Tara Brach

Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (from retreat) – When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us discover the spaciousness of awareness by realizing the sp…

Meditation: Light RAIN in Difficult Times (2020-05-23) – This meditation guides us in bringing the mindfulness and self-compassion of RAIN to a challenging part of our life, and particularly, to places of self-judgment or feelings of failure.

Meditation: Light RAIN in Difficult Times (2020-05-23) – This meditation guides us in bringing the mindfulness and self-compassion of RAIN to a challenging part of our life, and particularly, to places of self-judgment or feelings of failure.

Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love – Part 9 (2020-05-20) –  How we tolerate uncertainty – during current times and throughout our lives – has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, aliveness and love. This talk explores the conditioned …

Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (2020-05-20) – Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory experience, the tension in the b…

Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (2020-05-20) – Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory experience, the tension in the b…

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (2020-05-09) – We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner resources by calling on the most evolved part of…

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (2020-05-09) – We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner resources by calling on the most evolved part of…

Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure (2020-05-13) – Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to stay with the feelings, failure can become a portal to the rea…

Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence (2020-05-13) – This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a Hereness that feels like home. The meditation ends with a …

Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence (2020-05-13) – This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a Hereness that feels like home. The meditation ends with a …

Sheltering in Love – Part 7: Awakening from the Prison of Blame (2020-05-06) – A key way stress disconnects us from ourselves and each other is through the limbic reactivity of blame. This talk helps us to recognize the suffering of chronic blame, rese…

Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-05-06) – This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O’Donahue

Meditation: Openhearted Presence (2020-05-06) – This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O’Donahue

Sheltering In Love – Part 6: Loneliness as a Portal to Sacred Presence – Part 2 of 2 (2020-04-29) – The root of suffering is the pain of separation, the fears and loneliness that arise when we have forgotten our intrinsic belonging to each other and to…

Meditation: Vipassana – Seeing Life As It Is (2020-04-29) – This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear and open presence.