Jill Shepherd's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Check in with body, heart in mind, notice the attitude to experience

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some short reflections on Muditā, then a guided meditation cultivating appreciative joy for oneself and an "easy being"

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Some suggestions for navigating difficult mental states

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Looking at the role of Vedanā in fueling reactivity, and ways to relate more skillfully to it; includes an exploration of worldly and UNworldly feeling-tones

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to decide which practice method to use and when

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Brief exploration of clinging, and how to help it to release

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Establishing some well-being in the body then cultivating metta for the benefactor or easy being, then a good friend

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring clinging IN the body and clinging TO the body (ie identification with it), and ways to experience release of this clinging

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing a skillful relationship with emotions, knowing they're impermanent, impersonal nature. Includes a brief introduction of the acronym "RAIN" recognize, allow/accept, investigate, non-identification as nature

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring what supports kindness and what gets in the way, focusing on self-view and clinging to being right; includes a short guided meditation on "practicing being wrong"