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Tara Brach
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- Tara Brach
Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (18:24 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us to settle into the stillness of the present moment and rediscover the open, awake awareness that is always…
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Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2
How do we keep our hearts open when our world is filled with fear, anger, uncertainty and division? In Part 2 of Cultivating a Courageous Heart, we explore how…
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Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence (19:05 min)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us to discover the healing power of calling on loving presence—a practice of taking refuge in compassion, opening…
- Tara Brach
Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1
How do we keep our hearts open when our world is filled with fear, anger, uncertainty and division? In Part 1 of Cultivating a Courageous Heart, we explore how…
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Meditation: Everything Belongs (20:31 min.)
In this guided meditation, we explore the freedom that comes from allowing our experience to be just as it is. Beginning with the breath and a gentle body…
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Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (20:00 Min.)
Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with accessing the…
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The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 2
What becomes possible when we learn to imagine from presence rather than fear? In Part 2 of this series, Tara explores spiritual imagination as a powerful…
- Tara Brach
The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 1
What becomes possible when we learn to imagine from presence rather than fear? In Part 1 of this series, Tara explores spiritual imagination as a powerful…
- Tara Brach
Meditation: Embodied Metta (20:06 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us into an embodied practice of metta—loving-kindness—awakening a felt sense of openness, warmth and care…
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Pathways to Trusting the Gold
What would it mean to truly trust the goodness that lives within you? In this talk, Tara Brach explores what she calls “trusting the gold”—awakening from the…
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Meditation: Resting in Reality (24 min)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us to relax out of the thinking mind and return to the living presence of the moment. Through a gentle body scan…
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The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance
What would your life be like if you were no longer at war with your imperfections? In this talk, Tara explores Radical Acceptance as a pathway out of…
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Meditation: Aware and Alive (20 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara invites us to awaken from the world of thought and come home to the living presence of our body and heart. Beginning with the…
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Ask Me Anything, Part 3: Tara Answers Questions on Forgiveness, Injustice & Compassionate Parenting
How do we keep our hearts open when we’ve been deeply hurt? How do we respond to injustice without becoming consumed by anger? And how can we love without…
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Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm (20:25 min.)
In this guided meditation, we explore the possibility of finding an inner refuge of calm—a presence that can hold whatever is moving through our…
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Ask Me Anything: Questions & Responses with Tara – Part II
How do we return to presence when we’re overwhelmed? How do we heal the trance of unworthiness, navigate difficult relationships, set healthy boundaries—and…
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Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
In this guided body scan meditation, we explore a simple and nourishing pathway into presence—awakening awareness through the living sensations of the body…
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A Path with Joy — A conversation between Tara Brach and James Baraz
How much joy do you experience in your life? Joy is part of our natural human capacity—along with the grief, fear, and sorrow that arise in response to the…
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Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:38 min.)
What if happiness is not something we need to create or strive for, but something we discover when we soften and let go? In this guided meditation, we awaken…
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Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (16:05 min.)
In this guided meditation, we cultivate an embodied sense of acceptance, kindness and care—learning to meet each moment with a friendly, allowing presence…
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Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening – Part 2
What becomes possible when we truly listen—to ourselves, to one another and to the life around us? In part 2 of this two-part series, we’ll continue to explore…
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Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening, Part 1
What becomes possible when we truly listen—to ourselves, to one another and to the life around us? In part 1 of this two-part series, we’ll explore listening…
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Remembering Our True Home (15:44 min.)
In this guided meditation, we turn attention inward and come into intimate presence with the life that is here. Beginning with the body, breath and sensations…
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Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings
What does it truly mean to say Namaste?In this talk, we’ll look at the deeper invitation behind this ancient greeting—not merely as a gesture, but as a…
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Meditation: Being Here (21:21 min.)
This guided meditation invites you to come home to the simple aliveness of this moment. Through mindful breathing, softening the body, and resting in the…
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Meditation: At Home in the Moment (21:01 min)
When we pause and gently return to the living experience of this moment, we begin to discover a refuge that has always been here. This guided meditation…
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Ask Me Anything (Part 1): Fear, Self-Compassion, Grief, Trauma & Awakening
What is the difference between having goals and living from aspiration? How do we respond when fear takes over? What if self-compassion feels impossible? How…
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Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2
The stories we believe shape the life we experience—but they are not the truth of who we are.In this talk, the second of a two-part series, we explore how…
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Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (19:31 min)
In this guided meditation, you’re invited to discover the breath as a refuge—a steady anchor that can return you, again and again, to the aliveness of…
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Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 1
Much of our suffering begins not with reality itself, but with the stories we believe about ourselves, others, and the world. In this first talk of a two-part…
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Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (19:32 min.)
When life feels overwhelming, our first instinct is often to tighten, resist, or try to control what is unfolding. Yet true freedom begins when we discover the…
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Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear (retreat talk)
Fear is part of being human. We can’t stop life’s waves from coming—but we can learn how to meet them with awareness, compassion, and courage. In…
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Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:37 min)
One of the great gifts of mindfulness is discovering that we can always begin again. This guided meditation invites you to return to the aliveness of the…
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The Dance with Pain
Physical pain is part of being human—but suffering arises from how we relate to it. In this talk, we’ll explore how mindfulness and compassion can…
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Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (18:05 min)
The Buddha taught that one of the most powerful ways to begin meditation is by gladdening the mind—remembering what we love, resting in gratitude, and opening…
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Spiritual Reparenting
Many of us carry a deep sense that something is wrong with us—that we are not enough, not lovable, or somehow disconnected from belonging. Yet beneath these…
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Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (21 min)
What if the peace and presence you long for is already here—closer than you imagine? In this guided meditation, we explore the practice of awakening an…
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Widening the Circles of Care
What helps us widen our circles of care and awaken a more inclusive, compassionate heart? As we navigate political division, collective uncertainty, and…
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Meditation: Mindful Body Scan (10:06 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to reconnect with the aliveness that is here in this very moment by bringing a kind and mindful attention through the body…
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Waking Up from the Victim Trance
Most of us know what it is like to feel emotionally reactive—hurt by others, overwhelmed by circumstances, horrified by what is unfolding in our world…
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Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:47 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath…