Equanimity: Finding Balance in Difficult Times
With Recorded : January 16, 2022
In times like these with so much uncertainty, fear and suffering, how can we keep our center in a world that sometimes seems to be spinning out of control?
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Nourishing Compassion
With Recorded : January 9, 2022
His Holiness the Dalai Lama has shared that compassion is not a luxury but a necessity for human beings to survive. There is no more important time to understand and strengthen compassion than right now....
Can love reveal ultimate reality?
With Recorded : December 19, 2021
We know the cost to the reality of life through deprivation of love.
Science has eliminated love from its analysis of reality.
We cannot know ultimate reality though highlighting the mind and dismissing the heart or...
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices to Support Resilience
With Recorded : December 12, 2021
In this session, we'll explore how to practice mindfulness and meditation in a trauma-sensitive way. We'll learn experiential mindfulness practices designed to support empowerment, as well as how to recognize trauma and work with...
The Practice of Blamelessness
With Recorded : December 5, 2021
We are deeply conditioned to blame; it’s a survival strategy. Though it can feel necessary, maybe even fruitful to part of us, blaming arises out of suffering, and leads to more suffering. The process...
The Wisdom of the Body
With Recorded : November 28, 2021
While we might think of the body as flesh and blood, there is so much more to this mortal coil. The body in fact may be our deepest teacher. In this session, we explore...
Skillful Ways to Work with Difficult Thoughts in Meditation
With Recorded : November 21, 2021
There’s a misconception that thoughts are a hindrance to deep meditation and tranquility. Especially during this ongoing challenging time, certain thoughts may be persistent and difficult to release. Yet, thoughts themselves are not the...
Getting Real with Spiritual Bypass
With Recorded : November 14, 2021
Spiritual bypassing is a superficial way of glossing over problems in a way that might make us feel better in the short term, but ultimately solves nothing and just leaves the problem to linger...
Climate Code Red
With Recorded : November 7, 2021
However challenging, we are in these times because we need to be here. We are here to release from what no longer serves and to infuse a new story with clear, wise, conscious intention;...
Staying Open Through Change, Loss and Disruption
With Recorded : October 31, 2021
When we are faced with suffering and uncertainty or life becomes overwhelming we can tense up, resist or try to control. But when we open and let go in the midst of change and...
Cabbages & Condoms
With Recorded : October 24, 2021
During this session we be explore life’s basic necessities and drives, and the critical difference between ‘getting along’ and ‘getting ahead.’ Our meditation practice will be based on the Wise-Heartedness Bhavana to help us...
A Relational Dhamma
With Recorded : October 17, 2021
If humans are intrinsically relational creatures, how do we integrate this understanding with the Buddha’s teachings on suffering and its cessation? Relational suffering and craving? Dependent origination? In this session, we explore the power...
The Power of Connection
With Recorded : October 10, 2021
The pandemic has highlighted now, more than ever, how interconnected we are with life on this planet, and also the importance of human connection for us as social animals. The preciousness of relationship is...
Embodied Wisdom: the Fruit of Buddhist Practice
With Recorded : October 3, 2021
Cultivating embodied wisdom can provide us with lasting equanimity in the face of life’s inevitable ups and downs. During this session, Ronya offers Buddhist practices and frameworks to help us access deep peace and...
Getting Free: The Infinite Middle of the MiddleWay
With Recorded : September 26, 2021
Dharma teachings are sublime, subtle, and onward leading: they are always going deeper and wider than we may first presume. Yet, they also meet us where we are, in the midst of our life....
Compassion, Emergence and Climate Change
With Recorded : September 19, 2021
This year, humanity has witnessed the alarming acceleration of climate change… the loss of forests and rivers, animal and plant species… and the potential annihilation of our species. Alongside our profound grief for what...
The Roots of Discouragement
With Recorded : September 12, 2021
Progress in meditation may be slower than we anticipate. Discouragement develops when the comparing mind holds unrealistic expectations, demands perfection, and craves for measurable progress, predictable results, or signposts of success. This talk explores...
Leaning Into Collapse
With Recorded : September 5, 2021
The fires and floods of this summer, and the ongoing pandemic and its complexities, can weigh heavy on the heart, along with the shocking but unsurprising new IPCC report confirming the ‘inevitable and irreversible’...
Two Wings to Fly – Cultivating Both Wisdom and Compassion
With Recorded : July 25, 2021
In traditional Theravada Buddhism it’s said that for one to truly experience freedom one needs to engage in the practices of both wisdom and compassion. Like a bird that needs two wings to fly,...
Mindful Intentions: From Pressure to Growth
With Recorded : July 18, 2021
What effect does it have if we practice mindfulness and meditation motivated by the fundamental assumption that there is something wrong with us? Perspectives such as ‘not being good enough’ or being ‘damaged goods’...
Glimpse of Being
With Recorded : July 11, 2021
There are many ways to practice mindfulness, from the focused and deliberate to the expansive and relaxed. In this session, Diana teaches about natural awareness, which is a wide open, spacious, effortless awareness of...
Opening to the Joy of Interconnection
With Recorded : July 4, 2021
A deeply conditioned habit of the human mind is to experience ourselves as independent and distinct from others and the world that we share. At the heart of Dharma teachings is the invitation to...
Dancing with the Devil – Coming Home in the Midst of our Emotional Storms
With Recorded : June 27, 2021
There is a big emphasis in our society on doing good and being right. But rather than trying harder, being perfect and becoming a “better person” what about embracing ourselves just as we are,...
The Body as a Vehicle of Awakening
With Recorded : June 20, 2021
One of our best teachers is very close at hand. The body offers continual opportunities for healing and insight, both simple and profound. But what is the body? As we look more carefully, we...