Tara Brach

Short Talk and Meditation: Spacious, Loving Awareness (retreat) – When our awareness is awake and open, we naturally respond to this changing life with warmth, tenderness and love. This practice helps us discover the spaciousness of awareness by realiz…

Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat) – Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion. This short talk and guided meditation brings forth our most awake and tender presence as we ask …

Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk) – Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by releasing chronic blame can we free our hearts to truly give and receive love. This talk looks at the diff…

Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen – Radical Compassion (retreat talk) – We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion. This short talk and …

Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen – Radical Compassion (retreat talk) – We are conditioned to avoid suffering – our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion. This short talk and …

From Human Doing to Human Being (2018-05-30) – Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we can awaken from our non-stop doing, including the inc…

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2018-05-30) – This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the senses, the more we discover the alert…

Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 2 (2018-05-23) – Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to realizing the loving awareness that is our essence, and the p…

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body(2018-05-23) – Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and…

Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body(2018-05-23) – Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and…

Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 1 (2018-05-16) – Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to realizing the loving awareness that is our essence, and the p…

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16) – This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts,…