A collection of guided meditations from Oren Jay Sofer

Guided Meditations

Dharma Talks

Mindfulness

2014-01-27 at Insight Meditation Center

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Oren Jay Sofer

Wise Speech

2014-11-08 at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center

This talk offers an exploration of the practice of devotion in lay Buddhism: inner and outer devotion, its place in the teachings, and its role in practice

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Devotion: The Heart of Practice

2015-03-06 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

An overview of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness

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Meeting the Heart and Mind

2017-11-30 at Mount Eden Retreat Center

Instructions for using an anchor to settle the mind and gather the attention, connecting and sustaining the attention.

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Cultivating Inner Freedom Part 3: Instructions and Guided Meditation: Establishing the Anchor

2018-04-20 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

A short, simple meditation to arrive and settle, ending with a guided reflection on intention.

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Mindful Communication 1: Guided Meditation: Settling And Arriving

2018-05-05 at Barre Center For Buddhist Studies

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Relational Dharma, Waking Up Together, Pt 2: Guided Meditation: Embodied Mindfulness

2018-05-05 at Barre Center For Buddhist Studies

A loving-kindness meditation rooted in bodily awareness.

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Relational Dharma, Waking Up Together, Pt 3: Guided Meditation: Embodied Kindness

2018-06-02 at White Heron Sangha

(2 of 15) A short guided meditation focused on developing inner resources. Includes brief instructions at end for walking meditation focused on developing ease.

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Equanimity In Difficult Times, Pt 2: Guided Meditation - Gratitude Ease And Steadiness

2018-06-02 at White Heron Sangha

(4 of 15) A brief guided meditation reflecting on the changes of our lives, the ups and downs, and how after all is said and done we come back to being present, here in a simple way.

Equanimity allows experience to arise and pass away according to its own rhythms, rather than our wishes. This short guided meditation reflects on the change in our lives and how—after all is said and done—we come back to being present, here, in a simple way.

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Equanimity In Difficult Times, Pt 4: Guided Meditation: Equanimity of Being Here

2018-06-02 at White Heron Sangha

(7 of 15) Brief reflections on equanimity with pleasure and pain followed by guided meditation.

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Equanimity In Difficult Times, Pt 7: Guided Meditation: Equanimity In A Sensitive Body

2018-06-02 at Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

Oren Jay Sofer offered the talk this week at our IMCB Monastery. Oren is a a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, a Nonviolent Communication Trainer, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for healing trauma. He is the founder of Next Step Dharma, and the author of the book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.

These talks are offered freely. To donate to support Oren’s work, please visit www.OrenJaySofer.com/support

Mindfulness: Freedom From Bias

2015-09-29 at Bozeman Insight

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Impermanence and Letting Go

2016

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Strengthening Gratitude: Guided Meditation

2019-02-10 at Insight Meditation Center of South Bay

Communication As Daily Practice

Meditation and communication teacher, author of "Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication."