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 transcribedOur suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a...
This meditation guides you to arrive fully in embodied presence—awakening through the senses, relaxing into the breath, and gently returning to the al...
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a v...
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nerv...
These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift...
The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous system, an...
This two-talk series explores our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary...
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By...
The final session of this series explores the most powerful strategies Tara knows to bring mindfulness alive in all facets of daily living. These info...
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. Th...
This talk examines how the trance of thinking imprisons us, veiling our full aliveness, love, and spiritual essence. Through contemplative reflections...
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath...
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine f...
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax...
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. Wheth...
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence,...
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. Whet...
NOTE: Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation to help nurture a steady and strong practice during her upcoming Introduction to Mindfulness s...
In this two-part series, we reflect on the power of devotion as a gateway to awakening that reconnects us with what we love most deeply. Together, we'...
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guid...
