Yanai Postelnik's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Yanai Postelnik
Yanai Postelnik has been engaged in full-time dharma practice and service since 1990. He is inspired by the Thai forest tradition and nourished by time spent in nature, and has been teaching retreats around the world for over 25 years. Yanai is a member of the Guiding Teacher Council of Gaia House, in Devon, England, and of the Core Faculty of Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts. Since 2018, Yanai has been engaged with Extinction Rebellion, seeking to bring about urgent change in the face of the climate and ecological emergency, in the service of all beings.
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2020-01-02
4th Day Morning Reflections and Instructions
2017-07-15
A Compassionate Response
2017-01-06
Acting from the courageous heart.
2025-01-05
Approaching the Heart of Wisdom
2013-07-19
Being A Part Of It All
2009-01-02
Being In The Ocean Of Life
2011-01-04
Being Part Of It All
2019-07-09
Body Dharma
2014-01-01
Body Dharma - Wisdom of the Body
2009-12-30
Body Wisdom, Body Dharma
2019-07-12
Climate Emergency Dharma
2020-01-05
Climate Emergency Dharma 2020
2023-01-07
Closing Talk - new Year's retreat, 2022
2015-01-06
Closing Talks - Akincano, Catherine, and Yanai
2025-01-06
Compassionate responses - inner practice and outer action
2019-01-03
Comptplating Mortality.
2015-07-17
Contemplating Death
2010-01-02
Contemplating Death and the Deathless
2012-01-01
Contemplating Impermanence
2024-01-02
Contemplating our mortality
2010-01-04
Cultivating Parami - For The Benefit Of All Beings
2024-01-01
Day 3 instructions – including vedana - hedonic tone
2023-01-05
Day 6 morning, reflections, and instructions
2019-01-05
Day seven instructions - Including thoughts
2020-01-01
Day Three Walking Instruction
2012-12-31
Day#3 - Morning Reflections and Instructions
2016-01-06
Devotional Practice and Dedication
2012-12-29
Dharma Reflections
2017-01-02
Embracing our aliveness.
2011-07-10
Faith - The Ground We Rest On
2019-12-30
First Morning Reflections and Sitting Meditation Instructions
2019-01-04
Forgiveness - Reflections and Guided Meditation
2009-05-08
Fruition of Practice
2016-01-01
Guided Forgiveness Meditation
2020-01-01
Guided Meditation - Kindness For The Body
2017-01-04
Guided Meditation On Foregivness
2017-01-01
Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body
2024-12-31
Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body
2020-01-04
Guided Metta Meditation With Metta Mudra
2019-01-01
Guided Movement Practice
2018-01-05
Life Itself
2020-01-03
Living In Rental Accomdation: Contemplating Impermance
2019-01-06
Looking Back And Moving Forward - A Talk For The New Year
2016-12-30
Meditation and Letting Go
2018-12-30
Meditation Instruction - The Breathing Body
2015-01-03
Meditation Instructions
2011-12-29
Meditation Instructions - Day One
2025-01-01
Meditation instructions - sustaining attention and meeting the challenges/hindr…
2014-12-31
Meditation Instructions - Whole body breathing
2025-01-04
Meditation instructions and reflections on curiosity and the seven factors of …
2015-12-30
Meditation Instructions for sitting and walking
2009-05-04
Meeting the Challenges
2025-01-03
Metta loving kindness for our own body and all bodies
2013-01-02
Metta Meditation
2017-01-03
Morning Instructions
2018-01-05
Morning Instructions
2019-01-02
Morning Instructions -
2020-01-05
Morning Instructions - Attention, Awareness and Presence.
2013-01-03
Morning Instructions - emotions and mindstates
2016-01-02
Morning Instructions - Hinderances
2017-01-05
Morning Reflection
2019-12-29
New Year Retreat Opening Talk
2015-12-31
New Years Reflections, Refuges and Wise effort
2013-12-29
No Way Out: The Practice Of No Escape
2014-12-28
Opening Talk
2015-12-29
Opening Talk
2016-12-29
Opening Talk
2016-12-29
Opening Talk - Edited
2017-12-29
Opening Talk - Years Retreat 2017-18
2023-12-30
Orientating towards freedom
2011-12-29
Orienting Towards Freedom
2016-12-30
Questions and Answers
2018-12-30
Questions And Answers
2007-01-02
Reality And Response
2016-12-31
Second Morning Instructions - Body Breathing
2024-01-04
Sixth Morning Instructions: Mind states and curiosity
2015-01-04
Something and Nothing: A Very Human Path Of Awakening
2018-12-30
Standing Meditation Instructions
2015-07-14
Tender Heart Practice
2018-12-31
Tender Heart Practice
2015-01-01
The Art Of Unknowing
2009-05-06
The Art of Unknowing.
2016-01-03
The End Of Seperation
2017-07-11
The Four Great Attachments
2003-04-11
The Great Heart Of Life
2013-01-04
The Great Heart Of Life
2009-01-04
The Heart Of Dharma
2009-07-24
The Radiant Heart
2009-07-21
The Truth of Impermanence
2013-01-01
The Way Things Are
2010-12-31
To Trust In Being
2012-01-04
Trusting Our Potential For Awakening: Touching The Earth
2008-01-01
Vulnerability And Freedom
2025-01-02
Vulnerability and Openness
2011-07-13
Vulnerability, Not Knowing And Openness
2024-12-30
Wakefulness' Refuge and Aspiration
2007-12-29
What Matters
2014-12-29
What Matters.
2019-12-31
WholeHearted Practice
2007-07-26
Wisdom And Compassion
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2006-12-27
New Year's Retreat
2007-07-24
Family Retreat
2007-12-28
Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat
2008-12-28
Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat
2009-05-02
Relaxed Openness: Embodying Presence
2009-07-18
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-12-28
Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat
2010-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2011-07-08
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2012-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2013-07-13
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2014-12-28
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2015-07-11
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2016-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2017-07-08
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2018-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2019-07-06
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced St…
2019-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2022-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
2023-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom
2024-12-29
Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat
