Tara Brach

Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love. NOTE: Tara was a…

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we co…

Meditation: Entering the Wilderness (2017-07-05) – We open to our full naturalness as we awaken the senses. This brief meditation guides us to open all the sense gates, and in that openness, experience the pure aliveness and awareness that is our essen…

Part 2: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence – When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, and th…

Part 1: Refuge in the Wilderness – Coming Home to Embodied Presence (2017-06-28) – When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied pre…

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2017-06-28) – This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness. Your support e…

Stories that Imprison our Heart – Part 2 (2017-06-21) – Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing f…

Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence – This guided meditation instruction includes: 1 – Arriving in embodied presence with senses awake, 2 – Further collecting the attention using a primary anchor or base, and 3 – Continuing to collect around an a…

Stories that Imprison our Heart – Part 1 (2017-06-14) – Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing f…

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath – Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath.  This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate presence w…