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2025-11-04 Metta Instructions & Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:17
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-10-21 Guided Metta Meditation for Neutral Person 32:39
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience Of Love & Wisdom In Meeting Our Lives

2025-09-20 Guided Meditation: Metta (loving-kindness) for dear friend and neutral being 60:23
Marjolein Janssen
After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-06 Last Guided Metta Meditation 23:55
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community – 25LGBTQAI

2025-08-21 Guided Instructions: Metta for easy beings and benefactors 44:38
Matthew Hepburn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25NL

2025-08-12 Metta Instructions + Guided Meditation 28:49
Tuere Sala
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Emptiness: Seeing that Frees Yearlong Course Retreat

2025-08-11 Metta Instructions + Guided Meditation 58:02
Yahel Avigur
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Emptiness: Seeing that Frees Yearlong Course Retreat

2025-08-10 Metta Instructions + Guided Meditation 55:27
Tuere Sala
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Emptiness: Seeing that Frees Yearlong Course Retreat

2025-08-09 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 58:38
Yahel Avigur
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Emptiness: Seeing that Frees Yearlong Course Retreat

2025-08-07 Guided Metta Meditation 48:50
Deborah Ratner Helzer
For oneself and a benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart's Release: Insight and Metta Retreat – 25MKM

2025-07-30 Guided Meditation: Concentration, Metta, Mindfulness (including of Negative Views), and Reflections 40:18
Donald Rothberg
In this guided meditation, connected to the later talk on "Non-Harming," we begin with about 8 minutes of settling and becoming more present, developing more samadhi (concentration). Then there is a period of lovingkindness (metta) practice, including starting where the lovingkindness flows the easiest and then extending the lovingkindness to many other beings. This is followed by mindfulness practice, with guidance on exploring when there are negative or blaming views of self or another. Finally, we close with several reflection questions related to how there is harming of self and/or others at times in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-28 Guided Instructions: Giving & Receiving Metta 48:45
Matthew Hepburn
Loving-Kindness can be a relational reciprocity. We explore cultivating this approach.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 25YA

2025-07-25 Cultivating Seeds of Friendliness 38:35
River Wolton
Guided mettā meditation.
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2025-07-13 Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 2—Developing Mettā To An Easy Relationship 46:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-11 Body Metta Awareness 67:12
Devon Hase
Reflections and Guided Meditation on Metta for the Body moving into boundless loving awareness.
Various

2025-06-27 Guided Meditation - Metta to an Easeful Relationship & Expanding to All 42:27
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Unequalled Radiance (Dana Retreat, Livestreamed)

2025-06-20 Guided Meditation - Mettā Practice 42:45
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House This Precious Human Life : Contemplating Our Mortality

2025-06-17 Guided Meditation - Stepping Stones to Boundless Mettā 39:56
River Wolton
Gaia House This Precious Human Life : Contemplating Our Mortality

2025-05-11 Guided Metta Meditation - Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:34
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Retreat

2025-05-01 Guided Meditation - Mettā to and Easy Relationship; Self & World 41:11
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Limitless and Sublime

2025-04-29 Metta for All Beings 28:08
Devon Hase
Guided practice on metta for all beings
Big Bear Retreat Center Simplicity and Stillness

2025-04-21 Guided metta meditation 48:51
Ayya Anandabodhi
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Deepening into Wisdom and Love 2025

2025-04-19 Guided Mettā Practice 42:19
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation

2025-04-19 Healing a Broken Heart 44:22
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided metta meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Deepening into Wisdom and Love 2025

2025-04-16 Guided Metta for Self 45:10
Roxanne Dault
Inviting this warmth in meeting all that we are and cultivating kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - 25RB

2025-04-07 Monday afternoon metta 45:40
Jeanne Corrigal
A short talk and guided practice offer easy doorways to metta, along with guidance with the acronym CARE for the abiding and radiating practices.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-03 A Gentle Introduction to Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:16
Oren Jay Sofer
In this guided meditation with instructions, we begin with connecting with the felt sense of metta, then explore offering phrases for a benefactor, mentor, or good friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-02 Brahmavihāra – Introduction to the four immeasurables. Guided Mettā Exercise. 40:46
Akincano Marc Weber
The Four Immeasurables. Brahmavihāra are not mere emotions but constitute different tones of relational empathetic resonance. They constitute nothing less but our humanity. Brahmavihāras are cultivations not just 'states'. They are more than empathy but intentntional attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-03-29 Morning Welcome, Guided Sit - Anapanasati Concentration, Metta Practice for Self & Benefactor 43:26
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Introduction to Retreat Topic: Metta & Mudita retreat format, schedule, questions followed by Guided Sitting Meditation... Anapanasati concentration and Metta practice for oneself 60:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-25 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas and the Practice of Metta 58:28
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with a song and for the first half hour Kaira Jewel gives a brief overview the Four Brahmaviharas followed by an introduction to the practice of metta: what it is, how it can transform our lives, what some of the challenges are and then how to practice with the categories and the phrases. Then in the second half hour Kaira Jewel leads a guided metta meditation offering metta to ourselves, our benefactor and a dear friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-22 Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation: Tetrad 1 + Metta 29:46
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-03 Lightly Guided Med - Suffusing Our Practice w Metta 42:21
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-03 Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill 41:37
Anushka Fernandopulle
Introduction to Brahma Vihara practices and Guided Metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-02 Meeting The Body With Loving Attention 30:30
Jean Esther
This is a Guided body scan meditation infused with metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-02-26 Freeing the Heart from Enmity: Metta for the Difficult 60:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Instructions and guided meditation on how to practice metta for those with whom we have conflict, difficulty, or struggle.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-23 Morning Instructions: Metta Practice + Guided Meditation for Benefactor 59:58
Oren Jay Sofer
This talk introduces formal instructions for metta practice in the traditional form of phrases and categories. After sharing about the spirit and principles behind the practice, we engage in a guided meditation first receiving metta from a benefactor, then offering metta to a benefactor, and finally offering metta to oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-21 Ideas for Self Guided Practice; Guided Meditation - Radiant Goodwill (Metta) 39:58
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening in Motion and Stillness

2025-02-11 Guided Meditation - Mettā - Uncontracted Non-Clinging 42:09
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House An Open Path

2025-02-10 Metta Practice for Neutral Person & Difficult Person 46:21
Jean Esther
We expand or awareness of our interconnectedness as humans when we practice Metta for both the "Neutral Person" and the "Difficult Person". Sometimes the Difficult Person can be ourselves. The end of this Guided Practice offers a compassion practice for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-10 Guided Meditation : Mettā to Sensations 42:17
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House An Open Path

2025-02-06 Metta for Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:26
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to practice metta for ourselves, including poetry by Jane Hirshfield and a story by Father Gregory Boyle. Guided practice in receiving care and sending love to our younger self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-01 Embodying Peace Part 1 2:17:59
Andrea Castillo, Dawn Neal
The First Four Principles ~Settling Sit ~Teachings on Individualism and Community ~Teachings on the Six Principles of Cordiality ~Guided Meditation (Bio break- not recorded) ~Lightly Guided Meditation: Generosity and Metta ~Teachings on Metta (Lovingkindness) ~Teachings on Generosity ~Lightly Guided Meditation (Ritual - not recorded)
Insight Santa Cruz Embodying Peace: A Daylong Retreat on the 6 Principles of Cordiality

2025-01-18 Module III: Metta/Loving Kindness Practice 1:44:13
Howard Cohn
Metta: The Practice of Loving Kindness 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-14 Morning Instructions Day 4 - Introducing the Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:01
Gullu Singh
In this guided meditation we expand the sphere of Mettā from Self, Benefactor and Friend to also include the neutral person. This is the person you do not know well or have any strong feeling for or against. The ancient texts describe this as the one that is neither loved nor unloved.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2025-01-13 Guided Meditation: Radiating Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:19
Donald Rothberg
We start with naming two general contexts for metta practice: (1) metta is practiced along with the other three brahmavihara—compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—and when mature integrates the other three; and (2) there are different ways of practicing metta. We then look at another main way of practicing, likely the way that the Buddha practiced—radiating metta. After a brief overview, we practice radiating metta first through a guided spatial expansion of radiating metta, from one’s own heart to the infinite expanse. Then we practice briefly a simple way of just letting metta radiate. After practice, there is discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2025-01-09 Radiant Kindness : Mindful Movement & Guided Meditation (Mettā Parami) 58:44
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Rest and Renewal

2025-01-05 Guided Mettā–Forgiveness- Gratitude Meditation (no phrases) 43:58
Akincano Marc Weber
Guided practice on the themes of mettā, gratitude, connectedness, and forgiveness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Metta: Loving Ourselves Back into Wholeness 39:41
Devon Hase
Guided meditation on metta for all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-12-29 Metta for a Benefactor 42:47
Devon Hase
Introduction and teachings on metta followed by a guided practice sending metta to a benefactor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

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