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Rebecca Bradshaw
Rebecca Bradshaw, author of Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart, has practiced vipassana and metta meditation since 1983 in both the United States and Burma. A Guiding Teacher Emeritus of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, she has been teaching since 1993. "My passion is encouraging students to drop into embodied presence, and grounding this presence in wisdom and lovingkindness. When a sense of love and kindness underlies our practice, we can explore life deeply in a truly integrated way, bringing together mind, heart, and body. Wisdom then holds it all in spaciousness. I especially enjoy connecting with young people in the Dharma and teaching students on longer retreats." For more information about Rebecca and/or to make a donation to support her teaching, visit her website at www.rebeccabradshaw.org.
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2015-07-08
Grief, Letting Go and Compassion
1998-01-01
Meditación De La Respiración
1998-01-01
Meditación Del Amor Bondadoso
2017-06-05
A Different Understanding Of Self
2004-08-15
Acceptance And Action
2023-02-19
Active and Receptive mindfulness
2007-10-12
Afflictive Emotions
2005-10-21
Anicca
2013-03-18
Appreciative Joy
2025-07-23
Appreciative Joy in Our Insight Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-07-16
Appreciative Joy Introduction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-05-29
Assumptions About Love
2023-11-17
Aversion
2008-09-26
Balanced Effort
2013-04-27
Balanced Effort
2019-04-09
Balancing Effort In Practice
2017-04-26
Becoming Human.
2012-08-30
Being Ordinary
2012-04-19
Being With Emotions With Kind Heartness Awareness.
2015-07-29
Better Than, Equal to, or Less Than: Comparing Ourselves to Others (The Buddha'…
2012-11-02
Boredom
2022-11-25
Boredom and being ordinary
2018-11-16
Boredom and ordinariness.
2018-10-06
Brahma Vihara practice
2013-11-25
Brahmaviharas - equanimity
2025-04-20
Choiceless Attention Guided Meditation
2014-11-14
Clinging and Non Clinging At the Six Sense Doors
2008-03-13
Compassion
2008-06-04
Compassion
2022-02-21
Compassion
2026-02-16
Compassion
2018-10-05
Connecting with Sensations
2023-11-09
Craving
2011-11-04
Craving - Tanha - Second Noble Truth
2023-08-24
Craving, Aversion, and Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-06-23
Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: Estados Mentales
2016-06-25
Cuatro Fundamentos de la Atención Plena: Procesos Mentales
2015-11-20
Deeply Conditioned Patterns Of Perfectionism
2019-11-22
Delusion: The Root Of Suffering
2018-11-30
Developing the graceful heart.
2019-07-27
Developing The Steady, Graceful and Confident Heart
2025-03-05
Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart
2007-03-22
Drive Through That Town
2007-08-30
Drive through that Town: An Unconventional Look at the Four Noble Truths
2009-11-06
Dukka - Three Kinds Of Suffering
2005-10-07
Dukkha
2020-03-02
Dukkha Dukkha: the Suffering of Unpleasant Experiences.
2024-04-24
Effort as intentionality, perseverance, and surrender
2015-06-24
El mundo de los pensamientos y de los sentido
2016-10-28
Energizing Factor of awakening.
2008-03-24
Equanimity
2025-04-19
Equanimity Brahmavihara
2023-11-28
Equanimity, Brahma Vihara
2001-06-09
Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness
2022-11-04
Exploring feeling tone
2021-01-20
Exploring Kwan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion
2022-06-15
Exploring non-identification
2018-11-23
Exploring not-self in our own practice.
2023-04-16
Feeling tone - guided meditation
2017-06-01
Finding Our Steady and Graceful Heart.
2018-10-05
First Morning
2007-12-30
Forgiveness
2005-06-07
Forgiveness And Joy
2014-07-09
Forgiveness: Freeing the Heart of Anger
2018-07-29
Four Faces Of Compassion
2018-04-17
Four Faces Of Compassion: Mary Tara, Kwan Yin, and Tinkerbell
2018-07-26
Four Foundations Of Mindfulness
2006-07-01
Four Kinds Of Happiness
2011-06-09
Four Noble Truths
2026-04-17
Four Noble Truths
2022-02-02
Freeing the Heart – Meditation
2022-02-02
Freeing the Heart – Talk
2013-11-22
Generosity
2010-03-15
Giving and Receiving with a Heart in Touch with Reality
2018-10-05
Graceful and Steady Heart
2010-11-05
Gratification - Danger and Escape
2011-12-22
Gratitude and generosity
2010-11-19
Gratitude and Generosity
2015-05-31
Guided Equanimity Brahmavihara
2022-12-01
Guided Equinimity Brahmavihara
2019-12-22
Guided Meditation - Metta and the Four Brahma Viharas
2011-06-23
Guided Meditations of the Divine Abodes - Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (K…
2018-07-28
Guided Metta
2023-04-14
Guided Metta - Mercy
2018-11-05
Guided Standing Meditation
2001-10-28
Happiness And The Greatest Happiness
2002-06-22
Happiness And The Obstacles To Happiness
2009-06-10
Happiness of Equanimity
2024-04-27
Healthy protections for the heart
2001-10-20
How Mindfulness Heals: Working With Thoughts And Emotions
2008-06-11
Impermanence And Equanimity
2001-06-16
Instrucciones para la meditacion vipassana
2022-10-27
Instruction – anchoring
2023-10-29
Instruction – thoughts
2026-04-15
Instruction and Guided Meditation Body Sensations
2025-04-17
Instructions - Body Sensations and Emotions
2022-08-01
Instructions and introduction: feeling tone (vedana)
2023-08-22
Instructions with Anchor/Home Base (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-19
Intimacy With All Things
2022-04-12
Intimacy with all things.
2018-10-04
Introduction
2014-10-28
Introduction To Brahma Vihara Practice and Guided Meditation
2012-10-30
Introduction to Compassion Meditation
2018-10-25
Introduction To Metta Meditation.
2017-02-15
Is Your Meditation Practice a Circle or a Line?
2009-02-19
Joyful Generosity
2008-03-31
Karma
2010-02-01
Karmic Knots
2019-11-08
Karmic Knots - 5 Stages
2022-02-19
Knowing Through Intimacy With our Own Experience
2013-07-08
Knowing your Buddhist Personality Type
2013-11-08
Knowing your Buddhist personality type can help you practice
2014-06-27
La Atención Plena y el Amor Bondadoso
2014-01-27
Living in delusion, living in truth
2013-11-14
Living In Delusion. Living In Truth
2011-06-02
Living With Metta, Dana and Sila Practice
2010-02-04
Making Peace with Deeply Conditioned Patterns of Heart and Mind
2016-11-18
Mana: the conceit of I am better then, less than, equal too.
2018-10-05
Meal-time Science Experiment
2001-06-17
Meditacion Del Amor Bondadoso
2015-06-25
Meditacion Metta
2013-10-29
Meditation Instructions - Emotions
2008-03-06
Metta
2008-06-12
Metta
2007-10-05
Metta
2007-09-25
Metta - Guided Meditation
2012-04-21
Metta - Neutral and Difficult Person
2012-07-02
Metta - self and easy people - teen retreat
2014-11-07
Metta and Compassion in our Vipassana Practice
2008-06-01
Metta And Its Challenges; Exploration Of The Classic "Hindrances" In Relationsh…
2018-10-05
Metta Chant
2018-10-06
Metta Chant
2023-08-17
Metta Concentration and the Tender Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-04-13
Metta for self and easy people.
2026-04-16
Metta General Info plus Neutral Person
2023-03-06
Metta hindrances
2019-10-26
Metta Instruction - Self and Easy Person
2023-08-19
Metta Instructions for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-05-25
Metta Instructions for Self and Easy Person
2018-10-05
Metta Meditation
2012-04-19
Metta Meditation Introduction. Guided Meditation
2023-03-04
Metta reflection
2022-07-31
Metta: Difficult Person
2007-09-28
Mindful Awareness Of The Five Hindrances
2007-09-28
Mindful Awareness of the Five Hindrances
2016-07-29
Mindful awareness of thoughts and emotions
2010-10-24
Mindfulness
2023-04-12
Mindfulness
2013-10-25
Mindfulness and Investigation
2015-07-24
Mindfulness and Metta With the Hindrances
2025-07-19
Mindfulness as Intimacy with All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-06-06
Mindfulness Of The Body
2012-07-01
Mindfulness Of Thought And Emotion
2016-06-06
Mine development, ethics, and giving
2013-05-30
Morning Instruction - Mindfulness of emotion
2012-06-03
Morning Instructions
2016-10-29
Morning instructions
2026-04-18
Morning Instructions
2014-10-27
Morning Instructions - Anchor
2018-10-30
Morning Instructions - Emotions
2018-04-18
Morning Instructions - Thoughts
2019-10-29
Morning Instructions - Thoughts
2024-04-25
Morning instructions – emotions
2025-07-21
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation – Emotions and Mind States (Retreat …
2023-08-26
Morning Instructions on Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-22
Morning Q&A
2023-11-30
Morning reflection
2026-03-13
Morning Reflection
2024-03-18
Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone
2024-03-19
Morning reflection on aversion and feeling tone
2024-03-12
Morning reflection on craving
2024-03-11
Morning reflection on craving
2023-04-15
Non-identification and pain
2023-02-21
Non-identification and the Spacious Mind
2009-03-05
Not Even Waiting - the Practice of Patience
2025-03-24
Not self from a heart paradigm
2018-10-05
Noticing Thoughts
2015-04-14
Opening Talk
2003-06-17
Opening The Heart Of Compassion
2018-10-06
Outside Meditation
2006-10-06
Paramis On Retreat
2014-11-28
Paramis On Retreat
2025-07-12
Practicing with Challenges in Formal Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-06-26
Protecciones sanas para el corazon: el amor bondadoso y la ecuanimidad
2012-06-04
Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions
2011-11-15
Questions and Answers
2001-06-23
Questions We May Ask
2019-07-28
Receiving Metta for oneself and sharing it with an easy person
2008-06-07
Relaxation, Curiosity And Mindfulness
2015-11-12
Sankhara Dukkha
2019-11-15
Sankhara Dukkha
2022-11-18
Saṅkhāra Dukkha and vulnerability
2018-10-06
Second Morning Meditation
2022-10-28
Sense-based reality and relaxing the cognitive grip
2015-11-27
Sila Makes Everybody Happy
2005-09-30
Skillful Effort
2012-02-02
Skillful Effort
2018-10-07
Soften with Compassion Guided Meditation
2014-05-25
Spiritual Idealism, Dukkha and Compassion
2018-10-05
Standing Meditation
2025-04-12
Steadying The Heart
2026-02-20
Steadying the heart /mind
2025-03-17
Stepping Back from Striving
2025-03-03
Tasting the True Grain of the Moment
2019-11-28
Thanksgiving Day Reflection
2016-02-17
The Awakening Factor of Equanimity
2016-02-15
The Awakening Factor of Joyous Interest
2018-10-06
The Brahma Viharas
2014-01-20
The Calming Factors of Awakening
2026-03-12
The Embodied Heart
2014-01-14
The Energizing Factors of Awakening
2019-11-29
The Four Brahmaviharas or Heavenly Abidings
2018-03-29
The four faces of compassion: Mary, Tara, Kwan Yin, and Tinker Bell
2001-06-14
The Four Noble Truths
2006-09-22
The Four Noble Truths (75% Of Them)
2025-07-25
The Freedom of Nibbana (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-03-13
The Gift Of Sila
2025-04-12
The Graceful Heart
2007-10-19
The Gratification, The Danger And The Escape
2011-07-11
The Greatest Disappointment Leading to Peace
2012-11-08
The Greatest Disappointment... Or Anicca and Letting Go.
2006-08-15
The Happpiness Of The Brahmaviharas
2024-08-01
The heart that can let go.
2022-07-29
The hindrances as protectors
2023-11-30
The joy of giving
2018-03-19
The noble eightfold path: wise effort
2018-03-12
The noble eightfold path: wise mindfulness
2018-03-05
The noble eightfold path: wise understanding
2009-03-30
The Parami of Metta
2009-02-26
The Power Of Renunciation
2009-02-12
The Practice of Patience
2000-06-24
The Red Pill Or The Blue Pill?
2009-06-03
The Responsive Heart
2022-04-15
The three characteristics teach us to let go.
2025-02-18
Third foundation: Mind/Heart States
2018-10-07
Third Morning Meditation
2014-10-31
Thought Based and Sense Based Reality
2020-02-16
Three Kinds of Dukkha (Suffering)
2009-07-30
Trusting Our Own Experience To Teach Us
2026-02-15
Unbinding/Opening
2010-02-18
Understanding Thought
2010-07-11
Untangling Our Karmic Knots
2003-07-06
Untangling the Tangle
2015-05-28
Viparinama Dukkha
2019-11-01
Viparinama Dukkha
2024-02-23
Vulnerability and Awareness
2018-10-05
Walking Meditation
2021-07-21
Ways of Knowing
2013-11-29
Wise Speech
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Select one of Rebecca Bradshaw's 87 retreats
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1997-12-28
New Year's Retreat (10 days)
1998-02-01
IMS Audio Files
2000-01-01
Weekly Dharma Series
2004-08-13
Youth Retreat
2005-09-23
Three Month Retreat - Part 1
2006-06-30
Teen Retreat
2006-08-11
Vipassana Retreat for Ages 18 to 32
2006-09-15
Metta & Vipassana Intensive
2006-09-15
Vipassana Intensive Part 1A
2007-03-18
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2007-09-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2007-12-01
December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2008-03-01
March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2008-05-30
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2008-06-06
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-09-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2009-02-01
February 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2009-03-01
March 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2009-05-29
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2009-06-05
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-09-26
Two-Month Retreat
2010-02-01
February 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2010-03-01
March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2010-06-04
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-05-27
Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat
2011-06-03
Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-12-01
December 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2012-02-01
February 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2012-04-17
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-06-30
Teen Retreat
2012-10-20
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2013-03-01
March 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-04-26
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-05-24
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2013-10-22
Three Month - Part 2
2014-01-01
January 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-05-23
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2014-06-26
Dharma en español: A Spanish Language three-day weekend retreat
2014-10-25
Three Month - Part 2
2015-04-14
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-05-22
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2015-07-22
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2015-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2016-02-12
TCVC February 2016 retreat
2016-05-27
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2016-06-21
Insight Retreat en Español
2016-07-27
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2016-10-22
Three-Month Part 2
2017-04-25
Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-05-26
Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat
2018-03-01
March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-04-13
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2018-07-25
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2018-10-04
Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-04-07
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2019-07-24
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2019-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-12-20
Winter Solstice Insight Meditation Weekend
2020-02-14
Winter 2020
2020-03-01
March 2020
2022-02-19
TCVC Winter Retreat 2022
2022-04-11
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2022-07-27
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2022-10-25
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2023-02-17
TCVC February 2023 retreat
2023-03-01
March 2023
2023-04-11
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom
2023-08-13
Summer Metta Retreat
2023-08-21
Summer Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2024-02-18
TCVC February 2024
2024-03-01
March 2024
2024-04-22
Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat
2024-07-28
Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds
2025-02-16
TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT
2025-03-01
March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2025-04-11
Grounding the Heart in Kindness-Infused Awareness: Insight and Lovingkindness W…
2025-04-14
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - …
2025-07-09
Summer Lovingkindness Retreat
2025-07-18
Summer Insight Meditation Retreat
2026-02-15
TCVC Winter 2026 retreat
2026-03-01
March 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge
2026-04-13
Embodying Kindness and Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat - …
