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An Appropriate Response: Living from an Awake Heart (2019-06-05) – Much of our suffering comes from reacting to stressful situations with fear or aggression, rather than responding with wisdom and care. This talk explores the pathway of shifting from r…

Meditation – Breath by Breath: Relaxing with Our Life (2019-06-05) – The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve as a…

Meditation: Opening to Life (2019-05-29) – This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts, letting life be just as it is…

Meditation: Choosing Living Presence – A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om’s in community – a favorite from Tara’s Wednesday night archives). Free download of Tara’s 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breath…

Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness – a Metta Practice – This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of “yes” and then closes with a bri…

Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence (2019-04-17) – In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and the entire field of awareness. We then open to t…

Meditation: Letting Life Be (2019-04-10) – This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that presence, letting go of any con…

Meditation: Saying Yes to Reality (2019-03-27) – Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be as it is. As our “Yes” to…

Meditation: Relaxing with Life (2019-03-05) – This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, wha…

Meditation: Resting in the Sea of Presence (2019-02-27) – This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the se…

Meditation: The Practice of RAIN (2019-02-06) – The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions. With practice, we can find our way home to open hearted presence in the …

Episode 541 – SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut and don’t know how to break free? Well in this episode I teach you the strategies to break free so that you can create the life that you want.

Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (a favorite from the archives) – We begin with a listening attention, relaxing open, letting sounds wash through. Scanning through and feeling the aliveness of the body, listening to the breath. Not…

Meditation: Living Loving Awareness (2019-01-23) – By bringing our full attention to the aliveness in the body, we can open to the experience of interior space and the space that includes all sensations and sounds. This then allows us to perceive conti…

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (2016-01-16) – When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we prac…

Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (2018-12-19) – This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again …

Meditation: Aware and Alive (2018-12-12) – Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we discover the continuous space of aw…

Retreat Meditation and Instruction: Vipassana – Path of Practice (2018-10-07) – Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and…