Tara Brach

Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times – Part 2 – The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” – the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cyni…

Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (2016-11-02) – Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindf…

Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times (2016-10-26) – On both individual and societal levels, suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk looks at two interrelated ways of practice that help us to awaken from a limiting se…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2016-10-26) – When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from…

Reflection: Deepening the Truths We Share (2016-10-19) – Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with each other. This short reflection offers guidance in how to bring your presence and heart to truth telling. From “See…

Seeking What’s True  – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 2 of 3) (2016-10-19)- The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-…

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment – When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body, and tense against our moment to moment experience.  This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by lea…

Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness (2016-10-12) – This meditation guides us in recognizing the formless awareness that is always here, but often outside of conscious awareness.  As awareness awakens to realize itself, we come home to our primordi…

Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond our Self, With Each Other – Pt 2 of 3 (2016-10-12) – The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three part…

Meditation: Breath and Presence (2016-10-12) – For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establishing the breath as a homebase, and then invites a clear a…