Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16) – This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts,…
Are You Already Dead?
Episode 515 – Are you stuck in routines? How long are you going to allow yourself to stay there? If you don’t grow out of them now, you will be stuck in your current life forever. If you want a better life, you must break free from comfort zon…
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (2018-11-28)
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (2018-11-28) – This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience. Free download of Tara’s …
Meditation: Yes to Life (2018-11-21)
Meditation: Yes to Life (2018-11-21) – After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this…
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14)
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2018-11-14) – We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap betw…
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (2018-11-07)
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (2018-11-07) – This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the f…
Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)
Worrier Pose: Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk) (2018-10-07) – While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physica…
Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (retreat)
Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart – This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our…
Quit The Rat Race!
Episode 493 – Are you stuck in a job that you hate? Want to learn how and why to break free from it? Check out this episode!
Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 2 (2018-08-08)
Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 2 (2018-08-08) – Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain …
Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1 (2018-08-01)
Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1 (2018-08-01) – Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain …
Fan Favorite Episode: THX Deep Note, Part 2
Whether you’re 6 years old, or 96 years old, one of the most memorable parts of going to the movies for the last three decades has been the THX “Deep Note” trailer. Unfortunately, they lost the original sound file. What happened? Also, what do…
Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat)
Heart Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts (retreat) – Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion. This short talk and guided meditation brings forth our most awake and tender presence as we ask …
Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk)
Disarming Our Hearts: Letting Go of Blame (retreat talk) – Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by releasing chronic blame can we free our hearts to truly give and receive love. This talk looks at the diff…
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16)
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (2018-05-16) – This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of thoughts,…
Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09)
Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us (2018-05-09) – Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For most of us the causes and conditions for compulsive over…
Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (2018-04-25)
Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (2018-04-25) – This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax the body. Following this, we establish our presence with an anchor – the breath, sound or sensation – an…
Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (2018-04-18)
Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (2018-04-18) – This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sounds, thoughts, feelings and sensations. The sounding of bells and chimes assists in connecting to and …
Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness (2018-04-11)
Meditation: A Listening, Receptive Awareness (2018-04-11) – The capacity to truly listen allows us to realize the vast and sensitive awareness that is our true essence. This meditation focuses on listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling t…
Meditation: Awareness and Flow (2018-04-04)
Meditation: Awareness and Flow (2018-04-04) – This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness t…
Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2018-03-28)
Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2018-03-28) – A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This capacity is blocked by our identification with our “mask…