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Ayya Santacitta's Dharma Talks
Ayya Santacitta
Santacitta Bhikkhuni hails from Austria and trained as a nun in England & Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah and has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. She is committed to our planet as a living being and resides at 'Aloka Earth Room', currently located in San Rafael, California. Santacitta Bhikkhuni stammt aus Österreich and begann ihre Nonnenausbildung 1993 in England & Asien, vor allem in der Traditionslinie von Ajahn Chah und hat auch Unterweisungen in der Shechen Traditionslinie des Tibetischen Buddhisms erhalten. Sie ist unserem Planeten als lebendes Wesen verpflichtet und lebt im 'Aloka Earth Room', derzeit in San Rafael, Kalifornien.
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2025-12-10 Reframing Perception II and The Unforgotten Wisdom at the Core of the Psyche 53:56
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including 'Invocation of Beings of the Three Times' based on Joanna Macy's text | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room
2025-12-03 Reframing Perception I 54:44
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room
2025-11-19 Reframing Ourselves ~ Reframing Our Lives 52:00
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room
2025-11-12 Going Beyond What We Know in Service of What We Love 51:44
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Meister Eckhart | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room
2025-10-29 Choosing to Listen to Aliveness 54:01
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-10-22 Staying Engaged Takes Us Beyond Boundaries 47:34
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on 'The Holonic Shift' by Joanna Macy | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-10-15 Shifting Our Sense of Being 52:12
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation in collaboration with guest teacher Sumedha | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-10-08 Standing Firm With Earth 55:30
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-10-01 Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It 52:46
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-09-24 Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities 60:33
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-09-17 Giving In Rather Than Giving Up 55:24
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-09-01 Wisdom & Faith: Adjusting to Reality 1:40:02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2025-08-20 Listening to What We Belong to 55:14
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including 'The Way Knows', a song by Lyndsey Scott | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-08-13 This Is a Journey of Discovery 55:11
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a prayer for the UN Environmental Sabbath Program | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-08-06 I am the World & I Eat the World 54:22
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Rochelle Wallace | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-07-30 The Pressure Which Urges Us to Evolve 56:05
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-07-23 Ancient Evolutionary Structures Rumbling 56:29
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-07-05 Let my Gift to the World be My Constancy 37:09
Big Bear Retreat Center Disentangling the Tangle
2025-07-05 Faith & Wisdom or Living the Question 55:41
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Big Bear Retreat Center Disentangling the Tangle
2025-07-03 No Mud No Lotus 55:19
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Five Hindrances and the Brahmaviharas
Big Bear Retreat Center Disentangling the Tangle
2025-07-02 Restoring Ancestral Relationships 55:41
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a quote by Arundhati Roy | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-07-02 Impermanence ~ a Key for Opening the Door to Liberation 40:42
Big Bear Retreat Center Disentangling the Tangle
2025-07-01 Landing in the Body & the Land 48:03
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Five Elements
Big Bear Retreat Center Disentangling the Tangle
2025-06-25 Widening the Arc of the Crash of Modernity 56:21
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a benediction by Master Eckhart | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-06-18 This Is Truly a Collective Practice 57:40
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an icaro by Manari Ushigua | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-06-11 Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable 55:09
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
with Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-06-03 Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:02
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-06-02 Allowing Endings to Be What They Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:36
Reflections on Impermanence & Cessation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-06-01 Making the Spaciousness of the Mind Accessible (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:54
Short reflection on the Four Brahmavihara followed by a guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-05-31 Vistas We Have Never Seen Before (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:34
Short reflection followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-05-31 Ecoliteracy: Learning a New Language (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:33
Short reflection followed by a guided meditation on the Six Elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World
2025-05-28 Help Nature to Do Its Thing! 55:42
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an icaro by Manari Ushigua @ www.dreamworldprogram.com | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-05-14 Lean Into What Really Matters 52:59
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2025-05-07 Taking the Long Term View & Serving Life 52:26
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-04-30 All of Us: Past, Present & Future 54:08
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-04-23 Opening to the Plain Potential of What Comes Next 49:00
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Jennifer Welwood | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-04-16 Imagining Worlds Worth Working For 47:14
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-04-13 Closing Comments 9:47
with Ayya Santacitta, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-13 Talk - Let my Gift to Myself be Patience (Closing Reflections, including Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer). 18:54
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-13 Trusting the Flow - Guided Meditation on the 5 Spiritual Faculties. 26:51
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-12 Talk & Guided Meditation - Bringing Wisdom & Faith into Centre Stage. 49:52
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-11 Talk - Not Too Much, Not Too Little - Practicing the Middle Path. 14:52
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-11 Guided Meditation - Arriving, Settling, Getting Started. 34:21
Gaia House Allies for Freeing the Heart (online)
2025-04-09 Challenging Habits of Modernity or a Different Kind of Generosity 43:28
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth prayer by Stephanie Kaza | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-03-27 Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself 51:20
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-03-20 Fine-tuning the Mind & 4 Tasks in an Age of Endings 35:10
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
2025-03-19 The Way of Love Is Not a Subtle Argument 52:27
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Rumi | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-03-18 That's How Evolution Works ~ it's messy 41:35
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
2025-03-17 The Five Elements Revisited ~ as earthworms do 52:13
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
2025-03-05 Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being 49:28
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-01-29 We Belong to a Rich & Robust Lineage 50:00
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-01-22 We Are Not Without Medicine! 50:49
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-01-15 How to Meet These Times? 53:30
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-01-08 A Launching Board for Growth 51:12
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Four Brahmavihara & Earth Awarenes | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2025-01-02 Being Rooted Here 54:57
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Elements as Our Guides
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2025-01-02 Meeting the New Year With All Its Challenges and Blessings 19:57
Somatic practice followed by a guided meditation
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2025-01-01 Stepping Out of the Silo of Human Supremacy in 2025 54:40
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on Aspirations for the New Year | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-12-31 Landing & Letting Go of the Addiction to Complexity 32:25
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2024-12-31 Earthbody Meditation 31:59
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2024-12-21 Grounded and Open to the New: Reflections on Winter Solstice and the Four Brahmaviharas 53:14
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-21 Chanting + A Reflection on Joy 40:39
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-20 Chanting 40:39
with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-19 The Mind Which Does Not Cling: Reflection on 7 Factors of Awakening followed by Guided Meditation 41:29
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-19 Dawning of a New Perception: Reflection on 4 Satipatthana and Bramhavihara followed by Guided Meditation 61:07
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-18 Our Belonging to this Planet 54:48
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-12-14 Upekkha and Allowing Things to End 44:25
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-12 Becoming the One You Have Been Waiting For 44:52
Guided Meditation on Embodiment, Compassion and Impermanence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-11 Freeing Up the Beauty 32:44
Reflections on the Progression of Insight
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-11 The Body as an Organ of Listening & Sensing 59:07
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-10 Expanding Perception through Contemplation of the Four Elements 35:18
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-09 Connected, yet spacious & balanced 56:46
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Seven Factors of Awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-08 If you can't get out of it, you need to get into it 38:28
Reflection on the Four Establishments of Mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-08 Centering Practice and Sensing the Body 45:59
Somatic practice and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-04 'I Don't Know' Is a Powerful Point of Departure 53:06
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-11-27 Giving Thanks to Our Elder the Earth 54:44
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-11-25 Earthworm Practice in the Middle of It All 1:41:22
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2024-11-20 Our Bodies are Our Connection to Life 53:29
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-11-13 Power as Process ~ a Devotion to Openness 53:24
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, 2024.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-11-10 Let my Gift to Myself be Patience 53:36
Reflection & Guided Meditation on Earthworm Practice
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
2024-10-30 Mature Love or There In the Middleness 54:22
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Medicine song (ikaro) by Manari Ushigua.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-10-25 The Biosphere Knows How to Stay Alive 50:13
Reflection and guided meditation on Upekkha and The Web of Life
Big Bear Retreat Center Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-10-24 Suffering and the End of Suffering: The Buddha’s Teaching on Anatta 49:14
Big Bear Retreat Center Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-10-24 Knowing What is Good for Oneself and What is Good for Others 56:20
a Reflection and Guided Meditation on the Five Hindrances and Earth Awareness
Big Bear Retreat Center Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-10-22 Waking up to Being Participants of the Planet: Guided Meditation on the 5 Elements 46:37
Big Bear Retreat Center Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-10-21 Getting a Handle on Delusion: The Four Distortions of Perception 40:27
Big Bear Retreat Center Weaving Ourselves Back into the Fabric of Life
2024-10-16 Seamless ~ Earth 'Speaking' to Earth Directly 55:07
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-10-09 Medicine for Overcoming Human Supremacy 55:38
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Medicine song (ikaro) by Manari Ushigua.
Aloka Earth Room
2024-09-25 Steadiness ~ Walking the Question & Becoming the Answer 54:37
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-09-18 The Wisdom of No Escape & Our Innermost Request 53:22
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-09-11 Beauty of Maturation ~ a Sensitizing to the Subtlety of That Truth 55:57
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-08-28 Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear 55:09
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-08-14 We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen 54:38
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-08-07 As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love 53:07
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-07-31 Realignment ~ Let the Alchemy Take Place 55:03
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room
2024-07-28 Stepping Outside the Box of the Current Cultural Paradigm 20:20
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge
2024-07-28 The More-Than-Human World Has Our Back Every Moment 47:24
Guided Meditation on Engaging with a Plant Ally and Exploring a Question from within the Web of Life. Please sit outside or near a window or have a potted plant close to you.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge
2024-07-28 Sense Making = When Cognition & Sensing Happen Together 36:45
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge
2024-07-26 How Can We Tap into the Liberating Potential of the Way Things Are? 25:30
Reflection on the four aspects to the cultivation of the 7 Factors of Awakening
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge
2024-07-26 The Body - a Field of Blessings & Challenges 28:54
Guided Meditation on the Four Elements
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

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