Tara Brach

Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening – We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway…

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness – This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness – This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

Discovering the Power of Prayer (2018-08-15) – We all know the pain of separation and have a longing for connection. When we silently listen to and contact the depth of that longing, we are at the root of transformational prayer. This talk looks at wha…

Meditation: Presence and Breath (2018-08-15) – This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the breath. We are invited to discover the presence that arises as we come home to our moment-to-moment expe…

Meditation: Presence and Breath (2018-08-15) – This simple meditation guides us to wake up awareness of the body, and rest with the movement of the breath. We are invited to discover the presence that arises as we come home to our moment-to-moment expe…

Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 2 (2018-08-08) – Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain …

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (2018-08-11) – Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awake…

Meditation: Letting Go of Doing (2018-08-11) – Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awake…

Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1 (2018-08-01) – Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain …

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2018-08-01) – We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the f…

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2018-08-01) – We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the f…

Saying “Yes” – Meeting Your Edge and Softening (2018-07-25) – Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This talk helps us recognize these often unconscious patterns that keep us …

Meditation: Saying Yes to Life (2018-07-25) – We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness…