River Wolton's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        River Wolton  
 
    
        
                            
      River Wolton attended her first Insight Meditation retreat in 2000, and subsequently helped to establish Sheffield Insight Meditation (UK). She is a Community Dharma Leader authorised by Gaia House Teacher Council, and has completed Dharma Teacher Training with Bodhi College. A former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, she has led writing and arts projects for many years, and is an activist in the LGBTQI+ community.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2023-03-30
            Afternoon Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-04-01
            Afternoon Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-08-01
            Anchors, Awareness, Attitude 
    
        2024-01-28
            Creative Engagement with Difficulties - Mind and Body; Short Guided Practice an… 
    
        2025-07-25
            Cultivating Seeds of Friendliness 
    
        2024-07-14
            Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness 
    
        2025-08-02
            Dancing with Mara - Adventures with Aversion & the Inner Critic 
    
        2022-07-29
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-12-09
            Dharma Talk - Death is the Mother of Beauty 
    
        2025-06-20
            Dharma Talk - How Can Mortality Awareness Resource Us 
    
        2022-04-14
            Dharma Talk - Kindfulness of Body 
    
        2025-06-18
            Dharma Talk - Letting Go Without Getting Low 
    
        2022-04-16
            Dharma Talks - Joy as Sustenance for Compassion 
    
        2023-03-29
            Evening Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-03-30
            Evening Dharma Talk - The Story of Ptolemy the Tortoise and Mettā 
    
        2025-07-26
            Fearless Joy 
    
        2024-02-12
            Field of Care 
    
        2023-04-21
            Finding Peace Within Impermanence 
    
        2023-04-15
            Finding Steadiness and Lightness in the Journey of Connecting (River Wolton), M… 
    
        2025-07-24
            For Nothing is Fixed 
    
        2024-04-20
            Guided Meditation - Absorbing Friendliness From Trees and Other Beings 
    
        2025-06-17
            Guided Meditation - Stepping Stones to Boundless Mettā 
    
        2024-12-14
            Guided Meditation (LB)
Liberating Our Views (RW)
Contemplative Exercise : Mea… 
    
        2024-12-14
            Guided Meditation (LB)
Mortality & Infinity as Doorways to the Sacred (RW)
Fe… 
    
        2024-12-15
            Guided Meditation (LB)
Review of the Weekend (LB)
Remembering Lightness (RW) 
    
        2024-12-13
            Guided Meditation (RW)
The Metaphor of the Beloved (LB)
The Centrality of Kin… 
    
        2024-12-14
            Guided Meditation (RW)
The Path with the Beloved (LB)
Contemplative Exercise … 
    
        2024-02-11
            History, Story, Mystery 
    
        2025-07-25
            Holding Thoughts Lightly 
    
        2025-08-10
            How Do We Cross the Flood ? 
    
        2023-07-05
            How's the Weather With You ? 
    
        2024-04-20
            Instructions -  Connecting and Returning to Anchors, Walking Practice Guidance 
    
        2024-04-27
            Instructions - Tips For Steadying with the Breath, Qigong, Guided Meditation. 
    
        2022-04-14
            Instructions & Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-04-15
            Instructions & Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-12-08
            Instructions & Reflections - Ground, Breath, Body, Space 
    
        2023-04-16
            Interconnected  (the three brains, the earth, and qualities of deep connection)… 
    
        2022-07-30
            Meditation Instructions 
    
        2023-03-29
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2025-06-19
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2023-03-31
            Morning Instructions - Creative Approches to Thoughts and Thinking 
    
        2025-06-17
            Morning Instructions - Sitting & Walking Meditation 
    
        2023-07-04
            Multiverse of Mettā - Guided Practice 
    
        2025-03-22
            Poems, Perceptions & Freedom 
    
        2023-07-06
            Pride, Joy and Seeing Queerly 
    
        2022-04-17
            Reflections & Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-04-16
            Reflections and Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-11-04
            Reflections on Poetry and Dharma (includes a song) 
    
        2025-08-09
            Refuge of the Buddha 
    
        2025-07-26
            Riffing on Mettā 
    
        2024-04-21
            Talk - Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness 
    
        2024-04-27
            Talk - Mettā in Motion - a Moveable Feast 
    
        2024-07-13
            Talk - The Dharma of Birdwatching 
    
        2024-02-12
            The Art of Mettā 
    
        2024-07-15
            The Extraordinatory Lightness of Being 
    
        2023-04-17
            The Practice of GRAIN 
    
        2025-08-09
            The Refuge of Dharma 
    
        2025-08-10
            The Refuge of Sangha 
    
        2023-04-15
            Tuning into the Space Around Us and the Anchors of Ground, Body and Breath.  Gu… 
    
        2024-01-27
            Upcycling the Five Hindrances 
    
        2025-08-08
            What is Refuge ? 
    
        2024-02-10
            What is Well ? 
    
        2024-07-16
            Where's This Thought Headed ? 
    
        2024-01-27
            Why Mettā Matters 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2022-04-13
            Insight Meditation and Yoga 
    
        2022-07-28
            Rainbow Dharma: a retreat for the LGBTQI+ community 
    
        2023-03-28
            The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion 
    
        2023-04-14
            Young Person's Retreat - A Path of Connection and Belonging 
    
        2023-04-21
            Meditation Day - Impermanence as a Way to Peace 
    
        2023-07-03
            Rainbow Dharma:  A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community 
    
        2023-11-04
            Between the Words :  Poetry and Meditation 
    
        2023-12-07
            This Precious Human Life - Contemplating Our Mortality 
    
        2024-01-26
            Inner Peace and Fierce Compassion (Dana Retreat) 
    
        2024-02-09
            Rainbow Dharma- A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community 
    
        2024-04-19
            A Path of Connection - Young Person's Retreat 
    
        2024-04-26
            Mettā in Motion - Insight Meditation & Qigong 
    
        2024-07-12
            The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion 
    
        2024-12-13
            The Call to the Beloved (online) 
    
        2025-03-22
            Between the Words - Poetry & Meditation 
    
        2025-06-16
            This Precious Human Life : Contemplating Our Mortality 
    
        2025-07-23
            Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community 
    
        2025-07-31
            Young Person's Retreat: A Path of Connection 
    
        2025-08-08
            Crossing the Flood (online retreat)