Amita Schmidt's Dharma Talks
Amita Schmidt
Amita Schmidt is a licensed clinical social worker with a focus on trauma and meditation. She was the resident teacher at Insight Meditation Society from 2000-2006. She is the author of "Dipa Ma: The Life and Legacy of a Buddhist Master." She also has practiced with Adyashanti, a teacher of non-dual awareness.
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2017-07-16
100% Heart Capacity
2019-04-07
Amita's Personal Dharma Story of Healing Trauma
2017-07-13
Anti-Fragile Dharma
2024-09-28
Anxiety and Depression Basic Tools for Meditators
2023-09-24
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Dharma
2022-08-10
Ask Your Heart Meditation
2022-01-09
Awakening Now
2009-08-02
Awakening/Enlightenment
2022-11-13
Awareness of Awareness and Dissolving into Being
2020-11-07
Basic Meditation Instructions
2008-08-01
Beginning Metta
2023-01-29
Below the Waves Meditation
2022-08-10
Beyond Death Meditation
2016-09-18
Bigger Perspective Meditation
2022-04-21
Collapsing Into the Now
2025-02-23
Connect and Soothe Your Parts during Difficult Times
2021-10-23
Death/Letting Go Meditation
2021-03-27
Deathbed Goal Challenge
2023-09-24
Debilitating Self Doubt
2020-11-08
Depression and Negative Thinking Loops
2019-10-18
Depression, Anxiety, and The Four Noble Truths
2018-04-18
Dreamcatchers
2018-11-02
Embodying Quiet
2019-10-20
Emptiness Practices for Depression and Anxiety: Part 2
2020-11-08
Environmental Change and the Dharma
2021-03-28
Equanimity Meditation
2021-10-17
Expansion Meditation
2016-09-10
Fear and Fearlessness
2020-11-07
Finding a True Refuge during Traumatic Times
2021-01-24
FIrst Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma.
2019-10-19
Forgiveness Meditation
2024-10-10
Infinte Love
2016-09-11
Inner Family of Lovingkindness Meditation
2024-06-20
Interview about Dipa Ma
2021-01-24
Introduction First Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma
2022-12-17
Kuan Yin Compassion Meditation
2022-11-13
Listen to all thoughts like a birdsong. All thoughts are just sounds.
2011-07-30
Metta For Benefactor And Self
2011-07-28
Mindfulness As Affectionate Awareness
2011-07-24
Mindfulness for Anxiety and Trauma
2007-09-08
Mindfulness of Depression
2008-08-02
Mindfulness Of Mind
2001-01-24
Miracles
2018-11-02
Monkey Mind Strategies
2016-09-17
No Part Left Out
2022-12-22
Outside the Storm: A Meditation for working with Strong Emotions
2018-11-03
Paradoxes in Practice
2019-10-19
Practices for Depression and Anxiety: Part 1
2023-01-29
Q and A: meditation and memory, sadness in practice, dementia, and chronic illn…
2024-10-06
Q and A: The gift of Listening to Suffering.
2022-01-09
Question and Answers in New Year 2022 Retreat
2017-07-13
Question How did Trauma affect your meditation Practice?
2017-07-13
Question What if I can't do Lovingkindness/Metta practice?
2018-10-28
Questions and Answers on Trauma, Love, and Rawness
2021-03-29
Questions and Answers The Cauldron of Emotions
2019-01-01
Reset Your Nervous System Meditation
2020-11-07
Resetting during Difficult Times and Circumstances
2022-11-13
Self Forgiveness Meditation
2010-08-03
Spiritual Fitness
2022-11-13
Spiritual Resilience and Dharma Micro-Dosing
2025-02-23
Spiritual Solidarity
2004-12-01
Spiritual Urgency - Samvega
2010-09-23
Stealth Bodhisattvas
2021-10-22
Stillpoint Meditation
2007-03-23
Sustainable Love
2018-10-13
Take the One Seat
2025-02-23
The Audacity of Joy
2021-03-27
The Cauldron of Emotions
2002-01-10
The Dharma of Alzheimers Disease
2021-10-17
The Dharma of Difficult Emotions
2021-10-24
The Fire of Change
2019-06-13
The Gifts of Dipa Ma
2011-08-06
The I that is We
2016-09-17
The Lap of the Buddha Meditation
2023-05-26
The No Self Strategy of the Buddha
2022-04-24
The One Unchanging Thing
2024-10-08
The Root Cause of Suffering
2022-04-24
Tonglen Meditation
2018-11-03
Twelve Steps and Dharma
2023-01-29
Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections
2016-09-18
Wholeness
2022-01-09
Wise Older Self Meditation (Short Version)
2022-01-09
Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version
2022-12-24
Working with Thinking as a "Part"
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Select one of Amita Schmidt's 9 retreats
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2001-01-14
IMS Staff Retreat 2001
2004-11-05
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2007-03-18
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2008-07-30
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2009-07-29
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2010-07-28
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2011-07-27
Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds
2016-09-17
No Part Left Out
2018-04-08
The Connected Heart
2019-06-13
The Gifts of Dipa Ma
38:34
This talk highlights four essential gifts that Dipa Ma Barua's life offers dharma practitioners today. The talk also includes two recordings of Dipa Ma's chanting.
Tri State Dharma
2019-01-01
Reset Your Nervous System Meditation
10:07
I learned this meditation in 2003 from Tibetan monk, Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He affectionately called it the “French Press” meditation because he wanted us to follow the exhale breath down into the belly in the same slow way the hand held coffee maker pushed the grinds to the bottom. Now somatic therapists and researchers know that a belly breath also connects with your vagal nerve, and you can reset your nervous system with just a few of these breaths. This meditation meditation combines breathing into the belly and grounding in stillness.
Yellow Springs Dharma Center
2018-11-03
Paradoxes in Practice
17:40
Exploring four paradoxes in practice; thoughts and stillness; effort and relaxed, the personal and the profound, right now and forever.
Tri State Dharma
2018-11-03
Twelve Steps and Dharma
22:29
12 Steps and the Dharma: Freedom from the Bondage of Self as it relates to Buddhism. Thoughts on addiction and no self.
Tri State Dharma
2018-11-02
Embodying Quiet
19:31
How to embody a deep quiet in your practice and your life. Ways to work with thoughts and find more stillness.
Southwest Sangha
2018-11-02
Monkey Mind Strategies
5:41
In answer to a question, this short piece describes a few strategies to work with monkey mind, from both the practical, to the emotional healing of the root cause.
Southwest Sangha
2018-10-13
Take the One Seat
40:52
Have the courage, like the Buddha, to take your one seat in the world. Discover what is your truth, your stillness, and your wisdom. Be willing to embody this completely and authentically in the world.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland
