Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (21:23 min.)
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...
Guided Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life (15 min.)
Note: Over these five weeks of the Introduction to Mindfulness series, Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation, Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life, to...
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guides attention through the...
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Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:40 min.)
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the...
Guided Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness – Metta (17:05 min.)
This guided meditation, grounded in the practice of Metta, invites us to awaken the heart by softening the body and quieting the mind. We begin with the simple image of a...
Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (24:08 min.)
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of...
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Meditation: Être Un Témoin Bienveillant
Apprendre à être témoin de ce qui se passe à l’intérieur de nous est la porte d’entrée vers la liberté intérieure et la réalisation profonde de qui nous sommes. Cette méditation...
Meditation: Embodied Spirit (16:54 min.)
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the...
Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen (23:39 min.)
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, a compassion practice or tonglen, is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us...
Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (18:47 min.)
Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and...
Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care (15:52 min.)
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open...
Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives (27:22 min.)
This heart meditation 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...
Méditation: Sache que tu es ici (19:21 min.)
Nous passons de nombreux moments en transe, voyageant vers le passé et le futur, perdus dans une réalité virtuelle. Cette méditation nous aide à capter notre attention avec notre...
Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness (22:42 min.)
This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the...
Meditation: Breathing Through (17:09 min.)
Drawn from a classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, this guided meditation invites us to open to the sufferings of the world, and let it move through our hearts and out...
Meditation: Know That You’re Here (20:01 min.)
We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention with our breath, awaken...
Meditation: Silence, Presence and Care (21:05 min.)
Quieting our busy bodies and minds brings alive our heart and spirit. This practice begins with a reading on silence by Gunilla Norris, and then includes guidance in letting go...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into...
Réflexion guidée : Lâcher-prise… laisser-être
Résumé : Cette méditation guidée nous invite à imaginer un poing fermé qui se détend. Elle explore cette expérience en libérant les contractions du corps ainsi que l’emprise des...
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:55 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we...