Blog: How to Start a Mindfulness Meditation Group
• How to Start a Mindfulness Meditation Group (PDF) – Mindfulness meditation groups are a wonderful way of connecting with others to share and deepen your meditation practice. These groups come in many shapes and sizes and provide community, accountability and a...
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its...
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (20:57 min)
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic presence. photo: Savitri...
Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness (28:50 min)
Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversive hatred or blame. That you can care about someone and still create...
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 sincere interest and care, the...
Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) (3 min)
Take 3 minutes to listen to a brief and beautiful Japanese flute passage from “A Touch of Grace” – an album by Tara’s husband, Jonathan Foust. Then Tara will guide you into meditation. With no bell at the end, you can choose how long a session you...
Loving the Life Within Us (Retreat Talk)
If we don’t love the life we consider “self,” we will not realize or live from the loving awareness that is our essence. This talk guides us in bringing a kind, accepting presence to our inner life, and discovering the vastness of what we really are. photo: Shell...
Meditation: Spacious Sky of Awareness (18:23)
This meditation begins with a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. We relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, open awareness. photo: Jon McRay
Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence – (5 min)
This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. photo: Susan Reviere
That Bird Got My Wings – Mindfulness & Heartfulness
This talk looks at how we are imprisoned by a limited sense of who we are. It describes how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness enable us to realize the spirit that is our essence. We then look at how we can bring the wings of freedom to our engagement with...
Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 min)
This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. photo: Shell Fischer
Transcript: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
~ a talk by Tara Brach presented on May 8, 2016 Listen and watch: tarabrach.com/fear-pathway-loving-presence/ Even if you feel like your mind has been wondering all over the place, being in this kind of space where there is a intention to be noticing what’s going on...
Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
Transcript available here: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we...