DaRa Williams's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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
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
2023-02-15
Body elements meditation instruction – day one
2023-10-31
Bring it on: happiness awaits,
2019-03-24
Clarity, Compassion, and Freedom
2020-02-13
Closing Ceremony
2018-11-15
Compassion: Cultivating This Heat Quality.
2016-09-17
Compassion: First Noble Truth and wise view
2019-03-25
Day 3 Instructions - Review and Emotions
2018-03-07
Day One Instructions
2019-03-23
Day One Instructions - Breath and Body/Walking Meditation
2018-03-12
Equanimity, Balance and Ease
2023-11-14
Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace
2018-11-28
Equanimity: The Great Balance
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
2020-02-10
Gratitude, Generosity, and Compassion - beginning with Sujata.
2023-10-26
Guided meditation breath/body and elements practice
2018-10-30
Hindrances
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
2023-02-16
Loving Kindness - circle of benefactors
2022-03-04
Loving-kindness instruction – day two
2016-06-24
Lovingkindness: self and benefactor
2018-10-29
Meditations Instuctions - Day 7
2024-05-16
Metta - circle of benefactors
2016-09-20
Metta instruction. Self, friend, and benefactor
2016-06-26
Morning instructions
2018-03-10
Morning Instructions - day 4
2018-11-04
Morning Instructions - Keeping It Simple
2018-03-13
Morning Instructions with Review
2023-11-06
P2, instructions synthesis, reflection and a poem
2023-06-18
Questions and response
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.
2018-11-20
The Bhrama Viharas; A Roadmap To Freedom and Mudita,
2023-02-17
Treasure in the hindrances.
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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2015-03-13
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-06-22
People of Color Retreat
2016-09-10
Three-Month Part 1
2018-03-06
Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh…
2018-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2019-03-22
Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-06-18
People of Color Retreat
2020-02-08
Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-03-02
Opening to Wisdom and 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
2025-06-19
Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart…
