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Kim Allen
Kim Allen has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with cumulative years of silent retreat. She has practiced with primary teacher Gil Fronsdal and other Western teachers, Theravādan monastics, and a few Mahāyāna teachers, and now offers retreats, sutta study, and experiential Dharma engagement. A teacher and author, Kim aims to bring classical Dharma to a modern context and to encourage lay practitioners in fully living a life of Dharma. Her education includes a PhD in physics and a master’s degree in environmental sustainability, and her website is https://www.uncontrived.org.
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2023-02-11
01 Opening and initial instructions
2023-02-11
02 Samatha meditation
2023-02-11
03 Q and A
2023-02-11
04 Samadhi and Insight
2023-02-11
05 Metta
2023-02-12
06 Morning instructions and Elements meditation
2023-02-12
07 Anicca of mind and body
2023-02-12
08 Q and A
2023-02-12
09 Stories and reflections
2023-02-12
10 Final Dharmette and closing
2022-10-18
Blessing of Renunciation
2023-01-03
Cessation
2022-12-13
Craving
2022-10-04
Dangers of Sensuality
2026-07-12
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 5.2: Guided Meditation – All M…
2026-06-28
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 3.2: Guided Meditation: Skillful…
2026-07-05
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 4.2: Guided Meditation: Mindfuln…
2026-06-14
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 1.3: Guided Meditation – Ease in …
2026-08-02
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 7.2: Guided Meditation: Letting G…
2026-07-26
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026: Session 6.2: Guided Meditation: Breath a…
2025-10-04
Dharma talk and Q&A
2025-04-26
Dharma Talk and Q&A: The Art of Being with the Process ( Uncontrived Half-day R…
2026-04-11
Dharma Talk: Fire and Ocean: Images for the Awakened Mind
2026-10-10
Dharma Talk: From False Strength to True Strength
2025-01-18
Dharmette and Q&A (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat –Dwelling in the Dhamma)
2025-07-13
Dharmette and Q&A: Investigating Thinking
2026-01-03
Dharmette and QandA: Anicca, Dukkha, and Liberation
2026-07-25
Dharmette: Safety and the Pull Toward Being and Non-being
2022-12-06
Dukkha
2022-07-12
Exploring Awareness
2022-01-04
Exploring Fear, Part 1
2022-01-18
Exploring Fear, Part 2
2026-03-01
Foundations of Samadhi Session 1 -- Samadhi as Ecosystem
2026-03-08
Foundations of Samadhi Session 2 -- Well-Being
2026-03-15
Foundations of Samadhi Session 3 -- Letting Go
2022-07-26
Generosity
2024-10-26
Guided Meditation 1 (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
2025-01-18
Guided Meditation 1: Recollection of the Dhamma: Sanditthiko (Uncontrived Hal…
2026-04-11
Guided Meditation 1: Calming the Fires
2025-04-26
Guided Meditation 1: Recognizing Body and Mind, Relating with Sanity (Uncontriv…
2024-10-26
Guided Meditation 2 (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
2026-10-10
Guided Meditation 2: Fullness and Strength
2026-04-11
Guided Meditation 2: Oceanic Mind
2025-04-26
Guided Meditation 2: Recognizing Absence (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
2022-01-04
Guided Meditation: Present Without Manipulating
2026-01-03
Guided Meditation: Resting in Awareness
2022-03-08
Guided Meditation: Where Is Attention
2025-01-18
Guided Meditation2, Receptive Enquiry (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat – Dwelling …
2025-09-20
Happiness online retreat - Session 1
2025-09-20
Happiness online retreat - Session 2
2025-09-21
Happiness online retreat - Session 3
2025-09-21
Happiness online retreat - Session 4
2025-07-13
Intro and Guided Meditation: Discerning Thought
2026-01-03
Intro and Guided Meditation: Faring Evenly Amidst the Uneven
2026-04-11
Intro: Unattainable by Mere Reasoning
2025-10-04
Introduction and First Guided Meditation: Cellular Ease
2026-10-10
Introduction and Guided Meditation 1: Extending the Mind through the Body
2026-07-25
Introduction and Guided Meditation: OK For Anything to Arise or Cease
2025-07-13
Lightly Guided meditation: What Knows Thought
2026-07-25
Meditation: Not Pushing or Pulling
2022-03-08
Nutriment, Part 1
2022-03-22
Nutriment, Part 2
2022-04-19
Papanca
2023-02-07
Path of Letting Go
2023-01-17
Path, Part 1
2024-10-26
Reflections (Uncontrived Half-day Retreat)
2025-10-04
Second Meditation: Allowing Wholesomeness to Develop
2022-08-09
Sila, Part 1
2022-08-30
Sila, Part 2, and Gods
2026-10-14
The True Meaning of Uncontrived, with Gil Fronsdal
2022-04-05
Truthfulness
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2022-08-12
In This Very Life Sutta Study Class – SN 12
2023-02-11
Online Weekend Retreat
2024-10-26
Uncontrived Half-day
2025-01-18
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma
2025-04-26
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat 2025-04-26
2025-07-13
Half-day Retreat
2025-09-20
Happiness Beyond Conditions online retreat
2025-10-04
Uncontrived Half-Day : Refined Happiness
2026-01-03
Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat
2026-03-01
Foundations of Samadhi
2026-04-11
Uncontrived Half-Day: Fire and Ocean
2026-06-14
Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 –Living Dharma 1: View and Virtue
2026-07-25
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat: Not Holding Back and Not Overreaching
2026-10-10
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat: Mindfulness of the Body: True Strength
