Kristina Baré is an insight meditation teacher, therapist, and Somatic Experiencing practitioner. She has trained primarily in the Burmese lineages of Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw and Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw. She enjoys supporting students deepening samadhi, loving-kindness and insight. Opening the door to an expansion of the heart and to liberating wisdom. In support of the Buddha’s teachings, Kristina also draws on knowledge from western psychology and Somatic Experiencing. She invites a kind, patient, and embodied approach as a base for samadhi, loving-kindness and insight meditation practices.
The talk describes the five hindrances and how to meet them in concentration practice by 1. gently ignoring, 2. bring in antidotes, 3. meeting with RAIN approach
Guided instructions for bringing mindfulness into the transition out of retreat. Grounding in the body and breath while opening to a wider field of experience, the practice explores how we can meet anticipation, changing conditions, and the return of familiar patterns of self with awareness and curiosity.
Exploring the movement of the fourth tetrad from seeing impermanence through the fading of craving, cessation, and letting go. Using the image of an opening hand, the talk considers how releasing our grip can bring greater ease, intimacy with life, and freedom from the pressure of selfing.
Guided practice exploring impermanence as the flow of present-moment experience. By noticing pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experiences arising and changing, we begin to see through the sense of solidity and discover greater ease in allowing each moment to come and go.
Introducing the fourth tetrad of mindfulness of breathing and the contemplation of impermanence. Through close attention to the changing nature of breath, sensation, and everyday experience, we can move from an intellectual understanding of impermanence toward a more direct knowing that supports letting go, presence, and freedom.
