Tara Brach

Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN – While RAIN is regularly used for untangling suffering, it is also a powerful tool for deepening our access to positive states like happiness, gratitude, wonder and love. This meditation guides us in nourishi…

Mindful Leadership: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Michelle Maldonado (2021-07-14) – The principles of mindful leadership are relevant for all of us—they bring out the best of who we are in our work, with our family, with our friends. Especially…

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15) – 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 brea…

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 blockin…

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2021-07-07) – This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensatio…

Trusting the Gold: A Conversation – Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust – In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our i…

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-06-30) – Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in t…

Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention – Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear, and ways we can bring compass…

Meditation: The Heartspace of Gratitude – When gratitude for our life arises, we enter the sacred space of an open heart. This meditation guides us in arriving in presence and awakening the blessings of gratitude.

Fierce Compassion – A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff – Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Com…

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2021-06-16) – 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…

Trusting the Gold – The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk explores the two key pathways that help us awaken from the trance of identifying as a limited, separate self. It incl…

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2021-06-09) – We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap betw…

Meditation: Blessings of Love – A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken…

Part 2 – Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit (2021-06-02) – 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 d…

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (2021-06-02) – Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body…

Part 1 – Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – 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. …

Part 1 – Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – 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. …

Meditation: Embodied Spirit – Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, tha…

John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginner’s mind” that enables us to encounter this living world with…