Tara Brach

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…

Meditation: Choosing Living Presence – A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om’s in community – a favorite from Tara’s Wednesday night archives). Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breath…

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk) – Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our lon…

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness (retreat talk) – Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our lon…

Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness – a Metta Practice – This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of “yes” and then closes with a bri…

Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 (2019-05-01) – 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: Being Here (2019-05-01) – This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. …

Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (a favorite from the 2014 archives) – Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, iden…

Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body – This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness…

Part 1 – Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame (2019-04-17) – 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: Sea of Loving Presence (2019-04-17) – In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and the entire field of awareness. We then open to t…