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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06.01.2023

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 get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the ...

Tara Brach episodes:

06.01.2023 Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart 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 get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the ...
06.01.2023 Meditation: Relaxing with Life Meditation: Relaxing with Life - This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”
05.25.2023 Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart 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 get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the ...
05.25.2023 Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence - This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We ...
05.18.2023 Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2) - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are ...
05.18.2023 Meditation: Letting Life Live through You Meditation: Letting Life Live through You - This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as we open to ...
05.11.2023 Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit - Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are ...
05.11.2023 Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness 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. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to the aliveness in ...
05.04.2023 Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace - Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liberating acceptance, a heartspace that includes all of life and ...
05.04.2023 Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care - This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that ...
04.27.2023 Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness - The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. ...
04.27.2023 Meditation: Embodied Spirit Meditation: Embodied Spirit - Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the ...
04.20.2023 Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach - Hameed Ali is an author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach to Self-Realization. In this interview we explore ways of approaching awakening to who we are, ...
04.20.2023 Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness - This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all the senses in awake awareness, ...
04.13.2023 Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1 Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1 - This week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron's newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It's a powerful book that I highly recommend! ...
04.13.2023 Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 2 Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 2 - Last week, I began a two-part series inspired by Pema Chödron’s newest offering, How We Live is How We Die. It’s a powerful book that I highly recommend! ...
04.13.2023 Meditation: Living Presence Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order to calm and collect the mind. ...
04.06.2023 Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence - The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of sensations, feelings, thoughts and ...
03.30.2023 The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true ...
03.30.2023 Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening - Deep listening expresses the purity and presence of our true nature. This meditation guides us to come into a state of listening that is spacious, receptive and profoundly wakeful and present. We close with the ...
03.23.2023 The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1 - Listening deeply is the gateway to realizing connection. It’s what allows us to move through life with a wise, loving and healing presence. These two talks explore our blocks to true ...
03.23.2023 Meditation: Aliveness and Presence Meditation: Aliveness and Presence - This meditation guides us to wake up our senses and full aliveness through a body scan, and then to rest in the formless presence that is aware of this changing dance of life. We close ...
03.17.2023 Compassion for All Living Beings Compassion for All Living Beings - We often talk of widening the circles of compassion. This talk explores the qualities of mature compassion, what blocks us from this embodied and inclusive caring, and how each of us can awaken a ...
03.16.2023 Meditation: Say “Yes” to Life Meditation: Say “Yes” to Life - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence with the intention to truly say “Yes” to experience, allowing ...
03.09.2023 The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk) - We evolve our consciousness by bringing a clear and kind attention to the tangles of suffering. This talk explores how the “second arrow” of self-judgment imprisons us in emotional ...
03.09.2023 Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness - This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. We relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, open awareness. (from a ...
03.02.2023 Making the Whole World Your Friend Making the Whole World Your Friend - A wonderful translation of the Pali word Metta is friendliness. This talk looks at friendliness through an evolutionary lens, and explores ways we can cultivate a more open heart.
03.02.2023 Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life - 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 settle with the breath, and practice relaxing with ...
02.23.2023 Refuge in the Wilderness – Pt 2 - Coming Home to Embodied Presence Refuge in the Wilderness - Pt2 – Coming Home to Embodied Presence - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are ...
02.23.2023 Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath - Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate presence ...
02.16.2023 Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1 - When we live from our mental control towers, we are in a trance that confines our life. These two talks look at the primary ways we are conditioned to leave embodied presence, ...
02.16.2023 Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness - This meditation includes relaxing and awakening through the body, widening the lens to include sound and then letting life live through us, receiving all that arises in open awareness.
02.09.2023 The RAIN of Forgiveness The RAIN of Forgiveness - The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to ...
02.09.2023 Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly - Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath ...
02.02.2023 How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris - It’s possible to actually be addicted to self-criticism, especially as a way to keep yourself safe. But evidence shows that rather than safety, ...
02.02.2023 Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness - 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 experience. ...
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 ...

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Tara Brach episodes:

Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart

Meditation: Relaxing with Life

Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart

Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence

Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit (Part 2)

Meditation: Letting Life Live through You

Pt1 - Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit

Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness

Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace

Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care

Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness

Meditation: Embodied Spirit

Realizing True Nature: A conversation with Hameed Ali and Tara Brach

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 1

Finding True Refuge in This Living Dying World - Part 2

Meditation: Living Presence

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 2

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening

The Power of Deep Listening – Part 1

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence

Compassion for All Living Beings

Meditation: Say “Yes” to Life

The Wings of Awakening – Self-Honesty & Love (retreat talk)

Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness

Making the Whole World Your Friend

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life

Refuge in the Wilderness – Pt 2 - Coming Home to Embodied Presence

Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath

Refuge in the Wilderness - Part 1

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness

The RAIN of Forgiveness

Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly

How to Stop the War Against Yourself - A conversation with Tara Brach & Dan Harris

Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness

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

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