Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 open our attention to the changing flow of life.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 two talks explore misunderstandings about surrender (such…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 meditation guides us in letting go, first through the bod…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 two talks explore misunderstandings about surrender (such…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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. We then settle with the breath, and practice relaxing w…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the blocks to our natural and loving awareness.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 to life. At the center of the practice is a relaxing back…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to res…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to res…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 us in touching the grounds of true transformation and heal…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear –

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimen…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 intimacy with our world, and veils over the goodness and myst…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ours…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 attention to the space of awareness that includes the changing…