Tara Brach

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times – When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation – disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other and the web of lif…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Relaxing with Life – This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises….

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Radical Self-Forgiving – When we can’t forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing open the clenched fist of self-blame. As forgiving becomes deep and full, we discover the …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan – A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath, and rest wi…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens – In his recent book, The New Saints, Lama Rod Owens offers teachings and practices that awaken our longing for freedom, and help us realize the truth of who we are. He and Tara ta…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go  – This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the p…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness – At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament: an illusion that we are a separate self. This talk explores how this identification as a self obscures our belonging to loving awareness…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield – In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and meditation, the centrality of acceptance, and the pa…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Opening to the Flow – This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds that arise and pass away. We scan…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield – In this rich and full two – part interview, Tara speaks with renowned poet Jane Hirshfield about the interface between poetry and meditation, the centrality of acceptance, and the pathways …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Everything Belongs – This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and sounds to come and go. When difficult experie…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Path of Sacred Relatedness – Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence – We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways – caught inside the experience of a wanting, guarded, fearful self. This talk explores practices that r…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: At Home in the Moment – This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to whatever arises with a clear and inc…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Honesty Challenge – Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world – Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others.  This talk explores the …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly – Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attentio…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing – The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, …

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness – Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reach…

Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach Meditation: Openhearted Presence – This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.