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Zohar Lavie's Dharma Talks
Zohar Lavie
Zohar has been practicing meditation in different traditions since 1995. This journey has taken her from the meditation cushion into exploring further ways of expressing truth and love and in 2004 she co-founded SanghaSeva. She now spends most of her time facilitating retreats that offer service as a spiritual path around the world. Since 2006 she has been teaching on silent retreats and Dharma gatherings in India, Europe and Israel.
2020-12-15 Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations 44:58
Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-15 Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating 60:36
Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-14 A Wise Relationship to Dukkha 39:11
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-13 Guided Mettā to Neutral Relationship 45:17
Spreading mettā to a being from an easy relationship, to self, being from a more neutral relationship and outward to all beings
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-13 Day 2 Instructions - Getting Comfortable with Discomfort 61:41
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-12 Possibilties of Mettā and Insight 43:53
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-11 Meeting Body and Breath with Kindness - Guided Meditation 30:34
A calming and steadying meditation infused with a metta flavour
Gaia House Mettā and Insight
2020-12-10 Embodying Intention 59:53
Guided meditation and talk
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020
2020-10-31 Hebrew Day 2 Instructions 48:10
Lessening the contraction that co-arises with a dukkha manifesting push-pull.
SanghaSeva Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-30 מטא לעצמנו, מטא לעולם 46:02
SanghaSeva Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-30 מדיטציה מונחית - התרווחות אל הגוף והנשימה 30:20
SanghaSeva Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World
2020-10-10 Hebrew - Spacious Awareness 56:12
Hebrew Guided Meditation and Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva
2020-10-09 Hebrew - Perception, Mettā, Freedom 50:57
Hebrew
SanghaSeva
2020-10-03 Joy and Rest As Supports for Viriya 60:29
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020
2020-09-28 Hebrew - Insight To Live By Closing Dharma Talk.mp3 33:44
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-27 Hebrew - Mettā to Sensations 43:46
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-26 Hebrew - 3 Characteristics 48:54
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-25 Hebrew - Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3 40:36
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-25 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant 50:38
Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-24 Hebrew - Fabrication - Ways of Looking and The Shaping of Experience 47:27
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By
2020-09-11 התמיכות לויריה - חלק 2 61:05
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-09-05 התמיכות לויריה - חלק 1 60:46
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-08-29 ויריה - אנרגיה, התלהבות ומרץ בתרגול 63:28
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-08-23 Wise And Wholesome Effort 66:05
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2020
2020-08-20 Dharma Talk 45:07
Gaia House Coming to Life
2020-08-19 Guided Meditation 31:21
Gaia House Coming to Life
2020-08-19 Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:50
Gaia House Coming to Life
2020-08-17 Guided Meditation 29:32
Gaia House Coming to Life
2020-08-15 An Attitude Of Kindness & The Inner Critic 57:03
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2020
2020-08-08 Hebrew - Day 3 Instructions - Mettā to All Kinds of Phenomena 60:12
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Guided Mettā to Easy Person, Self and All Beings 44:23
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-06 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Wide Body Awareness And Attending With The Breath 62:02
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi
2020-08-05 Hebrew - Metta and Samadhi 59:33
In Hebrew: Exploring how metta and samadhi co-create conditions and experiences of non-dukkha. How metta reveals intimacy, and expresses non-demanding. And how samadhi tunes us beyond our habitual capacities, so we can linger in what is deeply okay, and open into liberating well-being.
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi
2020-07-30 Gratitude, Generosity, And Wellbeing 61:53
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-07-16 Conceit And The Sense Of Self 56:12
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-07-04 התהוות מותנית ותחושת העצמי 1:20:04
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-07-01 Beyond the Worldly Winds 57:45
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2020
2020-06-13 שלושת מאפייני החוויה 65:23
Hebrew - Three Characteristics - Guided Meditation and Talk
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה
2020-06-12 Practicing and Awakening in the World 36:41
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-12 Dana Practice Guidelines 25:19
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-11 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Releasing Dukkha 56:13
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-10 Smoothing the Bumpy Ride 47:28
Looking at how dukkha is constructed/fabricated, and finding skilful ease through ways of relating.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-10 Opening to Joy and Difficulty 42:37
Muditā and Karuṇā
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-09 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Openness with the Unpleasant 63:15
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-08 Ways of Well-Being 45:57
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-08 Guided Stretched Awareness Meditation 39:00
By opening the space of awareness actively we can engender more wellbeing and enjoyable energy into our practice.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-06-07 Guided Meditation and Walking Instructions 26:31
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence
2020-05-29 Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice) 14:08
Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-29 Mettā to the Sensate World 28:20
Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-28 Awakening the Heart 48:41
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-27 Compassion and Tenderness 42:18
Guided meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-27 Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Vedanā as a way of looking 29:25
Practicing opening contraction by staying at contact with vedana.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-26 Dukkha, Construction, and Release 46:16
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-25 Opening and Steadying 44:20
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-25 Opening Talk - Creating the Retreat Together 33:37
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world
2020-05-17 Playing with Perception in Ways that Free 34:05
London Insight Meditation Cultivating a Wise and Responsive Heart
2020-05-16 שיחת דהרמה: תשומת לב, תפישה ואפשרויות לחופש 29:13
Hebrew Dharma Talk - Attention, Perception, Possibility
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-16 מדיטציה מונחית 2 37:33
Hebrew - 2nd Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-16 שיחת פתיחה ומדיטציה מונחית 1 49:57
Hebrew - Opening Talk and Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות
2020-05-08 Seeing All Things With Kindness (with Chanting at the Beginning) 43:55
A kindness meditation towards all appearance: seeing how experience is fabricated by seeing all phenomena as deserving of kindness and care. Starts with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-08 Instructions Day 3 - Anicca as a Way of Looking 47:20
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-07 Guided Compassion with Chanting at the Beginning 43:52
A compassion meditation, starting with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-07 Meditation is Deep Listening 35:22
Listening is a transferable skill from the cushion to all of life. One that supports us to engage skilfully with our life: to ask deep questions, and be sensitive and creative in how we live, how speak, and how we listen.
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-05-06 Instructions Day 1 - Open and Steady 44:13
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat
2020-04-25 Mettā to Phenomena 44:53
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-24 Ways of Looking, Hindrances, and the Transformation of Dukkha 41:09
SanghaSeva Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-24 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Opening Body and Welcoming Breath 28:47
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Opening, Steadying, Allowing
2020-04-18 Creativity and Balance - Working with Fabrication 64:51
Guided Meditation and Talk, given at Gaia House's Online Dharma Hall.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall
2020-04-15 Hebrew - Mettā and Emptiness in the World 28:05
The last Hebrew talk of this retreat, talking about how to sustain our practice of metta and skilful ways of relating, and the possibilities of fostering more insights as we approach re-engagment with the world.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-14 Hebrew - Day 4 Instructions - Anatta 60:17
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-13 Hebrew - Undoing - Lessening Fabrication 41:44
Talk in Hebrew: Understanding how experience is fabricated leads us towards skilful ways of fabricating less dukkha, self-identity, and increasing well-being.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-13 Hebrew - Metta To Benefactor, Difficult Relationship, And All Beings 42:26
Guided Metta Meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-12 Hebrew - Day 2 Instructions - Relax Contraction in the Body 50:33
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-11 Hebrew - What is Metta? 46:40
Talk in Hebrew, about how experience is fabricated. Particularly by the way of relating of 'firing the second arrow' of 'dukkha' towards what is difficult, and how we can find a more appropriate and liberating response via a 'metta' way of relating.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-04-11 Hebrew - Metta To Self, Easy And World 37:53
Guided Metta meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online
2020-03-19 Dharma as a Refuge in the time of Coronavirus 39:20
How can teachings and our practice be a refuge and a response when we meet the reality of a global pandemic? This talk reflects on the wisdom of ancient traditions, and how it has had relevant applications through time, right up to this present moment.
SanghaSeva A Response to Coronavirus
2020-03-14 Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 2 30:05
A guided meditation to nourish and support us through humanity’s journey through the coronavirus pandemic.
SanghaSeva A Response to Coronavirus
2020-03-14 Coronavirus and the support of the Dharma - Part 1 31:38
We are living through an unusual period. As coronavirus spreads, much of what we take for granted is being shaken. There is uncertainty and fear around us, and also within us. How can Dharma teachings and practices support us? How can we deepen understanding and compassion in the midst of it all? This talk offers reflections on possibilities that are available to us, including practices that we can engage with, lean into, and cultivate.
SanghaSeva A Response to Coronavirus
2019-10-11 Metta and Emptiness 58:32
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness 2019
2019-09-07 Dharma Talk - Unshakeable Tenderness 56:19
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables
2019-09-06 Meditation Instructions - Mudita 55:30
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables
2019-09-05 Guided Compassion Practice in Pairs 42:03
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables
2019-09-04 Dharma Talk - Metta; Resources and Possibilities 36:35
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables
2019-09-03 Meditation Instructions 36:48
Arriving on retreat; guidelines for stabilising mindfulness
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables
2019-08-29 Dharma Talk - Transforming Suffering at the Root 54:58
Gaia House Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment
2019-08-28 Guided Meditation 44:18
Guided Metta Meditation (with short intro)
Gaia House Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment
2019-08-28 Meditation Instructions 44:47
Pleasant breath and Vedana.
Gaia House Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment
2019-08-27 Dharma Talk - From Hindrances to Gladness 56:18
Gaia House Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment
2019-08-16 In This Together 54:52
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-15 Metta To Phenomena - Guided Meditation 44:16
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-15 Day 5 - Dukkha WOL - Meditation Instructions 45:23
Meditation Instructions for Day 5
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-14 Dukkha, Clinging, Metta 53:33
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-13 Metta - Guided Meditation 44:35
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-12 Perception and Hindrances 57:29
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-11 Body and Breath - Guided Meditation 45:10
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-08-11 Day 1 - Pause, Relax with Body and Breath - Meditation Instructions 50:20
Meditation Instructions for Day 1
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-05-26 Dharma Talk - A Wide and Wonderful Path 47:54
Gaia House A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-05-26 Guided Meditation 34:48
Gaia House A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-05-25 Meditation Instructions - Hindrances, and the Pleasant Breath 1:10:26
Gaia House A Wide and Wonderful Path
2019-05-24 Dharma Talk - Dharma as Relationship 54:35
Gaia House A Wide and Wonderful Path

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