into a kind of fluidity. From this more sensitive meeting, can we find an appropriate response to how we actually feel in the current moment? As if we can go beneath the frozen surface of the idea of who and what is into the dependently originating and fading fluidity.
Leigh Brasington: An Evening with Leigh Brasington (online) - Introduction to the Jhanas
February 13, 2022 19:00 - 57 minutes - 33.1 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Closing Meditation and Transitioning Talk
February 12, 2022 09:30 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - How an Empty Self Transforms the World
February 11, 2022 19:30 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB(Gaia House)
Zohar Lavie: Questions and Responses
February 11, 2022 11:30 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Nathan Glyde.
Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - the Construction of Dukkha and Release
February 10, 2022 19:30 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Questions and Responses
February 10, 2022 11:30 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.
Nathan Glyde: Meditation Instructions
February 10, 2022 09:30 - 59 minutes - 48 MB(Gaia House) Inconstancy
Kirsten Kratz: Week 5 - Exploring Equanimity
February 09, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MB(Gaia House) Dharma Talk, Guided Meditation, Closing of the Retreat
Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - The Middle Way of Balancing & Gathering
February 08, 2022 19:30 - 20 minutes - 16.7 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: Closing Session
February 07, 2022 09:30 - 57 minutes - 33.2 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Ayya Santacitta: Revealing What Was Hidden or Holding Up a Lamp in the Dark
February 06, 2022 20:56 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Reflections on Second and Third Vipallasa
February 06, 2022 19:30 - 49 minutes - 39.8 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: 3rd Vipallasa: Anatta ~ Person Is a Mere Concept
February 06, 2022 16:07 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: Third Vipallasa
February 06, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 50.7 MB(Gaia House) Seeing what is without a self (anatta) as a self (atta). This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Ayya Santacitta: 2nd Vipallasa: Dukkha ~ Challenges Can Bring Out the Best of Our Human Potential
February 06, 2022 10:53 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: Second Vipallasa
February 06, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 45.9 MB(Gaia House) Seeing what is painful (dukkha) as pleasant (sukha). This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Ayya Santacitta: 1st Vipallasa: Impermanence as a Dharma-Gate
February 05, 2022 20:46 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: 1st Vipallasa: Anicca ~ Impermanence as a Dharma-Gate
February 05, 2022 20:46 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Nathan Glyde: A Wise and Kind Way of Seeing All Things as Unsatisfactory
February 05, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 118 MB(Gaia House) All changing and unreliable phenomena are neither satisfactory nor dissatisfactory. They neither contain the ingredients for contentment nor for distress. It is in the way of relating to them that the tangle of dukkha (distress) arises, or the openness of freedom, well-being, and happiness come to be. How much freedom might come from reminding ourselves that all things are both non-dissatisfactory and unsatisfactory? Guided meditation and Dharma Reflection, followed by a Q&A.
Laura Bridgman: Reflections on First and Fourth Vipallasa
February 05, 2022 19:30 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Fourth Vipallasa
February 05, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB(Gaia House) Seeing what is not beautiful (asubha) as beautiful (subha).
Ayya Santacitta: Having the Humility & Courage to Start Exactly Where We Are
February 04, 2022 20:49 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MB(Gaia House) Guided Meditation
Laura Bridgman: Opening Session (Part 2)
February 04, 2022 20:45 - 28 minutes - 16.3 MB(Gaia House) This recording also includes Ayya Santacitta
Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - Transitioning and Sustaining Welll-being
February 03, 2022 09:30 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB(Gaia House)