Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 the…
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Tara Brach : Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 about the r…
Tara Brach : 2024-04-24 – Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 inc…
Tara Brach : Spiritual Reparenting: Loving Ourselves into Healing (from retreat)
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 can…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 ca…
Tara Brach : The Sacred Art of Listening
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 unfo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Listening to Life
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 and…
Tara Brach : 2024-04-03 – Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: Tara and Lee C Camp
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, 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 meditat…
Tara Brach : Meditation: A Present Heart
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 arises wi…
Tara Brach : An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 I—Heal…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Widening Rings of Being
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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.
Tara Brach : 2024-03-20 – Do you feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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.
Tara Brach : Meditation: Openhearted Presence
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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. The …
Tara Brach : Navigating the Dark Ages
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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, wisdo…
Tara Brach : Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 we…
Tara Brach : Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 hopelessness….
Tara Brach : Meditation: Letting Go of Doing
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 includi…
Tara Brach : Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
Tara Brach https://www.tarabrach.com by Tara Brach 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 hopelessness….
Tara Brach : Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence
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 : “Getting Over Yourself”: A conversation with Tara Brach and Stephen Josephs
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…