Arinna Weisman

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads the refuges: "So maybe for today, it's just the perfect amount of time to come together and connect with each other, and hear each other, and reflect back to each other what is lovely about ourselves. And that is one of the most important refuges that the Buddha talked about" This recording is...

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on patience: "And we could say then how deep patience is rooted in the heart's calling for healing and peace and awakening, because without patience, we're caught in the habitual stream of reactivity — and we know that anytime we are, the consequence of that is always harming" Thi...

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna opens the two-day retreat with a guided meditation: "We don't have to go anywhere else really, but just to say this hello — 'I’m here'. Acknowledging the different sensations that are being communicated, another form of greeting. Awareness greets the sensations of the life of the body"

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on equanimity and learning to hold what we've been given to heal: "Sometimes when it's one wounding on top of another on top of another, that it feels like — for some of us at least — the fabric is torn enough that it isn'...

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions, followed by a brief guided meditation: "Here's my question to us: how can we honor ourselves by offering ourselves a vision, without that vision triggering our shame? How can we? Because I know when we think about...

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna leads a guided forgiveness meditation: "Forgiveness is one of the paths for embodying this invitation. It's about unburdening the obstacles to this love, to this homecoming that we are being called to" This meditation is also available as a v...

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna leads a guided appreciative joy meditation: "There is another invitation to practice appreciative joy which comes from recollecting your own virtues — recollecting the beautiful qualities that you have living inside of you. And this is the pr...

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on mindfulness: "Mindfulness is the great leader in the energies of our freedom and our liberation" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xjltTTjj0

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Reclaiming our Path of Freedom Through Love, with Arinna Weisman, Noliwe Alexander, Jozen Tamori Gibson and Ian Challis Arinna gives a dharma talk on how to take refuge in the beautiful qualities of mind and to name the tree of ignorance and its branches as invitations for recognition and abandonment. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://www.dharmaseed.org/talk...

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 4 of 4) Arinna closes out the retreat with an ad-lib dharma talk on the power of intention and our interdependence on each other: "Intentions always bring consequences — and when the intentions are guided by a commitment to freedom and liberation, they will eventually bear...

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 3 of 4) Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Mindfulness is about building a relationship and knowing 'I'm here'. That here-ness is the beginning of the relationship. I'm here. I'm here with my experience"

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 2 of 4) Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Living inside us is this quality of caring and of presence. And they kind of fuse together — this energy we can call into being that is one of our greatest companions, that is a friend and a witness"

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 1 of 4) Arinna opens the first day with a dharma talk on faith: "No matter how often we are lost, there is always this place inside of us that is there alive and enduring"

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Online) - Growing Equanimity: A Mind That Is Near To All Things, with Arinna Weisman and Alisa Dennis, PhD, June 26th, 2022 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Is it possible to invite kindness into meeting this moment, this body and heart? May I care for you just as you are, however you are"

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Online) - Growing Equanimity: A Mind That Is Near To All Things, with Arinna Weisman and Alisa Dennis, PhD, June 26th, 2022 Arinna opens the daylong by leading the refuges: "Over the years of practice, I have felt so inspired by the capacity that each of us have to orient towards what is unknown, but that we intuit is there — this capacity to heal, to open, to be wis...

San Francisco LGBT Sangha's 20th anniversary daylong hybrid event online and at the SF Buddhist Center, June 18th, 2022 Arinna Weisman gives a brief dharama talk on beginning anew, imperfection, and frienship: "Beginning with that: how often we've internalized perfection, how this culture has lifted up and constructed some aspect of ourselves and the need to be perfect. And how when we don't reach...

San Francisco LGBT Sangha's 20th anniversary daylong hybrid event online and at the SF Buddhist Center, June 18th, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a guided meditation: "See if you would like offer an appreciation to the body. How much our body has carried — our hearts, light or heavy, our joy and our grief — all the many, many, many different mind moments"

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman gives a dharma talk on doubt and faith: "Faith understands that we are always deserving of the beautiful qualities of the heart and mind — no matter what happens — that we're always deserving of it"

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a guided loving kindess (metta) and gratitude meditation towards our bodies: "Whether we're young or old, the body has the capacity to be tired, or to get sick — or whatever it is — and we can offer metta as a lovely invitation to bring balance in that way. A...

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss open the daylong retreat. Katy leads the refuges, then Arinna leads the precepts. Katy and Arinna give an introduction to doubt and faith, and Katy leads a guided meditation. Arinna finishes by leading a guided movement practice.

Online Teaching with Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow Sangha, June 1, 2022 Arinna offers a guided meditation and gives a dharma talk on gratitude as a practice: "Gratitude is one of the antidotes to those mind states, to that heaviness in the heart. Because it turns to our capacity to not only hold what is difficult, to not only hold what is filled with suffering, at the same time to hold i...

Online Teaching with Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow Sangha, May 4th, 2022 Arinna offers a guided meditation and gives a dharma talk on turning toward our beautiful qualities to heal: "We have this capacity, which is called our Buddha nature. We have this inside of us. So although it often isn't acknowledged, we have this capacity to turn to whatever is difficult, and to begin a path of he...

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna closes the retreat with a guided forgiveness meditation: "The Buddha said that the practice of forgiveness was the gateway to love — because it clears the heart of judgment, shame and blame"

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna gives a dharma talk on allowing and opening to suffering, and the role of forgiveness in this process: "When the Buddha said in the first noble truth, 'there is suffering,' I so deeply appreciated that because it names a reality that of...

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna leads a guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "Traditionally we start [metta meditation] with ourselves, but I wanted to offer starting with a person, an animal, a tree, a place — to begin with not ourselves but someone else"