Tara Brach

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Opening to the Mystery – 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 di…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress – Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other and all life. This reflection examines the primary forces that keep us trapped in a trance of separation. We then explore two powerful dimensions…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxed and Awake – This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Awakening from Trance – Embracing Unlived Life – When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance – we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, in…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence – When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the vastness and inherent freedom…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner – Our conversation covers the biological, evolutionary and cultural bases of human goodness and the centrality of awe in the human experience. We explore the blocks to experie…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Guided 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 formles…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach How Do We Bridge the Divides? – The divides in our world can only exist if we humans are divided from our own full being and habituated to divides with others. In this reflection we explore bridging inner and relational divides as the grounds for evolv…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom – This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presenc…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach A Generous Heart – Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decondition habitual tendencies toward grasping and self-centeredness, and nourish the sense of connectednes…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness – 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 experience …

Tara Brach https://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 https://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…

Tara Brach https://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 lear…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Tara and Loch Kelly in Conversation – Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation teacher known for his instructions for effortless mindfulness. Our rich and wide-ranging conversation includes themes of interconnectedness, …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: The Sea of Awareness – Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditation guides us in recognizing the awareness that is the ba…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis – Stephen Fulder is a senior Buddhist teacher, author and peace activist who lives and teaches in Israel. In this conversation Stephen shares about his experience du…

Tara Brach https://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 https://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…