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Andrea Fella is the co-teacher at the Insight Meditation Center and the Insight Retreat Center. She has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1996, and teaching Insight Meditation since 2003. She is particularly drawn to intensive retreat practice, and has done a number of long retreats, both in the United States and in Burma. During one long practice period in Burma, she ordained as a nun with Sayadaw U Janaka. Andrea is especially drawn to the wisdom teachings of the Buddha. Her teachings emphasize clarity and practicality. Andrea is a member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, and teaches residential retreats for IMC and other retreat centers around the country -- Select from Andrea Fella's 193 talks -- VIEW ALL 2018-06-13 A Simple Mind 2012-08-14 Afternoon Instructions Day One 2019-11-28 Angulimala's Journey 2018-06-06 Attitude 2016-03-06 Attitude and Delusion 2011-10-05 Aversion and Insight 2020-06-15 Aware of Awareness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2013-09-26 Awareness Of Awareness 2018-06-12 Awareness of Awareness 2016-10-27 Awareness of hindrances it is possible. 2016-05-10 Becoming Freedom 2010-10-28 Body and Mind 2014-09-22 Body and Mind 2020-03-13 Brahma Vihara Practice - Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2020-06-12 Checking the Attitude (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2013-08-14 Comfortable Breath, Comfortable Mind 2016-11-09 Compassion Practice 2013-08-19 Concentration in the Service of Liberation 2015-08-16 Concentration in the Service of Liberation 2018-05-08 Cooling the Fire 2016-11-11 Core truths and core wishes 2011-10-19 Crossing the Flood 2015-10-22 Crossing The Flood 2016-11-03 Crossing The Flood 2019-02-12 Day 10 Morning Sit with Instructions: Vedana or Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit… 2019-02-22 Day 20 Mudita Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-02-27 Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-02-05 Day 3 Morning sit with Instructions: Relax, Receive, Allow (Retreat at Spirit R… 2020-03-04 Day 4 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-02-28 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2020-03-05 Day 5 Brama Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-02-08 Day 6 Brahma Vihara - Metta: Dear Friend (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-03-05 Day 9: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2016-03-20 Deepening Trust 2010-11-21 Dependent Origination 2013-10-10 Dependent Origination 2016-11-17 Dependent Origination 2018-10-15 Dependent Origination 2013-02-13 Dharma Talk 2017-11-24 Disenchantment and Dispassion 2019-11-21 Disenchantment and Dispassion 2017-02-07 Effort & Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2010-02-05 Energy and Effort 2010-11-28 Equanimity 2017-11-29 Equanimity - Guided Meditation 2018-10-06 Expanding Awareness - A Guided Meditation 2017-02-02 Exploring the Comings and Goings of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-03-02 Exploring the Edges of the Wandering Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-02-12 Exploring the Edges of the Wandering Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2018-09-24 Exploring Vedana (Feeling Tone) 2007-11-24 Exploring Vedena - Feeling Tone 2012-08-15 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 2015-08-12 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 2011-09-15 Faith, Wisdom and Doubt 2020-03-09 Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2017-02-15 Five Aggregates (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2016-05-23 Four Noble Truths 2010-08-22 From Stillness to Movement: The Place of Concentration on the Path of Insight 2019-02-06 From Why to What (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2010-11-12 Guided Meditation 2015-10-02 Guided Meditation - Expanding Awareness 2013-10-03 Guided Meditation: Expanding Awareness 2016-11-07 Guided meditation: Expanding awareness 2018-06-04 Guided Meditation: Practice like a Naturalist 2012-02-12 Guided Metta (2) 2012-02-14 Guided Metta (4) 2015-09-17 Hindrances Can Wake Us Up 2007-10-09 Hindrances, Restlesness 2010-02-16 Impermanence 2018-06-19 Impermanence 2019-11-01 Instruction For Formal Metta Practice 2013-01-23 Instructions and Suggestions for Lying Meditation 2012-02-11 Instructions First Morning 2012-02-13 Instructions on Mindfulness of Body 2012-02-15 Instructions on Working with Thoughts 2014-07-29 Intention, Motivation and Purpose 2014-10-06 Investigating Mindfulness itself 2013-09-19 Investigation 2015-10-01 Investigation 2017-11-02 Knowing A Mind Affected By Delusion 2008-07-23 Layers 2013-02-22 Living the Eightfold Path 2018-06-19 Mental Formations: Constructing our Lives 2013-08-16 Metta Practice Day 4 2018-10-18 Metta Practice: All Beings 2013-09-23 Metta Practice: Working with difficulty 2014-09-30 Metta Pratice: Self, Benefactor and Friend 2012-02-11 Mindfulness 2013-10-03 Mindfulness of Feeling: 2019-10-31 Mindfulness of Feelings. 2013-08-19 Morning Instruction Day 7 2016-10-28 Morning instructions 2017-11-02 Morning Instructions 2018-09-18 Morning Instructions 2019-10-30 Morning Instructions - Awareness Of Thoughts 2013-08-15 Morning Instructions Day 3 2012-08-21 Morning Instructions Day Eight 2012-08-17 Morning Instructions Day Four 2017-10-28 Morning Instructions: Body Sensations 2014-02-12 Morning Instructions: Day 11 2014-02-05 Morning Instructions: Day 4 2018-09-24 Morning Instructions: Intention 2018-09-12 Morning Instructions: Relax, Receive, Allow. 2016-10-23 Morning instructions: relaxed attention. 2019-11-15 Morning Q&A 2019-11-04 Morning Questions 2018-06-18 Morning Reflection 2013-02-21 Morning Reflection: Agendas in Meditation 2018-06-05 Morning Reflection: Aware of the affect of thinking 2013-02-14 Morning Reflection: Continuity of Mindfulness 2013-02-16 Morning Reflection: Patience 2013-02-02 Morning Reflection: Relaxed Effort 2013-02-09 Morning Reflection: The "What" and "How" of experience 2013-02-23 Morning Reflection: The Path reflects the Goal 2013-02-28 Morning Reflection: Transitions 2019-11-11 Morning Reflections On Not-Self 2013-02-07 Morning Reflections: Appreciating the Wholesome 2019-11-14 Neither Tarring Nor Hurrying 2016-05-28 Non-clinging Part 1 2010-02-27 Not Knowing 2018-06-20 Not Knowing 2018-10-21 Not Knowing 2019-02-26 Not Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2010-11-07 Not Self and Selfing 2018-10-08 Not Self and Selfing 2018-03-19 Not Self and Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2012-02-10 Opening Talk 2010-09-14 Ordinary 2010-04-25 Part 1 of 5- Basic Instructions 2010-04-25 Part 2 of 5- Guided Meditation 2010-04-25 Part 3 of 5- Discussion (am) 2010-04-25 Part 4 of 5- Working with Emotions 2010-04-25 Part 5 of 5- Discussion (pm) 2014-09-29 Patience 2014-10-13 Perception and Papanca 2015-10-08 Perception and Papanca 2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2007-12-09 Practice In Daily Life 2009-06-05 Practice in Daily Life 2017-11-30 Practicing Freedom 2008-08-26 Practicing with Vedena 2020-03-01 Qualities of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2019-10-26 Qualities Of Wise Mindfulness 2018-02-25 Qualities that Support Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2012-02-13 Questions 2018-06-05 Recognizing Awareness 2015-09-24 Recognizing Delusion 2018-06-12 Recognizing Delusion 2017-02-21 Reflections on Not-Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2017-10-25 Relax, Receive, Allow and Learn 2019-11-07 Relying On This, Abandon That. 2016-02-28 Satipatthana and Mindfulness 2010-08-18 Skillful Means for Concentration 2018-06-26 Spontaneous Vajra Song 2018-09-17 Supports For Continuity. 2018-06-26 Teachings to Bahiya 2011-10-13 The cycle of suffering 2018-03-08 The Cycle of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2014-02-11 The Disappearance and Reappearance of Mindfulness 2012-02-15 The Eightfold Path and Freedom 2012-05-17 The Eightfold Path and Liberation 2013-11-27 The Experience of Feeling 2014-10-20 The Experience Of Wisdom 2015-10-15 The Experience Of Wisdom 2011-09-22 The Five Aggregates 2017-11-10 The Five Aggregates 2012-02-13 The Hindrances 2016-03-14 The Mindfulness Factor of Awakening 2010-02-21 The Obvious 2013-10-17 The Path reflects The Goal 2011-06-18 The Present Moment 2011-06-20 The Skill of Meditation 2013-02-08 The Wandering Mind 2010-02-10 The Wandering Mind 2011-09-28 The Wandering Mind 2011-11-01 Travelling the Eightfold Path Towards Insight and Liberation 2018-06-11 Trust 2014-02-04 Understanding and Abandoning 2014-09-15 Unpacking Right Mindfulness 2018-10-01 Untangling the Tangle 2012-08-19 Using Concentration to See Things as They Are 2013-02-02 Using Dukkha as a Guide 2007-11-10 What Versus Why 2010-11-14 What versus Why 2013-11-23 Wisdom and Effort 2013-02-15 Wisdom and Insight 2017-11-17 Wisdom At work 2016-11-24 Wisdom at work, taste of Nibbana 2016-03-10 Wisdom is Happening 2010-10-25 Wise And Balanced Effort 2011-11-20 Wise and Balanced Effort 2013-09-12 Wise Mindfulness 2014-02-18 Wising up to Delusion 2014-02-18 Wising up to Delusion 65:48 Download Listen An exploration of the ways delusion manifests in the mind. Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014