Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Resting in Reality (24 min)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us to relax out of the thinking mind and return to the living presence of the moment. Through a gentle body scan, awareness of...
Meditation: Aware and Alive (20 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara invites us to awaken from the world of thought and come home to the living presence of our body and heart. Beginning with the breath, we soften...
Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm (20:25 min.)
In this guided meditation, we explore the possibility of finding an inner refuge of calm—a presence that can hold whatever is moving through our lives.Beginning with the breath,...
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Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
In this guided body scan meditation, we explore a simple and nourishing pathway into presence—awakening awareness through the living sensations of the body. Beginning with a...
Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:38 min.)
What if happiness is not something we need to create or strive for, but something we discover when we soften and let go? In this guided meditation, we awaken through the body,...
Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (16:05 min.)
In this guided meditation, we cultivate an embodied sense of acceptance, kindness and care—learning to meet each moment with a friendly, allowing presence. Beginning with the...
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Remembering Our True Home (15:44 min.)
In this guided meditation, we turn attention inward and come into intimate presence with the life that is here. Beginning with the body, breath and sensations, we gradually open...
Meditation: Being Here (21:21 min.)
This guided meditation invites you to come home to the simple aliveness of this moment. Through mindful breathing, softening the body, and resting in the awareness that is...
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (21:01 min)
When we pause and gently return to the living experience of this moment, we begin to discover a refuge that has always been here. This guided meditation invites you to relax the...
Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (19:31 min)
In this guided meditation, you're invited to discover the breath as a refuge—a steady anchor that can return you, again and again, to the aliveness of this moment. As we soften...
Meditation: The Art of Letting Go (19:32 min.)
When life feels overwhelming, our first instinct is often to tighten, resist, or try to control what is unfolding. Yet true freedom begins when we discover the courage to soften...
Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:37 min)
One of the great gifts of mindfulness is discovering that we can always begin again. This guided meditation invites you to return to the aliveness of the present moment through...
Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (18:05 min)
The Buddha taught that one of the most powerful ways to begin meditation is by gladdening the mind—remembering what we love, resting in gratitude, and opening to the goodness...
Meditation: Awakening an Intimate Presence (21 min)
What if the peace and presence you long for is already here—closer than you imagine? In this guided meditation, we explore the practice of awakening an intimate presence with...
Meditation: Mindful Body Scan (10:06 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to reconnect with the aliveness that is here in this very moment by bringing a kind and mindful attention through the body. Moving slowly from...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:47 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in...
Meditation: A Listening Presence (20:27 min.)
In this guided meditation, Tara invites us to discover the healing power of a listening presence—an awake and receptive awareness that allows us to come home to the aliveness of...
Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (22:25 min.)
In this guided meditation, we explore the healing power of embodied presence—awakening through the living intelligence of the body and relaxing into the spacious awareness that...
Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (19:02 min.)
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...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (22:07 min.)
This guided meditation invites you into the living presence that is always here—an awake awareness that can hold the changing waves of sensation, emotion, and thought with...