Jaya Rudgard's Dharma Talks
Jaya Rudgard
Jaya Karen Rudgard began meditating in the 1980s and practiced for eight years as a nun in the Theravada tradition with Ven. Ajahn Sumedho. A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training, she teaches insight meditation and mindfulness in the UK and internationally.
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2018-05-27
A Map of the Heart - The Four Divine Abidings
2021-03-03
A short guided meditation on the opening evening of the retreat.
2024-11-15
A well Spent Night
2018-10-14
Aging Sickness and Death and the Five Daily Reflections.
2024-01-01
Beautiful Questions; Chanting
2017-07-15
Being in This World with Dharma Lenses
2019-05-04
Bodhicitta - Reflections on Altruistic Intention
2024-02-12
Bringing Mindfulness to Thoughts and Thinking (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-14
Celebrating our practice and community
2021-03-05
Chanting Practice - Om Mani Padme Hum
2021-08-07
Chanting Together
2024-09-05
Chanting Together
2024-12-29
Chanting, Instructions & Meditation
2024-12-31
Chanting, Mantras, Meditation
2019-04-29
Chants and Reflections; Brahma Viharas; How Our Happiness Depends on Our Inward…
2020-07-10
Closing Session
2019-10-24
Community as refuge, community as practice
2019-02-03
Cultivating Kindness
2016-10-15
Dana Parmi – cultivating generosity
2017-11-18
Day One: Opening Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-10-25
Desire and discontent for the world
2021-03-05
Dharma Talk
2022-06-21
Dharma Talk
2022-06-23
Dharma Talk
2022-06-25
Dharma Talk
2022-09-05
Dharma Talk - Devotion and the Brahma Viharas
2023-01-08
Dharma talk - Energy, Effort, Choice and Courage (Viriya Pāramī )
2023-02-18
Dharma Talk - Meeting the 5 Hindrances w Mettā
2023-01-11
Dharma talk - Wisdom - the Handful of Leaves and Four Noble Truths or Tasks (Pa…
2022-04-09
Dharma Talk : Passivity and Activity
2022-04-06
Dharma Talk: The Experience of "Selfing" - Finding a Middle Way.
2021-08-07
Dharma Talk: Karma and Finding a Purpose in the Chaos of Life
2019-11-13
Doors To The Deathless
2017-04-15
Equanimity Practice
2019-06-15
Finding A True Refuge
2020-07-07
Freeing the heart: a walk through the awakening factors
2020-01-15
From hindrances to awakening factors.
2018-05-20
Gardening in the Mind - From Hindrances to Awakening Factors
2024-11-08
Generosity
2016-02-27
Generosity, Gratitude, Contentment, Equanimity
2017-11-23
Gratefulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-05-23
Gratitude and Generosity
2022-09-07
Group Chanting
2015-05-02
Guided Compassion Meditation (2) with Standing Meditation in a Circle
2017-04-16
Guided Compassion with Equanimity Meditation
2020-01-11
Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body.
2021-03-04
Guided Meditation
2024-06-30
Guided meditation
2023-01-09
Guided Meditation - Building Steadiness, Finding Nourishment
2020-12-30
Guided Meditation - The Five Elements
2018-05-19
Guided Meditation 2 - Mindfulness with Feelings
2018-05-21
Guided Meditation 4 - Mindfulness with Contemplation of Impermanence
2020-07-09
Guided Meditation on appreciation, compassion and kindness
2024-07-21
Guided meditation on big mind
2024-07-21
Guided Meditation on Big Mind
2017-04-16
Guided Meditation on Sympathetic Joy Pt 2
2017-04-17
Guided Meditation on the Four Directions, Above & Below
2024-12-31
Guided Mindful Movement, Sitting Meditation
2024-12-30
Guided Mindful Movement, Sitting Meditation, Some Music
2019-10-27
Guided Morning Meditation: body, breath, sounds and body sensations
2024-01-08
Guided Movement & Instructions - Summing Up Instructions So Far; Using Anchor w…
2024-01-08
Guided Movement & Meditation - Resting & Aliveness
2024-01-09
Guided Movement; Cultivating Mettā with Inner Smile & Sun Imagery
2019-01-11
Guided Standing and Breath Meditation
2024-11-01
Honeycake among the pumpkins: the Honeyball Sutta
2017-07-17
In Praise of the Peaceful Heart
2023-02-21
Instructions - Radiating Mettā in All Directions
2023-02-19
Instructions - Steadying Attention, Meeting Physical Discomfort & Hindrances w …
2019-02-03
Instructions - The Four Elements
2022-09-05
Instructions -Reflections on Finding the Spaciousness of Awareness, & Guided Me…
2022-04-06
Instructions & Guided Meditation
2024-09-05
Instructions & Guided Meditation - Big Mind
2024-09-03
Instructions & Guided Meditation - Placing Thoughts into the Womb of Awareness
2024-08-31
Instructions & Guided Meditation - Steadying the Wandering Mind
2022-09-03
Instructions & Guided Meditation, Walking Instructions
2022-04-07
Instructions & Lightly Guided Meditation
2025-01-01
Instructions & Meditation
2023-01-12
Instructions and Guided Meditation
2020-01-13
Instructions and guided meditation: mindfulness of mindstates.
2019-01-13
Instructions On Working With Thoughts And Thinking
2015-05-02
Intro to Compassion, Guided Compassion Meditation
2015-05-03
Intro to Mudita
2024-02-16
Introducing Choiceless Attention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-07-21
Introduction to the 2nd foundation of mindfulness: Vedana - feeling tone.
2021-03-06
Jaya reads out offerings from retreatants, and then leads a silent meditation.
2020-07-09
Joint Reflections on the Brahma Viharas
2014-05-03
Karuna - Reflections and Practice
2016-02-25
Loving Kindness
2021-09-07
Loving Kindness (Metta) Practice - Radiating to the Ten Directions
2024-01-10
Loving Kindness & the Abandoning of Ill Will; The Chant of Mettā
2018-05-18
Meditation Instructions 1 - Mindfulness with Breath and Body
2018-05-20
Meditation Instructions 3 - Mindfulness with the Mind
2019-05-04
Meditation Instructions and Guidance - Imbuing Attention with Kindness
2019-10-30
Metta as the practice of non-ill-will
2016-10-11
Metta for a difficult person.
2024-10-30
Metta for Neutral Persons
2023-01-10
Metta Guidance & Meditation - Establishing a Field of Metta to Receive All Thin…
2023-01-13
Mindful Movement and Guided Meditation
2023-01-08
Mindful Movement, Guided Meditation on Supports for Resting
2024-07-17
Morning guided meditation
2018-09-23
Morning Guided Meditation Instructions On Vedana.
2024-07-15
Morning instruction
2017-11-21
Morning Instruction- Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-02
Morning Instructions
2022-06-21
Morning Instructions
2022-06-23
Morning Instructions
2024-10-28
Morning instructions and guided meditation
2024-02-06
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-11-22
Morning Instructions, Day 2
2015-11-25
Morning Instructions, Day 5
2015-11-28
Morning Instructions, Day 8
2018-09-17
Morning Instructions: Guided Four Element Body Scan.
2021-03-04
Morning Practice
2021-03-06
Morning Practice
2019-11-14
Morning Reflection
2024-01-11
Movement & Meditation - Lightly Guided Mettā Practice
2019-11-22
Mudita - Appreciative Joy
2014-05-04
Mudita - Reflections and Practice
2024-02-26
Mudita - Sympathetic or Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-03-13
Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-12-31
New Years Eve - Celebrating, Pausing, Silence & the Beauty of Darkness
2017-10-16
Non-Identification
2017-05-20
Noticing Feeling Tones
2024-07-16
Opening evening
2019-01-10
Opening Instructions - Mindfulness of the body.
2018-01-12
Opening Morning Instructions
2024-10-23
Opening morning instructions and guided meditation
2020-07-06
Opening Session
2016-02-13
Orienting To The Dharma
2021-08-04
Practice Instructions and Guided Meditation
2017-04-15
Practising the 4 Brahma Viharas, Understanding, Dwelling, Radiating & Cultivati…
2020-01-10
Presence, ease, and possibility.
2016-02-14
Q&A About Practice
2023-12-30
Qi Gong Practice; Walking Meditation Guidance
2023-12-31
Qi Gong Session; Guided Meditation
2024-04-28
Radiating Mettā - Instructions & Guided Meditation
2024-01-01
Radiating the Boundless Qualities; Chanting
2017-10-14
Reactivity & Response
2015-11-21
Recognizing and Empowering the Five Faculties
2019-05-06
Reflection - Equanimity as Seeing with Compassion, Guided Meditation
2022-06-24
Reflections and Guided Meditation on Equanimity
2024-07-20
Reflections on "don't know mind"
2021-08-05
Reflections on Anatta (non-self)
2022-09-03
Reflections on Bowing, Chanting & Kuan Yin.
2024-08-31
Reflections on Heart Practices
2020-01-14
Reflections on Metta for difficult people: guided Metta meditation.
2023-12-29
Reflections; Chanting (Resting Deeply)
2023-10-03
Refuge and the recollection of the triple gem.
2018-09-30
Renunciation - A Gentle Approach.
2022-09-02
Retreat Opening
2024-02-09
Saddha: Kindling the Flame of Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-11-24
Seeing Through the Net of Illusion
2019-04-28
Self Compassion
2024-01-07
Sila Parami - Caring for Self & Other with Ethical Conduct
2017-04-16
Sympathetic Joy Practice, Guided Meditation
2018-09-02
Taking Care of the Mind
2016-10-08
Taking in the good.
2024-09-02
Talk - Knowing & Unknowing - The Wisdom of Uncertainty
2021-08-05
Teachings and Guided Meditation
2021-08-06
Teachings and Guided Meditation
2015-05-03
The Brahma Viharas
2018-05-18
The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing
2018-10-07
The Dance Of Faith And Wisdom
2019-11-10
The Doorway Of The Present Moment.
2018-09-23
The DukkhaThat Is Craving
2023-10-24
The eight worldly winds - on gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain…
2022-05-24
The Experience of Dukkha
2019-07-17
The Five Khandhas - Undoing Cling
2024-11-22
The Five Recollections
2015-07-03
The Four Noble Truths
2024-02-23
The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-10-10
The four wise efforts.
2018-10-22
The Golden Thread Of Equanimity
2019-11-20
The Perception Of Not-self
2019-01-15
The Responsive Heart
2024-06-30
The Unshakeable Heart
2018-09-16
Thinking Like A Buddha
2024-11-02
Thoughts and thinking: some practice instructions from the suttas
2023-10-17
Thoughts and thinking.
2024-07-24
Trust in Dhamma
2019-11-06
Two Minds On Fire: The Buddha's Fire Sermon.
2019-01-12
Vedana, Feeling Tones - What They Are And Why They Matter
2024-02-28
What Makes the World Spin? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-25
Wisdom - Some Reflections
2024-10-22
Words of Encouragement
2019-07-19
You Are Not Doing This Alone.
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2014-05-02
Return to the Boundless Heart
2015-01-01
IMS Dana Talks - PRIVATE
2015-05-01
Return to the Boundless Heart
2015-05-22
The Joy of Awakening
2015-06-29
Annual People of Color Retreat-Deepen Your Dharma, Deepen Your Freedom
2015-11-20
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2016-02-12
The Way of Wisdom: Insight Meditation Weekend
2016-02-23
Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life
2016-09-10
Three-Month Part 1
2017-01-08
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti…
2017-04-14
Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life
2017-05-19
Awakening Here and Now
2017-07-14
Being in This World
2017-07-18
15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat
2017-09-22
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations
2017-10-13
Insight Meditation & Qi Gong
2017-11-17
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace and Gra…
2018-01-08
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti…
2018-05-17
Awakening, Breath by Breath
2018-05-25
Freeing Your Mind, Embracing Your Life
2018-08-31
Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course
2018-09-11
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-01-09
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti…
2019-02-01
Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations
2019-04-26
Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart
2019-05-03
Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love
2019-06-11
Finding a True Refuge: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-07-14
Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Exp…
2019-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2020-01-09
Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat
2020-07-06
Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat
2020-12-29
New Year's Retreat 2020
2021-03-03
Stillness Moving - The Play of Opposites
2021-08-03
Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine
2022-04-04
Stillness Moving: The Play of Opposites
2022-05-22
Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature
2022-06-20
Creative, Living Dharma: practising with the similes of the Buddha
2022-09-02
Encountering the Practice of the Heart
2023-01-07
Rest and Renewal
2023-02-17
Liberation Through Loving Awareness
2023-10-01
October 2023
2023-12-28
New Year Retreat
2024-01-06
Rest and Renewal
2024-02-03
February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month
2024-03-02
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2024-04-26
Mettā in Motion - Insight Meditation & Qigong
2024-06-30
Jaya Rudgard – The Unshakeable Heart: Buddhist teachings for our own times
2024-07-16
The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students
2024-08-30
Practices of the Heart
2024-10-22
Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2024-12-28
New Year Retreat
