Guided Heart Meditation – Forgiveness Practice (30:50 min.)
(from the Fall IMCW Retreat at Reisterstown, MD)
Unconditional Love for the Life Within (retreat talk)
The tyranny of “should” prevents us from living and loving fully. This talk explores how we get trapped in the identity of a flawed self and the ways a wise attention can free us. (Retreat Talk – IMCW Fall Retreat at Reisterstown, MD)
Remembering Love (retreat talk)
Tara taught at the IMCW spring retreat in Reisterstown, MD this week – below is her Monday evening talk. Apologies for the static in the background – it is constant from an air handler in the meditation hall.
Guided Meditation – Metta Practice (30:53 min.)
Metta (Lovingkindness) practice – embracing ourselves and all beings with a full and tender loving presence.
Retreat Talk: Minting Gold – Embodying the Awakened Heart
Our core conditioning expresses as both a longing for love and the pain of not trusting we are loveable. This talk explores how we create the experience of separation, and the key meditative heart- trainings that lead us to realizing and living from the truth of our...
Retreat Talk: The Path of Transformation
Awakening arises out of presence with the changing ground of our lives. This talk explores three key gateways to liberating presence: forgiveness, inner fire (aspiration) and a deep inquiry into the nature of our own mind.
Soul Retrieval (retreat talk)
In many shamanistic cultures, it is believe that when a person is traumatized, the soul leaves the body as a way of protecting itself form intolerable pain. In a ceremony called “soul retrieval,” the traumatized person is held in the love and safety of community as...
Freedom from Trance
We live in the story of being a separate entity, and often, with the felt sense that something is wrong. This talk investigates the genesis of this trance, and the awakening that is possible when our thoughts, feelings and sense of presence itself are recognized by...