Tara Brach

Meditation: Whole Body Breathing – This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimen…

Self Forgiveness with RAIN – Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blaming ourselves traps us in fears, prevents intimacy with our world, and veils over the goodness and myst…

Meditation: Awake and Alive – This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ours…

Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love

Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence – We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness that includes the changing…

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome – This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes …

Compassion – Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love – Part 2: Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability. This series reflects on four primary expressions of …

Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love – We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart:…

Lovingkindness – Part 1 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love – We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart:…

Meditation: Path of Love – This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by R…

Responding with Heart to Painful Times: A Conversation with Tara & Frank Ostaseski – This event includes short talks addressing the suffering so many are experiencing, and questions and engagement with participants

Relationships – from Reactivity to Rechoosing Love – Most of us have habitual ways we create separation from others. This talk takes a look at the roots of our emotional reactivity and ways our meditation practice can foster more loving connection in o…

Compassion toward Non-Human Animals – A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach – The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is crucial that this include all living beings. Our societal conditioning blinds us to the horror of suffe…

Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves – By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we began to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctu…

Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2 – All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. …