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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2026-04-06 Devotion to Openness 44:01
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the 5 elements with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-05 Beyond What We Already Know OR Think We Know 57:08
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the 4 Elements
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-04 Balancing Panna & Saddha 38:44
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-04 A Grounded Knowing 46:25
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-03 Indriya & Bala or the Buoyancy Needed to Continue 56:54
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection followed by Guided Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-02 Letting Go into Metta 46:17
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Five Faculties and Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-04-01 The Three Refuges & the Mind Wide Open 59:45
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection on the Three Refuges followed by a guided meditation on the Five Indriya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-03-31 Five Supports for Letting Go 36:10
Ayya Santacitta
Dharma reflection on the Five Indriya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Acceptance and Agency: Cultivating a Well-Lived Life Through Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculties - Monastic Retreat - 26MR

2026-03-16 Attunement, Freshness and Water Flowing Downhill 53:16
Keri Pederson
Reflections on the Paramis of Effort and Patience. References the Sona Sutta (AN 6.55) and Upanisa Sutta (SN 12.23) Vimalakirti and the Awakened Heart by Joan Sutherland and Ann Carolyn Klein's story In The Hidden Lamp: Stories From 25 Centuries of Awakened Women.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation – 26WOM

2026-03-15 Metta for Oneself and One's Body 27:30
Keri Pederson
Metta-Infused body scan using the poem 'St Francis and the Sow' by Galway Kinnell as inspiration.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation – 26WOM

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