Dana DePalma's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Jul 15 2024 17 ep. 56 mins 32
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Dana DePalma has practiced Insight Meditation since 1993 and is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council. Dana co-developed and leads innovative programs for the staff at Spirit Rock that combine practice, study and leadership training. She holds a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and enjoys sharing the Dharma as a spiritual mentor.

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Dana DePalma: Renouncing Compulsive Fixing and Receiving Life

Jul 15 2024 94 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Dana DePalma: Introduction to Nine Bodies Insight Practice, Capacities 1-4

Jan 24 2024 95 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Dana DePalma: The Present Moment is a Temple

Jul 09 2023 116 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation goes through the Arriving Sequence, including arriving in the present moment, becoming available to practice, and aligning with our deepest values. Having established ourselves thus, we deepen into the felt sense of presence and aliveness. Includes Mary Oliver’s poem, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me. This talk follows the gu

Dana DePalma: Patience and Persistence (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Mar 18 2023 58 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The paramis of patience and persistence play key roles in supporting our capacity to stay with the ups and downs of practice without succumbing to reactivity, judgement, or discouragement. This talk explores the active quality of persistence, the receptive quality of patience, and how they compliment each other in support of untangling the tangles of

Dana DePalma: Guided Meditation on Deepening, Quieting, and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Mar 16 2023 54 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation emphasizing deepening, quieting, grounding, letting ourselves be held by nature, and shifting to a deeper and wiser perspective in support of equanimity, a balanced heart-mind. It includes a poem by Mary Oliver, "Swimming, One Day in August."

Dana DePalma: Deepening and Quieting

Mar 15 2023 56 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation invites deepening and quieting, with lines of poetry from Mary Oliver.

Dana DePalma: Grounding Meditation

Mar 11 2023 45 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation emphasizing grounding and then gently opening to thoughts, including a poem by Matty Weingast from "The First Free Women."

Dana DePalma: Arriving Sequence and exploring the Third Foundation: Mind/Emotions

Mar 05 2023 53 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Dana DePalma: Curiosity about what is True

Mar 04 2023 59 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dhammavicaya, often translated as "investigation of the dharma", is one of the 7 factors of awakening. This talks explores dhammavicaya as a naturally arising curiosity in relationship to what is true which does not necessarily have to be framed in words.

Dana DePalma: Guided Metta Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Mar 02 2023 47 mins  
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A Guided Metta Meditation emphasizing the integration of Metta and Insight Meditation, including utilizing Sylvia Boorstein's phrase, "May I meet this moment fully; May I meet it as a friend," and variations of the second phrase such as "May I meet it with _______ (kindness, compassion, gentleness, patience, curiosity, receptivity, etc.). Includes a