Tara Brach

The Courage to Love – Part 2 (2019-06-19) – The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer guidance in learning to contact and transform our fears in…

Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (2019-06-19) – When we awaken our senses, we can sense in the background a wakeful openness that is our true home. This meditation guides us by first attending to the space, aliveness and awareness that fills the bod…

The Courage to Love – Part 1 (2019-06-12) – The gateway to full intimacy and love is our capacity to open to vulnerability. These two talks look at our ways of avoiding vulnerability, and offer guidance in learning to contact and transform our fears in…

Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (2019-06-12) – Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence that is always an…

Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (2019-06-12) – Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence that is always an…

An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart (2019-06-05) – Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom and care. This talk explores the pathway of shifting from r…

Meditation – Breath by Breath: Relaxing with Our Life (2019-06-05) – The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve as a…

Part 3 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-05-29) – Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to o…

Meditation: Opening to Life (2019-05-29) – This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts, letting life be just as it is…

Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) (2019-05-08) – This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self.  We then explore the practices of presence and self-inquiry that turn …

Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (2019-04-17) – One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and rel…

Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (2019-04-17) – One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and rel…

Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15) – For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day fo…