Andrea Fella's Dharma Talks
Andrea Fella
Andrea Fella is the co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. She has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1996, and teaching Insight Meditation since 2003. She is particularly drawn to intensive retreat practice, and has done a number of long retreats, both in the United States and in Burma. During one long practice period in Burma, she ordained as a nun with Sayadaw U Janaka. Andrea is especially drawn to the wisdom teachings of the Buddha. Her teachings emphasize clarity and practicality. Andrea is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and teaches residential retreats for IMC and other retreat centers around the country
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2018-06-13
A Simple Mind
2012-08-14
Afternoon Instructions Day One
2019-11-28
Angulimala's Journey
2018-06-06
Attitude
2016-03-06
Attitude and Delusion
2011-10-05
Aversion and Insight
2020-06-15
Aware of Awareness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-26
Awareness Of Awareness
2018-06-12
Awareness of Awareness
2016-10-27
Awareness of hindrances it is possible.
2023-09-21
Awareness of thoughts and thinking
2016-05-10
Becoming Freedom
2010-10-28
Body and Mind
2014-09-22
Body and Mind
2020-03-13
Brahma Vihara Practice - Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-06-12
Checking the Attitude (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-03-11
Choiceless Attention
2013-08-14
Comfortable Breath, Comfortable Mind
2016-11-09
Compassion Practice
2013-08-19
Concentration in the Service of Liberation
2015-08-16
Concentration in the Service of Liberation
2018-05-08
Cooling the Fire
2016-11-11
Core truths and core wishes
2011-10-19
Crossing the Flood
2015-10-22
Crossing The Flood
2016-11-03
Crossing The Flood
2019-02-12
Day 10 Morning Sit with Instructions: Vedana or Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit…
2019-02-22
Day 20 Mudita Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-27
Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-05
Day 3 Morning sit with Instructions: Relax, Receive, Allow (Retreat at Spirit R…
2018-02-28
Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-03-05
Day 5 Brama Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-08
Day 6 Brahma Vihara - Metta: Dear Friend (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-05
Day 9: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-03-20
Deepening Trust
2023-10-05
Dependent co-arising
2022-03-08
Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-03-14
Dependent Co-Arising: Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-11-21
Dependent Origination
2013-10-10
Dependent Origination
2016-11-17
Dependent Origination
2018-10-15
Dependent Origination
2013-02-13
Dharma Talk
2017-11-24
Disenchantment and Dispassion
2019-11-21
Disenchantment and Dispassion
2022-03-18
Disenchantment and Dispassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-07
Effort & Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-02-05
Energy and Effort
2010-11-28
Equanimity
2017-11-29
Equanimity - Guided Meditation
2022-03-22
Equanimity Practice
2020-09-21
Evening guided meditation & reflections
2020-09-19
Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections
2020-09-20
Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections
2020-09-22
Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections
2024-06-18
Evening Talk: Five Aggregates and Emptiness
2024-06-11
Evening Talk: Five Aggregates and Studying Selfing
2018-10-06
Expanding Awareness - A Guided Meditation
2017-02-02
Exploring the Comings and Goings of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-02
Exploring the Edges of the Wandering Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-12
Exploring the Edges of the Wandering Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-18
Exploring the Five Aggregates and the Sense of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-02-07
Exploring the Wandering Mind
2018-09-24
Exploring Vedana (Feeling Tone)
2007-11-24
Exploring Vedena - Feeling Tone
2012-08-15
Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration
2015-08-12
Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration
2011-09-15
Faith, Wisdom and Doubt
2020-03-09
Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-15
Five Aggregates (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-23
Four Noble Truths
2010-08-22
From Stillness to Movement: The Place of Concentration on the Path of Insight
2019-02-06
From Why to What (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-04-24
Goals in Meditation
2010-11-12
Guided Meditation
2015-10-02
Guided Meditation - Expanding Awareness
2022-03-22
Guided Meditation: Equanimity Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-03
Guided Meditation: Expanding Awareness
2016-11-07
Guided meditation: Expanding awareness
2022-03-10
Guided Meditation: Metta Practice -- All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-04
Guided Meditation: Practice like a Naturalist
2012-02-12
Guided Metta (2)
2012-02-14
Guided Metta (4)
2022-03-04
Guided Metta Practice: Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-09-17
Hindrances Can Wake Us Up
2007-10-09
Hindrances, Restlesness
2010-02-16
Impermanence
2018-06-19
Impermanence
2019-11-01
Instruction For Formal Metta Practice
2024-06-24
Instruction for Talking Practice
2013-01-23
Instructions and Suggestions for Lying Meditation
2012-02-11
Instructions First Morning
2024-06-02
Instructions for Receptive Awareness
2012-02-13
Instructions on Mindfulness of Body
2012-02-15
Instructions on Working with Thoughts
2014-07-29
Intention, Motivation and Purpose
2014-10-06
Investigating Mindfulness itself
2013-09-19
Investigation
2015-10-01
Investigation
2017-11-02
Knowing A Mind Affected By Delusion
2008-07-23
Layers
2013-02-22
Living the Eightfold Path
2018-06-19
Mental Formations: Constructing our Lives
2013-08-16
Metta Practice Day 4
2018-10-18
Metta Practice: All Beings
2024-11-02
Metta Practice: Difficult Person and All Beings
2024-02-05
Metta Practice: Self and Benefactor (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-23
Metta Practice: Working with difficulty
2014-09-30
Metta Pratice: Self, Benefactor and Friend
2012-02-11
Mindfulness
2022-03-03
Mindfulness of Difficult Mental States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-11
Mindfulness of Feeling Tone (Vedana) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-03
Mindfulness of Feeling:
2019-10-31
Mindfulness of Feelings.
2024-02-06
Mindfulness of the Body and Exploring the Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-02-08
Mindfulness of Thoughts
2013-08-19
Morning Instruction Day 7
2016-10-28
Morning instructions
2017-11-02
Morning Instructions
2018-09-18
Morning Instructions
2020-03-04
Morning Instructions
2020-09-22
Morning Instructions
2020-09-23
Morning Instructions
2020-09-20
Morning Instructions
2019-10-30
Morning Instructions - Awareness Of Thoughts
2023-09-22
Morning Instructions - review
2020-09-19
Morning instructions and guided meditation
2020-09-21
Morning instructions and guided meditation with Andrea
2013-08-15
Morning Instructions Day 3
2012-08-21
Morning Instructions Day Eight
2012-08-17
Morning Instructions Day Four
2024-06-04
Morning Instructions: Aware of the Effect of Thinking
2024-06-19
Morning Instructions: Consciousness
2024-06-03
Morning Instructions: Mindfulness and Attention
2022-03-05
Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-06-05
Morning Instructions: More on Attitude
2024-10-27
Morning Instructions: Review of Instructions and Mindfulness of the Body
2024-06-26
Morning Instructions: Rhythms of Practice
2024-06-11
Morning Instructions: Aware of Awareness
2024-02-07
Morning Instructions: Body and Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-28
Morning Instructions: Body Sensations
2014-02-12
Morning Instructions: Day 11
2014-02-05
Morning Instructions: Day 4
2018-09-24
Morning Instructions: Intention
2022-02-28
Morning Instructions: Intimacy with Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-12
Morning Instructions: Relax, Receive, Allow.
2016-10-23
Morning instructions: relaxed attention.
2024-06-10
Morning Instructions: Supports for Continuity
2024-11-06
Morning Instructions: Undirected Attention/Open Awareness
2024-11-01
Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts
2019-11-15
Morning Q&A
2019-11-04
Morning Questions
2024-02-20
Morning Questions and Reflections (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-26
Morning Questions and Reflections (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-18
Morning Reflection
2013-02-21
Morning Reflection: Agendas in Meditation
2018-06-05
Morning Reflection: Aware of the affect of thinking
2013-02-14
Morning Reflection: Continuity of Mindfulness
2024-06-18
Morning reflection: not knowing
2013-02-16
Morning Reflection: Patience
2013-02-02
Morning Reflection: Relaxed Effort
2013-02-09
Morning Reflection: The "What" and "How" of experience
2013-02-23
Morning Reflection: The Path reflects the Goal
2013-02-28
Morning Reflection: Transitions
2019-11-11
Morning Reflections On Not-Self
2013-02-07
Morning Reflections: Appreciating the Wholesome
2024-06-17
Morning Reflections: Impermanence
2024-06-25
Morning Reflections: Opening to the Truth, the Mind can Relax
2019-02-12
Morning Sit
2022-06-24
Morning Sit with Instructions: Allowing and Recognizing Wisdom at Work (Retreat…
2022-06-22
Morning Sit with Instructions: Using Questions to Support Practice (Retreat at …
2019-11-14
Neither Tarring Nor Hurrying
2023-10-12
Non clinging and freedom
2016-05-28
Non-clinging Part 1
2010-02-27
Not Knowing
2018-06-20
Not Knowing
2018-10-21
Not Knowing
2019-02-26
Not Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-11-07
Not Self and Selfing
2018-10-08
Not Self and Selfing
2018-03-19
Not Self and Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-10
Opening Talk
2010-09-14
Ordinary
2010-04-25
Part 1 of 5- Basic Instructions
2010-04-25
Part 2 of 5- Guided Meditation
2010-04-25
Part 3 of 5- Discussion (am)
2010-04-25
Part 4 of 5- Working with Emotions
2010-04-25
Part 5 of 5- Discussion (pm)
2014-09-29
Patience
2014-10-13
Perception and Papanca
2015-10-08
Perception and Papanca
2018-03-13
Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-12-09
Practice In Daily Life
2009-06-05
Practice in Daily Life
2021-02-09
Practicing Compassion
2017-11-30
Practicing Freedom
2008-08-26
Practicing with Vedena
2020-03-01
Qualities of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-10-26
Qualities Of Wise Mindfulness
2018-02-25
Qualities that Support Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-13
Questions
2018-06-05
Recognizing Awareness
2015-09-24
Recognizing Delusion
2018-06-12
Recognizing Delusion
2024-06-13
Recognizing Wisdom
2024-06-25
Reflections on Nibbana
2017-02-21
Reflections on Not-Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-08-18
Refuge in Sangha with Andrea Fella and Amana Brembry Johnson
2023-09-16
Relax connection with the breath
2017-10-25
Relax, Receive, Allow and Learn
2019-11-07
Relying On This, Abandon That.
2020-09-18
Retreat Opening Part One
2020-09-18
Retreat Opening Part Two
2016-02-28
Satipatthana and Mindfulness
2010-08-18
Skillful Means for Concentration
2024-10-24
Skillful Supports for Mindfulness
2018-06-26
Spontaneous Vajra Song
2024-10-31
Supports for Continuity
2018-09-17
Supports For Continuity.
2023-09-15
Supports for mindfulness
2020-09-23
Taking The Practice Home
2018-06-26
Teachings to Bahiya
2011-10-13
The cycle of suffering
2018-03-08
The Cycle of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-11
The Disappearance and Reappearance of Mindfulness
2012-02-15
The Eightfold Path and Freedom
2012-05-17
The Eightfold Path and Liberation
2013-11-27
The Experience of Feeling
2014-10-20
The Experience Of Wisdom
2015-10-15
The Experience Of Wisdom
2011-09-22
The Five Aggregates
2017-11-10
The Five Aggregates
2012-02-13
The Hindrances
2016-03-14
The Mindfulness Factor of Awakening
2010-02-21
The Obvious
2006-09-10
The Ordinary That Transforms
2013-10-17
The Path reflects The Goal
2011-06-18
The Present Moment
2006-04-23
The Present Moment
2023-10-19
The Simile of the cloth
2011-06-20
The Skill of Meditation
2022-03-23
The Story of Angulimala (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-02-08
The Wandering Mind
2010-02-10
The Wandering Mind
2011-09-28
The Wandering Mind
2016-04-12
Thus Have I Heard
2011-11-01
Travelling the Eightfold Path Towards Insight and Liberation
2018-06-11
Trust
2014-02-04
Understanding and Abandoning
2023-09-28
Understanding delusion
2014-09-15
Unpacking Right Mindfulness
2018-10-01
Untangling the Tangle
2012-08-19
Using Concentration to See Things as They Are
2013-02-02
Using Dukkha as a Guide
2007-11-10
What Versus Why
2010-11-14
What versus Why
2014-07-01
Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living
2007-08-19
Why vs. What
2013-11-23
Wisdom and Effort
2024-02-25
Wisdom and Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-02-15
Wisdom and Insight
2017-11-17
Wisdom At work
2016-11-24
Wisdom at work, taste of Nibbana
2016-03-10
Wisdom is Happening
2010-10-25
Wise And Balanced Effort
2011-11-20
Wise and Balanced Effort
2013-09-12
Wise Mindfulness
2014-02-18
Wising up to Delusion
2024-10-22
Words of Encouragement
2021-02-04
Working with the Dear Friend
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Select one of Andrea Fella's 44 retreats
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2007-11-01
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2008-07-18
Insight Meditation
2009-06-02
Practice in Difficult Times
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-04-25
Daylong in the Style of U Tejaniya
2010-08-16
Concentration Retreat
2010-09-10
Mindfulness of Mind
2010-10-23
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2011-01-04
Tuesday Talks—2011
2011-06-17
Wise Attention and Opening the Heart
2011-09-10
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2011-11-18
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2012-02-10
Fella and Scharf
2012-05-13
May Insight Retreat
2012-08-13
Concentration Retreat
2013-01-18
Mindfulness of Mind in Oahu
2013-02-01
Februrary 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-08-12
Concentration Retreat
2013-09-10
Three Month - Part 1
2013-11-22
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2014-09-13
Three Month - Part 1
2015-08-10
Concentration
2015-09-12
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2016-02-27
March Monthlong
2016-05-22
DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016
2016-10-22
Three-Month Part 2
2017-01-28
February Month-long Retreat
2017-10-24
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2018-02-24
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-06-01
June 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-09-11
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-02-02
February Monthlong
2019-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2020-02-29
March Monthlong
2020-06-11
Awareness and Wisdom: An Insight Retreat in the Style of Sayadaw U Tejaniya
2020-09-18
Andrea Fella online retreat
2021-02-01
February Insight Meditation Retreat: A Retreat for Experienced Students with Ja…
2022-02-26
March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2022-06-19
Cultivating Awareness and Wisdom
2023-09-12
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2024-02-03
February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month
2024-06-01
June 2024
2024-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
