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Heather Sundberg's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Heather Sundberg
Heather Sundberg has taught insight meditation since 1999 and completed the Spirit Rock/IMS Teacher Training. Beginning her own meditation practice in her late teens, for the last 25 years, Heather has studied with senior teachers in the Insight Meditation (Vipassana) and Tibetan (Vajrayana) traditions and has sat 1-3 months of retreat a year for almost 20 years. She was the Spirit Rock Family & Teen Program Teacher & Manager for a decade. Between 2010- 2015 she spent a cumulative one-year in study, practice, and pilgrimage in Asia. Since 2011, she has been a Teacher at Mountain Stream Meditation Center and sister communities in the Sierra Foothills, and also teaches nationally, especially at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Her teaching emphasizes embodiment, compassion and practical wisdom.
2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 10 Point Body Scan Lying Down Practice: taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds. 60:58
Session #3, Awakening through the Body taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Embodied Awakening in Difficult Times: Opening Story & Teaching 28:13
Session #1 of daylong Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Teaching & Guided Practice: 1st Foundation of Mindfulness & Mindfulness of the Nervous System 16:57
Session #2, Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
2016-01-19 Five Things Which Wake Us Up! 61:59
1. Wise Friends 2. Celebrating Basic Integrity 3. Hearing the Dharma 4. Wise Effort 5. Harmony with Impermanence
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
2016-01-16 Morning Instructions: Metta for the difficult person (Day 5) 42:09
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat
2016-01-15 Meeting Life with Equanimity 56:28
"Funny, poignant, practical - this Talk explores Six Qualities of Equanimity; the Near Misses, and how to live with these qualities in the foreground of our hearts and lives. Equanimity is the Spacious (1) Balance (2) of the Non Reactive (3) mind-heart, grounded in Wisdom (4), with supports a deep Caring (5) , and leads to an Appropriate Response (6).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat
2016-01-12 Morning Instructions: Metta Overview (Day One) 37:43
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat
2015-12-22 Integrating Insights into Daily Life 58:58
the process of integrating insights; things to look out for, things to cultivate, and how to develop a daily practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2015-12-20 Day 3 - Morning instructional sit: Review, Thoughts and Emotions 1 22:43
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat
2015-10-05 Awakening the Heart - Practicing the "Divine Abodes" 43:40
with Donald Rothberg, Heather Sundberg
The Divine Abodes of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity are the places of the awakened heart. Practicing to cultivate these four abodes helps us to access these wonderful and transformative qualities of the open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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