Tara Brach

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara and Kate Johnson – The often unseen cause of our difficulties in relationships is the societal structures that are marked by violence and domination. This conversation looks at what blocks authentic and lov…

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo – Mark is a spiritual teacher, wonderful poet, and author of many books including best selling “The Book of Awakening.” In this wide-ranging and rich conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, f…

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo – Mark is a spiritual teacher, wonderful poet, and author of many books including best selling “The Book of Awakening.” In this wide-ranging and rich conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, f…

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (2021-09-08) – This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to mo…

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance – When we are caught in self-judgment we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect waves of our being personally, and become imprisoned in the t…

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment – When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learn…

The Blessings of “Enough” – Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 2)

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence – When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence – When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.

The Blessings of “Enough” – Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) – One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment—habits of fixating on what’s wrong and w…

The Blessings of “Enough” – Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) – One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment—habits of fixating on what’s wrong and w…

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life – We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness, creativit…

Humility – In Buddhism and most faiths, humility – feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our condit…

Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou – Being Home (2021-08-11) – This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence – arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back to our sens…

Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart – Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available, living true to our heart. This talk explores the challenges and blessings of taking the e…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence (2017-03-22) – This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awarene…

Writing and Haiku as Spiritual Practice (Tara Brach Interviews Natalie Goldberg) –

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness – This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience b…

The Power of Spiritual Hope (2021-07-21) – The openness to possibility is essential on a path of awakening and freedom. In this talk we explore what makes up mature or spiritual hope, and how two meditation practices of presence can nourish our hope.