Retreats

Thinking of doing a solitary retreat but don’t know where to start? Here you’ll find a full set of recordings from recent retreats that are great to download and take with you on solitary, or even work through over a few days in your day to day life.

Please forgive background noise, as these are recorded live and minimally edited.

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Doorway to the deep online retreat

Talks and led practices from a retreat offered on Zoom on June of 2020. Arundhati Roy has said the pandemic is a portal between one world and the next. Join us to explore this doorway, portal, bardo that we collectively find ourselves in and is teeming with potential.

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Arriving - body scan and seated practice
Singhashri
Feeling into here
Singhashri
Exploring vedena through movement and meditation
Singhashri
Including everything in awareness
Singhashri
The autonomic nervous system and the hindrances
Balajit
Meeting ourselves with love
Singhashri
Klesa liberation practice
Singhashri
What else is possible
Singhashri
Diving into the depths practice
Singhashri

RADICAL EMBRACE ONLINE RETREAT

Talks and led practices from a retreat offered on Zoom in May of 2020. How do we make sense of this imperfect world? How do we hold the tension between the ideal, what our heart longs for, and what’s happening now?Discover how engaging with what’s happening now supports us to begin to edge into what else is possible. 

Go set the world on fire, collage by Singhashri

Go set the world on fire, collage by Singhashri

Engaging the tension by exploring what's happening now
Singhashri
Getting curious about the breath
Singhashri
Vedena as gateway to freedom
Singhashri
Familiarising with the qualities of awareness
Singhashri
The autonomic nervous system and the hindrances
Balajit
Guided movement into metta
Singhashri
Getting down to the root and liberating the klesas
Singhashri
What we're waking up into

Mandala of Practice retreat

Talks and led practices from Singhashri and Nagesvara from a retreat for the Swedish Sangha at Dharmagiri in October, 2019. We explored the diverse doorways into practice using the symbolism of the mandala and the qualities of the female Buddhas

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Path as Symbol Retreat

Here you'll find a series of teachings and practices from a recent meditation retreat I led on the Triratna System of Practice. Progress from gentle grounding through to liberating insight. Enjoy!

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Intro to the symbolism of the mandala
Singhashri
Opening to all the blessings meditation
Singhashri
The power of intention
Nagesvara
Tips for just sitting practice
Nagesvara
Breaking the spell of the klesas
Singhashri
No clinging, no problem
Nagesvara
Imaginal practice and tonglen
Nagesvara
 
Intro and the path of integration
Singhashri
Integrating body scan
Singhashri
The path of positive emotion
Singhashri
Wellness practice
Singhashri
The path of spiritual receptivity
Singhashri
Sky gazing instructions
Singhashri
Just sensing
Singhashri
The path of spiritual death
Singhashri
Breaking the spell of the poisons
Singhashri
The path of spiritual rebirth
Singhashri
Opening to nature instructions
Singhashri
Pure awareness practice
Singhashri
 

Radical Embrace Retreat

A series of talks and led practices shared on the spring 2019 retreat at Vajraloka. Great to follow along to on a solitary retreat.


Intro to the retreat theme
Singhashri
Lying down body scan
Balajit
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Opening to the ground: input and practice
Balajit
Breath as teacher
Singhashri
Curiosity of breath practice
Singhashri
The nervous system and five hindrances
Balajit
Relating to experience through the body
Balajit
Working with bodily tension
Balajit
Opening to bodily pleasure: input and practice
Singhashri
Liberating the mind from the klesas
Singhashri
Klesa liberation practice
Singhashri
Opening to the vimokshas
Singhashri
Radical embrace full practice
Singhashri
Review of the retreat
Singhashri and Balajit
 

Anapanasati Sutta day retreat

A series of short talks and led practices using the Buddha’s instructions for waking up through the body, sensations, thoughts and emotions and the nature of reality itself.

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Breathing with the body
Singhashri
Sensitive to the body meditation
Singhashri
Breathing with sensations (especially pleasurable ones!)
Singhashri
Sensitive to pleasure meditation
Singhashri
Sensitive to feelings (pleasant, unpleasant and neutral!) meditation
Singhashri
Breathing with the mind (thoughts and emotions)
Singhashri
Sensitive to the mind meditation
Singhashri
Breathing with the nature of reality
Singhashri
We are survivors of immeasurable events,
Flung upon some reach of land.
Small, wet miracles without instructions,
Only the imperative of change.
— Rebecca Elson