Tara Brach

Meditation: Yes to Life (2021-05-19) –  In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presence that welcomes the changing flow of life.

Bridging the Divide: Learning to Tend and Befriend – One of the great sufferings facing us is the growing divide between humans with different views, different realities. This talk looks at several levels of divides—being at war with ourselves, creatin…

Meditation: Being Here for Life (2021-05-08) – It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat Schneider call…

Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer – Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to …

Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer – Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to …

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05) – We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that i…

Méditation: Rencontrer la colère avec conscience – (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère) – Lorsque notre colère est contenue avec conscience, elle peut être une force, une énergie, pour répondre avec sagesse aux situations difficiles de la vi…

Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings – The ritual of Namaste – bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others – helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, …

Meditation: From Head to Full Being (2021-04-28) – 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 int…

Belonging to the Earth (2021-04-21) – As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and sustains this trance of forgetting. We then explore the wa…

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2021-04-21) – Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our senses and discovering the vitality and presence that expres…

“Make Love of Your Self Perfect” – retreat talk (2021-04-14) – Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holdi…

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14) – This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The…

Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real – Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneit…

Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence (2021-04-07) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect wit…

Part 2 – Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World (2021-03-31) – While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the …

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31) – When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from…

Transforming Two Fears – FOF and FOMO (2021-03-24) – There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and dis…

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (2021-03-24) – Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.

Fear of Aging – Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17) – While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the…