Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 talks explore our blocks to true listening, and offer teachings…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 talks explore our blocks to true listening, and offer teachings…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 changing dance of life. We close with a poem by Robert Hall.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 caring, and how each of us can awaken a heart that responds t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 intention to truly say “Yes” to experience, allowing life to be …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 “second arrow” of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional reactivi…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, in a spacious, open awareness. (from a morning on the 201…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, in a spacious, open awareness. (from a morning on the 201…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 cultivate a more open heart.    

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and the…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate presence w…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 embodied presence, and the consequence of unlived life—bein…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 that arises in open awareness.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and fr…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention wi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 evidence shows that rather than safety, this pervasive habit in…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off fr…