Mindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit.... more

In times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in... more

Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships.... more

The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how... more

In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian Lee C. Camp interviews Tara about... more

One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body... more

Connirae Andreas was one of the first trainers in neurolinguistic programming (NLP), developed and wrote a book on the Core... more

If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides... more

Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress... more

This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender... more

How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear,... more

This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites... more

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the... more

Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after.... more

Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the... more

We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This... more

Executive coach and author Stephen Josephs has worked with many top business leaders, guiding them in transcending the egoic conditioning... more

Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first... more

While it’s natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures... more

This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts,... more

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz - Assaf Katz is an activist... more

This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen... more

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom - While it’s natural to try to control our... more

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and... more

Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer - Countless people live with shame... more

Meditation: Listening to our Heart - True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation... more

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the... more

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness - This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with... more

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the... more

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness -  We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and... more

Coming Home to True Refuge - While we habitually try to control our life, our true refuge—the source of peace,... more

Meditation: Energy and Source - Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being.... more

The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted... more

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go... more

Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress - Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other... more

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake - This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind.... more

Awakening from Trance – Embracing Unlived Life - When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to... more

Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence - When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with... more

Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner - Our conversation covers the biological, evolutionary and cultural... more

Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing - This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of... more

How Do We Bridge the Divides? - The divides in our world can only exist if we humans are divided... more

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional... more

A Generous Heart - Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how,... more

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner... more

Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be... more

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us... more

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment, we forget the truth of who... more

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment -  When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our... more

Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly - Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation... more

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness - Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an... more

A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis - Stephen Fulder is... more

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes... more

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times - When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger... more

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves... more

Radical Self-Forgiving - When we can’t forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving... more

Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation... more

Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens - In his recent book, The New... more

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go  - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed,... more

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness - At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament:... more

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness - By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that... more

Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview,... more

Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our... more

Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield - In this rich and full two-part interview, Tara speaks... more

Meditation: Everything Belongs - This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest... more

Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence - We long for soul friends, and yet often... more

Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the... more

The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world - Most of us value honesty yet are... more

Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing... more

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing - The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows... more

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to... more

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines... more

Meditation: Openhearted Presence - This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that... more

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of... more

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is... more

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of... more

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple... more

Intimacy with Life (Part 2) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks... more

Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life - The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with... more

Intimacy with Life (Part 1) - Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks... more

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist... more

Being with Love, Death and Grief - Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love,... more

Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of... more

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband... more

Meditation: From Head to Full Being - When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness... more

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice - This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you... more

Meditation: Loving What Is - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner... more

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband... more

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence - This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with... more

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 2): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer - Anxiety is spiking around the... more

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life - This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming... more

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 1): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer - Anxiety is spiking around the... more

Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention - In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through... more

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation,... more

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and... more

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation,... more

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence - This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a... more

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection... more

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You - This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that... more

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and... more

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness - In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is... more

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This... more

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care  - This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the... more

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves,... more

Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence.... more

Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach - Hameed Ali is an author, spiritual teacher and... more

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the... more

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1 - This week, I began a two-part series inspired... more

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World  - Part 2 - Last week, I began a two-part series inspired... more

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This... more

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence - The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of... more

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows... more

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides... more

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows... more

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence - This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a... more

Compassion for All Living Beings - We often talk of widening the circles of compassion. This talk explores the qualities... more

Meditation:  Say “Yes” to Life - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the... more

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) -  We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and... more

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness - This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken... more

Making the Whole World Your Friend - A wonderful translation of the Pali word Metta is friendliness. This talk looks at... more

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and... more

Refuge in the Wilderness - Pt2 – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control... more

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. ... more

Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a... more

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness - This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to... more

The RAIN of Forgiveness - The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness.... more

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear... more

How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris - It’s possible to... more

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of... more

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important... more

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve... more

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor... more

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and... more

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look... more

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image... more

Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - Dan Harris (host... more

Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions –... more

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our... more

Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing - preoccupied with the stories, wants and... more

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of... more

IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes... more

Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the... more

IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes... more

Meditation: Body and Spirit - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of... more

Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what)... more

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control... more

Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation - In this interview, Mingyur... more

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of... more

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart - Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in... more

Meditation: Touching Peace - This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with... more

The Calling of These Times - Part 2 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of... more

Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart - In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and... more

The Calling of These Times - Part 1 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of... more

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless... more

Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually... more

Meditation: Befriending Our Experience - We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention... more

Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene - What gives us the inner strength to... more

Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile... more

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2  - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger... more

Meditation: Letting Life Be - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through... more

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger... more

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through... more

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2 - While we can’t change our past, we have the capacity... more

Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in... more

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1 - While we can’t change our past, we have the capacity... more

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self - We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through... more

Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom - Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are... more

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides... more

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into... more

Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves... more

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into... more

Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back... more

Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle‘s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen - A vegetarian... more

Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for... more

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the... more

Awakening through Difficult Emotions: "The Poison is the Medicine" - Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in... more

Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a... more

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have,... more

Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate... more

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire - This 3- part series explores three capacities we all... more

Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around... more

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 1: Forgiveness - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that... more

Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This... more

Awakening from the Landlocked Self - The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. This talk... more

Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and... more

2022-07-20 - Homecoming to Your True Nature: Awakening beyond the separate, fearful self - Most of us unconsciously identify as... more

Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence - The meditation begins with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body... more

From Dragons to Schmoos – Meeting Life with Compassionate Presence - The trance of unworthiness is sustained by our aversion... more

Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence - This meditation scans through the body - arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings... more

Navigating the Dark Ages - How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us... more

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention - This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as... more