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

Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - Lingering in Happiness Beyond Retreat Conditions

February 02, 2022 19:30 - 43 minutes - 35.1 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - A Route of Happiness

February 01, 2022 19:30 - 53 minutes - 61.3 MB

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Zohar Lavie: Dharma Talk - Interrupting the Build-Up of Dukkha

January 31, 2022 19:30 - 47 minutes - 37.8 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Fierce Compassion

January 23, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk

January 23, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Teachings and Closing Session.

January 23, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 54.1 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Teaching Session with Guided Practice, and Closing Session.

January 23, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 54.1 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring the map of the jhanas, their beauty and benefit, and how samadhi practice connects with insight and the understanding of emptiness and dependent origination. This includes a guided practice that builds on the guided practices during the retreat. Closing of the retreat.

Yanai Postelnik: Guided Meditation on Compassion

January 23, 2022 14:30 - 44 minutes - 51.4 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Guided Meditation

January 23, 2022 11:30 - 31 minutes - 18.3 MB

(Gaia House) Playing with metta (2) and proceeding into one's base practice (builds on previous meditations from this retreat)

Sari Markkanen: Teachings, Guided Meditation

January 23, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 48.4 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Morning Meditation Instructions

January 23, 2022 09:30 - 41 minutes - 57.5 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Teaching Session & Guided Meditation

January 23, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 48.4 MB

(Gaia House) Pointers and signposts of deepening, and a few words about metta practice for cultivating samadhi. Guided meditation: Playing with metta (1)

Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - Mind Training for Transformative Change

January 22, 2022 19:30 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Teaching Session

January 22, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 40.4 MB

(Gaia House) Working with the hindrances in samadhi practice.

Sari Markkanen: Guided Meditation, Teachings

January 22, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 40.4 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Guided Meditation on the Full Awareness of Breathing

January 22, 2022 14:30 - 39 minutes - 54 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Guided Meditation, Teachings.

January 22, 2022 14:30 - 37 minutes - 21.3 MB

(Gaia House) Playing with the breath (2) (this one builds on the previous practice)

Sari Markkanen: Teachings and Guided Meditation

January 22, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 38.5 MB

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Sari Markkanen: Opening Session for the Retreat

January 22, 2022 09:30 - 1 hour - 46.1 MB

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Yanai Postelnik: Morning Meditation Instructions

January 21, 2022 09:30 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Questions & Responses

January 16, 2022 11:30 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Instructions and Guided Meditation - Opening to Peacefulness

January 16, 2022 09:30 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Dharma Talk - Expanding Joy and Opening to Peace

January 15, 2022 19:39 - 49 minutes - 39.5 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Guided Meditation - Metta to Sensations

January 15, 2022 14:30 - 44 minutes - 36 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Instructions and Guided Meditation - Slowly Gathering in Kindness

January 14, 2022 09:30 - 56 minutes - 45.3 MB

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Zohar Lavie: Saddha: Conviction; Trust; Faith

January 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Conditioned Towards Freedom

January 08, 2022 20:43 - 1 hour - 121 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring how a wide expanse of Buddha Dharma is implied in Dhammapada verse 1: Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a corrupted heart, then suffering follows you— as the wheel of the cart, the track of the ox that pulls it. Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow ...

Kirsten Kratz: Reflections

January 02, 2022 19:30 - 52 minutes - 41.9 MB

(Gaia House) The power of intention and honouring our ethical sensitivities.

Jenny Wilks: Guided Meditation

January 02, 2022 14:30 - 41 minutes - 33.2 MB

(Gaia House) Breathing with Kindness

Kirsten Kratz: Morning Instructions

January 02, 2022 09:30 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MB

(Gaia House) Opening of awareness to meet contraction.

Zohar Lavie: Beginning Well

January 02, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MB

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Nathan Glyde: Ways of Practice

January 01, 2022 19:34 - 1 hour - 119 MB

(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk about four ways to see our meditation practice: gathering in well-being; radiating beautiful qualities; investigating experience; playing with lenses of perception. Because all things, including meditation, are dependently arising fabrications: there are many ways to meet them, and many (probably endless) ways of practising.