Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 turn on others as lesser or bad, as the enemy. These talks e…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing th…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 – to our moments. This interview looks at how we wake up out…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, given the stress of the season, we can bring grace and open…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise t…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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. »  Cette méditation nous guide à chercher la Source de l’amour et à nous…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 existence. In this conversation we look at the often unexa…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 sense of the smile, scanning through the body, resting i…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 stuck and reactive to the tender and spacious presence that i…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 on a societal level is the cause of othering and violence…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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.

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explore the grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and…