Dawn Neal's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Santa Cruz 
    
              
              
 
    
        
            
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        2024-05-04
            Breath as a Barometer and the Wisdom of Vedana 
    
        2023-10-25
            Class 1: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation-Breathing 
    
        2023-11-01
            Class 2: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation-Body and Feeling Tone 
    
        2023-11-08
            Class 3: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation- Emotions 
    
        2023-11-15
            Class 4: Intro to Mindfulness Meditation -Thinking 
    
        2024-09-07
            Closing Reflection and Guided Mettā 
    
        2024-11-09
            Compassion (Karuṇā) Practice 
    
        2024-12-04
            Conditionality and Contentment 
    
        2024-10-02
            Confidence and Energy (Spiritual Faculties 1 & 2) 
    
        2024-10-16
            Cultivating Wisdom 
    
        2024-04-27
            Daylong Dharmette 1: Mindfulness and Settling 
    
        2024-04-27
            Daylong Dharmette 2: Investigation in Meditation 
    
        2024-04-27
            Daylong Dharmette 3: Trust and Conditionality 
    
        2024-10-29
            Dharma Talk: Ask Me Anything 
    
        2024-11-05
            Dharma Talk: Equanimity in Your Natural Homeland 
    
        2024-06-26
            Dharma Talk: Full Awareness in Daily Life and Meditation 
    
        2024-10-30
            Dharma Talk: The First 2 Ennobling Truths: Kitten Simile 
    
        2024-07-03
            Dharma Talk: The Four Foundations in Relationship 
    
        2024-06-20
            Dharma Talk: We are Nature: Elemental Meditation 
    
        2024-10-23
            Dharma talk:The Seven Factors of Awakening 
    
        2024-09-03
            Dharmette 
    
        2024-10-27
            Dharmette and Refuges: Shelter from the Storm 
    
        2024-06-26
            Dharmette: A Good Spiritual Friend 
    
        2025-02-25
            Dharmette: Beautiful Action 
    
        2024-12-10
            Dharmette: Contentment as Condition and Resource 
    
        2024-08-24
            Dharmette: Dharma is Nature 
    
        2025-01-21
            Dharmette: Don't Make Things Worse 
    
        2024-04-16
            Dharmette: Energy (Spiritual Faculties, 2 of 5) 
    
        2024-07-23
            Dharmette: Ethical Behavior and Consistency Support Harmony 
    
        2024-10-15
            Dharmette: Everything is Inviting Awareness 
    
        2025-01-28
            Dharmette: Get Curious and Stay Interested 
    
        2024-04-24
            Dharmette: Mindfulness (Spiritual Faculties, 3 of 5) 
    
        2024-06-18
            Dharmette: Nature Reveals Anicca 
    
        2024-03-19
            Dharmette: Notice! The Awakening Factors in Daily Life 
    
        2024-11-12
            Dharmette: On Monkeys and Mindfulness (Be Kind To Your Heart And Mind) 
    
        2024-10-22
            Dharmette: Practicing with Emotions 
    
        2024-04-28
            Dharmette: Refuge and Precepts as Joy (includes chanting refuges and precepts) 
    
        2024-03-24
            Dharmette: Refuge and the one Overarching Precept 
    
        2025-02-11
            Dharmette: Respect and Strength 
    
        2024-09-07
            Dharmette: Rhythms and Seasons of Practice 
    
        2024-04-30
            Dharmette: Settledness and Concentration (Spiritual Faculties, 4 of 5) 
    
        2024-03-26
            Dharmette: The Acrobats (On Mindfulness and Wise Boundaries) 
    
        2024-08-27
            Dharmette: The Mind's Magic Show 
    
        2024-07-30
            Dharmette: The Zen Master and the Psychic 
    
        2024-04-09
            Dharmette: Trust, Confidence, and Faith (Spiritual Faculties, 1 of 5) 
    
        2024-05-07
            Dharmette: Wisdom (Spiritual Faculties, 5 of 5). 
    
        2025-03-18
            Dharmette: Working with Worry 
    
        2025-07-15
            Don't Postpone the Good 
    
        2025-02-01
            Embodying Peace Part 1 
    
        2025-02-01
            Embodying Peace part 2 
    
        2024-11-09
            Empathetic Joy (Muditā) Practice 
    
        2024-11-09
            Equanimity (Upekkhā) Practice 
    
        2024-05-04
            Every Glimpse Is Onward Leading 
    
        2024-11-09
            Exploring the Four Immeasurables and Mindfulness Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-08-20
            Finding Your Own Wisdom 
    
        2025-06-04
            From Identification to Interest: Working with the Five Hindrances 
    
        2024-07-31
            Full Awareness: Purpose and Suitability 
    
        2025-07-02
            Gardening Your Practice 
    
        2025-01-01
            Generosity and Virtue Increase Happiness 
    
        2024-09-03
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-01-22
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-05-04
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Anapanasati, a Movement Towards Letting Go, Si… 
    
        2023-11-07
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Are you Aware? 
    
        2024-01-16
            Guided meditation and Dharmette: Attention! 
    
        2023-11-21
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Coming Home to the Breath 
    
        2023-10-31
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Getting Unstuck 
    
        2023-12-12
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Inner Wellbeing 
    
        2023-11-14
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Interest is a Superpower 
    
        2023-10-17
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Levels of Anicca 
    
        2023-12-19
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2024-01-30
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Practicing with the Elements 
    
        2024-01-09
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Trusting the Path 
    
        2023-10-24
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Wise Attention to Views 
    
        2024-02-13
            Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Wise Effort in Meditation 
    
        2024-10-29
            Guided meditation: All of Embodied Awareness 
    
        2025-01-29
            Guided Meditation: Allowing 
    
        2025-01-07
            Guided Meditation: Allowing Everything to Flow Through 
    
        2024-08-24
            Guided Meditation: Allowing Simple Presence 
    
        2024-11-26
            Guided Meditation: Appreciating Awareness 
    
        2025-02-05
            Guided Meditation: Aware from the Inside Out 
    
        2024-11-05
            Guided Meditation: Balance 
    
        2024-06-18
            Guided Meditation: Being with Change in the Breath 
    
        2024-12-04
            Guided Meditation: Being with the Breath 
    
        2025-03-25
            Guided Meditation: Breathing for Energy or Relaxation 
    
        2024-10-23
            Guided Meditation: Embodied Experience of This 
    
        2024-04-16
            Guided Meditation: Embodied Vibrancy 
    
        2025-03-26
            Guided Meditation: Everything Included 
    
        2024-07-03
            Guided Meditation: Full Awareness 
    
        2024-08-07
            Guided Meditation: Full Awareness 
    
        2025-01-01
            Guided Meditation: Gathering Attention Here 
    
        2024-06-26
            Guided Meditation: Grounded in the Body and Internal Posture 
    
        2025-02-12
            Guided Meditation: Including All of Experience 
    
        2024-07-23
            Guided Meditation: Integrity of the Body 
    
        2024-07-31
            Guided Meditation: Intention and Awareness 
    
        2024-09-07
            Guided Meditation: Intention and Interest 
    
        2025-08-19
            Guided Meditation: Internal and External Mindfulness 
    
        2024-10-30
            Guided Meditation: Just This 
    
        2024-06-26
            Guided Meditation: Kind Awareness 
    
        2024-04-24
            Guided Meditation: Kind Mindfulness 
    
        2025-01-08
            Guided Meditation: Letting Go Into This 
    
        2025-07-23
            Guided Meditation: Listening with all your Senses 
    
        2024-11-06
            Guided Meditation: Mindfulness and Compassion 
    
        2024-06-20
            Guided meditation: Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2025-03-04
            Guided Meditation: Noticing Balance or Leaning 
    
        2024-10-08
            Guided Meditation: Noticing the Silence Between 
    
        2024-03-19
            Guided Meditation: Noticing the Skillful 
    
        2024-08-27
            Guided Meditation: Opening to All that Arises 
    
        2024-10-16
            Guided meditation: Opening up to Awareness 
    
        2024-12-24
            Guided Meditation: Relaxation and Ease 
    
        2025-03-05
            Guided Meditation: Relaxation and Softening 
    
        2024-10-09
            Guided Meditation: Returning to Awareness 
    
        2024-10-22
            Guided Meditation: Returning to the Center Point 
    
        2024-07-30
            Guided Meditation: Returning to, Resting in, Awareness 
    
        2025-01-28
            Guided Meditation: Returning with Interest 
    
        2024-07-24
            Guided Meditation: Riding the Flow of Sensory Experience 
    
        2024-04-30
            Guided Meditation: Settling into Mindfulness 
    
        2025-02-25
            Guided Meditation: Sitting in Integrity 
    
        2025-01-26
            Guided Meditation: Sitting in Your Integrity 
    
        2024-08-24
            Guided Meditation: Spacious, Kind Awareness 
    
        2025-01-21
            Guided Meditation: Stabilizing Here 
    
        2024-12-10
            Guided Meditation: Staying with the Breath 
    
        2024-10-02
            Guided Meditation: Taking Your Place 
    
        2025-03-23
            Guided Meditation: Taking Your Seat 
    
        2025-05-13
            Guided Meditation: The Texture of This Moment 
    
        2024-04-09
            Guided Meditation: Trust 
    
        2024-11-12
            Guided Meditation: Welcoming All Experience 
    
        2024-09-07
            Guided Meditation: Welcoming the Moment 
    
        2024-09-04
            Guided Meditation: Welcoming Yourself Here 
    
        2024-10-27
            Guided Meditation: Welcoming Yourself to the Moment 
    
        2024-09-07
            Guided Meditation: Wholehearted Engagement and Relaxation 
    
        2025-02-11
            Guided Meditation: With Kindness 
    
        2024-11-13
            Guided Meditation: Your Internal Posture 
    
        2024-05-14
            How the Buddha’s Story relates to our Lives (Vesak talk) 
    
        2025-04-15
            Inner Wealth that Can't be Taken 
    
        2025-02-26
            Internal and External Beauty (part 1) 
    
        2025-03-05
            Internal and External Beauty (part 2) 
    
        2025-02-20
            Intro to Lovingkindness class 1 
    
        2025-02-28
            Intro to Lovingkindness class 2 
    
        2025-03-06
            Intro to Lovingkindness class 3 
    
        2025-03-13
            Intro to Lovingkindness class 4: Metta Can Transform Difficulty 
    
        2025-01-17
            Intro to Mindfulness Week 1: Breathing 
    
        2025-01-30
            Intro to Mindfulness Week 3: Emotions 
    
        2025-02-06
            Intro to Mindfulness Week 4: Thinking 
    
        2025-02-06
            Intro to Mindfulness, week 4: Thinking 
    
        2025-08-13
            Inviting Interest 
    
        2025-01-29
            Kindness and Equanimity 
    
        2025-03-25
            Learning from Lethargy, Resistance & Freeze (Sloth & Torpor) 
    
        2025-07-23
            Listening as Love 
    
        2025-07-22
            Listening as Mindfulness Practice 
    
        2024-11-09
            Loving Kindness (Mettā) Practice 
    
        2025-03-04
            Meeting Hindrances with Wisdom 
    
        2025-08-19
            Meeting the Moment with Clear Comprehension 
    
        2024-10-08
            Mind the Gap! 
    
        2024-10-09
            Mindful Awareness and Samadhi (Spiritual Faculties 3 & 4) 
    
        2025-02-05
            Mindful Awareness the Threefold Way 
    
        2025-06-10
            Mindfulness in Daily Life 
    
        2024-09-04
            Mindfulness of Mind: The Core of Practice is How We Relate to Experience 
    
        2025-05-27
            Mindfulness of the Body 
    
        2025-03-23
            More Beautiful Than Beautiful  (includes Refuges and Precepts) 
    
        2025-08-06
            Natural Unfolding: Anicca & Anatta 
    
        2025-08-06
            Open Spacious Awareness 
    
        2024-10-15
            Opening to the Flow of Now 
    
        2025-03-26
            Our Filters and Emotions (3rd & 4th Foundations of Mindfulness) 
    
        2025-06-11
            Practicing with Emotions and the Six Senses 
    
        2025-05-21
            Practicing with the Four Noble Truths 
    
        2025-08-05
            Process not Perfectionism 
    
        2025-08-12
            Process, not Perfection 
    
        2025-07-08
            Putting Your House in Order 
    
        2025-03-29
            Relaxation and Attitudes of Mind (Guided Meditation and Dharmette) 
    
        2025-07-09
            Releasing Heaps & Burdens 
    
        2024-11-09
            Self-Compassion Practice 
    
        2025-01-08
            Simplicity and Wisdom 
    
        2025-04-08
            Skillful and Unskillful Doubt 
    
        2025-06-25
            Surfing the Senses 
    
        2025-01-26
            Taking Refuge in Beauty 
    
        2024-12-24
            Talk: A Sacred Pause 
    
        2024-11-06
            Talk: Refuge, Balance, and Resilience 
    
        2025-04-09
            The 4 Foundations and Why They Matter 
    
        2025-05-14
            The Buddha's Deep Story 
    
        2024-07-24
            The Buddha’s teachings on the 6 Senses 
    
        2024-01-13
            The Four Noble Truths: First Noble Truth -- Suffering Exists 
    
        2024-04-13
            The Four Noble Truths: Fourth Noble Truth -- The Path to the End of Suffering 
    
        2024-02-10
            The Four Noble Truths: Second Truth - Origin/Arising of Suffering 
    
        2024-03-09
            The Four Noble Truths: Third Noble Truth -- The Cessation of Suffering 
    
        2025-01-07
            The Obstacles are the Path 
    
        2024-08-07
            The Quail and the Hawk: Fields of Full Awareness 
    
        2025-03-19
            The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Seeing Our Own Filters 
    
        2025-02-12
            The Threefold way of Wisdom includes Kindness and Ethical Action 
    
        2024-01-03
            Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 1 (non-greed) 
    
        2024-01-10
            Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 2 (non-hatred) 
    
        2024-01-17
            Three Roots of Wellbeing: Class 3 (non-delusion) 
    
        2025-01-22
            Truthfulness and Resolve 
    
        2024-11-26
            What Supports Gratitude & What Gratitude Supports 
    
        2025-05-13
            Wisdom 
    
        2025-10-01
            Wisdom of the Body, part 1 
    
        2025-05-28
            Wise View in Relational Practice 
    
        2024-11-13
            Wisely Attention to Stories and Thoughts 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Dawn Neal's 8 retreats
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        2023-10-25
            Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (four part series) 
    
        2024-01-13
            Buddhism in a Nutshell: A Series on the Four Noble Truths 
    
        2024-10-02
            Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series) 
    
        2024-11-09
            Cultivating a Loving and Courageous Heart 
    
        2025-01-17
            Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 
    
        2025-02-01
            Embodying Peace: A Daylong Retreat on the 6 Principles of Cordiality 
    
        2025-02-19
            Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation 
    
        2025-03-29
            Open and Relaxed Awareness Daylong Retreat