Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: dharma talks and meditation instruction
IMS’s Retreat Center first opened its doors in 1976. It offers a yearly schedule of meditation courses, lasting from a weekend to three months. Most retreats are designed for both new and experienced meditators. Recognized insight meditation teachers from all over the world offer daily instruction and guidance in Buddhist meditations known as vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness). While the context is the Buddha’s teachings, these practices are universal and help us to deepen awareness and compassion.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 44 minutes
- Episodes
- 64
- Years Active
- 2025
Kamala Masters: Metta Meditation Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Adding Dear Friend or Loved One to previous categories of Oneself and Benefactor
00:49:14 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Deborah Ratner Helzer: Instructions for Mindfulness of Thinking
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:56:22 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Kamala Masters: Five Spiritual Faculties
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The balancing factors of the 5 Spiritual Faculties
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Deborah Ratner Helzer: Guided Metta Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) For oneself and a benefactor
00:48:50 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Kamala Masters: Guided Sitting - Review Morning Instructions, Including Working with Sleepiness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:43:50 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Éowyn Ahlstrom: Posture Guidance for Sitting Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:35:41 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Kamala Masters: 1st Day Morning Instructions - Breath
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Chas DiCapua: Loving Kindness and Compassion Practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using an easy being to cultivate Loving Kindness and then turning that caring heart to the difficulties of another and self.
00:44:13 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
Chas DiCapua, Shelly Graf: Mindfulness of Body and Body Breathing
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Various ways to connect with the experience of body sitting and body breathing.
Mon 28 Jul 2025
Chas DiCapua: Mindfulness of Body
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring mindfulness of the body in the Satipatthana Sutta. Including how mindfulness of the body interfaces and supports other aspects of the practice…
00:48:09 |
Sun 27 Jul 2025
Brian Lesage: What is Insight?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:43:44 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions for Arriving into Retreat
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:30:50 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Kristina Bare: Deepening Samadhi
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of Samadhi and its role on the overall path of Liberation
00:56:35 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Winnie Nazarko: Wise Effort
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of the Wise Effort step of the 8 Fold Path, how it fits into the Buddha's teachings, and examples of how to specifically apply it.
00:56:00 |
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Kristina Bare: Harmonizing With The Hindrances
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully work with the 5 Hindrances in concentration practice. Threee Strategies are discussed: Ignoring, anti-dotes, mindfulness/inquiry
00:59:51 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Winnie Nazarko: The Buddha's Path
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores various points of the Buddha's schema as they relate to a practice at a concentration retreat.
00:42:48 |
Sun 06 Jul 2025
Jean Esther: Morning Instructions
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) These instructions introduce "thinking" as one of the six sense doors to cultivate mindful awareness of this includes identifying emotions and how to mee…
00:56:25 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Jean Esther: The Unshareable Liberation of the Heart and Mind
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is the state of our current existance? How does Buddhist practice lead us to being fully ourselves with this world while remaining steady and roote…
00:53:20 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
T Maes: Kind attention, the most valuable resource on the planet, always by your side
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) T shares clay buddha, salt cube, dirty water, and camera focus metaphors for teens
00:44:47 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Jean Esther: Loving Kindness Meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this 2 part guided meditation, we begin with recieving the loving care from someone who loves us in an uncomplicated way. Which could, include our pe…
00:31:09 |
Mon 30 Jun 2025
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