Tara Brach

Many are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can trust our unshakeable goodn...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cherishing-each-other-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-and-father-gregory-boyle

When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2024-04-24-meditation-awakening-through-the-inner-body

Mindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit. This talk explores the ways we get trapped in the trance of feeling unwor...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-reparenting-loving-ourselves-into-healing-from-retreat

In times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guides us in using the breath, body scan, and a ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inner-refuge-of-calm

Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can dee...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-sacred-art-of-listening-1

The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-life-1

In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian Lee C. Camp interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2024-04-03-relating-wisely-to-our-inner-life-tara-and-lee-c-camp

One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing fl...

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Connirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), developed and wrote a book on the Core Transformation Process, and more recently, the Wholeness Process. Her n...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/an-invitation-to-freedom-a-conversation-between-tara-and-connirae-andreas

If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom, the awake spac...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-widening-rings-of-being

Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and tap our capacity for full presence, wisdom and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2024-03-20-do-you-feel-overwhelmed-turning-stress-into-a-gateway-of-awakening

This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. “Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, r...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-openhearted-presence-0

How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/navigating-the-dark-ages-0

This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. "Ou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-gentle-kind-attention-0

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-healing-depression-with-meditation

Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-of-doing

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-healing-depression-with-meditation

We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-living-presence

Executive coach and author Stephen Josephs has worked with many top business leaders, guiding them in transcending the egoic conditioning that limit their impact on other people, and on societal ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/getting-over-yourself-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-and-stephen-josephs

Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace

While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence.  This series of talks explore...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/letting-go-of-controlling-part-2-the-path-of-freedom

This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-meditation-the-center-of-now

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz - Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Israeli governments’ devastating military act...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/what-is-the-path-to-peace-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-and-assaf-katz

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-and-alert

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom - While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/letting-go-of-controlling-part-1-the-path-of-freedom

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-letting-be

Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer - Countless people live with shame and distress about their eating. Dr. Judson Brewer, scientist, professor an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/changing-unhealthy-habits-of-eating-a-conversation-between-tara-and-judson-brewer

Meditation: Listening to our Heart - True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive aware...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-our-heart

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-2-0

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-0

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-1-0

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness -  We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-0

Coming Home to True Refuge - While we habitually try to control our life, our true refuge—the source of peace, safety and freedom—is in the direct realization of reality itself. This talk exp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/coming-home-to-true-refuge

Meditation: Energy and Source - Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, and rest in t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-energy-and-source

The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something’s wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-sacred-pause-0

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-mystery

Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress - Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other and all life. This reflection examines the primary forces that keep us trapped in a tran...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/finding-true-belonging-in-the-midst-of-stress

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake - This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the chan...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-and-awake

Awakening from Trance – Embracing Unlived Life - When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-trance-embracing-unlived-life

Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence - When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening ou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-sea-of-presence

Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner - Our conversation covers the biological, evolutionary and cultural bases of human goodness and the centrality of awe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/basic-goodness-and-awe-a-conversation-between-tara-brach-and-dacher-keltner

Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and pr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-meditation-whole-body-breathing

How Do We Bridge the Divides? - The divides in our world can only exist if we humans are divided from our own full being and habituated to divides with others. In this reflection we explore bridg...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-do-we-bridge-the-divides

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath res...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breathing-our-way-to-peace-freedom-0

A Generous Heart - Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-generous-heart

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-of-loving-awareness-0

Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/conversation-with-tara-brach-and-arthur-brooks-becoming-happier

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-of-living-presence-0

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment, we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-wise-heart-of-radical-acceptance-0

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment -  When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-and-saying-yes-to-the-moment-0

Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly - Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation teacher known for his instructions for effortless mindf...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/tara-and-loch-kelly-in-conversation

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness - Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-sea-of-awareness

A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis - Stephen Fulder is a senior Buddhist teacher, author and peace activist who lives and teaches in Israel. In...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-conversation-with-tara-and-stephen-fulder-what-is-our-refuge-in-the-midst-of-crisis

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-and-alive-0

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times - When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation - disconnected from the who...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/four-spiritual-inquiries-finding-heart-wisdom-in-painful-times

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-life-1

Radical Self-Forgiving - When we can’t forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing open the clenched fist of self-...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-self-forgiving

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence-with-body-scan

Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens - In his recent book, The New Saints, Lama Rod Owens offers teachings and practices that awaken our longing for freedom, an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/longing-for-freedom-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-and-lama-rod-owens

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go  - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-thought-clouds-come-and-go-0

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness - At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament: an illusion that we are a separate self. This talk explores how this identificat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-trance-of-self-centeredness

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-continuous-space-suffused-with-awareness

Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/saying-yes-part-2-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-jane-hirshfield

Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-flow-0

Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and medi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/saying-yes-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-jane-hirshfield

Meditation: Everything Belongs - This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-everything-belongs

Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence - We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways - caught inside the experience of a wanting, g...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/path-of-sacred-relatedness-undoing-the-blocks-to-loving-presence

Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-at-home-in-the-moment-0

The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world - Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-honesty-challenge-getting-more-truthful-with-ourselves-and-our-world

Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-the-practice-of-seeing-clearly

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing - The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This tal...

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Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience wit...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-a-kind-witness-0

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/conscious-prayer-finding-refuge-in-loving-awareness

Meditation: Openhearted Presence - This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence. 

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-openhearted-presence

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potent...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-rewiring-for-happiness-and-freedom

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-the-mystery

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potent...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-rewiring-for-happiness-and-freedom

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-with-the-breath

Intimacy with Life (Part 2) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy - a liberating expe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/intimacy-with-life-part-2

Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life - The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happeni...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-meditation-intimacy-with-the-flow-of-life

Intimacy with Life (Part 1) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy - a liberating expe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/intimacy-with-life-part-1

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the str...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-presence-0

Being with Love, Death and Grief - Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/being-with-love-death-and-grief

Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-present-heart-0

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/ask-me-anything-with-tara-and-jonathan-part-2

Meditation: From Head to Full Being - When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to r...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-from-head-to-full-being

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice - This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: wake up from thoughts; feel your feeli...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-core-reminders-for-spiritual-practice-0

Meditation: Loving What Is - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-what-is

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/ask-me-anything-with-tara-and-jonathan-part-1

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence - This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in open awareness, r...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 2): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer - Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/unwinding-anxiety-with-awareness-part-2-a-conversation-with-tara-and-dr-judson-brewer

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life - This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-breath-relaxing-into-life

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 1): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer - Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/unwinding-anxiety-with-awareness-part-1-a-conversation-with-tara-and-dr-judson-brewer

Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention - In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that inclu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-relaxed-attention

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-fear-part-2-awakening-your-fearless-heart

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by D...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-life-0

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-fear-part-1-awakening-your-fearless-heart-0

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence - This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, op...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-open-hearted-presence

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of lonel...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/releasing-the-habits-that-imprison-your-spirit-part-2

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You - This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We bec...

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Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneline...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/pt1-releasing-the-habits-that-imprison-your-spirit

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness - In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-this-life-in-awareness-0

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liber...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-acceptance-gateway-to-love-wisdom-and-peace-0

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care  - This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodying-acceptance-and-care-0

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciati...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-loving-kindness-seeing-the-goodness

Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodied-spirit-0

Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach - Hameed Ali is an author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization. In this interview we e...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-true-nature-a-conversation-with-hameed-ali-and-tara-brach

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inhabiting-awake-awareness-0

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1 - This week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron's newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It's a powerful book that I...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/finding-true-refuge-in-this-living-dying-world-part-1

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World  - Part 2 - Last week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron’s newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It’s a powerful book t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/finding-true-refuge-in-this-living-dying-world-part-2

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflo...

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Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence - The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, witho...

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The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two ta...

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Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, recept...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-deep-listening

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two ta...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-power-of-deep-listening-part-1

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence - This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this chang...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-aliveness-and-presence

Compassion for All Living Beings - We often talk of widening the circles of compassion. This talk explores the qualities of mature compassion, what blocks us from this embodied and inclusive cari...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/compassion-for-all-living-beings

Meditation:  Say “Yes” to Life - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence with the in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-say-yes-to-life

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) -  We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the “sec...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-wings-of-awakening-self-honesty-love-retreat-talk

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness - This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. We relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, i...

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Making the Whole World Your Friend - A wonderful translation of the Pali word Metta is friendliness. This talk looks at friendliness through an evolutionary lens, and explores ways we can cultiv...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/making-the-whole-world-your-friend

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then se...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life

Refuge in the Wilderness - Pt2 – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control towers , we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primar...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/refuge-in-the-wilderness-pt-2-coming-home-to-embodied-presence

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath.  This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nerv...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-homecoming-to-our-life-breath

Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave em...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/refuge-in-the-wilderness-part-1

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness - This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-full-aliveness

The RAIN of Forgiveness - The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-rain-of-forgiveness

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-practice-of-seeing-clearly

How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris - It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evid...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-to-stop-the-war-against-yourself-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-dan-harris

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-river-of-aliveness

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelmi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trauma-sensitive-mindfulness-the-power-of-self-nurturing

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-into-presence-or-sleep

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in resear...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-psychedelics-mortality-a-conversation-with-tara-and-roland-griffiths

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-silence-that-is-listening-0

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-the-gold-realizing-our-basic-goodness

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to th...

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Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of Hi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-dalai-lamas-guide-to-happiness-part-1-with-dan-harris

Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually ma...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-your-deepest-intention

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By rel...

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Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing - preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate self. The suffering is that this self-fixation...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/freedom-beyond-selfing

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-and-letting-be

IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/intraconnected-part-2-conversation-with-tara-and-dan-siegel

Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a ...

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IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/intraconnected-part-1-conversation-with-tara-and-dan-siegel

Meditation: Body and Spirit - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a po...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-body-and-spirit

Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what) am I?” This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awareness, a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/our-true-nature-emptiness-dancing-retreat-talk

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awareness

Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation - In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about his 4 1/2 years on a wandering retreat and th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embracing-life-and-realizing-the-nature-of-awareness-tara-and-mingyur-rinpoche-in-conversation

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-the-ocean-and-opening-to-the-waves-from-retreat

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart - Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-grateful-giving-happy-heart

Meditation: Touching Peace - This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-touching-peace

The Calling of These Times - Part 2 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our curre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-calling-of-these-times-part-2

Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart - In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the he...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-calling-on-your-awakened-heart

The Calling of These Times - Part 1 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our curre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-calling-of-these-times-part-1

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation beg...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-the-ocean-and-opening-to-the-waves

Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively, and the trust that this is possible. This t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-practices-for-nurturing-wise-hope

Meditation: Befriending Our Experience - We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention towards gentleness and kindness as the attention goes inward. We sc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-befriending-our-experience

Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene - What gives us the inner strength to meet life’s challenges with resilience, heart and wisdom? Drawing on them...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-inner-strength-a-conversation-with-tara-brach-and-lori-deschene

Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-at-home-in-the-moment

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2  - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, se...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/beyond-the-controlling-self-part-2

Meditation: Letting Life Be - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-be

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seek...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/beyond-the-controlling-self-part-1

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-into-living-presence

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2 - While we can’t change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-liberating-power-of-conscious-intention-part-2

Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back int...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-the-center-of-now

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1 - While we can’t change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-liberating-power-of-conscious-intention-part-1

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self - We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner reso...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-calling-on-your-future-self

Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom - Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true acceptance. This means meeting our unfolding ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-acceptance-our-gateway-to-love-and-freedom

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-saying-yes-to-reality

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We loo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/navigating-conflict-with-a-wise-heart-part-2

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-life

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We loo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/navigating-conflict-with-a-wise-heart-part-1

Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-a-sea-of-presence

Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle‘s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen - A vegetarian diet, while encouraged in most schools of Buddhism, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2022-08-26-tricycle-interview-plant-based-eating-tarabrachmp3

Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/survival-of-the-nurtured-our-path-to-belonging

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-presence-beyond-thoughts

Awakening through Difficult Emotions: "The Poison is the Medicine" - Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in fear, anxiety, anger or shame. This exploration looks at how the emotion that tak...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-through-difficult-emotions

Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with long deep breathi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breath-by-breath

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our wor...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-3-a-mirror

Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, liste...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-life-0

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire - This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-2-inner-fire

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-open-awareness-relaxing-back-into-presence

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-1-forgiveness

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence

Awakening from the Landlocked Self - The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. This talk explores the trance of identifying as Somebody, and the compassionate witnes...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-landlocked-self

Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We deep...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-befriending-and-opening-to-life

2022-07-20 - Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening beyond the separate, fearful self - Most of us unconsciously identify as a separate, threatened, deficient self. This talk shines a light on...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2022-07-20-homecoming-to-your-true-nature

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence - The meditation begins with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a sp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-breath-portal-to-presence

From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence - The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/from-dragons-to-schmoos-meeting-life-with-compassionate-presence-0

Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence - This meditation scans through the body - arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and go...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-wakeful-presence

Navigating the Dark Ages - How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/navigating-the-dark-ages

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention - This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we ope...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-gentle-kind-attention

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2022-06-29-path-of-spiritual-surrender-pt2-tarabrachmp3

Meditation: Letting Go - One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-path-of-spiritual-surrender-part-1

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:11 min.) - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-1611-min

The Three Steps of Letting Go - A wonderful inquiry is, “What is between me and openhearted presence?” This talk explores the profound healing and transformation that arises when we release t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-three-steps-of-letting-go

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include sounds and sense the openness ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-open-wakefulness

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-a-courageous-heart-part-2

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-of-living-presence

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-a-courageous-heart-part-1

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence - Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports u...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-reconnecting-to-silence-and-presence

Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear -

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/nourishing-our-spirit-in-times-of-collective-fear

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-whole-body-breathing

Self Forgiveness with RAIN - Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blaming ourselves traps us in fears, prevents inti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/self-forgiveness-with-rain

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-and-alive

Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/equanimity-part-4-of-present-heart-universal-expressions-of-love

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence - We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our atten...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-and-aliveness-of-presence

Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - Part 3: Joy – blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series re...

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Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome - This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experienc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-where-all-is-welcome

Compassion – Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - Part 2: Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/compassion-part-2-of-present-heart-the-universal-expressions-of-love

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home - This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of exp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awareness-is-our-home

Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love - We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life. This series ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/lovingkindness-part-1-of-present-heart-the-universal-expressions-of-love

Meditation: Path of Love - This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-path-of-love

Responding with Heart to Painful Times: A Conversation with Tara & Frank Ostaseski - This event includes short talks addressing the suffering so many are experiencing, and questions and engagemen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/responding-with-heart-to-painful-times-conversation-with-tara-frank-ostaseski

Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-present-heart

Relationships - from Reactivity to Rechoosing Love - Most of us have habitual ways we create separation from others. This talk takes a look at the roots of our emotional reactivity and ways our m...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/relationships-from-reactivity-to-rechoosing-love

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart - Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through our bodies, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-spacious-heart

Compassion toward Non-Human Animals - A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach - The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is crucial that this include all living beings. O...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/compassion-toward-non-human-animals-a-conversation-between-konda-mason-and-tara-brach

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves - By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we began to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-entrusting-yourself-to-the-waves

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2 - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/being-embodied-gateway-to-aliveness-and-spirit-part-2

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness - Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inhabiting-our-body-realizing-wholeness-0

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/being-embodied-gateway-to-aliveness-and-spirit-part-1

Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and rec...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodied-spirit

Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval - Engaged spirituality means responding to our world’s suffering with wisdom and deep care. This talk looks at three blocks to aligning our actions...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/engaged-spirituality-during-times-of-upheaval

Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen - Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, “Awakening Compassion,” is drawn from the Tibetan trad...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-compassion-practice-tonglen

Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence - If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/equanimity-the-gifts-of-non-reactive-mindful-presence

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-a-kind-witness

Radical Acceptance - Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - (2022-02-23) - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can culti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-acceptance-gateway-to-love-wisdom-and-peace

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care - This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodying-acceptance-and-care

Cultivating Loving Kindness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-loving-kindness

Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives - This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-loving-kindness-befriending-our-lives

Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing - The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/love-in-action-realizing-interbeing

Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness - This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax op...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-spacious-clear-awareness

The Earth is Crying in our Hearts - The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web.  These two talks explore th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-earth-is-crying-in-our-hearts

Meditation: Breathing Through - Drawn from a classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, this guided meditation invites us to open to the sufferings of the world, and let it move through our he...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breathing-through

Living with Courageous Presence - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk explores the w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/living-with-courageous-presence

Meditation: Know That You're Here - We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our br...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-know-that-youre-here

Resilience and Wisdom in an Uncertain World (Conversation: Tara & Trisha Stotler, IMCW) - The Buddhist scriptures describe a mind that “no longer shakes, in a world where everything is shaking....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/resilience-and-wisdom-in-an-uncertain-world-conversation-tara-trisha-stotler-imcw

Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (2022-01-19) - Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with a reading on silence by Gunilla Norris, and t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-silence-presence-and-care-2022-01-19

Compass of Our Heart - All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/compass-of-our-heart

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2022-01-12) - When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awarene...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-awareness-2022-01-12

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/finding-true-refuge-pathways-of-remembering

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (2022-01-05) - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-letting-be-2022-01-05

Meditation: What Matters to your Heart? - Entering a new year is a wonderful opportunity to clarify our purpose. In this guided visualization, we are invited to attune to the state of our heart a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-what-matters-to-your-heart

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part 3 - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/loving-ourselves-into-healing-part-3

Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (2021-12-29) - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by rel...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-an-intimate-presence-2021-12-29

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part II (2021-12-22) - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/loving-ourselves-into-healing-part-ii-2021-12-22

Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2021-12-22) - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-loving-presence-2021-12-22

Loving Ourselves into Healing - Part I (2021-12-15) - We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/loving-ourselves-into-healing-part-i-2021-12-15

Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2021-12-15) - Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-collecting-and-quieting-the-mind-2021-12-15

Awakening from the Trance of Unworthiness - Interview with Tara and Dr. Mark Hyman (2021-12-09) - Our healing and freedom unfolds as we bring radical acceptance - a mindful, allowing presence - t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-trance-of-unworthiness-interview-with-tara-and-dr-mark-hyman

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2021-12-08) - We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-presence-2021-12-08

Preparing our Hearts for the Holidays (2021-12-01) - While the holidays can be times of loving celebration, they can also highlight relational conflicts and challenges. This talk explores how, gi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/preparing-our-hearts-for-the-holidays-2021-12-01

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-12-01) - Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-taking-in-the-goodness-2021-12-01

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship - Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/gratitude-entering-sacred-relationship

Meditation: Energy and Source (2021-11-24) - Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-energy-and-source-2021-11-24

Recevoir la bonté présente - Méditation de retraite - Rumi à dit : « À chaque fois que vous recevez une gentillesse, tournez-vous vers sa source, la source de la bienveillance. »  Cett...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/recevoir-la-bonte-presente-meditation-de-retraite

Facing the Truths That Keep Us from Love: Conversation between Rev Angel Kyodo Williams and Tara Brach - Our happiness and capacity to love fully arise as we face and embrace all domains of our e...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/conversation-facing-the-truths-that-keep-us-from-love

Meditation: Filling Our Body with Love (2021-11-17) - When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-filling-our-body-with-love-2021-11-17

MEDITATION: RAIN OF COMPASSION (9 MIN.) - In this short practice we are guided in bringing the mindfulness and self-nurturing of RAIN to a difficult emotion. This helps us shift from feeling stuc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-rain-of-compassion-9-min

Fear and Love (2021-11-01) - Only when we face our fears can we discover the freedom to love without holding back. This talk looks at how unprocessed fear contracts our body, heart and mind, and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/fear-and-love-retreat-talk

Meditation: Awakening Self-Compassion (2021-11-10) - This RAIN meditation helps us explore pathways to nurturing ourselves in a way that brings profound transformation and healing.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-self-compassion-2021-11-10

After the RAIN: Part 2 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness - (2021 -11 -03) - The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/after-the-rain-the-flowering-of-awake-awareness-part-2-2021-11-03

Meditation: The Return to Presence - Rest Your Mind In What Is (2021-11-03) - It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-return-to-presence-rest-your-mind-in-what-is-2021-11-03

After the RAIN: Part 1 - The Flowering of Awake Awareness - The blessing of the spiritual path is homecoming to our essential nature—wakeful, loving awareness. These two talks explore the groun...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/after-the-rain-part-1-the-flowering-of-awake-awareness

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness (2021-10-27) - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-of-loving-awareness-2021-10-27

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance - If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investig...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/wise-investigation-dissolving-the-trance-1

Meditation: Widening Rings of Being (2021-10-20) - If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-widening-rings-of-being-2021-10-20

Grieving and Timeless Love - How we relate to change and loss is directly connected to how fully we live and love. This talk looks at the classic ways we avoid opening to the realness of loss, an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/grieving-and-timeless-love

Meditation: A Practice of RAIN - The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-practice-of-rain

Realizing Your Deepest Desires - This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potential for awake ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-your-deepest-desires

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-thought-clouds-come-and-go

Facing Fear in a Traumatized World (2021-09-29) - Unprocessed fear cuts us off from our full aliveness and spirit, and it separates us from others. This talk looks at how we bring healing to the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-fear-in-a-traumatized-world

Meditation: The Heart-Wisdom of Your Future Self (2021-09-29) -  In this meditation, we relax and open our body and mind, and then explore an encounter with our Future Self - facing Fear in a Tr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heart-wisdom-of-your-future-self-2021-09-29

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/anger-responding-not-reacting-2021-09-22

Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22) - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-present-heart-2021-09-22

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara and Kate Johnson - The often unseen cause of our difficulties in relationships is the societal structures that are marked by violence and domination....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-friendship-conversation-between-tara-brach-and-kate-johnson

Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15) - Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a moun...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-sitting-like-a-mountain-2021-09-15

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo - Mark is a spiritual teacher, wonderful poet, and author of many books including best selling "The Book of Awakening." In this wide-ranging and rich con...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-conversation-between-tara-and-mark-nepo

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2021-09-08) - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2021-09-08

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment we forget the truth of who we are - our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect wave...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-wise-heart-of-radical-acceptance

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying "Yes" to the Moment - When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a po...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-and-saying-yes-to-the-moment

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 2) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-blessings-of-enough-discovering-contentment-in-daily-life-pt-2

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence - When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-your-heart-in-presence

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) - One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-blessings-of-enough-discovering-contentment-in-daily-life-part-1

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life - We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal sur...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-saying-yes-to-life-0

Humility - In Buddhism and most faiths, humility – feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is both a prerequisite to awakening and an express...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/humility-0

Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou - Being Home (2021-08-11) - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence - arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-dedicated-to-maya-angelou-being-home-2021-08-11

Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart - Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available, living true to our heart...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/taking-the-exquisite-risk-an-undefended-heart

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (2017-03-22) - This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/-meditation-relaxing-back-into-full-presence

Writing and Haiku as Spiritual Practice (Tara Brach Interviews Natalie Goldberg) -

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/writing-and-haiku-as-spiritual-practice-tara-brac-interviews-natalie-goldberg

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-of-loving-awareness

The Power of Spiritual Hope (2021-07-21) - The openness to possibility is essential on a path of awakening and freedom. In this talk we explore what makes up mature or spiritual hope, and how two...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-power-of-spiritual-hope

Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN - While RAIN is regularly used for untangling suffering, it is also a powerful tool for deepening our access to positive states like happiness, gratitud...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-nourishing-happiness-with-rain

Mindful Leadership: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Michelle Maldonado (2021-07-14) - The principles of mindful leadership are relevant for all of us—they bring out the best of who we are...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/mindful-leadership-a-conversation-between-tara-brach-and-michelle-maldonado-2021-07-14

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15) - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence-with-body-scan-2021-07-15

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice - This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feeli...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-core-reminders-for-spiritual-practice

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2021-07-07) - This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2021-07-07

Trusting the Gold: A Conversation - Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust - In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, TRUSTING THE GOLD. They in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-the-gold-a-conversation-tara-brach-and-jonathan-foust

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-06-30) - Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-taking-in-the-goodness-2021-06-30

Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention - Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being d...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/-shifting-from-limbic-to-liberating-intention

Meditation: The Heartspace of Gratitude - When gratitude for our life arises, we enter the sacred space of an open heart. This meditation guides us in arriving in presence and awakening the bless...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-of-gratitude

Fierce Self-Compassion - A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff - Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/fierce-compassion-a-conversation-tara-brach-kristin-neff

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2021-06-16) - This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then expl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-where-all-is-welcome-2021-06-16

Trusting the Gold - A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with special guest, Rick Hanson - The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-the-gold

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2021-06-09) - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-presence-beyond-thoughts-2021-06-09

Meditation: Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is sugg...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-blessings-of-love-1

Part 2 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit (2021-06-02) - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-being-embodied-gateway-to-aliveness-and-spirit

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (2021-06-02) - Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inhabiting-our-body-realizing-wholeness

Part 1 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit - All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-being-embodied-gateway-to-aliveness-and-spirit

Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditationembodied-spirit

John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beg...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/entering-the-mystery-0

Meditation: Yes to Life (2021-05-19) -  In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-yes-to-life-2021-05-19

Bridging the Divide: Learning to Tend and Befriend - One of the great sufferings facing us is the growing divide between humans with different views, different realities. This talk looks at sever...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/bridging-the-divide-learning-to-tend-and-befriend

Meditation: Being Here for Life (2021-05-08) - It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, op...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-here-for-life-2021-05-08

Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer - Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere exp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-dimensions-of-conscious-prayer

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05) - We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrende...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-into-living-presence-2021-05-05

Méditation: Rencontrer la colère avec conscience - (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère) - Lorsque notre colère est contenue avec conscience, elle peut être une force, une énerg...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-rencontrer-la-colere-avec-conscience-de-tarabrach-traduite-par-dominique-fugere

Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings - The ritual of Namaste - bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others - helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/namaste-honoring-the-light-in-all-beings

Meditation: From Head to Full Being (2021-04-28) - When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-from-head-to-full-being-2021-04-28

Belonging to the Earth (2021-04-21) - As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/belonging-to-the-earth

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2021-04-21) - Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our sen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-full-aliveness-2021-04-21

“Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - retreat talk (2021-04-14) - Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the li...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/make-love-of-your-self-perfect-retreat-talk

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14) - This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-with-the-breath-2021-04-14

Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real - Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-self-honesty-the-joy-of-getting-real-0

Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence (2021-04-07) - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-into-living-presence-2021-04-07

Part 2 - Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World (2021-03-31) - While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-fear-of-aging-finding-freedom-in-this-impermanent-world

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31) - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-presence-2021-03-31

Transforming Two Fears - FOF and FOMO (2021-03-24) - There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential - fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explor...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/transforming-two-fears-fof-and-fomo-2021-03-24

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (2021-03-24) - Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken l...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodying-loving-awareness-2021-03-24

Fear of Aging - Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17) - While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and los...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/fear-of-aging-finding-freedom-in-this-impermanent-world-part-1-2021-03-17

Meditation: A Kind and Allowing Presence (2021-03-17) - When we’re stressed our hearts tighten and we try to control our life. This meditation guides us to relax the controlling and discover th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-kind-and-allowing-presence-2021-03-17

The Power of Deep Listening - Part 2 (2012-03-10) - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. T...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-power-of-deep-listening-part-2-2012-03-10

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (2021-03-10) - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spac...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-deep-listening-2021-03-10

The Power of Deep Listening - Part 1 (2021-03-03) - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. T...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-power-of-deep-listening-part-1-2021-03-03

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2021-03-03) - This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-aliveness-and-presence-2021-03-03

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24) - A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/-namaste-seeing-the-truth-of-who-we-are-2021-02-24

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2021-02-24) - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-continuous-space-suffused-with-awareness-2021-02-24

Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 (2021-02-17) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-our-bodys-awareness-part-2-2021-02-17

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (2021-02-17) - Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-welcoming-heartspace-2021-02-17

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing (2021-02-10) - The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and he...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-superpower-of-mindful-witnessing-2021-02-10

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (2021-02-10) - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our ex...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-a-kind-witness-2021-02-10

Awakening Our Body's Awareness - Part 1 - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our bod...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-our-bodys-awareness-part-1

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath - This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natura...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-homecoming-with-the-breath

Spiritual Hope (2021-01-27) - Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-hope-2021-01-27

Meditation: Sacred Presence (2021-01-23) - This meditation guides us to wakefully relax with the changing flow of moment to moment experience. As we open our senses fully, we discover the sacred ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-sacred-presence-2021-01-23

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 (2021-01-20) - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer gui...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-a-courageous-heart-part-2-2021-01-20

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (2021-01-30) - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-of-living-presence-2021-01-30

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 (2020-01-13) - In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer gui...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/cultivating-a-courageous-heart-2020-01-13

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (2021-01-13) - Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awarene...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-reconnecting-to-silence-and-presence-2021-01-13

The Three Refuges - Gateways to Awakening (2021-01-06) - We all seek refuge, a sense of safety or homecoming amidst the uncertainties of life. Our way of finding refuge can either imprison or fre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-three-refuges-gateways-to-awakening-2021-01-06

Meditation: A Present Heart (2020-01-06) - One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-present-heart-2020-01-06

Repairing Our Hearts - Healing with the RAIN of Compassion (2020-12-30) - Living in a fear-based society fuels the trance of separation and unworthiness. This talk explores how we can bring an en...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/repairing-our-hearts-healing-with-the-rain-of-compassion-2020-12-30

Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (2020-12-30) - One of the great sufferings is turning on ourselves with judgment and/or self-aversion. This practice brings the acronym RAIN to this pain. It h...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-rain-of-self-compassion-2020-12-30

“Good Othering” – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2020-12-23) - One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/good-othering-helping-each-other-trust-the-gold-2020-12-23

Meditation: Meeting life with a Kind Presence (2020-12-23) - This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan.  We then rest in an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-kind-presence-2020-12-23

Heart to Heart: A Conversation Between Dan Gottlieb and Tara Brach (2020-12-16) - This very real and human interchange touches on pain, loss, love, gratitude and much more.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-to-heart-a-conversation-between-dan-gottlieb-and-tara-brach-2020-12-16

Meditation: Coming Home to Heartspace (2020-12-16) - Our pathway to our hearts is through presence. This meditation helps us awaken presence through our body and all our senses. We then open to t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-to-heartspace-2020-12-16

Remembering Our Belonging – Part 2 (2020-12-09) - Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/remembering-our-belonging-part-2-2020-12-09

Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09) - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-yes-to-our-moments-2020-12-09

Remembering Our Belonging, Part 1 (2020-12-02) - Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/remembering-our-belonging-part-1-2020-12-02

Meditation: Embodied Love (2020-12-02) - This meditation guides us through a scan, to awaken a healing and openhearted presence throughout our body. We then widen to our full field of awareness, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodied-love-2020-12-02

Authentic Thanks Giving (redux) - How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/authentic-thanks-giving-2020-11-25

Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25) - After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two question...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-yes-to-life-2020-11-25

The Stories that Empower Us: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) - Whether we know it or not, our daily lives take direction from myths and tales that are hundreds...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-stories-that-empower-us-a-conversation-between-tara-brach-and-elizabeth-lesser-2020-11-18

Meditation: The “Do No Harm and Take No S***” Practice, by Guest Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) - This practice - based on an ancient Buddhist meditation - bears the name of needlepoint I foun...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-do-no-harm-and-take-no-s-practice-by-guest-elizabeth-lesser-2020-11-18

“Play a Greater Part” – Bodhisattva for Our Times - During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/play-a-greater-part-bodhisattva-for-our-times

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (2020-11-11). This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-opening-our-hearts-to-life-as-it-is-2020-11-11

Our Refuge of Heartspace (2020-11-04) - Amidst the great emotional reactivity of our times, this talk looks at: How do we hold this? What will allow us to respond wisely to our hurting world? How...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/our-refuge-of-heartspace-2020-11-04

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2020-11-04) - This meditation guides us to rest in the aliveness of the changing stream of sensations, sounds and feelings. As we open to the awareness that...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-living-presence-2020-11-04

Change, Loss and Timeless Love (Part 2) (2020-10-28) - Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely intertwined with how we relate to change and loss. These two talks are an invitation to look...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/change-loss-and-timeless-love-part-2-2020-10-28

Instruction and Meditation: Pathway to Non-Doing Presence (2020-10-27) - While meditation begins with purposeful collecting of attention, it leads to non-doing presence, to Being. In this guided ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/instruction-and-meditation-pathway-to-non-doing-presence-2020-10-27

Meditation: Suffering and Compassion (2020-10-28) - This brief meditation is a version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice: With the support of the breath we allow ourselves to open to the realness o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-suffering-and-compassion-2020-10-28

Healing Racialized Trauma: A Conversation with Resmaa Menakem and Tara Brach (2020-10-21) - The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/healing-radicalized-trauma-a-conversation-with-resmaa-menakem-and-tara-brach-2020-10-21

Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (2020-10-21) - We unconsciously tense against the energetic life of the present moment. This meditation guides us in relaxing and opening to the full ali...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-live-through-you-2020-10-21

Change, Loss and Timeless Love (Part 1) (2020-10-14) - Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely intertwined with how we relate to change and loss. These two talks are an invitation to look...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/change-loss-and-timeless-love-part-1-2020-10-14

Meditation: Listening to Our Heart (2020-10-14) - True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-our-heart-2020-10-14

Meditation: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs with RAIN - This short reflection guides us in using RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture) when we discover we are caught in a limiting belief. Who wou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-uprooting-limiting-beliefs-with-rain-2020-09-23

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be(2020-10-03) - We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-and-letting-be-2020-10-03

Your Future Self: Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind - Our lives are shaped by our evolutionary past – the fears and wants that arise from a separate self sense – and the pull of our evo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/your-future-self-turning-towards-your-awakened-heartmind-0

Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence (2020-09-30) - If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/equanimity-the-gifts-of-non-reactive-mindful-presence-2020-09-30

Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (2020--09-30) - “Peace is this moment without judgment,” writes poet Dorothy Hunt, “this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.�...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-pathway-to-inner-peace-2020-09-30

Freedom from the Prison of Limiting Beliefs (2020-09-23) - (dedicated to Ruth Bader Ginsburg) - We suffer when we are caught in beliefs of our own or other's badness, unworthiness, or lack of val...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/freedom-from-the-prison-of-limiting-beliefs-2020-09-23

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2020-09-23) - The movement from virtual reality – thoughts - to the awareness of sense-based reality is true homecoming. This meditation guides us in awakening o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-presence-2020-09-23

The Four Remembrances (2020-09-16) - When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a react...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-four-remembrances-2020-09-16

Meditation: Loving What Is (2020-09-12) - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-what-is-2020-09-12-0

Meditation: Loving What Is (2020-09-12) - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-what-is-2020-09-12

Awakening from the Trance of Bad-Othering (2020-09-09) - Great spiritual leaders of social movements teach that true transformation arises from realizing our interconnectedness, and the light of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-trance-of-bad-othering-2020-09-09

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart (2020-09-09) - Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-life-with-a-spacious-heart-2020-09-09

Guided Reflection: The RAIN of Compassion – What Is It Like to Be You - Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. We have the capacity for affiliative care, to tune into ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-reflection-the-rain-of-compassion-what-is-it-like-to-be-you

Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety (2020-09-02) - Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a tran...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/transforming-your-relationship-with-anxiety-2020-09-02

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2020-09-02) - When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-awareness-2020-09-02

Meditation: Listening to our Life (2020-08-15) - A receptive listening attention brings intimacy with our inner experience and our world. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, states ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-our-life-2020-08-15

Meditation: Waking up from the Dream (2020-07-25) - We spend many life moments in a virtual reality of thoughts. This guided practice helps us reconnect with our senses and discover in the space ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-waking-up-from-the-dream-2020-07-25

Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk) - While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/worrier-pose-finding-freedom-from-the-body-of-fear-retreat-talk-0

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness - This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-awake-awareness

Radical Love 2: Loving Ourselves into Healing(2020-08-19) - Radical love sees and cherishes the sacred that lives through all beings.  In this talk, we’ll look at the barrier to loving the lif...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-love-2-loving-ourselves-into-healing-2020-08-19

Meditation: A Present Heart (2020-08-19) - This guided practice emphasizes bringing a gentle and kind attention to our bodies, and then including all experience with a receptive presence. We clos...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-present-heart-2020-08-19

Learning to Respond, Not React - When stressed, we often react with looping fear-thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause harm to ourselves and/or others. This talk offers three interrelated s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/learning-to-respond-not-react-0

Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence - This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-an-intimate-presence

Radical Love: Part 1 - Reflections that Awaken our Heart (2020-08-05) - Radical love arises from the purity of our awake awareness, and cuts through the delusion of being separate and not OK. It ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-love-part-1-reflections-that-awaken-our-heart-2020-08-05

Guided Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-08-05) - This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-meditation-openhearted-presence-2020-08-05

Meditation: Tonglen - Discovering the Boundless Space of Compassion (2020-07-25) - This short version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice guides us in courageously opening to the suffering within us ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-tonglen-discovering-the-boundless-space-of-compassion-2020-07-25

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You - As individuals and societies, we are pulled by both the insecurity of our evolutionary past, and by our awake heart, our capacity for mindfulness and compassion....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/your-awake-heart-is-calling-you

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence - Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an ope...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence

Love and Fear During Times of War: An Interview with Lama Rod Owens (2020-07-22) - This is a time of darkness and war. Fear lies at the heart of much of the violence we are experiencing. How do w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/love-and-fear-during-times-of-war-interview-with-lama-rod-owens

Meditation: Gateway to Natural Presence (2020-07-22) - We enter a full presence through awakening our senses, and awakening to the awareness that is aware. This meditation guides us as we arouse ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-gateway-to-natural-presence-2020-07-22

The Sacred Art of Listening - Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears bl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-sacred-art-of-listening-0

Meditation: Listening to Life (2014-11-12) - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-life-2014-11-12

Meditation: Healing Shame (2020-07-01) - This meditation brings the clarity and self-compassion of RAIN to the suffering of self-aversion and/or shame. It helps us see the conditioning that shape...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-healing-shame-2020-07-01

The Heart Crosses the Abyss - Three Inner Trainings (2020-07-08) - In the moments when we either resist or get possessed by our strong emotions, we are in a trance, and cut off from openhearted a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-heart-crosses-the-abyss-three-inner-trainings-2020-07-08

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: to open to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-of-loving-awareness-2020-07-08

Shame, Healing and Transformation (2020-07-01) - Being at war with ourselves blocks us from evolving our consciousness and living from our hearts. This talk distinguishes between toxic and health...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/shame-healing-and-transformation-2020-07-01

Meditation: Calling on Our Inner Bodhisattva (2020-07-01) - We each have within us the very source of wisdom and love. This meditation calls forward that essence, our awakening heart, so we can s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-calling-on-our-inner-bodhisattva-2020-07-01

Spiritual Hope (2020-06-24) - Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-hope-2020-06-24

Meditation: Body and Spirit (2020-06-24) - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-body-and-spirit-2020-06-24

Sustaining Our Caring (2020-06-17) - All transformation arises out of love; it is the energy of caring about life that moves us toward inner, relational and societal healing. With a primary focus...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sustaining-our-caring-2020-06-17

Meditation: Embodied Metta (2020-06-17) - Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and openne...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embodied-metta-2020-06-17

Meditation: Meeting Anger with Awareness (2020-06-10) - When anger is held in mindfulness, it can energize us to respond wisely to challenging situations. This meditation guides us in meeting per...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-anger-with-awareness-2020-06-10

Anger and Transformation (2020-06-19) - The purpose of anger is to let us know there’s an obstacle to our wellbeing, and to energize us to act. While natural and necessary for survival and thri...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/anger-and-transformation-2020-06-19

Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm (2020-06-10) - In times of great stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This medit...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inner-refuge-of-calm-2020-06-10

A Courageous Presence with Racism (2020-06-03) - Anti-Black racism is the core wound of American culture, and we each have a role to play in fighting racism, a medicine to bring to these times. T...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-courageous-presence-with-racism-2020-06-03

Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence (2020-06-03) - This meditation begins with us standing in mindful movement, guiding us in awakening awareness in the body. Then in sitting practice, we ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-homecoming-to-wakeful-presence-2020-06-03

Remembering Goodness: Three Gestures of Love - Tara offers this favorite talk from the archives. It explores the power of forgiveness, love and gratitude in re-connecting to our light and awarene...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/remembering-goodness-three-gestures-of-love

Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (from retreat) - When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us d...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-spacious-loving-awareness-from-retreat

Meditation: Light RAIN in Difficult Times (2020-05-23) - This meditation guides us in bringing the mindfulness and self-compassion of RAIN to a challenging part of our life, and particularly, to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-light-rain-in-difficult-times-2020-05-23

Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 (2020-05-20) -  How we tolerate uncertainty - during current times and throughout our lives - has a powerful effect on our capacity for presenc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embracing-uncertainty-sheltering-in-love-part-9-2020-05-20

Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (2020-05-20) - Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that blo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-art-of-letting-go-2020-05-20

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (2020-05-09) - We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-calling-on-your-future-self-2020-05-09

Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure (2020-05-13) - Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-8-finding-freedom-in-the-midst-of-failure-2020-05-13

Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence (2020-05-13) - This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a H...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-embodied-presence-2020-05-13

Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame (2020-05-06) - A key way stress disconnects us from ourselves and each other is through the limbic reactivity of blame. This talk...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-7-awakening-from-the-prison-of-blame-2020-05-06

Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-05-06) - This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-openhearted-presence-2020-05-06

Sheltering In Love - Part 6: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence - Part 2 of 2 (2020-04-29) - The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we ha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-6-loneliness-as-a-portal-to-sacred-presence-part-2

Meditation: Vipassana - Seeing Life As It Is (2020-04-29) - This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-seeing-life-as-it-is-2020-04-29

Meditation: Awakening Through the Animal-Headed Deities (2020-04-15) - This short meditation guides us in engaging with challenging emotions with presence and compassion. By opening to the “dei...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-through-the-animal-headed-deities-2020-04-15

Sheltering in Love (Part 5): Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence (2020-04-22) - The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-5-loneliness-as-a-portal-to-sacred-presence

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness (2020-04-22) - In this meditation we are guided to discover the space and aliveness that fills the body, sense the space in the universe, and then...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-natural-awareness-2020-04-22

Sheltering In Love - Part 4 (2020-04-15) - During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These tal...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-4-2020-04-15

Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence (2020-04-15) - Our experience includes a foreground of changing experience - sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts. In the background is an alert inner stil...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-sacred-presence-2020-04-15

Sheltering In Love (Part 3) (2020-04-08) - During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These tal...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-3-2020-04-08

Meditation: A Calm Refuge - with the Rain (2020-04-08) - This meditation includes a relaxing body scan and guidance on finding a space of peace and balance in the midst of whatever life brings us...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/-meditation-a-calm-refuge-with-the-rain-2020-04-08

Sheltering In Love - Part 2 (2020-04-01) - During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These tal...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-2-2020-04-01

Meditation: Meeting Fear with a Healing Breath (2020-04-01) - This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-meeting-fear-with-a-healing-breath-2020-04-01

Meditation: Embracing Life with an Open Heart (2020-03-25) - In this short practice we connect with our aspiration to live from love, and then bring a caring presence to our own vulnerability, to...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-embracing-life-with-an-open-heart-2020-03-25

Sheltering in Love - Part 1 (2020-03-25) - During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These tal...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sheltering-in-love-part-1-2020-03-25

Meditation: Touching Peace (2020-03-25) - This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the imag...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-touching-peace-2020-03-25

Short Talk and Guided Meditation: Bringing RAIN to Fear (2020-03-18) - In this practice we explore how the mindfulness and compassion of RAIN can free us from the grip of fear. This is an excerpt...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/short-talk-and-guided-meditation-bringing-rain-to-fear

Facing Pandemic Fears with an Awake Heart (2020-03-18) - While it’s natural to feel fear during times of great collective crisis, our challenge is that fear easily takes over our lives. This ta...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-pandemic-fears-with-an-awake-heart-2020-03-18

Guided Meditation for Times of Pandemic: “Calling on Your Awakened Heart” (2020-03-18) - In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-meditation-for-times-of-pandemic-calling-on-your-awakened-heart

Meditation: Bring RAIN to the Wanting Mind - (2020-03-04) -  We begin the meditation by briefly scanning through the body and sensing awareness of being here. We scan our life and use the acro...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-bring-rain-to-the-wanting-mind-2020-03-04

Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives - This meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The g...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-heart-meditation-loving-kindness-befriending-our-lives

Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home (2020-03-11) - Desire is intrinsic to all living forms - the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/desire-and-addiction-part-2-of-3-voices-of-longing-calling-you-home-2020-03-11

Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home (2020-03-04) - Desire is intrinsic to all living forms - the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/desire-and-addiction-voices-of-longing-calling-you-home-2020-03-04

Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (2020-03-04) - When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan throug...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-blessings-of-yes-2020-03-04

Facing Fear (Part 2) - Awakening Your Fearless Heart (2020-02-26) - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-fear-part-2-awakening-your-fearless-heart-2020-02-26

Meditation: Relaxing with Life (2020-02-26) - This meditation begins with a scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful po...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-life-2020-02-26

Working with Trauma: Tara Interviews Jim Gordon, MD (2020-02-19) - Dr. Jim Gordon is author of the new book, The Transformation: Discovering Wholeness and Healing After Trauma. In this interview...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/working-with-trauma-tara-interviews-jim-gordon-md-2020-02-19

Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (2020-02-19) - We begin with a body scan, open to sounds and to listening to and feeling the moment. From spacious awareness the practice is simply to re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-live-through-you-2020-02-19

Facing Fear (Part 1) - Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. T...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/facing-fear-part-1-awakening-your-fearless-heart

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence (2020-02-12) - This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan, and then with the breath as a h...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-open-hearted-presence-2020-02-12

Embodied Presence (Part 2) - Planting our Roots in the Universe - Working with Pain (2020-02-05) - In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree wi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embodied-presence-part-2-planting-our-roots-in-the-universe-2020-02-05

Meditation: A Listening Presence (2020-02-05) - The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-listening-presence-2020-02-05

Being Truthful - How Honesty Nourishes Love - The grounds of happiness, loving relationships and a just and flourishing society is honesty. And yet our current times are characterized by a pletho...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/being-truthful-how-honesty-nourishes-love

Guided Heart Meditation: Releasing Blame (retreat) (2019-12-30) - Our self-protective habits of resentment and blame block intimacy and connection with ourself and others. This short talk and med...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-heart-meditation-releasing-blame-retreat-2019-12-30

Part 1: Embodied Presence - Planting our Roots in the Universe (2020-01-22) - In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-embodied-presence-planting-our-roots-in-the-universe-2020-01-22

Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence - This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our bod...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-portal-to-sacred-presence-2020-01-22

Shifting From Limbic to Liberating Intention (2020-01-15) - Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/shifting-from-limbic-to-liberating-intention-2020-01-15

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and aga...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-with-the-breath-2020-01-15

The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom (2020-01-08) - We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-three-refuges-gateways-to-belonging-and-freedom-2020-01-08

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake - This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the chang...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-and-awake-2020-01-08

The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) (2019-12-28) - We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-power-of-awake-awareness-retreat-talk-2019-12-28

Introductory Meditation Instructions - Guided Practice from Retreat - This guided session includes an overview of the primary components in meditation practices, and then guidance in awakening th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/introductory-meditation-instructions-guided-practice-from-retreat

This meditation explores the meaning of forgiveness and its role in healing and transformation. We then are guided in a forgiveness practice that helps us release the armoring of blame, and inhab...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/short-talk-and-guided-heart-meditation-releasing-blame-retreat

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue - usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-who-we-are-retreat-talk

Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation - Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives (2019-11-02) - This short talk and meditation introduces the domain of “heart practices” and then guides us in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/short-talk-and-guided-heart-meditation-loving-kindness-befriending-our-lives-retreat

Radical Compassion - Part 3 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing (2019-12-18) - Drawn from Tara's new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-compassion-part-3-loving-ourselves-and-our-world-into-healing-2019-12-18

A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (2019-12-18) - A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and to feel the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-brief-meditation-gathering-and-arriving-in-presence-2019-12-18

Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Parts 1, 2, 3 - Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (R...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-compassion-part-2-loving-ourselves-and-our-world-into-healing

Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence - In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immer...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-surrender-into-living-presence-2019-12-11

Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing – Parts 1, 2, 3 - Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (R...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-compassion-part-1-loving-ourselves-and-our-world-into-healing

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention - This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we ope...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-gentle-kind-attention-2019-12-04

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship - Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/gratitude-entering-sacred-relationship-2019-11-27

Meditation: Being Here - This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-here-2019-11-27

Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2019-11-20) - Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets bloc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-to-the-song-part-2-2019-11-20

Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (2019-11-20) - This meditation awakens our senses through a body scan and listening to sound, and then invites us to rest in the presence that spontane...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-to-natural-presence-2019-11-20

Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30 min) - The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discoverin...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-rain-of-compassion-30-min

Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence - Often, when we’re really struggling, the only way to find compassion for ourselves is by reaching out towards a loving awareness that is great enough ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-calling-on-loving-presence

Listening to the Song - Part 1 (2019-11-13) - Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets bloc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-to-the-song-part-1-2019-11-13

Meditation - The Silence that is Listening (2013-11-13) - Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-silence-that-is-listening-2013-11-13

Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) - The boundary to what we accept is the boundary to our freedom. This talk explores the often unconscious ways we create separation by judging ours...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/judgment-acceptance-and-freedom-retreat-talk-2019-11-03

Short Talk and Meditation: Saying Yes to Our Life - Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided medit...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/short-talk-and-meditation-saying-yes-to-our-life

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. Th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/anger-responding-not-reacting

Meditating with RAIN - Working with Difficult Emotions - This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2017-01-11-Meditating-with-RAIN-TaraBrach.mp3

Guided Meditation: Letting Go – 9 Magic Breaths (2019-07-19) - This guided practice includes taking a pause from all activity, and following the inflow and outflow of nine conscious breaths. We...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2019-07-19-Nine-Magic-Breaths.mp3

Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 - Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the causes for sev...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/belonging-to-each-other-part-3-of-3-2019-10-23

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-and-alive-2019-10-23

Reflection: RAIN on Blame - When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance - the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-rain-on-blame-2019-10-16

Belonging to Each Other – Part 2 of 3 (2019-10-16) - Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the c...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/belonging-to-each-other-part-2-of-3-2019-10-16

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence - The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, witho...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vast-and-timeless-presence-2019-10-16

Belonging to Each Other - Part 1 (2019-10-09) - Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These two talks explore the causes for...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/belonging-to-each-other-part-1-2019-10-09

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert - This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-and-alert-2019-10-09

Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart - Our beliefs and understandings about reality directly impact our moment to moment experience of living. If we believe we will never change, that bl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-hope-trusting-your-awakening-heart-2019-10-02

Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness - We realize our true nature by relaxing back into what is always, already here. Starting by scanning and opening through the body, we explore resting in...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-into-awake-awareness-2019-10-02

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance - If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investig...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/wise-investigation-dissolving-the-trance-0

Meditation: A Healing, Relaxing Breath - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep even breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-healing-relaxing-breath

True Happiness: Realizing Well-Being - Well being is the deep contentment that arises from a relaxed, wakeful presence. This talk explores the beliefs and habits that contract us away from presen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/true-happiness-realizing-well-being

Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment - In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-cons...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-pausing-and-deepening-attention-in-the-face-of-attachment

The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind - Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of wha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-gift-of-silence-quieting-the-mind

Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings - Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attenti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-the-heart-giving-and-receiving-loving-blessings-0

Befriending Irene - While Tara is away, this talk is from 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit us with fury. Dorian is now leaving its destruction behind, just as we work with our stormy weather within...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/befriending-irene-0

Meditation: The Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-blessings-of-love

Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof - This talk was given in 2015, yet it is as timely as ever. It views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/earths-crisis-on-the-edge-of-the-roof

Meditation: Discovering Inner Space - By imagining the space inside the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is ada...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-discovering-inner-space

Good Othering - Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21) - One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential awareness...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/good-othering-helping-each-other-trust-the-gold-2019-08-21

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21) - We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-sea-of-awareness-2019-08-21

Meditation for Fertility (2019-08-19) - We can enhance our fertility by becoming more relaxed, open and welcoming of this ever creative life. We begin by connecting with the purity and sincerity ...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2019-08-15-Meditation-for-Fertility-TaraBrach.mp3

Part 2 - The Answer is Love: Evolving out of "Bad Other" (2019-08-14) - These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our wor...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-the-answer-is-love-evolving-out-of-bad-other-2019-08-14

Meditation: Everything Belongs (2019-08-14) - This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-everything-belongs-2019-08-14

Part 1 - The Answer is Love: Evolving out of "Bad Other"(2019-08-07) - These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our worl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-the-answer-is-love-evolving-out-of-bad-other-2019-08-07

Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention (2019-08-07) - Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-kind-attention-2019-08-07

Longing to Belong - Spiritual practice reveals our belonging through bringing presence to three gateways: the aliveness of the present moment, loving relatedness, and the openness and lucidity of...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/longing-to-belong-0

Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: from Day 4 on Retreat (2019-05-07) - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/vipassana-or-insight-meditation-and-instruction-from-day-4-on-retreat

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 (2017-07-24) - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-path-of-spiritual-surrender-part-2-2017-07-24

Meditation: Letting go (2019-07-24) - One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-2019-07-24

Desire: A Current of Homecoming - Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suff...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/desire-a-current-of-homecoming

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is - This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arriv...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-opening-our-hearts-to-life-as-it-is

The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 1 (2019-07-10) - Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-path-of-spiritual-surrender-part-1-2019-07-10

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (2019-07-10) - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-befriending-your-inner-life-2019-07-10

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us - Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy tha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-2

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-1

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness - We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness

The Courage to Love - Part 2 (2019-06-19) - The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer g...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-courage-to-love-part-2

Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19) - When we awaken our senses, we can sense in the background a wakeful openness that is our true home. This meditation guides us by first attending...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-wakeful-open-awareness-2019-06-19

The Courage to Love - Part 1 (2019-06-12) - The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer g...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-courage-to-love-part-1-2019-06-19

Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (2019-06-12) - Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-effortless-and-wakeful-presence-2019-06-12

An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart (2019-06-05) - Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/an-appropriate-response-living-from-an-awake-heart-2019-06-05

Meditation - Breath by Breath: Relaxing with Our Life (2019-06-05) - The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breath-by-breath-relaxing-with-our-life-2019-06-05

Part 3 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-29) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These thre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2019-05-29-part-3-part-3-forgiveness-releasing-ourselves-and-others-from-aversive-blame-2019-05-29

Meditation: Opening to Life (2019-05-29) - This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-life-2019-05-29

Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) (2019-05-08) - This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self.  We then exp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-the-gold-retreat-talk-2019-05-08

Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (2019-04-17) - One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurtur...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2019-04-17-meditation-rain-on-self-blame-tarabrachmp3

Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15) - For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/compassion-towards-all-moving-toward-a-plant-based-diet-2019-05-15

Meditation: Choosing Living Presence - A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om’s in community – a favorite from Tara’s Wednesday night archiv...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-choosing-living-presence-1

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk) - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/conscious-prayer-finding-refuge-in-loving-awareness-retreat-talk

Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness - a Metta Practice - This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-this-life-happiness-a-metta-practice

Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/forgiveness-releasing-ourselves-and-others-from-aversive-blame-part-1-2019-05-01

Meditation: Being Here (2019-05-01) - This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-here-2019-05-01

Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (a favorite from the 2014 archives) - Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/equanimity-a-heart-that-is-ready-for-anything

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body - This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-energy-body-1

Part 1 - Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17) - Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These thre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-forgiveness-releasing-ourselves-and-others-from-aversive-blame-2019-04-17

Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence (2019-04-17) - In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-sea-of-loving-presence-2019-04-17

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2 (2019-04-10) - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies - such as aggression, judging, pla...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/beyond-the-controlling-self-part-2-2019-04-10

Meditation: Letting Life Be (2019-04-10) - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-be-2019-04-10

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 (2019-04-03) - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies - such as aggression, judging, pla...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/beyond-the-controlling-self-part-1-2019-04-03

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2019-04-03) - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life - sounds, sensations,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-into-living-presence-2019-04-04

The Four Remembrances (2019-03-27) - When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a react...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-four-remembrances-2019-03-27

Meditation: Saying Yes to Reality (2019-03-27) - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and rest...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-saying-yes-to-reality-2019-03-27

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 - This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our atte...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embodied-presence-portal-to-the-sacred-part-2-2019-03-20

Meditation: Being Here (with OMs) (2019-03-20) - We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-here-with-oms-2019-03-20

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred - Part 1 (2019-03-13) - This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can tra...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embodied-presence-portal-to-the-sacred-part-1-2019-03-13

Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” - The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-entering-heartspace-with-the-smile-down-2019-03-13

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 (2019-03-06) - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compa...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/navigating-conflict-with-a-wise-heart-part-2-2019-03-06

Meditation: Relaxing with Life (2019-03-05) - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-life-2019-03-05

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart - Part 1 (2019-02-27) - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compass...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/pt1-navigating-conflict-with-a-wise-heart-2019-02-27

Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27) - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-the-sea-of-presence-2019-02-27

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (18 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-reducing-anxiety-and-getting-to-sleep-18-min

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (12 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-reducing-anxiety-and-getting-to-sleep-12-min

Meditation: Reducing Anxiety and Getting to Sleep (6 min.) - Many of us struggle with anxiety, and spend hours in bed wishing we could turn off our mind and get to sleep. This podcasted series of...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reducing-anxiety-and-getting-to-sleep-6-min

The Sacred Art of Listening - Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears bl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-sacred-art-of-listening

Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, liste...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-life

Spiritual Reparenting (a favorite from the archives) - When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-reparenting

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Living Presence - When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through “rel...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-living-presence-0

Living with Courageous Presence (2019-02-06) - The essence of courage is to willingly feel our vulnerability; this is what allows us to respond to life with an undefended, wise heart. This talk e...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/living-with-courageous-presence-2019-02-06

Meditation: The Practice of RAIN (2019-02-06) - The acronym RAIN - Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture - guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-practice-of-rain-2019-02-06

Earth's Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof (from the Archives) - NOTE: Due to the unusually windy and cold weather, we had to cancel class on January 30, 2019. Tara selected this talk from the archi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/earths-crisis-on-the-edge-of-the-roof-from-the-archives

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (a favorite from the archives) - We begin with a listening attention, relaxing open, letting sounds wash through. Scanning through and feelin...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-collecting-unifying-and-opening-the-mind

Without Anxiety About Imperfection - featuring special guest, Haemin Sunim, with Tara Brach (2019-01-23) - Internationally known Buddhist teacher and writer, Haemin Sunim, talks about his new boo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/without-anxiety-about-imperfection-featuring-special-guest-haemin-sunim-with-tara-brach

Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (2019-01-23) - By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-loving-awareness

Realizing Your Deepest Intention (2019-01-16) - The Buddha taught that this whole life - including our thoughts, feelings and actions - arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are u...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-your-deepest-intention-2019-01-16

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2016-01-16) - When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awarene...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-awareness

Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering (2019-01-09) - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/finding-true-refuge-pathways-of-remembering-2019-01-09

Meditation: Letting Go…Letting Be (2019-01-09) - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-goletting-be-2019-01-09

From Judgment to Self-Compassion (retreat talk) (2018-12-30) - When we’ve turned on ourselves with blame and aversion, it’s very difficult to arouse self-compassion. This talk looks at the ro...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/from-judgment-to-self-compassion-retreat-talk-2018-12-30

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (2018-12-31) (retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our sour...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-being-the-ocean-and-opening-to-the-waves-2018-12-31

Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO - There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to me...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/transforming-two-fears-fof-and-fomo-0

Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings - Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attenti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-the-heart-giving-and-receiving-loving-blessings

A 2018 Winter Solstice Ceremony (2018-12-19) - La Sarmiento and Alli Mosehauer perform dharma spoof songs for the 2018 IMCW Solstice Celebration, followed by a candle light ceremony with Tara an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-2018-winter-solstice-ceremony-2018-12-19

Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully (2018-12-19) - This talk looks at three ways of awakening our hearts—seeing goodness, feeling appreciation as a bodily experience, and expressing our care....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-core-capacities-in-loving-fully-2018-12-19

Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (2018-12-19) - This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-arriving-in-open-presence-2018-12-19

Part 2 - Healing Anxiety - How Meditation Frees Us (2018-12-12) - Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-healing-anxiety-how-meditation-frees-us-2018-12-12

Meditation: Aware and Alive (2018-12-12) - Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sound...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-aware-and-alive-2018-12-12

Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice - A key spiritual inquiry is, “In this moment, what most serves awakening?” Rather than a particular style of meditation practice, it is our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-attitudes-that-nourish-a-liberating-practice

Retreat Meditation and Instruction: Vipassana - Path of Practice (2018-10-07) - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to mom...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/retreat-meditation-and-instruction-vipassana-path-of-practice

Part 1 - Healing Anxiety - How Meditation Frees Us (2018-11-28) - Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-healing-anxiety-how-meditation-frees-us-2018-11-28

Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (2018-11-28) - This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awareness-aliveness-and-space-2018-11-28

Authentic Thanks Giving (2018-11-21) - How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and off...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/authentic-thanks-giving-2018-11-21

Meditation: Yes to Life (2018-11-21) - After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two question...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-yes-to-life-2018-11-21

Survival of the Nurtured - Our Path to Belonging (2018-11-14) - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/survival-of-the-nurtured-our-path-to-belonging-2018-11-14

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14) - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-presence-beyond-thoughts-2018-11-14

Part 2 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-11-07) - The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-the-jewel-in-the-lotus-cultivating-compassion-2018-11-07

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (2018-11-07) - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-whole-body-breathing-2018-11-07

Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk) (2018-10-07) - While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/worrier-pose-finding-freedom-from-the-body-of-fear-retreat-talk

Meditation: Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing Our Heart - This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lov...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-kindness-awakening-and-expressing-our-heart-retreat

Part 1 - The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-10-24) - The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-the-jewel-in-the-lotus-cultivating-compassion-2018-10-24

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (2018-10-24) - This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-awake-awareness-2018-10-24

Part 2 - Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom (2018-10-17) -The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-rewiring-for-happiness-and-freedom-2018-10-17

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (2018-10-17) - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, colle...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-the-mystery-2018-10-17

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potent...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-rewiring-for-happiness-and-freedom-2018-10-10

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-with-the-breath-2018-10-10

The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something’s wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-sacred-pause

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice - Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness ~ from the first morning instr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/ten-minute-basic-meditation-practice

Part 2: Impermanence – Awakening Through Insecurity - From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundly vulnerable. Our habitual reaction to inse...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-impermanence-awakening-through-insecurity

Brief Reflection: Learning to Stay - We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear. "Learning to stay opens up the space that gives us our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-learning-to-stay

Part 1: Impermanence - Awakening Through Insecurity - From the view of the separate self, this existence is inherently uncertain, and we are profoundly vulnerable. Our habitual reaction to insecu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-impermanence-awakening-through-insecurity

Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, b...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-flow

Part 2: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom - While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the capacity to pause, and instead deepen attent...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-awakening-through-anger-the-u-turn-to-freedom-2015-11-18-0

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breathing-our-way-to-peace-freedom

Part 1: Awakening through Anger – The U-Turn to Freedom - Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-awakening-through-anger-the-u-turn-to-freedom

Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home - This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness… (a special from the archives). “No matter how far you’ve wandered, this heartspace �...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-that-is-home-0

Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerab...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-vulnerability-intimacy-spiritual-awakening-0

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body - This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-energy-body-0

Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening - We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerab...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-vulnerability-intimacy-spiritual-awakening-0

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness - This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-open-awareness

Discovering the Power of Prayer (2018-08-15) - We all know the pain of separation and have a longing for connection. When we silently listen to and contact the depth of that longing, we are at th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/discovering-the-power-of-prayer-2018-08-15

Meditation: Presence and Breath (2018-08-15) - This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the breath. We are invited to discover the presence...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-presence-and-breath-2018-08-15

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/healing-depression-with-meditation-part-2-2018-08-08

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (2018-08-11) - Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided medi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-go-of-doing-2018-08-11

Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1 (2018-08-01) - Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experie...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/healing-depression-with-meditation-part-1-2018-08-01

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2018-08-01) - We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning thr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-living-presence-2018-08-01

Saying “Yes” - Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25) - Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This talk help...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/saying-yes-meeting-your-edge-and-softening-2018-07-25

Meditation: Saying Yes to Life (2018-07-25) - We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong" and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these prima...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-saying-yes-to-life-2018-07-25

What Is It Like Being You? (2018-07-18) - Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. This talk helps us identify the blocks to compassion—our outmoded survival equipment�...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/what-is-it-like-being-you-2018-07-18

This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attenti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breath-by-breath-2018-07-18

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-07-11) - Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-from-human-doing-to-human-being-2018-07-11

Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness (2018-07-11) - When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and judgment. This meditation relaxes and opens th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-natural-open-awareness-2018-07-11

Skeleton Woman: Embracing This Living and Dying World - (A favorite from the archives) Based on a wonderful myth told by Clarissa Estes, this talk looks at the way we run from “lady death” an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/skeleton-woman-embracing-this-living-and-dying-world

Meditation: Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-blessings-of-love-0

Evolving Beyond “Unreal Othering" (2018-06-27) - What motivates us - as individuals and as a society - to build walls and knowingly hurt others? This talk explores the evolutionary roots of “...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/evolving-past-unreal-othering-2018-06-27

Meditation: Opening to the Waves (2018-06-27) - When we are lost in thought, we lose touch with the aliveness and awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us with a mindful body scan...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-waves-2018-06-27

Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence (Retreat Talk) - While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the formless dimensi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/landlocked-in-fur-three-domains-of-formless-presence-retreat-talk

Meditation: The Silence That's Listening (from retreat) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. In this guided medit...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-silence-thats-listening-from-retreat

Short Talk and Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (retreat) - When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/short-talk-and-meditation-spacious-loving-awareness-retreat

Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat) - Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion. This short talk and guided meditation...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-forgiving-and-freeing-our-hearts-retreat

Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk) - Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by releasing chronic blame can we free our hearts ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/disarming-our-hearts-letting-go-of-blame-retreat-talk

Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion (retreat talk) - We are conditioned to avoid suffering - our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect fro...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/instruction-meditation-tonglen-radical-compassion-retreat-talk

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30) - Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/from-human-doing-to-human-being-2018-05-30

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30) - This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-aliveness-and-presence-2018-05-30

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 2 (2018-05-23) - Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/seeing-basic-goodness-part-2-2018-05-23

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body(2018-05-23) - Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is alway...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-lighting-up-your-energy-body-2018-05-23

Seeing Basic Goodness - Part 1 (2018-05-16) - Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/seeing-basic-goodness-part-1-2018-05-16

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16) - This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into pr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-resting-in-breath-relaxing-into-life-2018-05-16

Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09) - Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/eating-addiction-how-meditation-helps-free-us-2018-05-09

Meditation: Intimacy with Life (2018-05-09) - This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We wide...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-intimacy-with-life-2018-05-09

After the RAIN (retreat talk) (2018-04-29) - This talk offers an in-depth exploration of RAIN, applying the wings of mindfulness and compassion to painful domains of trance. We bring special atte...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/after-the-rain-retreat-talk-2018-04-29

Meditation: Morning on Retreat (2018-05-01) - In this guided meditation we include an overview of different components of mindfulness practice. The reflection includes a body scan, establishing a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-morning-on-retreat-2018-05-01

Responding to Change with a Wise Heart (2018-04-25) - An intrinsic part of spiritual life is facing the truth of impermanence. When we open to the changing flow without resistance, we naturally c...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/responding-to-change-with-a-wise-heart-2018-04-25

Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (2018-04-25) - This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax the body. Following this, we establish our pres...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-clear-and-relaxed-presence-2018-04-25

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 2 (2018-04-18) - Deep listening - to our inner life, each other and our world - is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong c...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-with-an-awake-heart-part-2-2018-04-18

Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (2018-04-18) - This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sounds, thoughts, feelings and sensations. The s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-mind-like-a-vast-sky-2018-04-18

Listening with an Awake Heart - Part 1 (2018-04-11) - Deep listening - to our inner life, each other and our world - is an intrinsic expression of our awakened heart. Yet because we have strong c...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-with-an-awake-heart-2018-04-11

Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness (2018-04-11) - The capacity to truly listen allows us to realize the vast and sensitive awareness that is our true essence. This meditation focuses on...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-listening-receptive-awareness-2018-04-11

From Head to Heart (2018-04-04) - If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-dri...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/from-head-to-heart-2018-04-04

Meditation: Awareness and Flow (2018-04-04) - This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awareness-and-flow-2018-04-04

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2018-03-28) - A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/namaste-seeing-the-truth-of-who-we-are-2018-03-28

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2018-03-28) - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-continuous-space-suffused-with-awareness-2018-03-28

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) - (2017-12-30) - The sign of spiritual freedom is a deep trust in our essential nature, and in the light of awareness that lives through all beings.  This talk...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-who-we-are-retreat-talk-2017-12-30

Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (from the 2017 IMCW New Year retreat) - This short talk and guided meditation offers an overview of what many people ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-and-short-talk-basic-elements-of-a-mindfulness-meditation-sitting-retreat

Part 2 - Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-14) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us aw...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-awakening-our-bodys-awareness-2018-03-14

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (2018-03-14) - Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-inhabiting-our-body-realizing-wholeness-2018-03-14

Part 1 - Awakening our Body’s Awareness (2018-03-07) - Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us aw...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-awakening-our-bodys-awareness-2018-03-07

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (2018-03-07) - This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-homecoming-with-the-breath-2018-03-07

Part 4 - Equanimity: Present Heart - Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-28) - Equanimity unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the midst of this living, dying world. This seri...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-4-equanimity-present-heart-universal-expressions-of-love-2018-02-28

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (2018-02-28) - We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we br...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-space-and-aliveness-of-presence-2018-02-28

Part 3 - Joy - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-21) - Joy blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-3-joy-present-heart-the-universal-expressions-of-love-2018-02-21

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2018-02-21) - This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then expl...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-where-all-is-welcome-2018-02-21

Part 2 – Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14) - Compassion - the tender resonance of heart -  awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vu...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-compassion-present-heart-the-universal-expressions-of-love-2018-02-14

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14) - This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changin...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awareness-is-our-home-2018-02-14

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07) ~ Lovingkindness: We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life. Thi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-present-heart-the-universal-expressions-of-love-2018-02-07

Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07) - This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence-2018-02-07

Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This sa...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-3-freedom-from-othering-undoing-the-myths-that-imprison-us-2018-01-31

This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring the gap between th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-beyond-the-veil-of-thinking-2018-01-31

Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This sa...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-freedom-from-othering-undoing-the-myths-that-imprison-us-2018-01-24

Meditation: Resting in Reality - This guided practice awakens attention to sensations, sounds, space and aliveness, and encourages a continued “relaxing open” from thoughts into the living st...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2018-01-24-meditation-resting-in-reality-2018-01-24

Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us - Part 1 - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioni...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-freedom-from-othering-undoing-the-myths-that-imprison-us-2018-01-17

Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17) - We begin with listening and then bring a receptive attention to experience the life of the body. We then open the attention to the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-with-an-open-awareness-2018-01-17

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10) - The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of our future. This talk explores the difference...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/winds-of-homecoming-how-intention-frees-our-heart-2018-01-10

Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10) - This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliveness and the space that holds and is intrinsic...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-space-and-aliveness-and-awareness-2018-01-10

Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner aspects of each refuge, and then through guided ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-gateways-to-peace-and-freedom-2018-01-03

New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the bo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/new-years-meditation-awakening-loving-presence-2018-01-03

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28) - We are conditioned to go into a limbic trance—an emotional reactivity to life within and around us—that keeps us identif...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/remembering-and-choosing-loving-presence-retreat-talk-2017-12-28

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2017-12-28) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-basic-body-scan-2017-12-28

My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 ~ Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armored to a free and loving heart. The first looks at how we...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/my-religion-is-kindness-part-2-2017-12-20

2017-12-20 - Meditation: “Yes” to Life (2017-12-20) - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2017-12-20-meditation-yes-to-life-2017-12-20

Meditation: Transforming Fear - This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2017-12-06-Meditation-Transforming-Fear-TaraBrach.mp3

My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13) - Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armored to a free and loving heart. The first look...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/my-religion-is-kindness-part-1-2017-12-13

Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness(2017-12-13) - Learning how to recognize and rest in spaciousness, allows us to discover the love and wakefulness that is our source. This meditation guides...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-boundless-loving-awareness-2017-12-13

  Awakening from the Trance of Fear-Part 2 (2017-12-06) - While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, hear...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-trance-of-fear-part-2-2017-12-06

Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (2017-12-06) - Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with access...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-alert-inner-stillness-2017-12-06

Awakening from the Trance of Fear - Part 1 (2017-11-29) - While fear is a natural and intelligent emotion, when fear goes on overdrive, we are in a trance of fear that contracts our body, heart a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-from-the-trance-of-fear-part-1-2017-11-29

Meditation: Breath by Breath (2017-11-29) - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with long...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breath-by-breath-2017-11-29

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart (2017-11-22) - Gratitude is like breathing in - letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out - sensing...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/a-grateful-giving-happy-heart-2017-11-22

Meditation: Relax Into Happiness (2017-11-22) - Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relax-into-happiness-2017-11-22

The Gift of Silence ~ Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quiet...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-gift-of-silence-0

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-silence-that-is-listening

Power of Prayer: From Longing to Belonging (2017-11-08) - When we bring a full presence to prayer, it becomes a powerful pathway of homecoming. This talk explores how prayer heals the pain of sep...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/power-of-prayer-from-longing-to-belonging-2017-11-08

Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness (2017-11-08) - The primary qualities of a healing and freeing presence are being alert, open and tender. This meditation arouses these qualities by engaging a mi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxed-attentiveness-2017-11-08

Accessing Innate Wisdom - Wisdom is an innate capacity, but often covered over by trance. This talk explores how we abandon ourselves as we busily seek ways to feel more worthy, lovable and safe....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/accessing-innate-wisdom-0

Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart (2017-08-30) - Love is an innate capacity, and when we intentionally cultivate it, love shifts from a state to a trait. This meditation offers guidance on h...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-cultivating-a-loving-heart-2017-08-30

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2017-10-25) - Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/anger-responding-not-reacting-2017-10-25

Meditation: Refuge in Presence (2017-10-25) - We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As we i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-refuge-in-presence-2017-10-25

Embodied Spirit - Mindfulness of the Body ~ The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a pr...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/embodied-spirit-0

Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation uses the breath to guide us in l...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-compassion-with-tonglen

River of Change - Part 2 - Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life (2017-10-11) - These two talks look at how we relate to change - especially the notable changes involving loss of relatio...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/river-of-change-part-2-bringing-a-wise-heart-to-this-impermanent-life-2017-10-11

Meditation: Present Heart (2017-10-11) - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-present-heart-2017-10-11

River of Change - Part 1 - Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life - These two talks look at how we relate to change - especially the notable changes involving loss of relationships and ou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2017-10-04-river-of-change-part-1-bringing-a-wise-heart-to-this-impermanent-life

Meditation - Saying “Yes” to Life - This meditation guides us in relaxing through the body, then opening to the changing river of experience. By continually relaxing back and letting go into ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-saying-yes-to-life

Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO - There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to me...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/transforming-two-fears-fof-and-fomo

Meditation: Blessings of Love - A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-blessings-of-love

From Dragons to Schmoos: Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence - The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion to the dragons – the difficult emotions and related behaviors that ar...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/from-dragons-to-schmoos-meeting-life-with-compassionate-presence

Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness - In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation rec...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-to-openhearted-awareness

Reflection: Transforming Suffering and Awakening the Heart - There is power and potential in a time of darkness to remind us of what we really cherish. In this reflection, we practice ways of p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2017-01-25-reflection-transforming-suffering-and-awakening-the-heart-tarabrachmp3

Trusting Your Basic Goodness - Part 2 - This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We ex...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-your-basic-goodness-part-2

Meditation: Coming Home to Being - "What it's like to be here right now and listening to your heart… sensing the state of your heart? It might have been a while since you've really checked in w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-to-being

Basic Trust - Part 1 - One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, and two primary pathway...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/basic-trust-part-1

Meditation: Choosing Living Presence - A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om's - a favorite from Tara's Wednesday night archives).

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-choosing-living-presence-0

True Resilience: Part 2 - Awakening through All Circumstances - Spiritual resilience enables us to deepen compassion and wisdom as we navigate life’s difficulties. In this two part series, we w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/true-resilience-part-2-awakening-through-all-circumstances-2017-08-30

Meditation: Present Heartspace - This meditation establishes an embodied presence with the gentleness of a smile-down scan, then opens us to the heartspace that includes the changing waves of exp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-present-heartspace

Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering (from 2017-01-25) - We can either repeat old fear based patterns, or our suffering can awaken us to a deeper wisdom and greater l...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/darkness-of-the-womb-four-key-steps-in-transforming-suffering-0

30-Minute Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/30-minute-meditation-open-awareness-relaxing-back-into-presence

True Resilience - Pt1 - Awakening through All Circumstances (2017-08-16) - Spiritual resilience enables us to deepen compassion and wisdom as we navigate life’s difficulties. In this two part s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/true-resilience-pt1-awakening-through-all-circumstances-2017-08-16

Meditation: Filling our Body with Love (2017-08-16) - When we are fully awake, love shines through our entire body and being. This meditation awakens that embodied love through the image and felt...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-filling-our-body-with-love-2017-08-16

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life - Part 3 - The Mirror - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our wo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-3-the-mirror-2017-08-09

Meditation: Listening to Life (2017-08-09) - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening, a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-life-2017-08-09

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life - Part 2 - Inner Fire - This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-2-inner-fire-2017-08-02

Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling tha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-open-awareness-relaxing-back-into-presence-2017-08-02

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life - Part I - (2017-07-26) - This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-blessings-in-spiritual-life-part-i-2017-07-26

Meditation - Living Presence (2017-07-26) - This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence-2017-07-26

Love is Always Here (2017-07-19) - One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and focuses on...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/love-is-always-here-2017-07-19

Meditation: Relaxing into Sleep (no bell at end) (2017-07-19) - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. (version wi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-into-presence-or-sleep-no-bell-at-end-2017-07-19

Meditation - Relaxing into Presence or Sleep  (2017-07-19) - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. (version with...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-into-presence-or-sleep-2017-07-19

Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-self-honesty-the-joy-of-getting-real

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-with-a-smile-into-living-presence-15-min

Meditation: Entering the Wilderness (2017-07-05) - We open to our full naturalness as we awaken the senses. This brief meditation guides us to open all the sense gates, and in that openness, expe...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-entering-the-wilderness-2017-07-05-6-min

Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-refuge-in-the-wilderness-coming-home-to-embodied-presence

Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness - Coming Home to Embodied Presence (2017-06-28) - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-1-refuge-in-the-wilderness-coming-home-to-embodied-presence-2017-06-28

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2017-06-28) - This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, re...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-full-aliveness-2017-06-28

Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 2 (2017-06-21) - Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/stories-that-imprison-our-heart-part-2-2017-06-21

Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence - This guided meditation instruction includes: 1 - Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake, 2 - Further collecting the attention using a prim...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-arriving-in-embodied-presence-retreat-2017-04-30

Stories that Imprison our Heart - Part 1 (2017-06-14) - Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/stories-that-imprison-our-heart-part-1-2017-06-14

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath.  This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nerv...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2017-06-14-meditation-homecoming-to-our-life-breath-2017-06-14

Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 - There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presenc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/happiness-is-possible-de-conditioning-the-negativity-bias-part-2-2017-06-07

Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness - This guided practice establishes a kind, friendly attention with the image and felt sense of a smile, and evokes an embodied presence. We open to the awake a...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-home-to-awake-awareness-2017-06-07

Happiness is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias - Part 1 - There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/happiness-is-possible-de-conditioning-the-negativity-bias-part-1-2017-05-31

Meditation: The Breath - Portal to Presence - We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-breath-portal-to-presence-2017-05-31

Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat (2017-05-02) - Topics include individualizing your meditation practice, working with the "tangles," forgiveness practice, and using the "nurturing...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/instruction-and-question-response-during-retreat-2017-05-02

The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World (2017-05-24) - The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World - Our true refuge is reality - only by opening to “things as the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-reality-of-change-embracing-this-living-dying-world-2017-05-24

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (2017-05-24) - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-opening-to-the-river-of-aliveness-2017-05-24

Radical-Compassion - Part 2 (2017-05-10) - Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2017-05-10-pt2-radical-compassion-tarabrachmp3

Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart (2017-05-02) - A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely.  This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/instruction-meditation-a-forgiving-heart-from-retreat-2017-05-02

Radical Compassion - Part 1 (retreat talk) (2017-04-30) - Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion fo...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/radical-compassion-part-1-retreat-talk-2017-04-30

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace and Freedom (2017-05-10) - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breathing-our-way-to-peace-and-freedom-2017-05-10

Relaxing the Over-Controller - Part 2 (2017-05-03) (retreat talk) - We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our li...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/relaxing-the-over-controller-part-2-2017-05-03-retreat-talk

Meditation: Know That You're Here, Right Here (2017-04-29) - Given the first morning of the 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat, this meditation guides you through a body scan, opens to sounds, then expands...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-know-that-youre-here-right-here-2017-04-29

Relaxing the Over-Controller  - Part 1 (2017-04-26) - We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/relaxing-the-over-controller-part-1-2017-04-26

Meditation: The Center of Now (2017-04-26) - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-center-of-now-2017-04-26

Ask the Friend for Love - Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with its narrow fixation, and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/ask-the-friend-for-love-0

Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home - "No matter how far you've wandered, this heartspace - this awake tender awareness - is only a half-breath of remembrance away." This meditation awakens...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-heartspace-that-is-home

Sure Heart's Release - (a favorite from 2015) - The pathway to our awakened heart includes deep recognition of our barriers to love, and as we open, the courage to express our love. This talk inc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/sure-hearts-release

Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence - This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with scanning the body, filling it gradually w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/guided-heart-meditation-loving-presence-from-retreat

Soul Recognition: The Practice of Namaste (2017-04-05) - In our daily trance we experience ourselves and others through a filter of wants, fears, stories and beliefs. Drawing on an engaging story...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/soul-recognition-the-practice-of-namaste-2017-04-05

Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body (2017-04-05) - When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guid...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-through-the-inner-body-2017-04-05

Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts (2017-03-22) - This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixat...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/healing-addiction-de-conditioning-the-hungry-ghosts-2017-03-22

Meditation: Loving Presence - with smile body scan (2017-03-29) - This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the ima...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-loving-presence-with-a-smile-2017-03-29

Taking "The Exquisite Risk”: An Undefended Heart (2017-03-22) - Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available,  living true...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/taking-the-exquisite-risk-an-undefended-heart-2017-03-22

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (2017-03-22) - This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-full-presence-2017-03-22

Reflection - The Compass of Our Heart (2017-03-15) - When we are remembering our deepest intention in any situation, our lives become aligned, and we can act with grace, compassion and wisdom. Th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-the-compass-of-our-heart-2017-03-15

Realizing Your Deepest Desires (2017-03-15) - This talk differentiates between egoic intentions (driven by wants and fears), and our true aspiration (deepest desires) to manifest our full potenti...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-your-deepest-desires-2017-03-15

Meditation - Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (2017-03-15) - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-thought-clouds-come-and-go-2017-03-15

Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places (2017-03-08) - Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/healing-trauma-the-light-shines-through-the-broken-places

Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here (2017-03-08) - This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when we�...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-getting-lost-and-coming-back-here-2017-03-08

Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2017-03-01) - Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-to-the-song-part-2-2017-03-01

Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind (2017-03-01) - This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-sky-like-mind-2017-03-01

Listening to the Song - Part 1 (2017-02-22) - Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/listening-to-the-song-part-1-2017-02-22

Reflection: Heart Wisdom of Your Future Self - By connecting with your future self, this reflection guides you in accessing the deep wisdom and unconditional love of your own awakening heart. "...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-heart-wisdom-of-your-future-self

Being Truthful (2017-02-15) - The grounds of happiness, loving relationships and a just and flourishing society is honesty. And yet our current times are characterized by a plethora of deception ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/being-truthful-2017-02-15

Meditation - Sitting Like a Mountain (2017-02-15) - Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mou...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-sitting-like-a-mountain-2017-02-15

Trusting Our Awakening Heart (2017-02-08) - The more we trust that our awareness and heart are awakening, the more we find ease, grace and true empowerment in our lives. This talk explores two pa...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-our-awakening-heart-2017-02-08

Meditation: At Home in the Moment (2017-02-08) - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensa...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-at-home-in-the-moment-2017-02-08

Love, and Death - Retreat Talk (2016-12-29) - To live our lives fully, we need to embrace the natural unfolding of birthing and dying. Yet we are deeply conditioned to resist loss, to pull away f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/love-and-death-retreat-talk-2016-12-29

Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness - Embodying Full Presence (2016-12-30) - This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan,...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/retreat-meditation-a-liberating-awareness-embodying-full-presence-2016-12-30

Darkness of the Womb - Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering (2017-01-25) - We can either repeat old fear based patterns, or our suffering can awaken us to a deeper wisdom and greater love. Th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/darkness-of-the-womb-four-key-steps-in-transforming-suffering

Meditation - The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (2017-01-25) - It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-return-to-presence-rest-your-mind-in-what-is

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You (2017-01-18) - As individuals and societies, we are pulled by both the insecurity of our evolutionary past, and by our awake heart, our capacity for mindfulness an...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/your-awake-heart-is-calling-you-2017-01-18

Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen - Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2016-11-23-meditation-awakening-compassion-tonglen-tarabrachmp3

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (2017-01-18) - Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation i...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-witnessing-kind-presence-2017-01-18

Dissolving Trance with RAIN (2017-01-11) - One of the pervasive expressions of trance is identifying with a limited and separate sense of self.  This talk contrasts the self-trance to our intrin...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/dissolving-trance-with-rain-2017-01-11

Meditation: Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (2017-01-11) - In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-relaxed-attention-2017-01-11

Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2016-12-31) ~ We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/2016-12-31-meditation-awakening-loving-presence-tarabrachmp3-1

Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness (2017-01-04) - The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/refuge-in-truth-love-and-awareness-2017-01-04

Meditation: Quieting the Mind (2017-01-04) - We open with a reading on silence, and then relax our bodies, calm our minds and rest in the inflow and outflow of the breath. This simple meditation ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-quieting-the-mind-2017-01-04

Don't Know Mind - Thoughts, and more broadly, conceptual knowledge, cannot lead to the direct realization of truth, of reality. While thoughts are an essential part of surviving and thriving, spi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/dont-know-mind

Meditation: A Listening Presence with Smile Body Scan (2016-11-10) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This medi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-a-listening-presence-with-smile-body-scan-2016-11-10

Question and Response: Heart Practices - (2016-11-05) - follow-up to the guided heart practice: Taking in the Goodness. Tara replies to questions from retreatants. ~ from the IMCW Fall retrea...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/question-and-response-heart-practices-2016-11-05

Heart Meditation with Instructions: Taking in the Goodness (2016-11-05) - previously published without lead-in instructions. ~ from the IMCW Fall retreat Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness co...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-with-instructions-taking-in-the-goodness-2016-11-05

The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 2 (2016-12-21) - These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutiona...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-revolution-of-tenderness-part-2-2016-12-21

Meditation: Breathing into Presence (2016-12-21) - The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous syst...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breathing-into-presence-2016-12-21

The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1 (2016-12-14) - These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutiona...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-revolution-of-tenderness-part-1-2016-12-14

Meditation - Awake Awareness is our Home (2016-12-14) - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness  by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, alre...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-awareness-is-our-home-2016-12-14

Spiritual Reparenting (2016-12-07) - When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do n...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-reparenting-2016-12-07

Meditation - Relaxing Back into Living Presence (2016-12-07) - When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-living-presence

Trusting the Gold (retreat talk)(2016-11-10) - When we are unaware of the emotions and beliefs that shape our experience, we are in a trance characterized by an identity as a separate, incomplete...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-the-gold-retreat-talk

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2016-11-05) (from the IMCW Fall Retreat) - Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness." This medi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/heart-meditation-taking-in-the-goodness-retreat

"Play a Greater Part" - Bodhisattva for our Times - Part 2 (2016-11-23) - During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happeni...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/part-2-play-a-greater-part-bodhisattva-for-our-times

Meditation: Vipassana - 20 min - Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (2016-11-23) - This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-20-min-opening-our-hearts-to-life-as-it-is

"Play a Greater Part" - Bodhisattva for Our Times - Pt1 (2016-11-16) - During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/play-a-greater-part-bodhisattva-for-our-times-pt1-2016-11-16

Meditation: Vipassana (Mindfulness or Insight) - A gift of meditation is learning to open to life just how it is, with awake awareness. This meditation guides us in establishing an embodied prese...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-vipassana-mindfulness-or-insight

The Wings of Awakening - Self-Honesty and Love (retreat talk) (2016-11-06) - We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-wings-of-awakening-self-honesty-and-love-retreat-talk-2016-11-06

Starting a Meditation - and No Bell at the End (2016-11-05) - Given in the early morning on the first day of retreat, this recording can settle you into a meditation of any length. There is no be...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/starting-a-meditation-with-no-bell-at-the-end-2016-11-05

Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 - The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it express...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-consciousness-in-shadowy-times-part-2-2016-11-02

Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (2016-11-02) - Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention wi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-cultivating-a-mindful-awareness-2016-11-02

Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times (2016-10-26) - On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated w...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/awakening-consciousness-in-shadowy-times-2016-10-26

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2016-10-26) - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condi...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-into-presence-2016-10-26

Reflection: Deepening the Truths We Share (2016-10-19) - Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with each other. This short reflection offers guidance in how to ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-deepening-the-truths-we-share-2016-10-19

Seeking What’s True  – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) (2016-10-19)- The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our l...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/seeking-whats-true-within-ourselves-beyond-our-self-with-each-other-part-3-of-3

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment - When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body, and tense against our moment to moment experience. This meditation is a pow...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-relaxing-back-and-saying-yes-to-the-moment-2016-10-19

Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness (2016-10-12) - This meditation guides us in recognizing the formless awareness that is always here, but often outside of conscious awareness.  As awarene...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awake-openhearted-awareness-2016-10-12

Seeking What's True - Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other - Pt 2 of 3 (2016-10-12) - The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from t...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/seeking-whats-true-pt-2-of-3-2016-10-12

Meditation: Breath and Presence (2016-10-12) - For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establis...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-breath-and-presence-2016-10-12

Seeking What's True: Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other  - Pt 1 of 3 (2016-10-05) - The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/seeking-whats-true-pt-1-of-3-2016-10-05

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (2016-10-05) - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awareness-2016-10-05

Spiritual Empowerment (2016-09-28) - When we are trying to control life, we are removed from presence, and act in ways that separate us from others and solidify the experience of being a insecure...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/spiritual-empowerment-2016-09-28

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (2016-09-28) - In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions tha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-this-life-in-awareness

Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) - It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/realizing-our-undefended-heart-retreat-talk

Meditation: Listening to and Feeling Our Life - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-listening-to-and-feeling-our-life

The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Working with Attachments and Addictions - In Buddhist cosmology the torment of intense desire that can never really be satisfied is depicted as the realm of Hungry Gho...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts-working-with-attachments-and-addictions

Retreat - Morning Instruction - RAIN - Q and A (2016-08-27) - Tara gives morning instruction on retreat including R.A.I.N. (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish), then responds to questions fro...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/retreat-morning-instruction-rain-q-and-a-2016-08-27

Trusting Our Hearts (2016-04-06) - Trust in our basic goodness directly effects our capacity for intimacy with others, creativity and living fully.  This talk explores the ways that our caregive...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/trusting-our-hearts

Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation from Retreat (2016-08-27) - Tara gives morning instructions about how to deepen our meditation, then leads us in a guided meditation.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/on-deepening-our-meditation-and-guided-meditation-from-retreat

Reflection: Your Future Self - Accessing the Wisdom of Your Heart (2016-08-24) - When we are cut off from our natural love and wisdom, there’s a way home. This meditation guides us to a visit ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-your-future-self-2016-08-24

Letting Go: The Freedom of Awake Awareness (2016-08-31) - We know we need to let go of harmful habits like obsessive worry, blame and over consuming to experience true well-being, yet much of the...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/letting-go-the-freedom-of-awake-awareness

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (2016-08-31) - This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-energy-body

Your Future Self: Turning Towards Your Awakened HeartMind (2016-08-24) - Our lives are shaped by our evolutionary past - the fears and wants that arise from a separate self sense - and the pull o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/your-future-self-turning-towards-your-awakened-heartmind

Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (2016-08-24) - In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This m...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-coming-home-to-openhearted-awareness-2016-08-24

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us - Part 2 (2016-08-17) - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-2-2016-08-17

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2016-08-17) - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sen...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-receiving-life-in-open-awake-awareness-2016-08-17

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us - Part 1 (2016-08-10) - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/how-hope-can-heal-and-free-us-part-1-2016-08-10

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (2016-08-10) - We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-awakening-our-full-aliveness-2016-08-10

Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness Practice (2016-05-09) - Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-guided-heart-forgiveness-practice-from-retreat

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance - If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investig...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/wise-investigating-dissolving-the-trance

Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) - A brief invitation to start a longer meditation sitting. Begins with Japanese flute and continues with calming and settling to begin a sittin...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-invitation-to-practice-no-bell-at-end

Loving the Life Within Us (retreat talk) - If we don’t love the life we consider “self,” we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in br...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/loving-the-life-within-us-retreat-talk

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness (2015-12-29) (retreat) - This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing f...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-spacious-sky-of-awareness-2015-12-29-retreat

That Bird Got My Wings (from 2015-07-22) - This talk looks at how we are imprisoned by a limited sense of who we are, and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness enable us to realize the sp...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/that-bird-got-my-wings-from-2015-07-22

Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence - 5 min (2016-05-18) - This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here.

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/brief-meditation-arriving-in-mindful-presence-5-min-2016-05-18

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers - (retreat talk) (2016-05-08) - Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when ...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2016-05-08-Fear-as-a-Pathway--retreat--TaraBrach.mp3

Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 minute) - (2016-07-13) ~ This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. Free download of ...

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tarabrach/2016-05-18-Meditation-Arriving-in-Mindful-Presence-1-min-TaraBrach.mp3

Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 2 (2016-07-06) - Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/stress-and-everyday-nirvana-part-2-2016-07-06

Meditation: Rest in Awake Awareness (2016-07-06) - When we allow the body to be a portal, we discover the ever-present background of awareness that includes the whole play of sensation, sound, al...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-rest-in-awake-awareness-2016-07-06

Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 1 (2016-06-29) - Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/stress-and-everyday-nirvana-part-1-2016-06-29

Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You(2016-06-29) - This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body scan, open...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-live-through-you-1

Reconnecting with Our Lives - Healing from Dissociation (2016-06-22) - Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natur...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reconnecting-with-our-lives-healing-from-dissociation-2016-06-22

Meditation: Know That You're Here (2016-06-22) - We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attentio...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-know-that-youre-here-2016-06-22

Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-11) - Tara responds to questions including deepening our meditation practice, working with desire, and the RAIN practice. Free download of Ta...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/morning-question-and-response-on-retreat-2016-05-11

Remembering What Matters - Aspiration and Intention (from 2013-01-30) ~ Our conscious aspiration toward awakening is what energizes the spiritual path. This talk reviews the main characteristic o...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/remembering-what-matters-aspiration-and-intention-from-2013-01-30

Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (2016-05-12) (from retreat) - The Buddha taught the value of gladdening the mind. This meditation begins with an inquiry on what we are most grateful for - what we...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-gladdening-the-mind-2016-05-12-from-retreat

Three Gestures of Love (2016-06-08) - If we inquire “what is between me and presence” we usually find we’ve been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/three-gestures-of-love-2016-06-08

Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (2016-05-09) - This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness....

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-mystery-of-aliveness-from-retreat-2016-05-09

Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (2016-06-01) - A guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict. Full talk, "Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/reflection-waking-up-from-harmful-beliefs-2016-06-01

Real But Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs (2016-06-01) - Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/real-but-not-true-freeing-ourselves-from-harmful-beliefs-2016-06-01

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (2016-06-01) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation empha...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-the-silence-that-is-listening-2016-06-01

Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-09) - Tara responds to questions on deepening our meditation practice, working with unpleasant and pleasant thoughts, and forgiveness. Free d...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/morning-questions-and-response-from-retreat-2016-05-09

Happy for No Reason - Part 2 (2016-05-25) - These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/happy-for-no-reason-part-2-2016-05-25

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (2016-05-25) - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the p...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-living-presence-2016-05-25

Happy for No Reason - Part 1 (2016-05-18) - These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening th...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/happy-for-no-reason-part-1-2016-05-18

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (2016-05-18) - This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and s...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-letting-life-live-through-you-2016-05-18

Conscious Prayer: Finding Refuge in Loving Presence (Retreat talk) (2016-05-11) - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/conscious-prayer-finding-refuge-in-loving-presence-retreat-talk-2016-05-11

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan - (2016-05-07) - from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing foc...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/meditation-basic-body-and-breath-scan-from-retreat-2016-05-07

RAIN of Forgiveness (2015-05-05) - The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness.  This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, ...

https://sites.libsyn.com/43741/rain-of-forgiveness-2015-05-05