Tara Brach

Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 2 (2019-04-10) – It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental …

Meditation: Letting Life Be (2019-04-10) – This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that presence, letting go of any con…

Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 1 (2019-04-03) – It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental …

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2019-04-03) – This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence…

The Four Remembrances (2019-03-27) – When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a reactive trance, on our way somewhere else, and lost in proble…

Meditation: Saying Yes to Reality (2019-03-27) – Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be as it is. As our “Yes” to…

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 – This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical an…

Meditation: Being Here (with OMs) (2019-03-20) – We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; relax through our bodies; and then include the changin…

Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 1 (2019-03-13) – This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working wit…

Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” – The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This meditation guides us in the smile-down, and then i…

Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” – The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This meditation guides us in the smile-down, and then i…