Amita Schmidt's Dharma Talks
Amita Schmidt
Amita Schmidt is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on trauma and meditation. She was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society from 2000-2006. She is the author of "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master." She also has practiced with Adyashanti, a teacher of non-dual awareness.
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2017-07-16
100% Heart Capacity
2019-04-07
Amita's Personal Dharma Story of Healing Trauma
2017-07-13
Anti-Fragile Dharma
2024-09-28
Anxiety and Depression Basic Tools for Meditators
2023-09-24
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Dharma
2022-08-10
Ask Your Heart Meditation
2022-01-09
Awakening Now
2009-08-02
Awakening/Enlightenment
2022-11-13
Awareness of Awareness and Dissolving into Being
2020-11-07
Basic Meditation Instructions
2008-08-01
Beginning Metta
2023-01-29
Below the Waves Meditation
2022-08-10
Beyond Death Meditation
2016-09-18
Bigger Perspective Meditation
2022-04-21
Collapsing Into the Now
2025-02-23
Connect and Soothe Your Parts during Difficult Times
2021-10-23
Death/Letting Go Meditation
2021-03-27
Deathbed Goal Challenge
2023-09-24
Debilitating Self Doubt
2020-11-08
Depression and Negative Thinking Loops
2019-10-18
Depression, Anxiety, and The Four Noble Truths
2018-04-18
Dreamcatchers
2018-11-02
Embodying Quiet
2019-10-20
Emptiness Practices for Depression and Anxiety: Part 2
2020-11-08
Environmental Change and the Dharma
2021-03-28
Equanimity Meditation
2021-10-17
Expansion Meditation
2016-09-10
Fear and Fearlessness
2020-11-07
Finding a True Refuge during Traumatic Times
2021-01-24
FIrst Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma.
2019-10-19
Forgiveness Meditation
2024-10-10
Infinte Love
2016-09-11
Inner Family of Lovingkindness Meditation
2024-06-20
Interview about Dipa Ma
2021-01-24
Introduction First Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma
2022-12-17
Kuan Yin Compassion Meditation
2022-11-13
Listen to all thoughts like a birdsong. All thoughts are just sounds.
2011-07-30
Metta For Benefactor And Self
2011-07-28
Mindfulness As Affectionate Awareness
2011-07-24
Mindfulness for Anxiety and Trauma
2007-09-08
Mindfulness of Depression
2008-08-02
Mindfulness Of Mind
2001-01-24
Miracles
2018-11-02
Monkey Mind Strategies
2016-09-17
No Part Left Out
2022-12-22
Outside the Storm: A Meditation for working with Strong Emotions
2018-11-03
Paradoxes in Practice
2019-10-19
Practices for Depression and Anxiety: Part 1
2023-01-29
Q and A: meditation and memory, sadness in practice, dementia, and chronic illn…
2024-10-06
Q and A: The gift of Listening to Suffering.
2022-01-09
Question and Answers in New Year 2022 Retreat
2017-07-13
Question How did Trauma affect your meditation Practice?
2017-07-13
Question What if I can't do Lovingkindness/Metta practice?
2018-10-28
Questions and Answers on Trauma, Love, and Rawness
2021-03-29
Questions and Answers The Cauldron of Emotions
2019-01-01
Reset Your Nervous System Meditation
2020-11-07
Resetting during Difficult Times and Circumstances
2025-06-08
Resting in Essence
2022-11-13
Self Forgiveness Meditation
2010-08-03
Spiritual Fitness
2022-11-13
Spiritual Resilience and Dharma Micro-Dosing
2025-02-23
Spiritual Solidarity
2004-12-01
Spiritual Urgency - Samvega
2010-09-23
Stealth Bodhisattvas
2021-10-22
Stillpoint Meditation
2007-03-23
Sustainable Love
2018-10-13
Take the One Seat
2025-02-23
The Audacity of Joy
2021-03-27
The Cauldron of Emotions
2002-01-10
The Dharma of Alzheimers Disease
2021-10-17
The Dharma of Difficult Emotions
2021-10-24
The Fire of Change
2019-06-13
The Gifts of Dipa Ma
2011-08-06
The I that is We
2016-09-17
The Lap of the Buddha Meditation
2023-05-26
The No Self Strategy of the Buddha
2022-04-24
The One Unchanging Thing
2024-10-08
The Root Cause of Suffering
2022-04-24
Tonglen Meditation
2018-11-03
Twelve Steps and Dharma
2023-01-29
Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections
2016-09-18
Wholeness
2022-01-09
Wise Older Self Meditation (Short Version)
2022-01-09
Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version
2022-12-24
Working with Thinking as a "Part"
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Select one of Amita Schmidt's 9 retreats
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2001-01-14
IMS Staff Retreat 2001
2004-11-05
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2007-03-18
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2008-07-30
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2010-07-28
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2011-07-27
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2016-09-17
No Part Left Out
2018-04-08
The Connected Heart
2022-01-09
Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version
25:18
If you have concerns about the future this is a meditation to access your Wisdom Self. This is a longer version (25 min) and there is a shorter version available as well (10 min). Many people find this meditation very helpful and do it regularly.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland
2021-10-24
The Fire of Change
55:43
In the fire of change, ways to maintain an awake view and a loving heart.
Tri State Dharma
2021-10-23
Death/Letting Go Meditation
28:47
A progressive meditation on letting go that simulates the death process. Letting go of the senses, emotions, thoughts, and perception. See what remains.
Tri State Dharma
2021-10-22
Stillpoint Meditation
20:25
Finding, and resting in the stillpoint in your body.
Tri State Dharma
2021-10-17
The Dharma of Difficult Emotions
62:35
The dharma of difficult emotions. How to work with thoughts and emotions and find freedom through them. This talk is also on You Tube via Amita Schmidt. Here is the Spiritual Credo handout that goes with this talk: https://amitaschmidt.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Spiritual-Credo.pdf
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
2021-03-29
Questions and Answers The Cauldron of Emotions
23:18
Question and Answers including: What is the one breath and one awareness? What is a spiritual bypass? What is a way to open up space when stuck in emotions? How do we act with right action in Buddhism?
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
2021-03-28
Equanimity Meditation
20:06
A 20 min equanimity meditation that will help you navigate inner and outer difficulties. This meditation shows you how to rest in the eye of the storm, and open up space within the difficulty itself.
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
2021-03-27
Deathbed Goal Challenge
13:51
The deathbed goal is a practice that reminds you to cultivate, in the here and now, qualities which you most want to manifest in this human life.
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
2021-03-27
The Cauldron of Emotions
53:55
This talk explores tools to navigate the Cauldron of Emotions that is our changing times. The tools include working with the pain body, balancing and healing our psychology, equanimity practices, and zeroing out the mind. For the slides and video portion here is a video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_zczbV8xE
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community
