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Ayya Anandabodhi
Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha’s teachings in her early teens, igniting a deep interest in the Buddha’s Path of Awakening. She lived and trained as a monastic in the Forest Tradition at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to the US to help open more opportunities for women to live the monastic life. She took full Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011. Her practice and teaching are guided by early Buddhist scriptures, living in community, and through nature’s pure and immediate Dhamma. Ayya is founder of Parayana Vihara, a monastic community in Port Townsend, WA.
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2026-03-26
"I"-making and "Mine"-making
2019-08-31
"Liberating the Mind"
2013-05-17
400 and Rising
2019-04-08
A Beautiful Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-01-01
A Greater Perspective
2014-01-02
A Greater Perspective
2023-05-28
A Greater Perspective (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-01-03
A Handful of Leaves
2024-01-02
A place of abiding
2021-12-31
Afternoon Guided Meditation Day Five
2026-09-13
Aligning One's Life with Virtue
2013-01-09
Aligning Our Thoughts with the Path
2018-12-31
Aligning with Right Livelihood
2026-03-08
Allowing a Deeper Wisdom to Reveal Itself
2010-04-11
An Evening with Ajahn Anandabodhi
2026-10-26
An Opportunity to Let Go More Fully
2023-12-30
Anicca, dukkha, anatta
2013-05-18
Apparent Here and Now
2017-12-09
Apparent Here and Now
2016-05-10
Applying the Practice
2025-04-22
Appreciative Joy - Mudita
2016-07-16
Arriving into Body and Breath
2022-05-12
Asubha - The Unbeautiful (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-07-25
Attending to the Body
2025-12-31
Attention and Effort
2023-04-02
Attuning to the Nature of Things
2025-06-20
Awakening Factors and Jhana Factors
2026-05-20
Awakening Factors and the Sound of Silence (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-01-01
Awareness - Marrying the Present Moment
2024-12-29
Awareness as Refuge
2025-04-20
Being In the Body (standing meditation)
2023-03-26
Better than, worse than, equal to...?
2015-08-22
Bhikkhuni Chanting
2026-10-24
Body Scan Meditation
2024-04-20
Body Sweeping Meditation
2025-04-23
Body Sweeping on Feeling Tone - Vedana
2014-10-04
Breathing Dharma, Breathing Life
2020-01-04
Breathing into the Heart Space
2012-01-02
Breathing Metta
2024-07-24
Breathing Metta
2026-10-25
Breathing with the Trees Meditation
2024-12-21
Bringing in the Light - Solstice Reflections on the Awakening Factors
2014-05-14
Buddha's Birthday
2021-05-07
Buddhanusati - Recollection of the Buddha
2018-05-05
Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection Talk/Walking Instruction) - "Attuning t…
2026-10-28
Building Wholesome Momentum in Our Practice
2024-07-26
Centered in the Body, Opening Awareness
2024-12-20
Chanting
2024-12-20
Chanting and Meditation Part 1
2024-12-20
Chanting and Meditation Part 2
2022-04-28
Chanting and questions and response
2011-01-01
Compassion
2024-01-02
Compassion that is centered and grounded
2026-08-16
Connecting the Head to the Heart
2025-10-07
Cooling the Passionate Heart, Warming the Aversive Mind
2018-09-22
Creativity with the Brahma Viharas - Finding a way to access the heart qualitie…
2026-09-28
Cultivating a Boundless Heart
2023-04-09
Cultivating and Letting Go
2012-07-08
Cultivating Inner Strength
2025-01-04
Deepening the Practice of Mudita and Upekkha
2015-12-28
Developing Awareness
2013-05-21
Developing Our Practice
2022-09-18
Dhamma, the Supreme Medicine
2022-04-23
Dhammadinna - foremost in teaching Dhamma
2009-02-17
Dharma Reflections with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta
2026-06-14
Different Ways of Cultivating the Path
2026-07-19
Direct Heart Practice
2025-04-19
Discovering Our True Nature
2026-10-26
Each Raindrop is Unique Meditation
2013-10-05
Earth Care Dhamma
2016-05-12
Ecology of the Heart
2021-12-28
Elements of the Path
2025-10-06
Embodying Kindness & Returning This Body to Nature
2023-04-08
Embracing Change - Embracing Truth
2017-12-29
Encouragement Along the Way
2017-05-07
End of Retreat Reflection
2024-01-05
Endings and trusting, opening to this
2020-01-02
Every Meditation is an Act of Faith
2026-08-23
Exploring Anatta
2024-12-10
Exploring Attachment and Transformation.
2015-04-25
Feeling
2011-01-02
Feeling and the Quest for Enlightenment
2021-01-01
Feeling Tone - Guided body sweeping meditation
2026-01-03
Feeling Tone Reflections and Meditation
2022-04-21
Fill yourself with the Dharma
2023-01-03
Final Day Reflections
2026-10-25
Finding Our Inner Refuge
2026-10-27
Finding Our True Refuge
2024-05-27
Finding Our Way Back to Presence
2025-12-30
Five Hindrances and Seven Awakening Factors
2016-04-18
Forgetting the Self
2016-04-13
Forgetting The Self With Ayya Anandabodhi
2025-01-26
Fortifying Your Practice in these Challenging Times
2014-05-12
Four Brahma Viharas
2011-05-23
Four Noble Truths
2010-04-06
Freedom of Limitation
2026-01-02
Generating Mudita Talk and Guided Meditation
2013-08-09
Generosity
2024-12-11
Getting Familiar With Vedana - Feeling Tone
2025-12-21
Gradual Return of the Light
2023-04-23
Gradual Transformation of the Heart
2017-07-24
Gradually Awakening
2017-12-28
Gradually Reining In the Mind
2015-11-28
Gratitude for this Body - a guided standing meditation
2024-01-04
Gratitude for what is here
2010-08-01
Grief and the Eightfold Path
2024-12-30
Grounding and Settling in the Body - A guided meditation.
2025-04-21
Grounding in the Belly
2013-12-07
Growing Up and Waking Up
2023-05-26
Guided Body Sweeping: Vedanā
2021-12-30
Guided Meditation - Cultivating Presence
2021-12-29
Guided Meditation Afternoon Day Three
2022-01-02
Guided Meditation Day Seven
2014-08-31
Guided Meditation on Arriving
2017-01-02
Guided Meditation on Compassion
2024-12-19
Guided Meditation on Metta and the 7 Awakening Factors - Dharma Talk on the 7 A…
2026-03-28
Guided Meditation on Radiating the Four Brahma Viharas
2014-05-14
Guided Meditation on Recognizing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment
2021-05-04
Guided Meditation on Skin, Flesh and Bones
2016-05-11
Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Vihara
2018-04-08
Guided Meditation On The Four Brahma Viharas
2024-07-28
Guided Meditation on the Four Divine Abidings
2011-09-25
Guided Metta Meditation
2025-04-21
Guided metta meditation
2020-12-29
Guided Movement Meditation
2022-04-27
Guided mudita meditation.
2025-12-30
Guided Standing Meditation
2015-08-21
Guided Standing Meditation Part 01
2015-08-21
Guided Standing Meditation Part 02
2025-01-01
Guiding Through the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, and the Four Brahma Vih…
2018-01-03
Harvesting the Fruits of Practice
2017-01-05
Hatred Never Ceases Through Hatred
2025-04-19
Healing a Broken Heart
2025-06-19
Honouring the Sacred
2026-07-05
How are we meeting our experience?
2024-04-23
How We Meet the World
2024-12-10
I See You Mara
2021-05-05
If You Were to Die Tonight...
2019-05-06
Inclining Towards the Ocean (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2026-09-28
Inner and Outer Knowing
2025-12-31
Intention and Letting Go
2014-05-14
Interconnectedness and Our Responsibilities to the World
2026-08-09
Inviting Space Within and Without
2014-07-26
It's Never Too Late
2015-01-03
Jewels of Awakening
2025-11-30
Journey from Head to Heart
2016-05-06
Joy
2023-05-26
Just Be Here (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-12-28
Just Sitting on the Eggs
2022-01-01
Kamma and the Four Right Efforts
2012-01-03
Kamma Ripens After a Retreat
2018-12-30
Karuna - Freedom from Harm
2018-01-01
Karuna ~ Radiating Compassion
2013-07-18
Keeping the Incentive to Practice
2016-01-01
Kindness, Friendliness, Acceptance - Guided Meditation
2024-04-22
Knowing and the Known
2024-11-24
Knowing Our Rights in the Dhamma
2015-12-30
Knowing the Mind
2017-05-04
Knowing the Mind
2025-04-20
Knowing Transience
2024-07-25
Layers of Letting Go
2020-12-31
Letting Go of Resentment - (the last day of 2020)
2026-03-22
Letting Go with Care
2017-05-06
Liberating the Heart
2026-09-20
Life is Messy
2019-12-30
Like a River
2017-01-04
Limits of Mind and the Limitless
2015-09-05
Live Lightly
2015-11-28
Living with Gratitude
2026-03-25
Looking into the Hologram of the Dhamma
2018-11-25
Losing Fear of Formations - Talk 1 of 2
2017-05-27
Love and Emptiness
2025-12-31
Love and Let Go - Metta Meditation
2014-04-20
Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2025-04-22
Loving This Earth
2010-12-28
Lovingkindness
2015-06-20
Lovingkindness: the Path of Peace
2022-04-24
Mahapajapati Gotami
2026-10-25
Making Room in the Heart for the Wholesome
2023-03-12
Making Space for Transformation
2011-01-03
Many, Many Opportunities
2025-04-19
Mara and the Buddha (the Five Hindrances)
2026-08-23
May I Abide in Well-Being
2015-04-26
May You Be Filled With Loving-Kindness
2020-12-30
Meal Time Reflection
2024-12-13
Meditation on Appreciative Joy - Mudita
2016-07-16
Meeting With the Challenges of our Time
2016-12-29
Metta Meditation
2015-09-24
Mindful of Feeling
2014-05-12
Mindfulness and Clarity and Confusion.
2014-10-12
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2
2015-08-21
Mindfulness of Body and Feelings
2010-12-27
Mindfulness of Dhammas
2015-04-29
Mindfulness Of Dhammas
2012-01-02
Mindfulness of Feeling
2015-04-28
Mindfulness of feelings; mindfulness of mind
2015-08-22
Mindfulness of Mind
2024-12-12
Mindfulness of Mind States
2025-12-30
Mindfulness of the Body
2024-04-20
Mindfulness While Standing
2020-11-28
Mitta's Message ~ Making the Mind Your Friend
2026-03-28
Morning Chanting
2012-06-10
Morning Puja
2016-12-29
Morning Reflection
2022-01-02
Morning Reflection
2021-12-31
Morning Reflection Day Five
2023-01-31
Morning Reflections on Anatta
2022-12-30
Morning Reflections on Impermanence
2026-03-28
Morning Session
2021-12-29
Move Towards Freedom
2024-04-21
Moving from our Head to our Heart
2013-12-15
Natural Law
2013-01-01
Never Give Up
2025-12-29
New Year Retreat 2025-2026 Introduction
2017-01-01
New Year's Day Morning Reflection
2016-12-31
New Year's Eve Talk
2026-03-25
Non-hate: Hatred Never Ceases through Hatred - What is the alternative?
2026-01-25
Not Adding to Harm and Chaos in the World
2015-04-28
Nothing Whatsoever Should Be Clung To
2025-10-09
Nourishing Practice In The World
2013-12-28
Ocean of Metta - Guided Meditation
2012-05-18
On Meditation
2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
2025-06-18
Opening
2023-04-09
Opening into the Breath
2020-12-29
Opening Metta Meditation
2012-04-08
Opening To An New Day
2024-05-10
Opening Up Our Potential (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-12-30
Overview of the Four Brahma Viharas
2024-05-06
Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-04-21
Patacara - going beyond grief.
2022-04-22
Patacara's 30 disciples.
2013-07-12
Perception
2024-12-09
Pervading This Body and Mind with Metta
2022-04-25
Poems and stories of the enlightened nuns.
2022-04-28
Poems of "Another Sama", Dhira, and "Another Tissa"
2020-06-02
Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns
2026-01-18
Practicing with the Four Satipatthana
2026-05-19
Practicing with the Sound of Silence (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-12-31
Putting It Down
2014-08-31
Q&A
2014-10-04
Q&A
2015-04-27
Q&A
2015-04-30
Q&A
2026-01-03
Q&A Session
2026-04-26
Q&A Session
2015-11-28
Q&A with Ayya Anandabodhi and Ayya Santacitta
2014-05-13
Questions & Answers
2013-08-11
Questions and Answers - This Precious Moment
2022-05-10
Radiant Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-12-31
Radiant Heart Practices
2018-04-06
Radiant Karuma and Mudita Practice
2022-04-24
Radiant Metta meditation.
2017-12-30
Radiating Kindness
2026-05-03
Radiating Kindness Over the Entire World
2018-04-05
Radiating Metta
2024-01-01
Radiating metta and settling into the heart
2021-05-06
Radiating Metta for the Entire World
2022-12-12
Radiating Metta Practice
2026-10-18
Realigning with the Path of Awakening
2026-01-11
Reasonable but Not Helpful – Responding to Difficult Moments
2019-09-01
Reclaiming Your Power through the Four Brahma Viharas
2021-05-07
Recollection of the Buddha's Wisdom and Love
2010-12-07
Reflecting on Sacredness
2021-05-04
Reflecting on the Nature of the Body (asubha)
2017-01-01
Reflection on Three Kinds of Thirst and Meditation on Three Kinds of Feeling
2020-06-27
Reflections on Dismantling Internal & External Oppression
2018-04-07
Reflections On Right Livelihood
2018-04-09
Reflections On Right Mindfulness
2018-04-04
Reflections On Right View
2021-01-02
Reflections on Upekkha
2016-05-10
Refuge in Awareness
2026-01-01
Relinquishment
2024-04-28
Remembering Our Potential
2009-12-31
Remembering Our Roots
2025-11-09
Removing Resentment
2012-07-23
Renunciation
2025-12-14
Resting in Presence
2025-12-14
Resting into Presence
2026-10-04
Returning to Our Natural State
2014-04-20
Right Action on Climate
2024-04-20
Right Here, Right Now
2018-12-29
Right Thought ~ Renunciation, Compassion & Kindness
2018-12-28
Right View ~ A Practical Approach
2024-05-08
Samadhi - Unification of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-12-08
Sati and the Three Characteristics
2016-04-13
Self, No-self and Race
2018-01-02
Settling
2023-12-31
Settling and opening with the breath
2022-12-11
Settling Into Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-04-08
Settling into Metta
2022-09-18
Settling into the Body & Breath
2026-01-02
Seven Factors of Awakening Meditation
2011-07-11
Sharing Breath Mindfully
2013-12-07
Sharing the Blessings of Our Practice
2017-12-28
Sila, Samadhi, Panna
2013-11-09
Simple Presence
2018-04-08
Sixth Path Factor - Right Effort
2023-03-05
Softening and Opening
2024-12-07
Standing in Awareness
2024-05-06
Standing in Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2026-10-24
Standing Meditation
2026-03-25
Standing Meditation and Metta
2024-07-24
Start Where You Are, Guide Where You’re Going
2017-01-05
Staying Present
2014-11-15
Steady in Transition
2013-10-13
Stillness in this Turning World
2026-06-28
Straightening the Mind Towards Awakening
2016-05-14
Stroking the Dog
2024-04-21
Suffering and the Ending of Suffering
2024-04-23
Taking Care of Our Mind
2024-01-02
Taking in the tangible potency of practice
2019-05-07
Taking Your Seat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-04-21
Teachings From the Birds
2014-08-31
The Alchemy of Turning Towards What's Difficult
2013-07-11
The Brahma Viharas and the Climate Challenge
2013-05-24
The Buddha
2014-12-31
The Dhamma Is For One Who Feels
2026-07-19
The Earth is Taking Back Her Sovereignty
2014-12-28
The Eightfold Path
2017-12-31
The End of A Year
2014-05-11
The Five Hindrances & Clear Mind
2024-12-07
The Five Hindrances and Three Kinds of Desire
2012-01-02
The Five Hindrances to Enlightenment
2019-12-29
The Five Indriya - Preparing for Retreat
2011-02-01
The Five Khandas
2012-04-07
The Five Nivaranas
2025-04-20
The Five Recollections
2024-04-22
The Flux and Change of Things
2024-04-23
The Four Brahma Viharas
2022-12-13
The Four Divine Abidings (Retreat At Spirit Rock)
2012-06-06
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2012-05-01
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2015-04-27
The Four Immeasurable Qualities
2024-01-05
The Four Noble Truths
2019-04-11
The Four Stages of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-06-18
The Heart's Journey
2022-12-14
The Heart's Wisdom
2025-10-05
The Hindrances & Samsara
2026-04-19
The Importance of Loving Our Parents
2026-03-22
The Inevitable Process of Birth, Aging, and Death
2015-01-02
The Knower of the World
2026-10-24
The Liberating Path
2026-05-31
The Life of the Buddha
2026-07-26
The Path of the Salmon
2014-01-02
The Power of Thought
2012-04-10
The River Of Life
2025-10-05
The Six Qualities of the Dhamma
Touching Into the Four Elements
2021-12-30
The Sparkle of Impermanence
2016-12-28
The Story of the Self
2010-10-04
The Teacher Who Never Leaves You
2010-10-04
The Teacher Who Never Leaves You
2015-12-31
The Things That It's Hard to Let Go Of
2025-06-21
The Three Characteristics
2026-08-30
The Transformative Power of Metta
2026-10-24
The True Refuge is Knowing
2014-10-18
This Beautiful Moment
2024-12-14
This Could Be Your Last Breath
2009-11-01
This Path That is Open to All
2020-01-04
This Precious Life
2013-08-11
This Precious Moment
2025-12-29
Three Characteristics of Existence
2015-12-29
Three Kinds of Feeling - Guided Meditation
2023-12-29
Training the breath throughout the body
2024-07-28
Transformation of the Heart
2025-04-21
Transforming the Heart with Metta
2026-03-27
Transforming the Negative Bias
2024-12-31
Transforming the Patterns of Our Lives
2024-05-07
Turning Back to the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-10-08
Unbinding
2019-09-01
Unconditional Love
2023-05-14
Unconditional Love
2023-05-25
Understanding the Hindrances to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-12-13
Understanding Upekkha - Equipoise
2018-04-05
Unpacking Right Thought
2025-10-04
Unpacking the Metta Sutta (Loving-kindness)
2018-01-03
Untangling the Knot of Self
2022-05-11
Untangling the Knot of Self
2024-07-24
Untangling the Tangles
2026-01-02
Upekkha
2011-06-05
Vesak 2011
2017-05-10
Vesak Reflection
2010-05-20
Vesakha Puja
2010-04-16
Walking the Sacred Path
2013-12-27
Watching the Drama of the Mind
2014-07-19
Watering Flowers, Pulling Weeds
2025-12-29
We Are Nature
2011-06-04
Welcoming Buddha
2026-11-08
When Awareness Becomes Our Refuge
2014-05-31
When is Enough, Enough?
2013-06-01
Whole Body Breathing
2013-09-08
Why Practice?
2026-03-15
Widening Our Perspective
2026-10-28
Wisdom Is Our True Nature
2015-06-20
with Ayya Santacitta
Q&A with Metta
2020-05-22
Words of Awakening
2026-06-28
Working with Fear
2026-03-26
Your Walk for Peace: Transforming Bitter Gourds into Medicine
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Select one of Ayya Anandabodhi's 45 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
2000-01-01
Tuesday Talks
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2010-03-16
Applications of Mindfulness
A Six Week Guest Speaker Series
2010-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2011-05-23
Marriage of Being and Doing, Nuns' Monastic Retreat
2011-12-26
New Year's Retreat
2012-04-06
Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat
2012-06-05
Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat
2013-06-01
Nature as Teacher
2013-12-26
New Year Retreat
2014-04-20
Loving the Earth: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2014-05-10
Monastic Retreat - Listening to Natural Law
2015-04-24
Listening to Natural Law: Monastic Retreat
2015-08-20
Monastic Retreat
2015-09-21
The Power of Presence: Retreat for Women
2016-05-09
Taking Refuge In What Is True
2016-07-13
July Metta Retreat
2018-04-03
The Middle Way ~ Finding Our Natural Resting Place: Monastic Retreat
2019-04-06
Mindfulness of Breathing
2019-05-05
Seven Treasures
2020-12-29
New Year Retreat 2020/21
2021-05-03
The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Trul…
2021-12-27
New Year Retreat 2021 - 2022
2022-04-20
Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat
2022-05-07
Seeing the Path Clearly
2022-12-10
Earth, Awareness, and Being
2022-12-28
New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023
2023-04-08
Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go
2023-05-24
Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On L…
2024-04-19
Loving and Letting Go
2024-05-05
With the World on Fire, Embody the Eightfold Path
2024-07-23
Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat
Creating a Supportive Container in Times of G…
2024-12-06
Where Wisdom & Compassion Meet - Monastic Retreat
2024-12-18
Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2024-12-28
Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025
2025-04-18
Deepening into Wisdom and Love 2025
2025-06-17
Chanting, Joy, and the Seven Factors of Awakening
2025-10-03
Deepening Into Wisdom & Love
2025-12-28
New Year Retreat 2025 - 2026
2026-03-24
Making the Mind Your Friend
2026-05-18
Silence Behind the Noise: A Monastic Retreat
2026-10-21
Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love: Practices for Cultivating Awareness, Loving…
2026-10-23
Finding Refuge
2026-11-08
When Awareness Becomes Our Refuge
12:16
In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi encourages people to expand and deepen their awareness in order to be able to hold difficult emotions with compassion and equanimity.
Parayana Vihara
2026-10-25
Finding Our Inner Refuge
44:10
Ayya Anandabodhi explains how taking refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha can be seen in light of taking refuge in the mind’s natural capacity for awareness, the teachings on impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self evident in our current bodies and minds, and the wisdom that motivates us to keep practicing in the face of hardship.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center
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Finding Refuge
