Tara Brach

Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk) (2018-10-07) – While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physica…

Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart – This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our…

Part 1 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-10-24) – The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compass…

Part 1 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion (2018-10-24) – The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compass…

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (2018-10-24) – This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this…

Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (2018-10-24) – This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this…

Part 2 – Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom (2018-10-17) -The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (2018-10-17) – All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice re…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (2018-10-17) – All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice re…

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom – The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings …

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath – Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is …

The Sacred Pause – When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something’s wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning to pause, and the blessings that arise when step out of our…

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice – Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness ~ from the first morning instructions at the 2015 IMCW fall retreat. (a favorite from t…