Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol – 2025
What Are RAIN Partners? RAIN, the process of bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions, can be practiced with another person in a way that is deeply healing. RAIN partners agree to practice together on a regular basis—weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or...
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:08 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and...![Blog: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are [FREE Half Day Retreat Included]](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/moon-3267052_1920-e1703641871388-1080x675.jpg)
Blog: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are [FREE Half Day Retreat Included]
Creating a Home Retreat with Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman Download in PDF: Creating a Home Retreat: Finding Freedom Wherever You Are Hi Dear Ones, When a widespread difficulty like the coronavirus pandemic grows, it becomes important to draw on our inner...
Blog: The RAIN of Self-Compassion
The RAIN of Self-Compassion View or download the PDF version Link to talk: The RAIN of Self-Compassion Link to Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion Translations: تأمل مطر من الرحمة الذاتية (Arabic) RAIN de la Auto-Compasión – PDF ~ and (blog En Español) RAIN:...
Transcript & Audio ~ Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) (15:27 min.)
Download in PDF: Guided Meditation: The Practice of Vipassana (Mindfulness) The Buddhist practice for developing mindfulness is called vipassana, which means “clear insight” or “seeing clearly” in Pali, the language of the Buddha. What follows is a simple introduction...
Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (39:29 min.)
This 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 direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be...
A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (3:50 min.) with transcript
A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart. I invite you to sense what it means to you to arrive into presence. You may take a few long deep...
Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat (31:15 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind...
Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (34:30 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation offers an overview of what many people find is a natural unfolding within a meditation sitting. It includes the process of arriving in an embodied presence, learning how to come back from thoughts, and then opening the attention...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:25 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 base for mindful presence. We then include whatever is predominant, recognizing and...
Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness (12:18 min)
Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2016-05-07) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness....
Meditation: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:38)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment-to-moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and...