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 … 
    
        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