Andrea Fella's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Andrea Fella  
 
    
        
                            
      Andrea Fella is the co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. She has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1996, and teaching Insight Meditation since 2003. She is particularly drawn to intensive retreat practice, and has done a number of long retreats, both in the United States and in Burma. During one long practice period in Burma, she ordained as a nun with Sayadaw U Janaka. Andrea is especially drawn to the wisdom teachings of the Buddha. Her teachings emphasize clarity and practicality. Andrea is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and teaches residential retreats for IMC and other retreat centers around the country
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2019-11-28
            Angulimala's Journey 
    
        2011-10-05
            Aversion and Insight 
    
        2013-09-26
            Awareness Of Awareness 
    
        2016-10-27
            Awareness of hindrances it is possible. 
    
        2023-09-21
            Awareness of thoughts and thinking 
    
        2010-10-28
            Body and Mind 
    
        2014-09-22
            Body and Mind 
    
        2016-11-09
            Compassion Practice 
    
        2016-11-11
            Core truths and core wishes 
    
        2011-10-19
            Crossing the Flood 
    
        2015-10-22
            Crossing The Flood 
    
        2016-11-03
            Crossing The Flood 
    
        2023-10-05
            Dependent co-arising 
    
        2010-11-21
            Dependent Origination 
    
        2013-10-10
            Dependent Origination 
    
        2016-11-17
            Dependent Origination 
    
        2018-10-15
            Dependent Origination 
    
        2025-09-25
            Dependent Origination 
    
        2017-11-24
            Disenchantment and Dispassion 
    
        2019-11-21
            Disenchantment and Dispassion 
    
        2025-10-09
            Disenchantment and Dispassion 
    
        2010-11-28
            Equanimity 
    
        2017-11-29
            Equanimity  -  Guided Meditation 
    
        2018-10-06
            Expanding Awareness - A Guided Meditation 
    
        2018-09-24
            Exploring Vedana (Feeling Tone) 
    
        2007-11-24
            Exploring Vedena - Feeling Tone 
    
        2011-09-15
            Faith, Wisdom and Doubt 
    
        2024-11-07
            Five Aggregates Review and Exploring the Sense of Self 
    
        2010-11-12
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2015-10-02
            Guided Meditation - Expanding Awareness 
    
        2013-10-03
            Guided Meditation: Expanding Awareness 
    
        2016-11-07
            Guided meditation: Expanding awareness 
    
        2015-09-17
            Hindrances Can Wake Us Up 
    
        2019-11-01
            Instruction For Formal Metta Practice 
    
        2014-10-06
            Investigating Mindfulness itself 
    
        2013-09-19
            Investigation 
    
        2015-10-01
            Investigation 
    
        2017-11-02
            Knowing A Mind Affected By Delusion 
    
        2018-10-18
            Metta Practice: All Beings 
    
        2024-11-02
            Metta Practice: Difficult Person and All Beings 
    
        2013-09-23
            Metta Practice: Working with difficulty 
    
        2014-09-30
            Metta Pratice: Self, Benefactor and Friend 
    
        2025-09-13
            Mindfulness 
    
        2013-10-03
            Mindfulness of Feeling:   
    
        2019-10-31
            Mindfulness of Feelings. 
    
        2016-10-28
            Morning instructions 
    
        2017-11-02
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2018-09-18
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-10-30
            Morning Instructions - Awareness Of Thoughts 
    
        2023-09-22
            Morning Instructions - review 
    
        2025-09-22
            Morning Instructions:  Further Reflections on Noticing Feeling Tone 
    
        2024-10-27
            Morning Instructions:  Review of Instructions and Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2025-09-14
            Morning Instructions:  Stabilizing with the Anchor 
    
        2017-10-28
            Morning Instructions: Body Sensations 
    
        2018-09-24
            Morning Instructions: Intention 
    
        2025-09-18
            Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 
    
        2018-09-12
            Morning Instructions: Relax, Receive, Allow. 
    
        2016-10-23
            Morning instructions: relaxed attention. 
    
        2024-11-06
            Morning Instructions: Undirected Attention/Open Awareness 
    
        2024-11-01
            Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts 
    
        2019-11-15
            Morning Q&A 
    
        2019-11-04
            Morning Questions 
    
        2025-09-26
            Morning Questions and Reflections 
    
        2025-10-09
            Morning Questions and Reflections 
    
        2025-10-11
            Morning Questions and Reflections 
    
        2025-10-03
            Morning Reflection:  Further Reflections on the Four Noble Truths 
    
        2019-11-11
            Morning Reflections On Not-Self 
    
        2025-10-06
            Morning Reflections: Just this... The Dharma can be seen in this 
    
        2025-09-30
            Morning Reflections: Purity and Purification 
    
        2019-11-14
            Neither Tarring Nor Hurrying 
    
        2023-10-12
            Non clinging and freedom 
    
        2018-10-21
            Not Knowing 
    
        2010-11-07
            Not Self and Selfing 
    
        2018-10-08
            Not Self and Selfing 
    
        2014-09-29
            Patience 
    
        2014-10-13
            Perception and Papanca 
    
        2015-10-08
            Perception and Papanca 
    
        2007-12-09
            Practice In Daily Life 
    
        2017-11-30
            Practicing Freedom 
    
        2019-10-26
            Qualities Of Wise Mindfulness 
    
        2015-09-24
            Recognizing Delusion 
    
        2024-11-14
            Recognizing Delusion 
    
        2024-11-28
            Reflections on Freedom 
    
        2023-09-16
            Relax connection with the breath 
    
        2017-10-25
            Relax, Receive, Allow and Learn 
    
        2019-11-07
            Relying On This, Abandon That. 
    
        2024-10-24
            Skillful Supports for Mindfulness 
    
        2024-10-31
            Supports for Continuity 
    
        2018-09-17
            Supports For Continuity. 
    
        2023-09-15
            Supports for mindfulness 
    
        2011-10-13
            The cycle of suffering
 
    
        2014-10-20
            The Experience Of Wisdom 
    
        2015-10-15
            The Experience Of Wisdom 
    
        2011-09-22
            The Five Aggregates  
    
        2017-11-10
            The Five Aggregates 
    
        2025-10-02
            The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight 
    
        2013-10-17
            The Path reflects The Goal 
    
        2023-10-19
            The Simile of the cloth 
    
        2011-09-28
            The Wandering Mind 
    
        2024-11-21
            Transcendent Dependent Arising 
    
        2023-09-28
            Understanding delusion 
    
        2014-09-15
            Unpacking Right Mindfulness 
    
        2025-09-18
            Untangle the Tangle 
    
        2018-10-01
            Untangling the Tangle 
    
        2007-11-10
            What Versus Why 
    
        2010-11-14
            What versus Why 
    
        2017-11-17
            Wisdom At work 
    
        2016-11-24
            Wisdom at work, taste of Nibbana 
    
        2010-10-25
            Wise And Balanced Effort 
    
        2013-09-12
            Wise Mindfulness 
    
        2024-10-22
            Words of Encouragement 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Andrea Fella's 13 retreats
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        2007-11-01
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2010-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2011-09-10
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2013-09-10
            Three Month - Part 1  
    
        2014-09-13
            Three Month - Part 1
 
    
        2015-09-12
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2016-10-22
            Three-Month Part 2 
    
        2017-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2018-09-11
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2019-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2023-09-12
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2024-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2025-09-11
            Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1