Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
1471 episodes transcribedIn an age of polarization, conspiracy thinking, and deepening mistrust, how can we cultivate a trust that is wise and healing –for our own heart and t...
This brief practice calls on conscious breathing, relaxing, letting go and a touch of lovingkindness to nurture inner balance, harmony and ease.
As our societies unravel in fear and reactivity, we are called to live from our most awake and wise heart. This talk and meditation was first offered...
Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that...
If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping...
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...
This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life's surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to c...
The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This medi...
This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life's surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to c...
We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; r...
Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if...
Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening...
Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if...
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tar...
What if a key to personal and collective transformation lies in reclaiming our deep capacities for presence and imagination? In this two-part series,...
"Peace is this moment without judgment," writes poet Dorothy Hunt, "this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome." This meditat...
This two-talk series explores how spiritual imagination can awaken us to our deepest potential for healing and transformation. In times of fear and...
This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and...
The ritual of Namaste – bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others – helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk look...
When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites...
