Matthew Brensilver

Matthew Brensilver

Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD teaches retreats at the Insight Retreat Center, Spirit Rock and other Buddhist centers. He was previously program director for Mindful Schools and for more than a decade, was a core teacher at Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Matthew worked as a clinical social worker, serving severely and persistently mentally ill adults and adolescents. He subsequently earned a PhD from the Dworak-Peck School of Social Work at USC where he was a Provost’s Fellow. His dissertation examined the mechanisms of risk and resilience in maltreated adolescents in a large, longitudinal study in South Los Angeles. Before committing to teach meditation full-time, he spent years doing research on addiction pharmacotherapy at the UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. Each summer, he lectures at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center on the intersections between mindfulness, science and psychotherapy. He serves on the Board of Directors at Spirit Rock. Matthew is the co-author of two books about meditation during adolescence and continues to be interested in the unfolding dialogue between Buddhism and science.

Matthew Brensilver, MSW, PhD teaches retreats at the Insight Retreat Center, Spirit Rock and other Buddhist centers. He was previously program director for Mindful Schools and for more than a...Read more

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Sunday Closing Dharmette Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.13 24:05 24:05
2020.12.13
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Saturday Dharma Talk: Freedom to Love Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.12 50:43 50:43
2020.12.12
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Friday Morning Instructions: The non-compulsion of awareness Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.11 53:59 53:59
2020.12.11
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Thursday Dharma Talk: Not-Self Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.10 54:35 54:35
2020.12.10
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Wednesday Evening Reflection: Rohini's Enlightenment Poem Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.09 08:48 08:48
2020.12.09
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Wednesday Morning Instructions: Clarifying Body Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.09 51:13 51:13
2020.12.09
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Tuesday Dharma Talk: Practicing Freely Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.08 52:54 52:54
2020.12.08
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Monday Evening Reflection: A little bit freer Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.07 09:55 09:55
2020.12.07
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Monday Morning instructions Matthew Brensilver 2020.12.07 54:36 54:36
2020.12.07
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Guided Meditation: Solid, Liquid, Gas Matthew Brensilver 2020.10.16 45:53 45:53
2020.10.16
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Improvisation and the Messiness of Experience Matthew Brensilver 2020.10.15 45:59 45:59
2020.10.15
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Guided Meditation: Radical Permission to Arrive Matthew Brensilver 2020.10.14 57:03 57:03
2020.10.14
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Preparing Citta not to Burn - IRC mini-retreat Matthew Brensilver 2020.08.26 21:48 21:48
2020.08.26
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Morning Instructions Matthew Brensilver 2019.10.05 40:03 40:03
2019.10.05
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The Role of Sila, Samadhi and Panna in Interpersonal Life Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.18 58:05 58:05
2019.05.18
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Guided Meditation: The Ground of Loving Acceptance Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.17 45:09 45:09
2019.05.17
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Removing the Thorns of Memory and Becoming Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.16 56:09 56:09
2019.05.16
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Guided Meditation: Settling through Love, Deepening through Sound Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.15 48:36 48:36
2019.05.15
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Seven Factors of Awakening Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.14 59:20 59:20
2019.05.14
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Guided Meditation: Settling into the Pleasure of the Breath Matthew Brensilver 2019.05.13 49:46 49:46
2019.05.13
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Concluding talk and Q&A Matthew Brensilver 2018.03.25 46:36 46:36
2018.03.25
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Talk: Guided Meditation: Insight Into Not-self Matthew Brensilver 2018.03.24 52:29 52:29
2018.03.24
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Guided Meditation: Letting Go of Becoming Matthew Brensilver 2018.03.23 48:24 48:24
2018.03.23
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Talk: Insight into Dukkha Matthew Brensilver 2018.03.22 45:40 45:40
2018.03.22
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Guided Meditation: Emotions and Inner Safety Matthew Brensilver 2018.03.21 47:45 47:45
2018.03.21
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