Tara Brach

Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (2016-06-01) – A guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict. Full talk, “Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs” is at: https://www.tarabrach.com/r…

Real But Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs (2016-06-01) – Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of separation, self-aversion and/or blame of others. We ca…

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (2016-06-01) – Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax thr…

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (2016-06-01) – Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax thr…

Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-09) – Tara responds to questions on deepening our meditation practice, working with unpleasant and pleasant thoughts, and forgiveness. Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Fi…

Happy for No Reason – Part 2 (2016-05-25) – These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our ful…

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (2016-05-25) – A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath…

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (2016-05-25) – A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath…

Happy for No Reason – Part 1 (2016-05-18) – These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our ful…

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (2016-05-18) – This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as we open to the a…

Conscious Prayer: Finding Refuge in Loving Presence (Retreat talk) (2016-05-11) – Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth…

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2016-05-07) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness. Free…