Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence: This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into... by Tara Brach

19 min listen

2024-04-24 - Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body: When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that... by Tara Brach

22 min listen

Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle: Many are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can trust our unshakeable goodness and find a path of loving into healing. We talk... by Tara Brach

68 min listen

Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm: In times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guides us in using the breath, body scan, and a home base of presence to find that inner refuge that can... by Tara Brach

20 min listen

Spiritual Reparenting: Loving Ourselves into Healing (from retreat): Mindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit. This talk explores the ways we get trapped in the trance of feeling unworthy and unlovable, and how, with a wise attention, we... by Tara Brach

57 min listen

The Sacred Art of Listening: Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listening, and the healing that... by Tara Brach

54 min listen

Meditation: Listening to Life: The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes... by Tara Brach

18 min listen

2024-04-03 - Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: Tara and Lee C Camp: In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, award winning theologian Lee C. Camp interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. The conversation includes an unpacking of the RAIN meditation, and stories... by Tara Brach

67 min listen

Meditation: A Present Heart: One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever... by Tara Brach

17 min listen

An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas: Connirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), developed and wrote a book on the Core Transformation Process, and more recently, the Wholeness Process. Her new book, The Wholeness Work Essential Guide: Level... by Tara Brach

76 min listen

Meditation: Widening Rings of Being: If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom, the awake space of Being, that is beyond the confines of thoughts. by Tara Brach

20 min listen

Meditation: Openhearted Presence: This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. “Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment.... by Tara Brach

22 min listen

2024-03-20 - Do you feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening: Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and tap our capacity for full presence, wisdom and love. by Tara Brach

42 min listen

Navigating the Dark Ages: How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual path to steady our heart and engage with presence,... by Tara Brach

46 min listen

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention: This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. "Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how... by Tara Brach

19 min listen

Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation: Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and... by Tara Brach

56 min listen

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing: Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then... by Tara Brach

21 min listen

Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation: Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and... by Tara Brach

64 min listen

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence: 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... by Tara Brach

22 min listen

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace: 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... by Tara Brach

18 min listen

“Getting Over Yourself”: A conversation with Tara Brach and Stephen Josephs: 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... by Tara Brach

65 min listen

Guided Meditation: The Center of Now: 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... by Tara Brach

16 min listen

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 2: 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 how we can let go in four key domains of... by Tara Brach

60 min listen

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz: 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... by Tara Brach

62 min listen

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert: 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.... by Tara Brach

20 min listen

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be: 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... by Tara Brach

17 min listen

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom: 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... by Tara Brach

56 min listen

Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer: 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”... by Tara Brach

83 min listen

Meditation: Listening to our Heart: 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... by Tara Brach

20 min listen

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2: 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... by Tara Brach

54 min listen

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Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention

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