Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Collecting, Unifying and Opening the Mind (21:56 min.)
Collecting, unifying and opening the mind, we begin with a listening attention, noticing sounds that are here. Relaxing open and letting sounds wash through. With the same...
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:07 min.)
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...
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Relaxing with Our Life (19:04 min.)
The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve...
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Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (17:02 min.)
Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then...
Meditation: The Power of the Sacred Pause — Clearing to Remember Heartspace (6:56 min)
In just a few minutes, this practice guides us to pause, deepen attention and reconnect with the spaciousness, presence and of caring of our awakening heart....
Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:46 min)
No matter how far you’ve wandered, this heartspace – this awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away. This meditation awakens attention to the space of...
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Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to...
Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (20:41 min.)
“Peace is this moment without judgment,” writes poet Dorothy Hunt, “this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.” This meditation is a guide to opening to...
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (18:55 min.)
This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and going. And in the...
Meditation: From Head to Full Being (18:55 min.)
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...
Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence (23:59 min)
This meditation guides you to arrive fully in embodied presence—awakening through the senses, relaxing into the breath, and gently returning to the aliveness of the here and now....
Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:05 min.)
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...
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:46 min)
The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous system, and then invites a relaxed...
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:59 min)
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...
Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body (18 min.)
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:14 min)
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home...
Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (21:07 min.)
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again,...
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (21:23 min.)
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...
Guided Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life (15 min.)
Note: Over these five weeks of the Introduction to Mindfulness series, Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation, Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life, to...
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guides attention through the...