Tara Brach

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath – Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is …

Intimacy with Life (Part 2) – Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.

Intimacy with Life (Part 1) – Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.

Being with Love, Death and Grief – Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given at the Upaya Zen Center on June 25, 2023, includes short …

Being with Love, Death and Grief – Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event includes short meditations and talks by Frank and Tara, and a po…

Meditation: Present Heart – We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.

Meditation: From Head to Full Being – When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysteri…

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice – This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings; and remember love. We explore both the habits blocki…

Meditation: Loving What Is – While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to inner freedom. In this meditation, we explore this path with an open heart

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as the interviewer.

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence – This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in open awareness, responding to whatever arises with gentle attention.

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 2): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer – Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this two-part conversation, Tara and Judson Brewer look at ho…

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 2): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer – Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this two-part conversation, Tara and Judson Brewer look at ho…

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life – This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts, shifting fr…

Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention – In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized with the us…

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart – Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help u…