Tara Brach

Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness Practice (2016-05-09) – Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversiv…

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance – If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation–actively inquiring into what is happening inside us…

Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) – A brief invitation to start a longer meditation sitting. Begins with Japanese flute and continues with calming and settling to begin a sitting of any length (from retreat). (flute passage from “A To…

Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) – A brief invitation to start a longer meditation sitting. Begins with Japanese flute and continues with calming and settling to begin a sitting of any length (from retreat). (flute passage from “A To…

Loving the Life Within Us (retreat talk) – If we don’t love the life we consider “self,” we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in bringing a kind, accepting presence to our inner life, and discov…

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness (2015-12-29) (retreat) – This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, open awareness.

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness (2015-12-29) (retreat) – This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, open awareness.

That Bird Got My Wings (from 2015-07-22) – This talk looks at how we are imprisoned by a limited sense of who we are, and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness enable us to realize the spirit that is our essence. We then look at how we can brin…

That Bird Got My Wings (from 2015-07-22) – This talk looks at how we are imprisoned by a limited sense of who we are, and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness enable us to realize the spirit that is our essence. We then look at how we can brin…

Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence – 5 min (2016-05-18) – This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here.

Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence – 5 min (2016-05-18) – This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here.

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers – (retreat talk) (2016-05-08) – Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped b…

Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 minute) – (2016-07-13) ~ This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm an…

Stress and Everyday Nirvana – Part 2 (2016-07-06) – Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way of relating to stress determines our happiness, and …