Blog: The RAIN of Self-Compassion

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:...
Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol

Blog: RAIN Partners Protocol

What Are RAIN Partners? RAIN – Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture, 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...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:25 min)

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 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)

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...
Blog: Meditating Daily…”No Matter What”

Blog: Meditating Daily…”No Matter What”

Even after practicing and teaching meditation for more than 35 years now, I truly understand that sustaining a regular practice can be challenging. During the twelve years I lived in an ashram, for instance, I had others to practice with each day. With that kind of...