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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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, …

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…

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. 

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom – The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings …

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery – All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice relaxing back i…

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom – The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings …