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 transcribedCollecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash t...
Happiness and freedom arise as we include all parts of our being in a loving awareness. In this talk we explore how this inner work of inclusion is th...
Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an...
In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva pat...
This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the i...
This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are....
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing...
One of the expressions of an awakened heart-mind is a basic trust in reality. These talks explore the severed belonging that gives rise to mistrust, a...
By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we begin to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness th...
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies an...
This meditation guides us through a relaxing body scan and then explores how we can allow the breath to calm our body and bring peace to our heart.
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies an...
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through...
One expression of suffering is forgetting that we are intrinsically lovable and worthy. This talk looks at the pathway to trusting our belonging, and...
This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source...
Our human loneliness and suffering arise from getting identified in a mental ego, and separating ourselves from the living web of our natural world. T...
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By...
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We the...
In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—...
The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feel...
