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DaRa Williams's Dharma Talks
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."
2018-11-28 Equanimity: The Great Balance 64:16
Reflections on the dharma of equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-11-20 The Bhrama Viharas; A Roadmap To Freedom and Mudita, 53:34
Forgiveness with a bit on gratitude added in!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-11-15 Compassion: Cultivating This Heat Quality. 61:38
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-11-13 Impermanence: The Arising And Falling Of The Ten Thousand Joys and The Ten Thousand Sorrows 61:27
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-11-04 Morning Instructions - Keeping It Simple 47:39
Review of what we have covered in the first two weeks of instruction.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
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
2018-07-26 Day 6 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:45
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-07-21 Taking Refuge: The Simplicity and Beauty of the Seeds of Faith 46:40
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

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