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Devon Hase's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Devon Hase
devon hase has practiced intensively in the insight and vajrayana traditions since discovering meditation in 2000. After a decade of bringing mindfulness to high school and college classrooms, she entered several years of silent, solitary retreat in the mountains of Oregon. She now teaches at the Insight Meditation Society, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the Forest Refuge, and serves as co-guiding teacher of the online dharma community Refuge of Belonging. Devon supports practitioners in both long and short retreats, as well as through personal mentoring, with an emphasis on relational practice and connection to the natural world. Along with her life partner, nico, she co-authored How Not to Be a Hot Mess and the forthcoming This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership (2026). Learn more at devonandnicohase.com.
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2024-11-16 Body Scan with Loving Awareness 27:38
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The body is full of awareness. An exploration of metta as awareness and awareness as metta in the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Natural Radiance: Exploring the Freedom of Awareness
2024-10-18 Tatramajjatata: Standing Steady in the Storm (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:55
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An exploration of equanimity as the starting place for engaging skillfully in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-10-17 Guided Meditation on Attention and Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:25
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Practice highlighting the difference between momentary attention which connects with an object and a wider field of awareness which can know many objects at once.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-10-15 Cittanupassana: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:14
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Guided Meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness: kayanupassana, vedananupassana, and cittanupassana. Emphasis on working skillfully with mind states and heart states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-10-14 There Are No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:04
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Talk on how letting go leads to Emptiness. Many ways to talk about freedom: nonproliferation, absence of clinging, bare awareness, laying our burdens down.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-10-11 Body Scan for Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:24
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Guided Meditation for settling, arriving, becoming available for the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-01-02 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:50
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Teaching and practice on awareness of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-01-01 Mudita: Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:09
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Poem and guided meditation on gratitude and mudita for others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-12-31 The Beauty of the Dhamma 49:45
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Stories about recollecting the Triple Gem, especially the wonders and beauties of the Dhamma. Reflections on truth, authenticity, compassion, and inner beauty for the New Year.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-12-30 Guided Meditation: Working with Hindrances, Emotions, and Other Difficulties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:02
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Teaching and guided practice on working skillfully with challenging states of mind and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

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