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Nikki Mirghafori

Nikki Mirghafori, PhD, teaches and serves on the Board of Directors of the Insight Meditation Center (IMC) and Spirit Rock. She is a Stanford-trained compassion cultivation instructor, a UCLA trained mindfulness facilitator, a Spirit Rock/IMS/IMC trained residential retreat teacher, and authorized by the renown Burmese meditation master, Ven. Pa Auk Sayadaw, to teach jhanas and analytical vipassana. Nikki has straddled the worlds of Dharma & technology as an Artificial Intelligence scientist for decades.
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Happy Hour: Breathing Compassion for Self 2019-05-2254:02DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Breathing In Our Suffering, Breathing Out Comfort 2019-05-2254:02DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Gratitude 2019-05-0852:43DownloadStream
On Love 2019-05-0542:42DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Compassion for the Baby Within 2019-04-2454:03DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Inviting Yourself Over for Dinner 2019-04-1054:36DownloadStream
Working with Procrastination as Practice 2019-03-3112:21DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Working with Not Enoughness
 2019-03-2753:37DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Friendliness with Experience 2019-03-1351:16DownloadStream
Maranasati: Contemplating Death (Series) 2019-03-023:49:38View Series
Happy Hour: Thin Places 2019-02-2754:21DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Circle of Love 2019-01-3051:36DownloadStream
Wise Livelihood 2019-01-2841:43DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Mudita (Vicarious Joy) practice 2019-01-2348:39DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Loving Kindness for a Dear One and Self 2019-01-0252:51DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Equanimity Practice 2018-12-0551:46DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Thanksgiving Special (metta for difficult person + gratitude practice) 2018-11-2152:40DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Radiating Metta, Giving and Receiving 2018-11-0746:55DownloadStream
To Be a Scientist of Your Own Mind-Heart 2018-11-0440:49DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta for 32 Parts of the Body 2018-10-2452:57DownloadStream
Seven Factors of Awakening (Series) 2018-10-1917:13:13View Series
Happy Hour: Vicarious Joy 2018-10-1055:43DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Self Compassion and Gratitude 2018-08-2260:52DownloadStream
Letting Go & Renunciation: Cultivation
Letting Go & Renunciation, August 9-12 2018, Ines Freedman & Nikki Mirghafori		 2018-08-1159:02DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Arising Gladness through Contemplating our own Goodness 2018-08-0860:38DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Compassion and Forgiveness for a Recent Difficulty 2018-08-0160:57DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Receiving Unconditional Love 2018-06-2756:13DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Gratitude 2018-06-2061:37DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Equanimity as Friendliness with What Is 2018-06-1361:27DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Taking Joy in Others' Joy 2018-05-2360:10DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Happiness Born from Within 2018-05-0261:39DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta From a Stance of Common Humanity 2018-04-1859:57DownloadStream
Guided meditation: radiating metta for all beings
Apr 8-15 2018: Nikki Mirghafori & Donald Rothberg		 2018-04-1448:53DownloadStream
Wisdom & Kindness & Gratitude
Apr 8-15 2018: Nikki Mirghafori & Donald Rothberg		 2018-04-1358:43DownloadStream
Hearts' Heavenly Homes: lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity
Apr 8-15 2018: Nikki Mirghafori & Donald Rothberg		 2018-04-1161:03DownloadStream
Guided meditation: metta for dear person and self
Apr 8-15 2018: Nikki Mirghafori & Donald Rothberg		 2018-04-1046:48DownloadStream
Practicing metta with G.R.A.C.E
Apr 8-15 2018: Nikki Mirghafori & Donald Rothberg		 2018-04-0954:37DownloadStream
Dharmette: Is That So (Discussion) 2018-04-0411:30DownloadStream
Practice Note: Is That So (Instructions) 2018-04-044:15DownloadStream
Dharmette: No Mind 2018-01-314:23DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Appreciation and Metta for Parts of the Body 2018-01-2450:08DownloadStream
The Dharma of Dr. Martin Luther King 2018-01-1537:25DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Friendliness with Experience 2018-01-1045:19DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta For Mind and Body 2017-12-2750:32DownloadStream
DPD Equanimity: Session 2 (of 3)
 2017-12-152:17:39DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Gratitude Practice 2017-12-1352:08DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta for Self and Someone You Are Having Difficulty With 2017-11-2954:02DownloadStream
Gratitude In Everything 2017-11-1938:57DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta for Benefactor 2017-11-1548:42DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Compassion Practice for Victims of Northern CA Fires 2017-10-1155:10DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta/Loving Kindness for a Dear One 2017-09-1353:11DownloadStream
Mindfulness At Work (Series) 2017-08-262:36:43View Series
Happy Hour: Metta/Compassion for Self 2017-08-2351:57DownloadStream
Practice Note: Kindness 2017-08-234:34DownloadStream
Dharmette: Gentle awareness 2017-08-2312:23DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Metta/Compassion for Afflictive Emotions (for Self) 2017-08-1651:47DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta for Self (with Emphasis on Repeating the Phrases) 2017-07-0564:59DownloadStream
Independence and Interdependence 2017-07-0341:50DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta for Our Younger Selves 2017-06-2853:31DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta - for Self (using images related to phrases) 2017-06-1453:33DownloadStream
Going Home Advice
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-1014:32DownloadStream
Instruction: Mindfulness of Stillness
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-1040:59DownloadStream
Resolved on Generosity
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-0954:35DownloadStream
Instructions: Mindfulness of Thinking
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-0846:27DownloadStream
Resolved on Relinquishment
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-0751:47DownloadStream
Instructions: Mindfulness of Body
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-0647:22DownloadStream
Resolved on Wisdom
Jun 4-11: Gil Fronsdal & Nikki Mirghafori		 2017-06-0555:14DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta - For Self (Receiving) 2017-05-3153:27DownloadStream
DPD Metta, Guided Meditation
 2017-05-1936:29DownloadStream
Dharma Practice Day, Kindness (Series) 2017-05-193:05:27View Series
Opening Guided Meditation
 2017-05-1931:22DownloadStream
Happy Hour: Guided Metta - Circle of Benefactors and Self 2017-05-1752:48DownloadStream
Metta (Loving-kindness) and its Benefits 2017-05-0742:07DownloadStream
The Body: 1st Foundation of Mindfulness support for other 33 Foundations + Q & A
Aug 17-21: Nikki Mirghafori, RIchard Shankman		 2016-08-2057:52DownloadStream
Mindfulness of the Body
Aug 17-21: Nikki Mirghafori, RIchard Shankman		 2016-08-1850:52DownloadStream
Gratitude 2016-04-2543:01DownloadStream
Equanimity
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0947:19DownloadStream
Guided Meditation (Day 5): Thinking and Mind States
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0850:00DownloadStream
Joy/Rapture and Concentration
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-075:22:55DownloadStream
Guided Meditation (Day 3): Feeling Tone
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0641:48DownloadStream
Investigation
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0559:40DownloadStream
Guided Meditation (Day 1): Body & Breath
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0452:14DownloadStream
Welcome & Intro. to Theme of the 7 Factors of Awakening
Apr 3-10, 2016: Nikki Mirghafori, Matthew Brensilver		 2016-04-0345:11DownloadStream
Mindfulness, Identity, Culture & Ethnicity (Series) 2015-12-123:14:43View Series
Getting caught on the way to love 2015-12-1043:20DownloadStream
The Way to Love 2015-12-0737:47DownloadStream
Dharmette: Gratitude for Everything 2015-11-2517:04DownloadStream
Practice Note: Gratitude for Everything 2015-11-254:01DownloadStream
Guided Meditation on silence
Nov 15-21, 2015: Gil Fronsdal, Nikki Mirghafori & Alex Haley		 2015-11-2148:55DownloadStream
Equanimity
Nov 15-21, 2015: Gil Fronsdal, Nikki Mirghafori & Alex Haley		 2015-11-2036:36DownloadStream
Guided Meditation Instruction on Breathing and Body
Nov 15-21, 2015: Gil Fronsdal, Nikki Mirghafori & Alex Haley		 2015-11-1850:31DownloadStream
Initial and sustained attention
Nov 15-21, 2015: Gil Fronsdal, Nikki Mirghafori & Alex Haley		 2015-11-1762:49DownloadStream
The Practice of Samadhi 2015-09-2740:48DownloadStream
Some Aspects of Wisdom in Practice
Nikki Mirghafori, Richard Shankman July 29-Aug 1, 2015		 2015-07-3052:38DownloadStream
Working With Lojong Cards - Part 2 2015-07-1633:51DownloadStream
Working with Lojong Cards - Part 1 2015-07-0929:04DownloadStream
Working With Lojong Cards (Series) 2015-07-0962:45View Series
Mindfulness, Improv, and Liberation
 2015-06-2749:42DownloadStream
Father's Day and Gratitude 2015-06-2140:13DownloadStream
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