Tara Brach

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 grounds of that awakening, which is a shift of identity from tha…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: A Practice of RAIN (2021-10-20) – The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open-hearted presence in the mi…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, and how our sorrows and grief can become a portal to awaken…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 our way home to open-hearted presence in the midst of whatev…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 awareness and love. We explore ways to realize and open t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 trauma and deep fears that cause us to dissociate from ou…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 Traumatized World is the expression of our most evolved and …

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns o…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 blessings to our inner life and all beings.

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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. This conversation looks at what blocks authentic and lov…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, f…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, f…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to mo…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 waves of our being personally, and become imprisoned in the t…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learn…

Tara Brach http://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Blessings of “Enough” – Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 2)