Reflection: RAIN – A Guide for Embodied Presence (from 2013-03-23) – We have deep conditioning to disconnect from our body’s awareness and, in so doing, leave the site of our creativity, love and vitality. This short meditation uses the acronym RAIN as…
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2016-05-04)
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (2016-05-04) – Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then establishing th…
Meditation: Awareness – Listening To and Feeling the Moment (2016-04-27)
Meditation: Awareness – Listening To and Feeling the Moment
(2016-04-27) –
This meditation awakens a relaxed open presence through the
body. We then widen attention to include sounds, and then relax
back and fully inhabit the awareness that is listenin…
Love is Always Loving Us (2016-04-20)
Love is Always Loving Us (2016-04-20) – This talk draws on Christian mystic Henri Nouwen’s book Return of the Prodigal Son. We explore the primary ways we leave home – leave presence, connection, beingness – and the pathways of deep attention and love …
Reflection: RAIN – A Guide for Embodied Presence (2013-03-23)
Reflection: RAIN – A Guide for Embodied Presence (from 2013-03-23) – We have deep conditioning to disconnect from our body’s awareness and, in so doing, leave the site of our creativity, love and vitality. This short meditation uses the acronym RAIN as…
Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart – Part 1 (2016-02-24)
Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart – Part 1 (2016-02-24) – While the brightness and warmth of our hearts is always here, like the sun when blocked by clouds, our intrinsic love can be obscured. These two talks explore how we become arrested in a confinin…
Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24)
Meditation: The Center of Now (2016-02-24) – The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that everything’s happening in; the space that…
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (2016-02-17)
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.
Fr…
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (2016-02-10)
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (2016-02-10) – This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the sense…
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness(2016-02-10) – This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake …
Meditation – Space, Aliveness and Letting Be (2016-02-03)
Meditation – Space, Aliveness and Letting Be (2016-02-03) – This practice guides us into the openness of awareness, and then invites a deep resting, a letting be.
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Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey
Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey – Drawing on a wonderful teaching story from the Upanishads, these two talks explore the role of forgiveness, inner fire and looking at our own minds, in finding freedom.
Free download of Tara’s new 10 min medita…
Part 1: Three Blessings on the Journey
Part 1: Three Blessings on the Journey – Drawing on a wonderful teaching story from the Upanishads, these two talks explore the role of forgiveness, inner fire and looking at our own minds, in finding freedom.
Free download of Tara’s new 10 min medita…
The Power of Mindful Investigation (from 2010-09-22)
The Power of Mindful Investigation (from 2010-09-22) – We each have a deep interest in reality–in understanding what is true and who we are. In Buddhist teachings, our interest, and its expression in wise investigation, energize the path of awakening. …
Meditation: Aliveness, Space and Awareness (2015-12-16)
This practice includes a body scan that opens into experience of continuous space, filled with the light of awareness.
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Desire: A Current of Homecoming (2015-12-09)
Desire: A Current of Homecoming (2015-12-09) – Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to br…
Meditation: Calming and Opening (2015-12-09)
Meditation: Calming and Opening (2015-12-09) – This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is.
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Meditation: Choosing Living Presence
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Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love (2015-11-25)
Feeling Gratitude, Giving Love – Thanksgiving 2015 (2015-11-25) – Like breathing in and breathing out, gratitude and generosity allow us to live fully. This talks explores what blocks these natural capacities, and three pathways of nourishing a gratefu…
Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (2015-11-25)
Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (2015-11-25)
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Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with Oms) (2015-11-25)
Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with community chanting Om’s) (2015-11-25)
Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.