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| Cara Lai: Say what you mean, act how you feel, be yourself | 18 Jan 2026 | 01:01:58 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness isn't about pretending to be peaceful, it's about being real. Don't be afraid to be completely yourself. You are good and the world is waiting for you to stop believing otherwise. | |||
| Matthew Hepburn: Mindfulness of the Heart | 18 Jan 2026 | 00:52:27 | |
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| Bob Stahl: Meditation Instructions | 10 Jan 2026 | 00:58:50 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The First Foundation of Mindfulness of the Body | |||
| Bob Stahl: Convergence | 09 Jan 2026 | 01:03:25 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness in the mainstream world and what brings us to practice | |||
| Catherine McGee: Closing Reflections New Year's Retreat | 07 Jan 2026 | 00:29:37 | |
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| Yanai Postelnik: Brief practice instructions for the morning of last full day | 06 Jan 2026 | 00:42:17 | |
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| Yanai Postelnik: The Fruition of Practice- Recognising the heart that continues | 05 Jan 2026 | 00:56:23 | |
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| Éowyn Ahlstrom: Morning Instructions | 05 Jan 2026 | 00:36:55 | |
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| Éowyn Ahlstrom: Sila, Samadhi, Panna | 04 Jan 2026 | 00:53:15 | |
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| Yanai Postelnik: Guided Meditation on Forgiveness | 04 Jan 2026 | 00:37:01 | |
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| Catherine McGee: 6th Morning Instructions: Thoughts and Dispassion | 04 Jan 2026 | 00:45:42 | |
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| Catherine McGee: Practicing With the Full Moon | 03 Jan 2026 | 00:56:09 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What might be seen under the light of the full moon that can liberate our sense of existence. Seclusion, Dispassion, Cessation | |||
| Cara Lai: Putting down the burden | 17 Jan 2026 | 00:56:36 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A meditation on finding comfort in the simple goodness of this moment, followed by a talk about feeling alone with the task of being ok in the world, followed by a meditation to locate the comfort and care that reassures us that it's safe to let go. | |||
| Cara Lai, Matthew Hepburn: Introducing Mindfulness of the Body | 17 Jan 2026 | 00:44:29 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Day 1 sitting instructions. Very short practice suitable for beginners emphasizing relaxed relationship to the objects of attention, balanced attitude, and how to set appropriate expectatioins about unintentional thinking during meditation. | |||
| Jeanne Corrigal: Instructions and Guided Meditation: Open Awareness | 14 Jan 2026 | 00:46:23 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Instructions and Guided Meditation in Open Awareness as a practice we do naturally, when we spend time connecting with nature externally. | |||
| Jeanne Corrigal: The Three Marks of Existence as a Nature Liberation Practice | 13 Jan 2026 | 01:02:20 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The image of a bird flying is offered as a way of bringing together the big picture of the Satipatthana Sutta teachings, with the three characteristics as the environment the bird is flying in. The three characteristics are then situated in the refrain of the Satipatthana Sutta, which is seen as a practice from nature, to reveal our inner nature. This teaching is applied to our lives through exploring how to work with self judgement. The talk ends exploring this practice in the world, for the benefit of all beings. | |||
| Bob Stahl: Meditation Instructions: Open Awareness | 13 Jan 2026 | 00:45:12 | |
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| Bob Stahl: Heart of the Dhamma: 4 Noble Truths | 12 Jan 2026 | 01:06:56 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The story of turning into the skid to grow in wisdom and the journey of the Buddha's awakening | |||
| Jeanne Corrigal: Instructions and Guided Meditation: Vedana | 11 Jan 2026 | 00:56:36 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Vedana is explored as a significant freedom moment which can help us see clinging. | |||
| Jeanne Corrigal: The Hindrances as a Process of Liberation | 10 Jan 2026 | 01:02:36 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The four wise efforts are explored as a path to freedom with the hindrances. Several practices are offered for each effort, with particular emphasis given to abandoning unwholesome states that have arisen, through a relationship of non-clinging. The talk concludes with reference to Indigenous Elder Stan Rushworth and the thought that working with the hindrances shows us a way of showing up in a sacred way in the world. | |||
| Mark Nunberg: Morning Instructions - 4th Day | 08 Mar 2026 | 00:55:04 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with wise view and effort. | |||
| Mark Nunberg: Relating to Hindrances with Wisdom | 06 Mar 2026 | 00:45:05 | |
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| Howard Cohn: Awakening To The Sky Like Nature of Mind | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:55:42 | |
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| Howard Cohn: The Good News: You Are Not Who You Think You Are: You Are Beyond Description | 12 Feb 2026 | 01:04:46 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The power of moment to moment mindful attention to awakeness to the inherent freedom and peace of our nature | |||
| Howard Cohn: Dipa M and the Buddha's Way To Happiness | 09 Feb 2026 | 00:56:48 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness directed equally to every experience in the style of Dipa Ma opens us to shift from happiness dependent on conditions to unconditional happiness. | |||
| Nicola Redfern: Day 5 - Part 2 ID Guideline Attune to Emergence | 04 Feb 2026 | 00:27:39 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with impermanence | |||
| Éowyn Ahlstrom: Metta | 03 Jan 2026 | 00:44:03 | |
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| Yanai Postelnik: Day 5 Morning Instructions | 03 Jan 2026 | 00:43:32 | |
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| Yanai Postelnik: Deepening Practice | 02 Jan 2026 | 01:01:54 | |
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| Catherine McGee: Guided Metta: Receiving the Love from Beyond Myself | 02 Jan 2026 | 00:43:14 | |
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| Éowyn Ahlstrom: Meditation Instructions | 02 Jan 2026 | 00:42:39 | |
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| Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning Reflection: How to deal with emotions such as anger | 23 Feb 2026 | 00:15:24 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meeting aversion with mindfulness can lead to freedom from suffering | |||
| Éowyn Ahlstrom: Wisdom and the Heart Practices | 01 Jan 2026 | 00:54:21 | |
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| Peace Twesigye: Suffusion of the Brahmaviharas | 20 Feb 2026 | 00:11:19 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Evening chanting of the Suffusion of the Brahmaviharas followed by toning with Sabra on the shruti box | |||
| Bart van Melik: Four Powerful Resolves: Wisdom, Truth, Generosity, and Peace | 20 Feb 2026 | 00:44:47 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Drawing on the story of Pukkusāti meeting the Buddha, this talk explores four core resolves: not neglecting wisdom, protecting the truth, cultivating generosity, and training in peace. With reflections from retreat practice and daily life, the talk invites us to orient the heart again and again toward these qualities as a path of gradual cultivation and inner freedom. | |||
| Devin Berry: The Steady Heart: Equanimity as a Path of Care | 20 Feb 2026 | 01:07:50 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Dharma talk and guided equanimity practice exploring steadiness of heart in uncertain times; How to care deeply without hardening, collapsing, or turning away from the complexities of modern life. | |||
| Peace Twesigye: Mudita Reflection and Guided Sit | 19 Feb 2026 | 00:45:28 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Grief introductory reflections on mudita are offered followed by a guided meditation using phrases to cultivate mudita. | |||
| Bart van Melik: Knowing the Mind: Awareness of Thoughts and Emotions | 19 Feb 2026 | 00:45:11 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation explores the third foundation of mindfulness—awareness of mind states. We bring kind, steady attention to thoughts, emotions, and moods, while gently investigating our relationship to them. Seeing how mindfulness can know these experiences without being defined by them, the practice opens space, clarity, and a more compassionate way of relating to the mind. | |||
| Devin Berry: Morning Instruction: Vedana (Feeling Tone) | 18 Feb 2026 | 00:40:01 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to Vedana, guiding awareness of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience as a foundation for insight and less reactivity. Includes Guided Meditation. | |||
| Erin Treat: Bahiya Sutta: Bare Attention, Anatta and Intimacy | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:45:18 | |
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| Andrea Fella: Love and Wisdom | 09 Mar 2026 | 00:47:20 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In the receptive awareness style of practice taught by Sayadaw U Tejaniya, people often ask how the Brahma Viharas fit in to the practice. This talk describes several ways the BVs connect with this style of practice. | |||
| Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Aware with Thoughts and Noticing Attitude | 07 Mar 2026 | 01:00:50 | |
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| Tara Mulay: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone | 19 Dec 2025 | 00:56:06 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) With all sensory and mental experience-body sensations, hearing , seeing, tasting, smelling, thinking emotions and moods. | |||
| Pascal Auclair: Equanimity Practice | 18 Dec 2025 | 00:25:49 | |
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| Tara Mulay: Energy, Effort, and Courage in Our Insight Meditation Practice | 18 Dec 2025 | 00:46:13 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A discussion of Equanimity and confidence and Mindfulness | |||
| Pascal Auclair: Where Curiosity Leads | 18 Dec 2025 | 01:02:52 | |
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| Pascal Auclair: Embracing Uncertainty | 17 Dec 2025 | 00:51:41 | |
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| Pascal Auclair: Guided Metta Meditation | 16 Dec 2025 | 00:27:57 | |
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta as renunciation and chanting to end the evening. | |||
| Pascal Auclair: Bringing curiosity to the state of the mind. | 16 Dec 2025 | 01:02:36 | |
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| Tara Mulay: Metta (Lovingkindness) Practice | 15 Dec 2025 | 00:28:04 | |
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