• All Meditations • Heart Meditations • Open Awareness Meditations • Special Meditations/Reflections 2020/12/30 - Meditation: RAIN of Self-Compassion (17:27 min.)One of the great sufferings is turning on ourselves with judgment and/or self-aversion. This...2020/04/29 - Meditation: Vipassana – Seeing Life As It Is (27:36 min.)This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to...2019/10/09 - Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (21:16 min.)This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional...2019/07/17 - Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an...2019/02/06 - Meditation: A Practice of RAIN (20:00 min.)The acronym RAIN – Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture – guides us in bringing mindfulness...2018/10/10 - Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:48 min.)Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation...2017/02/01 - Retreat Meditation: A Liberating Awareness – Embodying Full Presence (30 min)This vipassana meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful...2016/11/23 - Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an...2016/07/21 - Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence – (5 min)This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life...2016/07/13 - Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 min)This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life...2016/02/15 - Meditation: Opening and Calming (13 min. video)This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and...2015/12/16 - Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (10:42 min)This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This...2015/10/10 - Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice (10:31 min)Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the...2015/02/18 - Guided Meditation: Body Scan – Living Presence – 11 min.A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides...2014/12/05 - Meditation – Coming Home to Presence (13 min)2014/12/01 - Meditation – Homecoming: A Mindful Awareness (24 min)2014/11/27 - Meditation – In the Body (25:33 min)This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of...2014/11/25 - Meditation: Radical Acceptance of Pain (11:51 min)As we learn to relax our resistance to unpleasant sensations, we discover an open...2014/11/20 - Meditation – A Moment of Calm (10 min) (requires Adobe Flash) Link to view “A Moment of Calm”