Tara Brach

Spiritual Reparenting: Loving Ourselves into Healing (from retreat)

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mindfulness and compassion, when brought to our wounded heart, have the capacity to rewire our brain and free our spirit. This talk explores the ways ...

Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In times of stress, it's crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guide...

The Sacred Art of Listening

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wan...

Meditation: Listening to Life

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

2024-04-03 - Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: Tara and Lee C Camp

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: A Present Heart

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is "present heart." In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and t...

An Invitation to Freedom: A conversation between Tara and Connirae Andreas

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Widening Rings of Being

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the sense...

2024-03-20 - Do you feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and ta...

Meditation: Openhearted Presence

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. "Resting in the awar...

Navigating the Dark Ages

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our ...

Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation

07 Mar 2024

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: Letting Go of Doing

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Part 1: Healing Depression with Meditation

29 Feb 2024

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: Refuge in Living Presence

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the...

"Getting Over Yourself": A conversation with Tara Brach and Stephen Josephs

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 2: The Path of Freedom

15 Feb 2024

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 ...

Guided Meditation: The Center of Now

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into...

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz - Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Is...

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert

07 Feb 2024

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,...

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom - While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us ...

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing con...

Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer - Countless people live with shame and distress about their eatin...

Meditation: Listening to our Heart

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a...

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a...

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness -  We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a ...

Coming Home to True Refuge

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming Home to True Refuge - While we habitually try to control our life, our true refuge—the source of peace, safety and freedom—is in the direct...

Meditation: Energy and Source

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Sacred Pause

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Sacred Pause - When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something's wrong or missing. Thi...

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Finding True Belonging in the Midst of Stress - Our deepest longing is to feel our belonging to each other and all life. This reflection examines the ...

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake - This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we ...

Awakening from Trance – Embracing Unlived Life

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Awakening from Trance – Embracing Unlived Life - When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct cont...

Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence - When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This...

Basic Goodness and Awe: A conversation between Tara Brach and Dacher Keltner

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Guided Meditation: Whole Body Breathing

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

How Do We Bridge the Divides?

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How Do We Bridge the Divides? - The divides in our world can only exist if we humans are divided from our own full being and habituated to divides wit...

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awaken...

A Generous Heart

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Generous Heart - Our deep potential is to live from an awake, loving heart. This talk looks at how, with a kind and mindful attention, we can decond...

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness - This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer ...

Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks: Becoming Happier

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming Happier: Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks - The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suff...

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with th...

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance - When we are caught in self-judgment, we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. ...

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment -  When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-...

Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

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

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Conversation with Tara and Stephen Fulder: What is our Refuge in the Midst of Crisis - Stephen Fulder is a senior Buddhist teacher, author and peace...

Meditation: Awake and Alive

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Awake and Alive - This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful ...

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times - When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a tra...

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Radical Self-Forgiving

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Radical Self-Forgiving - When we can't forgive ourselves, we remain imprisoned and separate from our world. This talk explores forgiving as a process ...

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Longing for Freedom: A conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go  - This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we...

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Awakening from the Trance of Self-Centeredness - At the core of our suffering is our universal human predicament: an illusion that we are a separate...

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Saying Yes (Part 2): A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Opening to the Flow

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Opening to the Flow - This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing wha...

Saying Yes: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Jane Hirshfield

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Everything Belongs

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Path of Sacred Relatedness - Undoing the Blocks to Loving Presence - We long for soul friends, and yet often engage with each other in reactive ways -...

Meditation: At Home in the Moment

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: At Home in the Moment - This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the "smile down" and then guides us to re...

The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Honesty Challenge - Getting more truthful with ourselves and our world - Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid faci...

Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness - Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditati...

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Conscious Prayer – Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness - Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of pr...

Meditation: Openhearted Presence

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part 2: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, "I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom wer...

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery - All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided medita...

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom - The Buddha said, "I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom wer...

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath - Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and ...

Intimacy with Life (Part 2)

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life - The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, ...

Intimacy with Life - Part 1

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence - When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present momen...

Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Being with Love, Death and Grief - Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening a...

Meditation: Present Heart

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Present Heart - We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. Th...

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2)

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as t...

Meditation: From Head to Full Being

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: From Head to Full Being - When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides...

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Loving What Is

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Loving What Is - While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we ...

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1)

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 1) - Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as t...

Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 2): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life - This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the sens...

Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness (Part 1): A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention - In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to s...

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we g...

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart - Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we g...

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2)

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Hu...

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans...

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness - In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer....