The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
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."
2018-10-30 Hindrances 56:00
Hindrances, relationship to practice and how to work with them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-10-29 Meditations Instuctions - Day 7 50:16
Working with emotions and review of instructions thus far.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-10-24 Taking Refuge: A Deeper Dive. 37:53
What is this "talking refuge"? What do we take refuge in? Refuge as a doorway to faith.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-03-13 Morning Instructions with Review 40:19
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation
2018-03-12 Equanimity, Balance and Ease 63:34
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation
2018-03-10 Morning Instructions - day 4 36:27
retreat highlights and hinderances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation
2018-03-09 Four Noble Truths: Keep It Simple 60:38
Reflections on foundational aspects of the Four Nobel Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation
2018-03-07 Day One Instructions 50:53
Arriving, gathering, and breath.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation
2016-10-01 Taking refuge– what are we doing here! 59:22
Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, with intention, consciousness and awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 1
2016-09-20 Metta instruction. Self, friend, and benefactor 54:37
Classic instruction along with a guided meditation for benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 1

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