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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Anger: Responding, Not Reac...

09.24.2021

Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention ...

Tara Brach episodes:

09.24.2021 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22) Anger is natural, intelligent and necessary for surviving and flourishing. Yet when we are hooked by anger, it causes great personal and collective suffering. This talk explores how to transform patterns of reactivity by bringing a mindful and compassionate attention ...
09.23.2021 Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22) We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.
09.17.2021 Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara Brach and Kate Johnson The often unseen cause of our difficulties in relationships is the societal structures that are marked by violence and domination. This conversation looks at what blocks authentic and loving connectedness, and ways to intentionally cultivate authentic, openhearted awake relationships.
09.16.2021 Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15) Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and mind to a full, vibrant presence. Closes with a ...
09.10.2021 A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo Mark is a spiritual teacher, wonderful poet, and author of many books including best selling "The Book of Awakening." In this wide-ranging and rich conversation, Tara and Mark explore shedding our defenses, faith, compassion for ourselves and others, spiritual practice, ...
09.09.2021 Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment arising and passing life. In the final part of the ...
09.03.2021 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. This talk examines how we take the imperfect waves of our being personally, and become imprisoned in the trance of ...
09.02.2021 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-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by ...
08.27.2021 The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (PT 2) One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment—habits of fixating on what's wrong and what’s missing. We then explore the practices of presence that awaken ...
08.26.2021 Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that comes from resting in presence.
08.20.2021 The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1) One of the great gifts of mindful awareness is access to true contentment. These two talks look at the universal blocks to contentment—habits of fixating on what's wrong and what’s missing. We then explore the practices of presence that awaken ...
08.19.2021 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness, creativity and love our natural ...
08.13.2021 Humility In Buddhism and most faiths, humility – feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others – is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our conditioning ...
08.12.2021 Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou - Being Home This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence - arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back to our senses…into the openhearted awareness that is our true ...
08.06.2021 Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk': An Undefended Heart Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available, living true to our heart. This talk explores the challenges and blessings of taking the exquisite risk, both in becoming more intimate ...
08.05.2021 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow ...
07.30.2021 Writing and Haiku as Spiritual Practice (Tara Brac Interviews Natalie Goldberg) Natalie Goldberg has inspired an entire generation to experience writing as a practice that can awaken our hearts and minds. In this interview Natalie gives guiding tips on approaching writing and, drawing on stories and verses from her beautiful recent ...
07.29.2021 Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space ...
07.23.2021 The Power of Spiritual Hope The openness to possibility is essential on a path of awakening and freedom. In this talk we explore what makes up mature or spiritual hope, and how two meditation practices of presence can nourish our hope.
07.22.2021 Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN While RAIN is regularly used for untangling suffering, it is also a powerful tool for deepening our access to positive states like happiness, gratitude, wonder and love. This meditation guides us in nourishing the goodness that is an intrinsic part ...
07.16.2021 Mindful Leadership: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Michelle Maldonado (2021-07-14) The principles of mindful leadership are relevant for all of us—they bring out the best of who we are in our work, with our family, with our friends. Especially in these times of mistrust and dividedness, our world desperately needs ...
07.15.2021 Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15) A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention to the breath, and rest with the rhythmic waves of ...
07.09.2021 Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what ...
07.08.2021 Meditation: Relaxed and Alert This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts ...
07.02.2021 Trusting the Gold: A Conversation - Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic ...
07.01.2021 Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-06-30) Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of loving and to turn in that direction. It begins ...
06.25.2021 Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention Becoming conscious of our intentions is the first step to truly aligning our life with our heart. This talk explores identifying when we are being driven by grasping and fear, and ways we can bring compassion to unmet needs and ...
06.23.2021 Meditation: The Heartspace of Gratitude When gratitude for our life arises, we enter the sacred space of an open heart. This meditation guides us in arriving in presence and awakening the blessings of gratitude.
06.18.2021 Fierce Self-Compassion - A conversation - Tara Brach & Kristin Neff Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion ...
06.17.2021 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2021-06-16) This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here ...
06.13.2021 Trusting the Gold - A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with guest, Rick Hanson The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk explores the two key pathways that help us awaken from the trance of identifying as a limited, separate self. It includes ...
06.12.2021 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2021-06-09) 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 the gap between thoughts—the presence that ...
06.11.2021 Meditation: Blessings of Love A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. The image of receiving a kiss on the brow, and offering one, is suggested as a powerful channel for the blessings that awaken ...
06.04.2021 Part 2 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, ...
06.03.2021 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and ...
05.28.2021 Part 1 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, ...
05.27.2021 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 source of all being.
05.21.2021 Entering the Mystery John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginner’s mind” that enables us ...
05.20.2021 Meditation: Yes to Life (2021-05-19) In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presence that welcomes the changing flow of life.
05.14.2021 Bridging the Divide: Learning to Tend and Befriend One of the great sufferings facing us is the growing divide between humans with different views, different realities. This talk looks at several levels of divides—being at war with ourselves, creating separation in our personal relationships, and societal divides. We ...
05.13.2021 Meditation: Being Here for Life (2021-05-08) It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat Schneider called “Instructions for the Journey."
05.07.2021 Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to our prayers.
05.06.2021 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05) We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here.
05.05.2021 Méditation: Rencontrer la colère avec conscience (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère) Lorsque notre colère est contenue avec conscience, elle peut être une force, une énergie, pour répondre avec sagesse aux situations difficiles de la vie. Cette méditation nous guide pour aller à la rencontre de la colère personnelle et\ou sociale qui ...
04.30.2021 Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings 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 looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and ...
04.29.2021 Meditation: From Head to Full Being (2021-04-28) 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 us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that ...
04.23.2021 Belonging to the Earth As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and sustains this trance of forgetting. We then explore the ways we ...
04.22.2021 Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2021-04-21) Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our senses and discovering the vitality and presence that express our natural being.
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 ...

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Tara Brach

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Tara Brach episodes:

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting (2021-09-22)

Meditation: Present Heart (2021-09-22)

Radical Friendship: Conversation between Tara Brach and Kate Johnson

Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain (2021-09-15)

A Conversation Between Tara and Mark Nepo

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness

The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance

Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying "Yes" to the Moment

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (PT 2)

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence

The Blessings of “Enough” - Discovering Contentment in Daily Life (Part 1)

Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life

Humility

Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou - Being Home

Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk': An Undefended Heart

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Full Presence

Writing and Haiku as Spiritual Practice (Tara Brac Interviews Natalie Goldberg)

Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness

The Power of Spiritual Hope

Meditation: Nourishing Happiness with RAIN

Mindful Leadership: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Michelle Maldonado (2021-07-14)

Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (2021-07-15)

Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert

Trusting the Gold: A Conversation - Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust

Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (2021-06-30)

Shifting from Limbic to Liberating Intention

Meditation: The Heartspace of Gratitude

Fierce Self-Compassion - A conversation - Tara Brach & Kristin Neff

Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (2021-06-16)

Trusting the Gold - A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with guest, Rick Hanson

Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (2021-06-09)

Meditation: Blessings of Love

Part 2 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit

Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness

Part 1 - Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit

Meditation: Embodied Spirit

Entering the Mystery

Meditation: Yes to Life (2021-05-19)

Bridging the Divide: Learning to Tend and Befriend

Meditation: Being Here for Life (2021-05-08)

Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer

Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (2021-05-05)

Méditation: Rencontrer la colère avec conscience (de-TaraBrach-traduite-par-Dominique-Fugère)

Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings

Meditation: From Head to Full Being (2021-04-28)

Belonging to the Earth

Meditation: Opening to Full Aliveness (2021-04-21)

“Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - Retreat talk

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

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