Tara Brach

Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness – Embodying Full Presence (2016-12-30) – This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises i…

Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness – Embodying Full Presence (2016-12-30) – This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises i…

Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering (2017-01-25) – We can either repeat old fear based patterns, or our suffering can awaken us to a deeper wisdom and greater love. This talk explores four principles in relating to difficult…

Meditation – The Return to Presence: Rest Your Mind In What Is (2017-01-25) – It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and…

Your Awake Heart Is Calling You (2017-01-18) – As individuals and societies, we are pulled by both the insecurity of our evolutionary past, and by our awake heart, our capacity for mindfulness and compassion. This talk explores the ways we can listen t…

Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen – Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation uses the breath to guide us in letting in…

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (2017-01-18) – Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever arises, and a gentle kind …

Dissolving Trance with RAIN (2017-01-11) – One of the pervasive expressions of trance is identifying with a limited and separate sense of self.  This talk contrasts the self-trance to our intrinsically open, awake and loving awareness. We then explore …

Meditation: Cultivating a Relaxed Attention (2017-01-11) – In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized…

Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2016-12-31) ~ We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile…

Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness (2017-01-04) – The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at our habitual pursuit of substitutes to feel happy, and re…