Tara Brach

By Tara Brach

What's Tara Brach about?

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.

5.0

4,101 ratings

Download our free app to listen on your phone

LAST EPISODE

Shifting From Limbic to Lib...

01.17.2020

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 ...

Tara Brach episodes:

01.17.2020 Shifting From Limbic to Liberating Intention (2020-01-15) 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 ...
01.16.2020 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2020-01-15) 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 ...
01.10.2020 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom (2020-01-08) We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional ...
01.09.2020 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (2020-01-08) This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” ...
01.03.2020 The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) (2019-12-28) We all encounter “demons” of fear, anger, hurt, craving and shame. This talk explores our key ways of resisting difficult emotions, and how “when the resistance is gone, the demons are gone.” We look at the power of mindfulness and ...
01.03.2020 Introductory Meditation Instructions - Guided Practice from Retreat This guided session includes an overview of the primary components in meditation practices, and then guidance in awakening the senses, collecting the attention, and opening mindfully to changing experience.
12.31.2019 Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation - Releasing Blame (retreat) This meditation explores the meaning of forgiveness and its role in healing and transformation. We then are guided in a forgiveness practice that helps us release the armoring of blame, and inhabit an inclusive and open heart (from the 2019 ...
12.27.2019 Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue - usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness - the ...
12.26.2019 Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation - Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives (retreat) This short talk and meditation introduces the domain of “heart practices” and then guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a ...
12.20.2019 Radical Compassion - Part 3 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing (2019-12-18) Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara's new book, ...
12.20.2019 A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (2019-12-18) A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and to feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart.
12.13.2019 Radical Compassion - Part 2 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara's new book, ...
12.12.2019 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (2019-12-11) In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into ...
12.06.2019 Radical Compassion - Part 1 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Radical Compassion.
12.05.2019 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (2019-12-04) 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 attention to the changing flow of life.
11.29.2019 Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship (2019-11-27) Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with ...
11.29.2019 Meditation: Being Here (2019-11-27) This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies, awaken our senses, and then bring our attention to relaxing with ...
11.22.2019 Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2019-11-20) Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a ...
11.22.2019 Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (2019-11-20) This meditation awakens our senses through a body scan and listening to sound, and then invites us to rest in the presence that spontaneously knows the changing stream of experience. Relaxing back and letting everything be just as it is, ...
11.21.2019 Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30 min) The acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) is one of the most powerful tools I know for working with difficult emotions and discovering the freedom of an awake, compassionate presence. The 4-steps of RAIN are: • Recognize what is happening; • Allow the ...
11.21.2019 Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence Often, when we’re really struggling, the only way to find compassion for ourselves is by reaching out towards a loving awareness that is great enough to offer comfort and safety to our wounded self. When we feel held by a ...
11.15.2019 Listening to the Song - Part 1 (2019-11-13) Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a ...
11.14.2019 Meditation - The Silence that is Listening (2013-11-13) Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, ...
11.08.2019 Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) (2019-11-03) The boundary to what we accept is the boundary to our freedom. This talk explores the often unconscious ways we create separation by judging ourselves and others, and the key pathways of meditation practice that release the habit of blame ...
11.07.2019 Short Talk and Meditation: Saying Yes to Our Life Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we ...
11.01.2019 Anger: Responding, Not Reacting 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 ...
10.31.2019 Meditating with RAIN - Working with Difficult Emotions Meditating with RAIN - This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and effective, even at those times when mindfulness is most ...
10.30.2019 Meditation: Letting Go – 9 Magic Breaths (2019-07-19) This guided practice includes taking a pause from all activity, and following the inflow and outflow of nine conscious breaths. We then relax and settle into greater and greater ease and well-being. Continuing as long as desired, we then explore ...
10.25.2019 Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 (2019-10-23) Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to ...
10.24.2019 Meditation: Awake and Alive (2019-10-23) This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and end with loving kindness to ourselves and our ...
10.23.2019 Reflection: RAIN on Blame (2019-10-16) When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance - the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. This ...
10.18.2019 Belonging to Each Other – Part 2 of 3 (2019-10-16) Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These three talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to ...
10.17.2019 Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (2019-10-16) 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 sounds, and discover the boundless awareness ...
10.11.2019 Belonging to Each Other - Part 1 (2019-10-09) Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These two talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to ...
10.10.2019 Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2019-10-09) The 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 ...
10.04.2019 Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart (2019-10-02) Our beliefs and understandings about reality directly impact our moment to moment experience of living. If we believe we will never change, that blocks the transformation that brings happiness and freedom. If we trust our spiritual unfolding and are open ...
10.03.2019 Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness (2019-10-02) We realize our true nature by relaxing back into what is always, already here. Starting by scanning and opening through the body, we explore resting in the awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all of life. The guidance is, when ...
09.27.2019 Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation – actively inquiring into what is happening inside us. When we investigate with ...
09.26.2019 Meditation: A Healing, Relaxing Breath This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep even breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presence is the gateway to deep peace and ...
09.20.2019 True Happiness: Realizing Well-Being Well being is the deep contentment that arises from a relaxed, wakeful presence. This talk explores the beliefs and habits that contract us away from presence, and several key ways we can nourish our natural capacity for happiness.
09.19.2019 Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment In this short reflection, we explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace. Listen to the full talk, "The Realm ...
09.13.2019 The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind Through all spiritual traditions, there is a valuing of silence and stillness. When the mind has quieted, it becomes possible to see into the truth of what we are. Yet quieting can turn into a battle with the process of ...
09.12.2019 Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover deep communion through offering and letting in love.
09.06.2019 Befriending Irene This talk is from 2011 after Hurricane Irene hit us with fury. Dorian is now leaving its destruction behind, just as we work with our stormy weather within. Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and ...
09.05.2019 Meditation: The Blessings of Love A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings. First we connect with the vulnerable tender place within us that longs ...
08.30.2019 Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof This talk was given in 2015, yet it is as timely as ever. It views the ecological dis-ease of our planet through the lens of our evolutionary unfolding. We explore the egoic trance that has precipitated the destruction of our ...
08.29.2019 Meditation: Discovering Inner Space By imagining the space inside the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that is the source and essence of all aliveness. This meditation is adapted from Open Focus Meditations led by Les Fehmi, Ph.D. in The Open Focus ...
08.23.2019 Good Othering - Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21) 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 ...
08.22.2019 Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21) We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to rest in that open wakefulness, allowing ...
08.20.2019 Meditation for Fertility (2019-08-19) We can enhance our fertility by becoming more relaxed, open and welcoming of this ever creative life. We begin by connecting with the purity and sincerity of our prayer. Then this meditation guides us to awaken our bodies, open our ...

Older episodes

Tara Brach

What's Tara Brach about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Tara Brach episodes:

Shifting From Limbic to Liberating Intention (2020-01-15)

Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (2020-01-15)

The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom (2020-01-08)

Meditation: Relaxed and Awake (2020-01-08)

The Power of Awake Awareness (retreat talk) (2019-12-28)

Introductory Meditation Instructions - Guided Practice from Retreat

Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation - Releasing Blame (retreat)

Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk)

Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation - Loving Kindness - Befriending our Lives (retreat)

Radical Compassion - Part 3 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing (2019-12-18)

A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (2019-12-18)

Radical Compassion - Part 2 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing

Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence (2019-12-11)

Radical Compassion - Part 1 - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing

Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (2019-12-04)

Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship (2019-11-27)

Meditation: Being Here (2019-11-27)

Listening to the Song - Part 2 (2019-11-20)

Meditation: Coming Home to Natural Presence (2019-11-20)

Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (30 min)

Meditation: Calling on Loving Presence

Listening to the Song - Part 1 (2019-11-13)

Meditation - The Silence that is Listening (2013-11-13)

Judgment, Acceptance and Freedom (Retreat Talk) (2019-11-03)

Short Talk and Meditation: Saying Yes to Our Life

Anger: Responding, Not Reacting

Meditating with RAIN - Working with Difficult Emotions

Meditation: Letting Go – 9 Magic Breaths (2019-07-19)

Belonging to Each Other – Part 3 of 3 (2019-10-23)

Meditation: Awake and Alive (2019-10-23)

Reflection: RAIN on Blame (2019-10-16)

Belonging to Each Other – Part 2 of 3 (2019-10-16)

Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (2019-10-16)

Belonging to Each Other - Part 1 (2019-10-09)

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (2019-10-09)

Spiritual Hope: Trusting Your Awakening Heart (2019-10-02)

Meditation: Relaxing into Awake Awareness (2019-10-02)

Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance

Meditation: A Healing, Relaxing Breath

True Happiness: Realizing Well-Being

Reflection: Pausing and Deepening Attention in the Face of Attachment

The Gift of Silence: Quieting the Mind

Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings

Befriending Irene

Meditation: The Blessings of Love

Earth’s Crisis: On the Edge of the Roof

Meditation: Discovering Inner Space

Good Othering - Helping Each Other Trust the Gold (2019-08-21)

Meditation: The Sea of Awareness (2019-08-21)

Meditation for Fertility (2019-08-19)

Other shows like Tara Brach: