Guided Meditations
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![Meditation: Relaxing with Life (23:01 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/cat-1056661_1280-e1697672173751-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (23:01 min.)
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that...
![Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (12:06 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-11-Heron-Lake-JMerrick-DSC08368-e1698353440337-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (12:06 min.)
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen...
![Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (21:56 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-10-04-JMerrick-IMG_8757-scaled-e1696464113309-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go (21:56 min.)
This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and...
![Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:07 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/science-5350595_1280-e1695848590680-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (19:07 min.)
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with...
![Meditation: Opening to the Flow (23:30 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/bridge-21031_1280-e1695250836171-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (23:30 min.)
This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of...
![Meditation: Everything Belongs (20:09 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/2023-09-12-GHillesland-DSC07217-e1694653503237-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Everything Belongs (20:09 min.)
This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and...
![Meditation: At Home in the Moment (19:29 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/orchid-4044931_1280-e1694041428459-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (19:29 min)
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to...
![Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:08 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-08-17-GHillesland-IMG_3962-scaled-e1693419213754-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:08 min.)
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...
![Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (18:01 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/monk-7465763_1280-e1692830530316-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Being a Kind Witness (18:01 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: Openhearted Presence (19:26 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-08-01-Surprise-Lily-Amaryllis-JMerrick-IMG_1360-scaled-e1692236078978-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Openhearted Presence (19:26 min.)
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence. Écouter en-Français:...
![Méditation : Présence à cœur ouvert (19:18 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Untitled-design-e1647999818301.png)
Méditation : Présence à cœur ouvert (19:18 min)
Cette méditation nous guide à éveiller la pleine conscience par l’attention portée à nos sens et nous permet de nous reposer dans cet état d’éveil avec une présence réceptive et...
![Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:11 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_1181-2-scaled-e1691630336900-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:11 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in...
![Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:57 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-08-01-Merrick-IMG_1331-scaled-e1691026091999-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:57 min.)
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for...
![Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life (20:09 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-07-15-DonnaRusso-IMG-8879-scaled-e1690404040991-1080x675.jpg)
Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life (20:09 min.)
The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the...
![Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (11:35 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-07-15-LakeFrank-GaryHillesland-scaled-e1689814163172-1080x675.jpeg)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (11:35 min.)
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us...
![Meditation: Present Heart (14:16 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-07-12-Cape-Cod-Rose-TaraBrach-IMG_9077-scaled-e1689212713847-1080x675.jpeg)
Meditation: Present Heart (14:16 min)
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with an offering of blessings to our...
![Meditation: From Head to Full Being (18:57 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tara-Brach-Meditation-Head-to-Full-Being-e1687470758744-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: From Head to Full Being (18:57 min.)
When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over...
![Meditation: Loving What Is (18:49 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tara-Brach-Loving-What-Is-e1687470827666-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Loving What Is (18:49 min.)
While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions...
![Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:05 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Tara-Brach_Kindness-16-9-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:05 min.)
This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...
![Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:39 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023-06-10-Ducks-GHillesland-DSC05189-scaled-e1686784117945-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:39 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of...
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