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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-04 Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States 56:42
Amana Brembry Johnson
In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher 41:23
Carol Cano
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-05-24 You Are the World 29:07
Peter Williams
Everything you are aware of is in your mind. The mind has no boundary, it is as large as the world. You are the world.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2025-05-23 Heartfulness 52:36
Peter Williams
How to bring the beauty, vulnerability, and passion of your heart into your practice.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2025-05-20 Sensory Clarity and the Joy of Embodiment 48:16
Peter Williams
To drop out of the mind and into the body is to drop out of time, stress, and separateness and into presence, ease, belonging and joy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Being Blessed by the Land:

2024-09-28 Anattā - Dissolving The Sense Of Separation In Nature 45:21
Mark Coleman
Immersion in nature, with a contemplative awareness, can support insight into the ephemerality of the sense of self. Dissolving of the habit / contraction of self can emerge effortlessly and in doing so reveal its intrinsic empty nature.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-27 Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature 43:53
Mark Coleman
The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-26 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 55:58
Mark Coleman
The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Awake in the Wild: September 2024

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