Tara Brach

By Tara Brach

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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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“Make Love of Your Self Per...

04.16.2021

Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holding our own being and all life ...

Tara Brach episodes:

04.16.2021 “Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - Retreat talk Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holding our own being and all life ...
04.15.2021 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14) This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The meditation ends with lovingkindness for ourselves and ...
04.09.2021 Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love. A quote ...
04.08.2021 Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence (2021-04-07) 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. When we connect with the changing flow of ...
04.02.2021 Part 2 - Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence ...
04.01.2021 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31) When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax ...
03.26.2021 Transforming Two Fears - FOF and FOMO (2021-03-24) There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential - fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the ...
03.25.2021 Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (2021-03-24) Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.
03.19.2021 Fear of Aging - Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17) While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence ...
03.18.2021 Meditation: A Kind and Allowing Presence (2021-03-17) When we’re stressed our hearts tighten and we try to control our life. This meditation guides us to relax the controlling and discover the open, tender awareness that allows life to be as it is.
03.12.2021 The Power of Deep Listening - Part 2 (2012-03-10) 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 listening, and offer teachings and practices that can directly ...
03.11.2021 Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (2021-03-10) 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 poem “lost” by David Wagoner.
03.05.2021 The Power of Deep Listening - Part 1 (2021-03-03) 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 listening, and offer teachings and practices that can directly ...
03.04.2021 Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2021-03-03) 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 with a poem by Robert ...
02.26.2021 Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24) A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. In this talk we reflect together on some key filters of superior/inferior and good/bad that shape the ...
02.25.2021 Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2021-02-24) 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, filling different domains with presence. We then open into the continuous awake space that is ...
02.19.2021 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 (2021-02-17) Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of ...
02.18.2021 Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (2021-02-17) Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, ...
02.12.2021 The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing (2021-02-10) The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, and how we can ...
02.11.2021 Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (2021-02-10) Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness.
02.05.2021 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1 Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of ...
02.04.2021 Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. Instructions are to rest in the breath, offering a relaxed, intimate ...
01.29.2021 Spiritual Hope (2021-01-27) Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust ...
01.28.2021 Meditation: Sacred Presence (2021-01-23) This meditation guides us to wakefully relax with the changing flow of moment to moment experience. As we open our senses fully, we discover the sacred living presence that is our very essence.
01.22.2021 Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 (2021-01-20) In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, ...
01.21.2021 Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (2021-01-30) Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Whereever you are, Find a Trail.”
01.15.2021 Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 (2020-01-13) In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding - ...
01.14.2021 Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (2021-01-13) Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem ...
01.08.2021 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Awakening (2021-01-06) We all seek refuge, a sense of safety or homecoming amidst the uncertainties of life. Our way of finding refuge can either imprison or free us. This talk explores the false refuges that entrap us in feeling separate and endangered, ...
01.08.2021 Meditation: A Present Heart (2020-01-06) One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever ...
12.31.2020 Repairing Our Hearts - Healing with the RAIN of Compassion (2020-12-30) Living in a fear-based society fuels the trance of separation and unworthiness. This talk explores how we can bring an engaged compassionate presence to the suffering of this trance—in our inner work, and more broadly, in healing our culture (from ...
12.31.2020 Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (2020-12-30) One of the great sufferings is turning on ourselves with judgment and/or self-aversion. This practice brings the acronym RAIN to this pain. It helps us cultivate a healing self-compassion, and the realization of who we are beyond any limiting story ...
12.25.2020 “Good Othering” – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2020-12-23) One of the great gifts we can offer is being a mirror of goodness, reminding one another that we can trust our essential awareness, light and love. Because our conditioning is to fixate on flaws, “good othering” takes intention and ...
12.24.2020 Meditation: Meeting life with a Kind Presence (2020-12-23) 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, responding to whatever arises with a gentle attention.
12.18.2020 Heart to Heart: A Conversation Between Dan Gottlieb and Tara Brach (2020-12-16) This very real and human interchange touches on pain, loss, love, gratitude and much more.
12.17.2020 Meditation: Coming Home to Heartspace (2020-12-16) Our pathway to our hearts is through presence. This meditation helps us awaken presence through our body and all our senses. We then open to the awareness that can meet whatever arises with tenderness and kindness. This meditation includes a ...
12.12.2020 Remembering Our Belonging – Part 2 (2020-12-09) Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, to each other, to the living web of all beings, to formless loving awareness. These two talks ...
12.10.2020 Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09) 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 sounds, sensations and emotions with the ...
12.04.2020 Remembering Our Belonging, Part 1 (2020-12-02) Our deepest suffering comes from feelings of separation, and as a species, our great task is realizing our belonging—to our bodies and hearts, to each other, to the living web of all beings, to formless loving awareness. These two talks ...
12.03.2020 Meditation: Embodied Love (2020-12-02) This meditation guides us through a scan, to awaken a healing and openhearted presence throughout our body. We then widen to our full field of awareness, including whatever wants attention in an open, inclusive loving presence.
11.27.2020 Authentic Thanks Giving (2020-11-25) How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers several reflections that guide us in contacting and expressing our love (a favorite Thanksgiving talk from ...
11.26.2020 Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25) After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this?” By learning to ...
11.20.2020 The Stories that Empower Us: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) Whether we know it or not, our daily lives take direction from myths and tales that are hundreds, even thousands of years old. During their time together, Tara and Elizabeth will speak about how these origin tales have shaped our ...
11.19.2020 Meditation: The “Do No Harm and Take No S***” Practice, by Guest Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18) This practice-based on an ancient Buddhist meditation - bears the name of needlepoint I found in my sister's office after she died. She was a nurse, and as such had taken the oath all medical practitioners take: to do no ...
11.13.2020 “Play a Greater Part” – Bodhisattva for Our Times During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates the aggression and violence that is so prevalent in our societies. This ...
11.12.2020 Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (2020-11-11) 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, deepening the pathway home. When difficult or intense experience arises, the practice is to learn ...
11.07.2020 Our Refuge of Heartspace (2020-11-04) Amidst the great emotional reactivity of our times, this talk looks at: How do we hold this? What will allow us to respond wisely to our hurting world? How can we widen the circles of compassion? Our time includes a ...
11.05.2020 Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2020-11-04) This meditation guides us to rest in the aliveness of the changing stream of sensations, sounds and feelings. As we open to the awareness that includes all life, we touch the peace, stillness and wakefulness that is our essence. We ...
10.30.2020 Change, Loss and Timeless Love (Part 2) (2020-10-28) Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely intertwined with how we relate to change and loss. These two talks are an invitation to look honestly, and without judgment, at the ways, we resist facing our fears and grieving ...
10.30.2020 Instruction and Meditation: Pathway to Non-Doing Presence (2020-10-27) While meditation begins with purposeful collecting of attention, it leads to non-doing presence, to Being. In this guided practice, we arrive in presence through a body scan and attention to the breath, open the attention to changing experience, and then ...

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Tara Brach episodes:

“Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - Retreat talk

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2021-04-14)

Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real

Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence (2021-04-07)

Part 2 - Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2021-03-31)

Transforming Two Fears - FOF and FOMO (2021-03-24)

Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (2021-03-24)

Fear of Aging - Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 1 (2021-03-17)

Meditation: A Kind and Allowing Presence (2021-03-17)

The Power of Deep Listening - Part 2 (2012-03-10)

Meditation: Cultivating Deep Listening (2021-03-10)

The Power of Deep Listening - Part 1 (2021-03-03)

Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (2021-03-03)

Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are (2021-02-24)

Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (2021-02-24)

Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 (2021-02-17)

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (2021-02-17)

The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing (2021-02-10)

Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (2021-02-10)

Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 1

Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath

Spiritual Hope (2021-01-27)

Meditation: Sacred Presence (2021-01-23)

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 2 (2021-01-20)

Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (2021-01-30)

Cultivating a Courageous Heart - Part 1 (2020-01-13)

Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (2021-01-13)

The Three Refuges - Gateways to Awakening (2021-01-06)

Meditation: A Present Heart (2020-01-06)

Repairing Our Hearts - Healing with the RAIN of Compassion (2020-12-30)

Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (2020-12-30)

“Good Othering” – Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2020-12-23)

Meditation: Meeting life with a Kind Presence (2020-12-23)

Heart to Heart: A Conversation Between Dan Gottlieb and Tara Brach (2020-12-16)

Meditation: Coming Home to Heartspace (2020-12-16)

Remembering Our Belonging – Part 2 (2020-12-09)

Meditation: Yes to Our Moments (2020-12-09)

Remembering Our Belonging, Part 1 (2020-12-02)

Meditation: Embodied Love (2020-12-02)

Authentic Thanks Giving (2020-11-25)

Meditation: Yes to Life (2020-11-25)

The Stories that Empower Us: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18)

Meditation: The “Do No Harm and Take No S***” Practice, by Guest Elizabeth Lesser (2020-11-18)

“Play a Greater Part” – Bodhisattva for Our Times

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (2020-11-11)

Our Refuge of Heartspace (2020-11-04)

Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (2020-11-04)

Change, Loss and Timeless Love (Part 2) (2020-10-28)

Instruction and Meditation: Pathway to Non-Doing Presence (2020-10-27)

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