Retreat Recordings
It is a fruitful practice to go through a set of retreat recordings on your own. Set aside time to absorb them. Even sit the retreat on your own, as a self-retreat. Retreats offer an extended arc of teaching through which to develop a theme; they create a container with a beginning, middle, and end.
The Four Actions of Dhamma Practice (Apr 2025)
A 5-night retreat at Hidden Villa
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Cultivating the Qualities of a Sage at Peace (Jun 2024)
A weeklong retreat at Insight Retreat Center
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (Jun 2023)
A 5-night retreat at Insight Retreat Center
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Calm and Insight (Feb 2023)
An online weekend retreat through Uncontrived
The Buddha said that samatha and vipassana – calm and insight – are two essential components of liberating meditation practice. We begin this weekend of practice with tranquility, encouraging the mind to settle from its habitual busyness. Then we explore the aspects of experience that the Buddha indicated as offering the potential for liberating insight.
Day 1.1: Retreat opening and initial instructions
Day 1.2: Samatha meditation
Day 1.3: Dharma talk - Samadhi and Insight
Day 1.4: Metta
Day 2.1: Morning instructions and Element meditation
Day 2.2: Anicca of Body and Mind
Day 2.3: Stories and Reflections
Day 2.4: Final Dharmette and Closing
Knowing and Seeing in a New Way (Nov 2022)
A weeklong Insight retreat at Insight Retreat Center (In-person and Webcast)
Co-taught with Gil Fronsdal and Ying Chen
Heart and Mind in Harmony (May 2021)
A 6-day online retreat sponsored by Insight Santa Cruz
As we learn and practice the Dharma, it begins to "soak into" our body, heart, and mind. It changes the way we see, act, and live. In this retreat, we explore how the Dharma both purifies and strengthens the heart and mind, such that our life feels more harmonious and we become a refuge for others. Peace is possible.
All recordings are linked from this page. These are the main sessions with teachings by Kim.
Individual recordings:
Day 1.1: Retreat Theme. Simile of the Cloth (MN 7)
Day 1.2: Guided meditation and short talk
Day 1.3: Dhamma talk
Day 2: Metta
Day 3: Compassion
Day 4: Appreciative Joy
Day 5: Equanimity
Day 6.1: Instructions
Day 6.2: Final guided meditation
Day 6.3: Dhamma talk
Heart, Mind, Peace: A Retreat to Explore the Citta (Jan/Feb 2021)
A 6-day online retreat sponsored by the New Mexico sanghas
In our daily life, we are often asked to think, plan, and organize. We may yearn for the heartfulness we feel in our spiritual practice. In the Dharma, heart and mind are intimately connected in what is called the citta (“heart-mind”) – we don’t have to choose. In this retreat, we will explore what lies deeper than both surface thought and surface emotion, seeing how the citta can pervade our life both on and off the cushion.
It is a fruitful practice to go through a set of retreat recordings on your own. Set aside time to absorb them. Even sit the retreat on your own, as a self-retreat. Retreats offer an extended arc of teaching through which to develop a theme; they create a container with a beginning, middle, and end.
The Four Actions of Dhamma Practice (Apr 2025)
A 5-night retreat at Hidden Villa
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Cultivating the Qualities of a Sage at Peace (Jun 2024)
A weeklong retreat at Insight Retreat Center
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space (Jun 2023)
A 5-night retreat at Insight Retreat Center
Co-taught with Diana Clark, Ying Chen, and David Lorey
Calm and Insight (Feb 2023)
An online weekend retreat through Uncontrived
The Buddha said that samatha and vipassana – calm and insight – are two essential components of liberating meditation practice. We begin this weekend of practice with tranquility, encouraging the mind to settle from its habitual busyness. Then we explore the aspects of experience that the Buddha indicated as offering the potential for liberating insight.
Day 1.1: Retreat opening and initial instructions
Day 1.2: Samatha meditation
Day 1.3: Dharma talk - Samadhi and Insight
Day 1.4: Metta
Day 2.1: Morning instructions and Element meditation
Day 2.2: Anicca of Body and Mind
Day 2.3: Stories and Reflections
Day 2.4: Final Dharmette and Closing
Knowing and Seeing in a New Way (Nov 2022)
A weeklong Insight retreat at Insight Retreat Center (In-person and Webcast)
Co-taught with Gil Fronsdal and Ying Chen
Heart and Mind in Harmony (May 2021)
A 6-day online retreat sponsored by Insight Santa Cruz
As we learn and practice the Dharma, it begins to "soak into" our body, heart, and mind. It changes the way we see, act, and live. In this retreat, we explore how the Dharma both purifies and strengthens the heart and mind, such that our life feels more harmonious and we become a refuge for others. Peace is possible.
All recordings are linked from this page. These are the main sessions with teachings by Kim.
Individual recordings:
Day 1.1: Retreat Theme. Simile of the Cloth (MN 7)
Day 1.2: Guided meditation and short talk
Day 1.3: Dhamma talk
Day 2: Metta
Day 3: Compassion
Day 4: Appreciative Joy
Day 5: Equanimity
Day 6.1: Instructions
Day 6.2: Final guided meditation
Day 6.3: Dhamma talk
Heart, Mind, Peace: A Retreat to Explore the Citta (Jan/Feb 2021)
A 6-day online retreat sponsored by the New Mexico sanghas
In our daily life, we are often asked to think, plan, and organize. We may yearn for the heartfulness we feel in our spiritual practice. In the Dharma, heart and mind are intimately connected in what is called the citta (“heart-mind”) – we don’t have to choose. In this retreat, we will explore what lies deeper than both surface thought and surface emotion, seeing how the citta can pervade our life both on and off the cushion.