Tara Brach

Meditation: A Kind and Allowing Presence (2021-03-17) – When we’re stressed our hearts tighten and we try to control our life. This meditation guides us to relax the controlling and discover the open, tender awareness that allows life to be as it is.

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 (2012-03-10) – Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true listening, and of…

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (2021-03-10) – Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We cl…

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (2021-03-10) – Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We cl…

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 (2021-03-03) – Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true listening, and of…

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2021-03-03) – This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this changing dance of life.  We close with a poem by R…

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24) – A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This capacity is blocked by our identification with our “mask…

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2021-02-24) – By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with presence…

Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 (2021-02-17) – Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with p…

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (2021-02-17) – Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the ch…

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing (2021-02-10) – The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritu…

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (2021-02-10) – Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness.

Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1 – Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the …

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath – This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. The instructions are to rest in …

Spiritual Hope (2021-01-27) – Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope ar…

Meditation: Sacred Presence (2021-01-23) – This meditation guides us to wakefully relax with the changing flow of moment to moment experience. As we open our senses fully, we discover the sacred living presence that is our very essence.

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 (2021-01-20) – In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a …

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (2021-01-30) – Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “…

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 (2020-01-13) – In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a …

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (2021-01-13) – Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transforma…