Tara Brach

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the field of awareness and aliveness. We practice relaxing…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 change. In this conversation we look at what he’s learned…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. We …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clin…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 that is the center of now.  “Listening to and feeling, the …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 action and long occupation in Palestine, and is dedicated to f…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. Wh…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 awareness that is our essence. This series of talks explores h…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flow…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 and author of “The Hunger Habit” (https://drjud.com/the-hun…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 and author of “The Hunger Habit” (https://drjud.com/the-hun…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that pre…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that pre…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explo…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full r…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 explores three archetypal portals to true refuge—awareness (budd…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 to pause, and the blessings that arise when step out of our…