DaRa Williams's Dharma Talks
DaRa Williams
DaRa Williams is a trainer, meditation teacher and psychotherapist. DaRa has been a meditator for the past 25 years and is a practitioner of both Vipassana and Ascension meditation. She is a graduate of the Spirit Rock/Insight Meditation Society Teacher Training Program and is a Guiding Teacher at IMS. She is the Program Manager and a core teacher in the current IMS Teacher Training. DaRa has been a clinician and administrator in the field of Mental Health for over 25 years and currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a certified trainer and practitioner of Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Therapy and Complex Trauma. DaRa integrates these skills, understandings, wisdom traditions and worldviews in her intention for contributing to the ending of suffering for all beings.
"It is my belief that vipassana meditation and the dharma are ideal for transforming suffering, particularly the trauma of oppression and its many vicissitudes-where the chains around our minds and hearts can be broken and dissolved. Awareness and wisdom become the vehicle for freedom and transforming lives."
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2020-02-11
3rd Day Instructions: Vedana, emotions
2019-04-16
Afternoon Instructions - Metta
2023-03-01
All teachers - taking the practice home manzanita, precepts.
2015-03-18
An Integrated Awareness: Reflections on Taking Refuges and the Three Jewels
2018-05-12
Attention Effort Relaxation
2023-02-15
Body elements meditation instruction – day one
2020-03-12
Brahma Viharas - Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-10-31
Bring it on: happiness awaits,
2016-07-30
Bringing Compassion to a World on Fire: Mind and Heart Together
2019-03-24
Clarity, Compassion, and Freedom
2020-02-13
Closing Ceremony
2015-07-02
Compassion & Forgiveness in a Time of Great Challenge
2018-11-15
Compassion: Cultivating This Heat Quality.
2018-02-05
Compassion: Everything is Connected (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-09-17
Compassion: First Noble Truth and wise view
2019-01-01
Compassion: Mind and Heart Together (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-08-08
Cultivating a Quality of the Heart: Compassion
2019-10-25
DaRa: Dharma Talk
2017-03-13
Day #16: Brahma Vihara Instruction
2018-02-06
Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-10
Day 14: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2020-03-02
Day 2 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-16
Day 20: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2019-03-25
Day 3 Instructions - Review and Emotions
2018-01-30
Day 3: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Ro…
2015-07-03
Day 4 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Emotions
2018-02-01
Day 5: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-07-26
Day 6 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-07
Day 7 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-07
Day One Instructions
2019-03-23
Day One Instructions - Breath and Body/Walking Meditation
2024-10-01
Deep Welcome
2020-03-10
Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-11-08
Dharma Talk - with DaRa Williams and Jozen Tamori Gibson
2018-05-12
Equanimity
2024-10-04
Equanimity
2024-10-10
Equanimity Practice
2018-03-12
Equanimity, Balance and Ease
2023-11-14
Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace
2018-11-28
Equanimity: The Great Balance
2021-08-07
Equanimity: The Time is Now
2017-03-21
Equanimity/Upekkha
2023-11-21
Forgiveness and gratitude: touching into the heart
2023-02-19
Forgiveness and joy: companions on the journey to freedom
2023-02-27
Forgiveness is a path to joy and gratitude
2019-06-20
Four Nobel Truths - POC
2018-03-09
Four Noble Truths: Keep It Simple
2018-05-12
Grateful
2020-01-03
Gratitude & the Flowering of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-02-10
Gratitude, Generosity, and Compassion - beginning with Sujata.
2019-04-16
Guided Meditation - Metta
2019-04-18
Guided Meditation - Mudita
2023-10-26
Guided meditation breath/body and elements practice
2018-05-11
Guided Meditation Heart Qualities
2019-04-14
Guided Meditation on Anchors
2015-07-01
Guided Metta Meditation: Benefactor
2019-12-29
Hangin' in with the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-30
Hindrances
2018-05-11
Hindrances
2017-12-29
Hindrances: A New Perspective (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-11-13
Impermanence: The Arising And Falling Of The Ten Thousand Joys and The Ten Thou…
2025-06-20
Instruction: Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2019-06-22
Instructions - POC Retreat - day 4
2018-05-11
Intro
2018-05-12
James Baldwin Reading
2018-12-30
Late Evening Brahmavihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-14
Liberative Dependent Arising: Impermanence/Anicca (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-16
Loving Kindness - circle of benefactors
2022-03-04
Loving-kindness instruction – day two
2016-06-24
Lovingkindness: self and benefactor
2018-05-11
Majjhima Nikaya
2018-10-29
Meditations Instuctions - Day 7
2019-10-27
Metta
2024-05-16
Metta - circle of benefactors
2016-09-20
Metta instruction. Self, friend, and benefactor
2024-10-12
Metta Practice
2018-05-11
More Hindrances
2018-05-11
More Poem
2016-06-26
Morning instructions
2019-04-15
Morning Instructions
2018-03-10
Morning Instructions - day 4
2018-11-04
Morning Instructions - Keeping It Simple
2019-04-17
Morning Instructions - Working with Emotions
2018-03-13
Morning Instructions with Review
2018-05-11
Movement Walking
2024-10-25
Mudita
2018-05-12
On Self Identification
2023-11-06
P2, instructions synthesis, reflection and a poem
2015-12-21
PoC Sangha - December 21st. 2015
2019-04-18
Poem
2018-05-11
Poem
2023-06-18
Questions and response
2024-10-24
Reflections on Gratitude
2024-10-02
Reflections, Guidance, and Courage
2018-05-11
Refuge in the Precepts Chanting
2019-10-26
Saturday morning instructions
2018-05-11
Settling Instructions
2019-04-17
Sympathetic Joy, Mudita
2024-05-17
Taking refuge in the sangha
2016-10-01
Taking refuge– what are we doing here!
2018-10-24
Taking Refuge: A Deeper Dive.
2018-07-21
Taking Refuge: The Simplicity and Beauty of the Seeds of Faith
2019-04-20
The Awakening Poem
2018-11-20
The Bhrama Viharas; A Roadmap To Freedom and Mudita,
2019-04-15
The Five Hindrances
2019-03-05
The Hindrances: An Opportunity for Discovery and Clarity (Retreat at Spirit Roc…
2018-12-29
The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-12-29
The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-10-11
Thoughts and Reflections on Metta
2023-02-17
Treasure in the hindrances.
2024-10-17
Vedana
2023-06-19
Vedana - Second foundation
2016-06-23
Welcome home– breath and body meditation instructions
2022-03-06
Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana
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Select one of DaRa Williams's 32 retreats
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1900-01-01
NYI Regular Talks
2015-03-13
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-06-29
Annual People of Color Retreat-Deepen Your Dharma, Deepen Your Freedom
2016-06-22
People of Color Retreat
2016-07-22
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-09-10
Three-Month Part 1
2017-02-25
March Monthlong Retreat
2017-12-27
New Years Insight
2018-01-27
February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-03-06
Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh…
2018-05-11
Retreat with DaRa Williams
2018-07-20
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-12-27
New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-03-02
March Insight Meditation 1-Month
2019-03-22
Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-04-13
Finding the Heart of Wisdom
2019-06-18
People of Color Retreat
2019-10-24
People of Colour Retreat
2019-12-27
New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-08
Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-29
March Monthlong
2021-08-07
Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour Retreat
2022-03-02
Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-11-04
Opening to Wisdom & Love: Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-02-14
Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness
2023-02-23
Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love
2023-06-15
By Any Means Necessary: A Journey to Liberation & Freedom Through Wisdom & the …
2023-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2024-05-14
Exploring the Three Refuges in Practice
2024-10-01
October 2024
2025-06-19
Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart…
