Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on the value of contemplating death as an antidote to ownership in our relationships: "when we move into habitual relationships with our bodies, or our thoughts, or our feelings, or pleasant and unpleasant, any aspect of our life — when it's habitual, we have moved int...

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions on The Three Characteristics (anicca, dukkha, anatta) by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "knowing these three characteristics and laws of life become the grounds of our liberation and freedom."

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna leads a guided metta meditation

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna dances to a music video (Grateful by Nimo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2o98Zpzg8), then gives a dharma talk on cultivating joy: "It is impossible to hold our sorrow without cultivating our joy"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "The mind has that capacity to direct itself towards whatever the experience is. And so that is born in us. And we are building another quality very close to that, which is the mental quality of sustaining that connectio...

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided appreciation meditation led by Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on dependent origination: "One of the things that's been very helpful for me, given some of my own history, is to be really very detailed in the understanding and analysis of what happens when I'm caught in some of the trauma that rises inside of myself or th...

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided appreciative joy meditation by Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness (mind-states), followed by a short guided meditation: "As these energies come up in our mind, hearts, bodies, and we are present, we can discern: ah yes, here you are, anger. Can I disentangle you from the thoug...

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman "That's why the Dharma feels such a profound blessing to me — because it gave me a path to heal all those energies and not out of shame and blame, but out of presence and love"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation: "Someone who's studied the texts a lot called Analayo, translated the word mindfulness as 'placing near'. And I love that - that we're placing near this knowing and a knowing that's imbued with caring or friendship....

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) As the third week of the queer retreat comes to a close, Arinna offers morning instructions on transition and gratitude, followed by a guided meditation in appreciation for our bodies.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Arinna offers a dharma talk on gratitude: "Gratitude actually is the movement to appreciate that knows the particular characteristics and qualities of what we're moved to appreciate — and so we're coming to know the experience more accurately just as it is. So, it's a practice that actually brings us int...

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Morning instructions from Arinna on transforming the dynamics of ignorance through our moment-to-moment practice.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Guided evening compassion meditation offered by Arinna Weisman.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) How do we know when greed and aversion are operating in our minds? Arinna gives a dharma talk on the transformative power of love.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Morning instructions from Arinna on mindfulness and beginning again: "So this combination of standing by — bearing witness — knowing — being present — being mindful — includes this wish not to abandon. Not to turn away from — but to be there for. To be there for ourselves. To be there for our lives, in a...

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Morning instructions from Arinna on self-determination: "We talk about this practice as so precious because it's giving us the tools to find a different way than reacting — and that different way is based on the capacity to respond differently."

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided evening metta meditation offered by Arinna Weisman.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Morning instructions from Arinna: "What is living in my mind-heart right now? [...] The check-in comes from the intention to love: 'I love you honey, I care about you, and so I want to check in how things are'"

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided evening compassion meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Arinna offers a dharma talk on patience and the path of the Bodhisattva.