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2015 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

Vipassana, or Buddhist Meditation, is a way of opening to life and seeing clearly the totality of one’s being and experience. The practice is based on cultivating a present-centered mindfulness, leading to an unfolding of our natural wisdom and compassion. The focus of this retreat is to enhance intimacy with ourselves and the world. In order to help participants discover a sense of stillness and deep listening, silence will be maintained throughout the retreat except during question/answer periods and interviews with the teachers. In addition to sitting and walking meditation practice, there will be sessions of mindful movement led each day.

2015-04-17 (8 days) Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

  
2015-04-18 Question/Response - Working with Pain and with Recurring Thoughts 9:05
Tara Brach
2015-04-18 Standing and Walking Meditation Instructions 10:36
Tara Brach
2015-04-18 Challenging Energies 57:29
Pat Coffey
2015-04-19 Meditation: Forgiving Ourselves and Others (with instructions) 34:15
Tara Brach
2015-04-20 Meditation - Vipassana with Instruction 27:39
Tara Brach
2015-04-20 Morning Q and Response - Working with Trauma 13:11
Tara Brach
2015-04-20 Loving Yourself into Freedom 61:00
Tara Brach
The most basic truths we forget, and one is this - if we don't love ourselves, we can't love life.  In the most basic way, attending to and embracing our inner life reveals the nature of reality. This talk looks at the genesis of self-aversions and several pathways that open us to the loving presence that is our source.
2015-04-22 Meditation - Letting Life Be, Just As It Is 27:46
Tara Brach
2015-04-23 Namaste - Seeing the Sacred that Lives through all Beings 68:02
Tara Brach
The trance of separation is part of our evolutionary heritage, but not the end of the story. This talk explores how several key trainings of the heart can evolve and awaken our capacity to realize connectedness, and the sacredness that shines through this living world.
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