Tara Brach

The Three Refuges – Gateways to Awakening (2021-01-06) – We all seek refuge, a sense of safety or homecoming amidst the uncertainties of life. Our way of finding refuge can either imprison or free us. This talk explores the false refuges that entrap us…

Meditation: A Present Heart (2020-01-06) – One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. …

Repairing Our Hearts – Healing with the RAIN of Compassion (2020-12-30) – Living in a fear-based society fuels the trance of separation and unworthiness. This talk explores how we can bring an engaged compassionate presence to the suffering of this tra…

Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (2020-12-30) – One of the great sufferings is turning on ourselves with judgment and/or self-aversion. This practice brings the acronym RAIN to this pain. It helps us cultivate a healing self-compassion, and the real…

“Good Othering” – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2020-12-23) – One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential awareness, light and love. Because our conditioning is to fixate…

Meditation: Meeting life with a Kind Presence (2020-12-23) – This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan.  We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises with a gent…

Heart to Heart: A Conversation Between Dan Gottlieb and Tara Brach (2020-12-16) – This very real and human interchange touches on pain, loss, love, gratitude and much more.

Meditation: Coming Home to Heartspace (2020-12-16) – Our pathway to our hearts is through presence. This meditation helps us awaken presence through our body and all our senses. We then open to the awareness that can meet whatever arises with tendernes…

Remembering Our Belonging – Part 2 (2020-12-09) – Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, to each other, to the living web of all beings, to formless…

Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09) – When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and then opening to all sounds, sens…

Remembering Our Belonging, Part 1 (2020-12-02) – Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, to each other, to the living web of all beings, to formless …

Remembering Our Belonging, Part 1 (2020-12-02) – Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, to each other, to the living web of all beings, to formless …

Meditation: Embodied Love (2020-12-02) – This meditation guides us through a scan, to awaken a healing and openhearted presence throughout our body. We then widen to our full field of awareness, including whatever wants attention in an open, inclusive …

Authentic Thanks Giving (redux) – How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers several reflections that guide us in contacting and expres…

Authentic Thanks Giving (redux) – How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers several reflections that guide us in contacting and expres…

Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25) – After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this…

Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25) – After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this…

Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25) – After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this…

The Stories that Empower Us: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) – Whether we know it or not, our daily lives take direction from myths and tales that are hundreds, even thousands of years old. During their time together…

The Stories that Empower Us: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) – Whether we know it or not, our daily lives take direction from myths and tales that are hundreds, even thousands of years old. During their time together…