Tara Brach

By Tara Brach

Religion & Spirituality Buddhism

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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.

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Trauma Sensitive Mindfulnes...

01.26.2023

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, ...

Tara Brach episodes:

01.26.2023 Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing - While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, ...
01.26.2023 Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep - This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.
01.19.2023 Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths - Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with ...
01.19.2023 Meditation: The Silence That is Listening Meditation: The Silence That is Listening - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through ...
01.12.2023 Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness - Can you imagine a world where humans are able to look at each other and all of life, and see the light of the sacred shining through? This talk explores our ...
01.12.2023 Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence - This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of ...
01.06.2023 The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris Tara shares a podcast from Dan Harris: The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - Dan Harris (host of Ten Percent Happier) flies to Dharamsala, India to spend two weeks in the orbit of His Holiness the Dalai ...
01.05.2023 Realizing Your Deepest Intention Realizing Your Deepest Intention - The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into ...
01.05.2023 Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - 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 relaxing back into the presence over and over, ...
12.29.2022 Freedom Beyond Selfing Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing - preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate self. The suffering is that this self-fixation obscures the depth and mystery ...
12.29.2022 Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is. Let ...
12.22.2022 IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come ...
12.22.2022 Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body scan and then opening to all ...
12.15.2022 IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets formed, and the profound healing and freedom that come ...
12.15.2022 Meditation: Body and Spirit Meditation: Body and Spirit - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem (the spirit likes to dress up) from ...
12.08.2022 Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what) am I?” This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awareness, and the blessings of embodying the realization ...
12.08.2022 Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that includes ...
12.01.2022 Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation - In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about his 4 1/2 years on a wandering retreat and the lessons he learned from a near-death experience. ...
12.01.2022 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses ...
11.24.2022 A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart - Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belonging and offering our care. When ...
11.24.2022 Meditation: Touching Peace Meditation: Touching Peace - 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 image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we ...
11.17.2022 The Calling of These Times - Part 2 The Calling of These Times - Part 2 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current global ...
11.17.2022 Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart - 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 heart and spirit of whatever being in ...
11.10.2022 The Calling of These Times - Part 1 The Calling of These Times - Part 1 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current global ...
11.10.2022 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then ...
11.03.2022 Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively, and the trust that this is possible. This talk explores how, especially in stressful times, this hope gets ...
11.03.2022 Meditation: Befriending Our Experience Meditation: Befriending Our Experience - We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention towards gentleness and kindness as the attention goes inward. We scan the body, opening to sounds and the senses, resting ...
10.27.2022 Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene - What gives us the inner strength to meet life’s challenges with resilience, heart and wisdom? Drawing on themes in Lori’s new book, "The Tiny Buddha’s Inner Strength ...
10.27.2022 Meditation: At Home in the Moment 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 resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to ...
10.20.2022 Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2 Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2 - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental ...
10.20.2022 Meditation: Letting Life Be Meditation: Letting Life Be - This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that presence, letting go of any controlling, ...
10.13.2022 Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1 - It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental ...
10.13.2022 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence - This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence. When ...
10.06.2022 The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2 The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2 - 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 compass of our heart, ...
10.06.2022 Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now - This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into ...
09.29.2022 The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1 The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1 - 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 compass of our heart, ...
09.29.2022 Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self - We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner resources by calling on the most evolved part ...
09.22.2022 Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom - Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true acceptance. This means meeting our unfolding life with an unconditional, open ...
09.22.2022 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality - Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be as it is. ...
09.15.2022 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and ...
09.15.2022 Meditation: Relaxing with Life Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with ...
09.08.2022 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 - This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and ...
09.08.2022 Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence - This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into ...
09.06.2022 Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle‘s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen - A vegetarian diet, while encouraged in most schools of Buddhism, isn’t a requirement of the Buddhist path. But there are powerful spiritual ...
09.01.2022 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging - We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores ...
09.01.2022 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts - We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in ...
08.25.2022 Awakening through Difficult Emotions Awakening through Difficult Emotions: "The Poison is the Medicine" - Most of us know the pain of getting stuck in fear, anxiety, anger or shame. This exploration looks at how the emotion that takes over, when we attend with mindfulness ...
08.25.2022 Meditation: Breath by Breath Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with long deep breathing, and then establishes a ...
08.18.2022 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror - This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from ...
08.18.2022 Meditation: Listening to Life Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into ...

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Tara Brach episodes:

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness - The Power of Self-Nurturing

Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep

Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara and Roland Griffiths

Meditation: The Silence That is Listening

Trusting the Gold - Realizing Our Basic Goodness

Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence

The Dalai Lama’s Guide to Happiness - Part 1 - with Dan Harris

Realizing Your Deepest Intention

Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home

Freedom Beyond Selfing

Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be

IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel

Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments

IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel

Meditation: Body and Spirit

Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk)

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness

Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat)

A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart

Meditation: Touching Peace

The Calling of These Times - Part 2

Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart

The Calling of These Times - Part 1

Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves

Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope

Meditation: Befriending Our Experience

Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene

Meditation: At Home in the Moment

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2

Meditation: Letting Life Be

Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 1

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 2

Meditation: Resting in the Center of Now

The Liberating Power of Conscious Intention – Part 1

Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self

Radical Acceptance - Our Gateway to Love and Freedom

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1

Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence

Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating

Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts

Awakening through Difficult Emotions

Meditation: Breath by Breath

Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror

Meditation: Listening to Life

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