Jean Esther's Dharma Talks
Jean Esther
Jean Esther, MSW has been practicing meditation since 1975 and teaching in the dharma since the early 90’s. She is one of the Guiding Teachers at True North Insight in Canada and teaches locally in the Northeastern US. Trained in Jungian transpersonal psychology and Somatic Experiencing she has been a practicing psychotherapist in Western MA since 1981 with a specialization in the healing of trauma. Her passion is attuning to and supporting the liberating intersection of body, mind and heart and helping others of all ages do the same.
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2012-07-02
"Awe Infinitum" - Teen Retreat
2016-07-01
"I Have Your Back"
2018-03-02
"The Power Of Vulnerability And The Courage To Meet It"
2024-05-05
Closing talk
2019-04-12
Communal walking instructions
2022-02-12
Compassion: An Organic Response to Wise Understanding
2020-03-11
Concentration, One Pointedness, and Renunciation
2024-05-03
Eating Meditation
2023-03-21
Eightfold path – taking the practice into our lives
2018-08-10
Entering the Door of Vulnerability
2013-07-01
First Morning Instructions - Teen Retreat 2013
2023-03-19
Five hindrances as a doorway to release.
2019-04-13
Guided compassion practice
2023-03-20
Guided compassion practice
2024-05-04
Guided compassion practice - with self and other
2021-02-27
Guided Compassion/Lovingkindness Meditation
2024-05-03
Guided loving kindness practice for self and/or benefactor
2019-04-12
Guided meditation
2018-08-11
Guided Meditation: Appreciative Joy
2018-06-24
Holding Ourselves Dear With A wise and Compassion Heart
2023-03-18
Introduction to Brahma Vihara practice
2021-12-01
Introduction to Metta practice
2010-05-22
Live Your Life -The Only One There is to Live
2010-05-20
Love and Equanimity
2024-04-15
Loving kindness for the neutral person
2019-06-28
Loving Kindness Meditation
2015-06-30
Loving Kindness Practice
2021-12-04
Loving kindness practice with the "neutral person"
2020-03-12
Metta Meditation (for easy person and self)
2021-12-02
Metta Practice For Self
2018-02-28
Mindfulness and the Three Roots of Suffering
2019-09-04
Mindfulness As A Factor Of Awakening
2020-03-13
Mindfulness Of Feelings and Emotions
2015-07-02
Morning Instructions
2017-09-08
Morning Instructions
2019-03-02
Morning Instructions
2019-03-04
Morning Instructions
2019-04-13
Morning instructions
2019-06-29
Morning Instructions
2019-09-05
Morning Instructions
2019-09-07
Morning Instructions
2022-02-12
Morning Instructions: Rooting in Embodiment:
2023-03-21
Morning Instructions: feeling tones (vedana)
2024-05-04
Morning Instructions: Identifying feeling tones as doorways of release
2022-02-13
Morning Instructions: Meeting our Emotions with Wisdom
2023-03-19
Morning Instructions: the value of anchoring attention.
2020-03-14
Open Choiceless Awareness - Sky Mind
2024-04-16
Perfectionism is an impediment to awakening
2015-07-01
Practice for the welfare of all beings
2018-08-11
Q&A Second Instructions
2017-06-10
Relating to Ourselves and Others with Love and Wisdom
2018-08-11
Second Morning Instructions
2019-04-13
Suffering is Relational
2024-05-03
The five hindrances: doorways to waking up
2024-05-04
The power of equanimity in relating to our worldly life
2019-07-01
Transforming Our World With the Fuel Of Wisdom and Love
2019-03-03
Why Practice
2019-03-18
Why Practice? Quelling The Fire
2021-12-03
Why Practice? Setting in motion the wheel of truth.
2019-03-05
Wise Relating On The Noble Path
2017-09-07
Working With The Five Hindrances
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Select one of Jean Esther's 22 retreats
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2010-05-16
Befriending Ourselves and Coming Alive: A Retreat Cultivating Embodiment, Joy &…
2012-06-30
Teen Retreat
2013-06-30
Teen Retreat
2015-06-29
Teen Retreat
2016-06-30
Teen Retreat
2017-06-08
The Dharma of Relationships
2017-09-05
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community
2018-02-27
Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-06-23
Teen Retreat
2018-08-09
Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha
2019-03-01
Living Dharma: Mindfulness, Kindness and Wisdom
2019-03-16
Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-04-11
Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha
2019-06-27
Teen Retreat
2019-09-03
Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI Community
2020-03-10
Freedom Here & Now: Insight Meditation Retreat
2021-02-26
Navigating Uncertain Times with a Dharma Heart
2021-11-30
Freedom of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Retreat
2022-02-11
Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart
2023-03-17
The Two Wings of the Dharma: Infusing Our Lives with Wisdom & Compassion
2024-04-13
Lovingkindness/Metta Retreat as Ceremony
2024-05-02
Opening to Our Lives with the Heart of the Dharma
