Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening, Part 1
Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if we are to navigate the great divides that separate us from our inner life and others. As we learn to listen inwardly,...
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 the truth of what’s here, and meeting it with a gentle, allowing presence. As we do, we...
The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 2
What if a key to personal and collective transformation lies in reclaiming our deep capacities for presence and imagination? In this two-part series, we’ll explore how mindfulness awakens us from the trance of fear and separation, reconnecting us with our innate...
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 background, experiencing an alert inner stillness – a vast presence from which all activity pours...
Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings
The ritual of Namaste – bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others – helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home....
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing failure or rejection. This is true collectively too. We have shared...
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 1
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing failure or rejection. This is true collectively too. We have shared...
The Revolution of Tenderness – Part 2
These two talks explore our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging...
The Revolution of Tenderness – Part I
A two-talk series explores our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective...
Introduction to Mindfulness: Part 5 – The Power of Heart Presence
The final session of this series explores the most powerful strategies Tara knows to bring mindfulness alive in all facets of daily living. These informal practices help our entire life to become an expression of our awakening and wise heart. Whether you are new to...
Introduction to Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Thoughts – Part 4 (of a 5-week series)
NOTE – Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during these 5 weeks: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. This talk examines how the trance of thinking imprisons us, veiling our full aliveness, love, and spiritual essence. Through...
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 3 (of a 5-week series)
NOTE – Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during these 5 weeks: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. In this session, we explore how mindfulness and heartfulness can transform our relationship with emotions, revealing them as...
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 2 (of a 5-week series)
NOTE – Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during these 5 weeks: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. In this session, we explore how to awaken mindful awareness of sensations—the first foundation of mindfulness and the ground of...