Tara Brach
Episodes
Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence
03 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persis...
Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:52 min)
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that recepti...
Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Mohsen Mahdawi - Part II
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life b...
Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Mohsen Mahdawi - Part I
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life b...
Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeli...
The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How can the simple act of asking a sincere question awaken us from the trance of our habitual thinking? In this talk, Tara Brach explores the transfor...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience....
The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Part I - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to ...
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. ...
Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identi...
Meditation: Know That You're Here (19:38 min)
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention wi...
The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and connection. T...
Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, ...
Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 2
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is ...
Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min)
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our mo...
Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom 1
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is...
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:43 min.)
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence,...
3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform Everything
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:33 min.)
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then ...
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:34 min.)
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awar...
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What if hope is not something we cling to—but a capacity we can cultivate? In this talk, we'll explore how hope becomes a healing and liberating for...
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy...
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from "the inside out,...
Coming Home to True Refuge | Finding Peace Through Awareness, Truth, and Love
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, we'll explore what it truly means to find refuge—not through controlling life, but by coming home to the living truth of our experie...
Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, brea...
Seeing the Light in Each Other
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This talk explores how to see past the mask of personality and glimpse the sacred goodness shining through each person we meet. As we become mirrors o...
Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:26 min.)
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, r...
Meditation: The Center of Now (22:26 min)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the ...
The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention 2
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can become the co...
The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention 1
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While we can't change our past, we have the capacity in this moment to remember our deepest intention and seed the future. Intention can become the co...
Meditation on Intention (22:39 min.)
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the December 8th talk on "Ask the Friend for Love." Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Ad...
The Evolving of Generosity
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This talk explores how we can open out of the habit of grasping and deliberately nourish our natural capacity for generosity, for living love.
Meditation: Inner Space - Gateway to Open Awareness (20:08)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called "Open Focus." Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along w...
Awakening Compassion in a Fearful World: The Practice of Tonglen
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As anxiety, division, and digital distance numb our hearts, we risk losing our ability to truly feel the lives of others. In this talk, we'll explore ...
Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash t...
Clearing Space for Spirit: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Patty Morrissey
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging and heartfelt conversation, KonMari Club teacher Patty Morrissey sits down with Tara Brach to explore what spirituality truly mea...
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:21 min.)
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filli...
Trauma: The Light Shines through the Broken Places
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffe...
Meditation: Breath by Breath - Relaxing with Our Life (19:04 min.)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then ...
Showing Up For Each Other | Tami Simon & Tara Brach on the Intersection of Spirituality & Therapy
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the role of spirituality in mental therapy? And what roles do therapy and mental health play in spiritual growth? What's the overlap, where ar...
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (17:02 min.)
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in...
Meditation: The Sacred Pause — Clearing to remember Heartspace (6:56 min)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In just a few minutes, this practice guides us to pause, deepen attention and reconnect with the spaciousness, presence and of caring of our awakening...
Spiritual Audacity: The Lion's Roar of the Heart
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we remember our deep belonging to this world, a fierce and tender courage begins to move through us. In this talk, we'll explore "spiritual audac...
Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed...
Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:49 min)
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
No matter how far you've wandered, this heartspace – this awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away. This meditation awak...
Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed...
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart (23:52 min.)
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the he...
Trusting the Path: A Conversation on Refuge & Compassion | Tara Brach, Ajahn Kovilo & Ajahn Nisabho
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this rich and heartful conversation, I join two dear Buddhist monks — Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho — who are in the process of founding Clear...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (22:19 min)
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awarene...
Awakening Trust in a Fractured World, Part 2
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 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...
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:37 min)
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrali...
Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home, Part 2
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meditation: In the Body (20:29 min.)
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guided meditation invites you to gently come home to the aliveness of the body. Through mindful awareness, you'll learn to soften tension, releas...
Desire and Addiction: Voices of Longing Calling You Home, Part 1
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:10 min.)
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Awakening Trust in a Fractured World, Part 1
05 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 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...
Meditation: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This brief practice calls on conscious breathing, relaxing, letting go and a touch of lovingkindness to nurture inner balance, harmony and ease.
Presence and Compassion in a Violent World
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meditation: Resting in Knowing (22:11 min.)
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
From Head to Heart
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (17:34 min)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Embodied Presence - Portal to the Sacred, Part 2
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the "Smile-Down" (18:40 min.)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Embodied Presence - Portal to the Sacred, Part 1
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: Being Here (20:53 min.)
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 to the Song – Part 2
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:32 min.)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 to the Song – Part 1
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tar...
The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 2
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if a key to personal and collective transformation lies in reclaiming our deep capacities for presence and imagination? In this two-part series, ...
Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (20:41 min.)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Peace is this moment without judgment," writes poet Dorothy Hunt, "this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome." This meditat...
The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 1
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This two-talk series explores how spiritual imagination can awaken us to our deepest potential for healing and transformation. In times of fe...
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (18:55 min.)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming a...
Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Meditation: From Head to Full Being
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Stories That Imprison Our Heart - Part 2
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a ...
Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence (23:59 min)
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation guides you to arrive fully in embodied presence—awakening through the senses, relaxing into the breath, and gently returning to the ...
Stories That Imprison Our Heart - Part 1
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:06 min.)
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the ner...
The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 2
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift...
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:46 min)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This two-talk series explores our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutiona...
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:08 min)
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence, Part 5
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Introduction to Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Thoughts – Part 4
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This talk examines how the trance of thinking imprisons us, veiling our full aliveness, love, and spiritual essence. Through contemplative reflections...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath ...
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 3 (of a 5-week series)
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medici...
Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Introduction to Mindfulness: Part 2 - The Power of Heart Presence
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. Whe...
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, ...
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 1
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. Wh...
Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Devotion: Grounds of a Path with Heart, Part 2
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Devotion: Grounds of a Path with Heart, Part 1
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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'...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:40 min.)
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing fl...
Realizing True Well-Being, Part 2
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Buddhist psychology and the Western oriented field of positive psychology agree: How we pay attention determines whether we live primarily in fear and...
Guided Meditation: Loving This Life - Happiness - Metta (17:05 min.)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This guided meditation, grounded in the practice of Metta, invites us to awaken the heart by softening the body and quieting the mind. We begin with ...