Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: DaRa Williams's most recent Dharma talks: Recent Episodes
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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."
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on the Brahmaviharas, but mostly on equanimity and its sustaining energy for navigating the vicissitudes of practice and life
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Land acknowledgment, lineage honoring (homage to the ancestral roots), ancestral honoring. Precepts/taking refuge.The song Honoring, humming.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An invitation to bring the three jewels front and center in our daily life
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Receptive, protective, guided meditation of loving kindness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Arriving home through the practice of equanimity
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hindrances – growth along the path, and the utility of engaging them for growth and deepening of practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Rounding in the body, relaxed and engaged with the elements, earth, fire, water, air. Our connectedness to nature!
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The subtlety of feeling tone.Don't have to react!
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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) Receptive, guided meditation with loving kindness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this collective offering, we respond to questions asked by participants on the retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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) With Shelly Graf, Tuere Sala, Nakawe Cuebas, and Pamela Weiss
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of instructions to date and expansion to include vedana and emotions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on self compassion, compassionate engagement and action.
(Bellingham Insight Meditation Society) Discussion of loving-kindness and preparation for guided meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring a way to engage this practice and these times that support well-being of self and others.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forgiveness with a bit on gratitude added in!
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Review of what we have covered in the first two weeks of instruction.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Hindrances, relationship to practice and how to work with them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with emotions and review of instructions thus far.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is this "talking refuge"? What do we take refuge in? Refuge as a doorway to faith.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on foundational aspects of the Four Nobel Truths.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes sharing Gil Fronsdal's BELLA which is a way to work with the hinderances's.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, with intention, consciousness and awareness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Classic instruction along with a guided meditation for benefactor
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating self compassion and mindfulness. Bringing mind and heart together
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Compassionate action: an invitation to be fully present and engaged when things are like this!
(New York Insight Meditation Center) This sitting group provides instruction in insight meditation and fosters mutual support and understanding among the growing community of people of color who find nourishment and inspiration in the practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A further reflection on the three refuges and what it is to engage with taking refuge in a conscious present refuge - as practice