The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love
When we struggle with fear, shame, or feelings of unworthiness, we often add another layer of suffering by judging ourselves for what we fee...
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Tara Brach
Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist (mindfulness) meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She is author of Radical Acceptance (2003), and True Refuge (2013). S...
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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...
Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2
How do we keep our hearts open when our world is filled with fear, anger, uncertainty and division? Tara continues our exploration of how mi...
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...
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 He...
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...
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...
Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (20:34 Min.)
Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with...
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...
Meditation: Embodied Metta (20:07 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us into an embodied practice of metta—loving-kindness—awakening a felt sense of openness, warm...
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"—a...
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...
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 pathw...
Meditation: Aware and Alive (20 min.)
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 list...
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 w...
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...
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 health...
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 sensati...
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...
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 medi...