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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."
2023-02-27 Forgiveness is a path to joy and gratitude 44:13
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love
2023-02-19 Forgiveness and joy: companions on the journey to freedom 45:09
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness
2023-02-17 Treasure in the hindrances. 51:39
Reflections on the hindrances, and what engaging with that practice of mindfulness brings. A way to deconstruct the hindrances as a problem with suffering and appreciate the treasure that is possible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness
2023-02-16 Loving Kindness - circle of benefactors 50:06
Receptive, guided meditation with loving kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness
2023-02-15 Body elements meditation instruction – day one 64:09
What can be available by grounding in the body and the body's relationship to natural elements even as we engage the breath and sound
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness
2022-03-06 Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana 54:34
Pain a body and emotions is a part of opening. Understanding the importance and usefulness of including Vedana in practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-03-04 Loving-kindness instruction – day two 42:27
Circle of benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-13 Closing Ceremony 1:39:51
With Shelly Graf, Tuere Sala, Nakawe Cuebas, and Pamela Weiss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-11 3rd Day Instructions: Vedana, emotions 50:28
Review of instructions to date and expansion to include vedana and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-02-10 Gratitude, Generosity, and Compassion - beginning with Sujata. 57:40
Reflections on self compassion, compassionate engagement and action.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

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