Guided Meditations
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![New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/child-817373_1920-e1515103508109.jpg)
New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention...
![Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tree-451650_1920.jpg)
Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
From the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year's retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in...
![Meditation: “Yes” to Life (13 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-12-20-19.14.26-1-e1513904358370.jpg)
Meditation: “Yes” to Life (13 min.)
This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence with the intention to truly say...
![Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness (21:06 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/yoga-657051_1280-e1513303195654.jpg)
Meditation: Boundless, Loving Awareness (21:06 min.)
Learning how to recognize and rest in spaciousness, allows us to discover the love and wakefulness that is our source. This meditation guides us to discover interior space,...
![Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (20:00 Min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-12-04-12.41.50.jpg)
Meditation: Alert Inner Stillness (20:00 Min.)
Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with accessing the receptivity of a smile,...
![Meditation: Transforming Fear (11:19 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-06-19-20.31.07-e1692237332834.jpg)
Meditation: Transforming Fear (11:19 min.)
This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to where we...
![Meditation: Breath by Breath (23:02 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dandelion-kincse_j-pixabay.jpg)
Meditation: Breath by Breath (23:02 min.)
Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with...
![Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:19 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wellness-geralt.jpg)
Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:19 min.)
Meditation: Relax Into Happiness ~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting...
![Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (14:00 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/sculpture-2275202_1920.jpg)
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (14:00 min)
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and...
![Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dog-2785077_1920.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness (20 min.)
Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness - The primary qualities of a healing and freeing presence are being alert, open and tender. This meditation arouses these qualities by engaging...
![Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart (7:10 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/horse-girl-Digwen-pixabay.jpeg)
Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart (7:10 min.)
Reflection: Cultivating a Loving Heart - Love is an innate capacity, and when we intentionally cultivate it, love shifts from a state to a trait. This meditation offers guidance...
![Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:12 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/lion-cub-2818957_1280-e1509060278730.jpg)
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:12 min.)
Meditation: Refuge in Presence - We arrive in presence through the gateway of the body, scanning through with awareness, and then resting with the breath and body sensations. As...
![Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen (11:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-10-18-18.51.35-e1508437651682.jpg)
Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen (11:35 min)
Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation uses the breath...
![Meditation: Present Heart (14:38 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sunset-2013-08-23-Shell.jpg)
Meditation: Present Heart (14:38 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 offering blessings to our inner...
![Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (16:30 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/JonMcRay_2016_0806_D500_019506-LR16.jpg)
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (16:30 min)
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life - This meditation guides us in relaxing through the body, then opening to the changing river of experience. By continually relaxing back and...
![Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:26 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/childhood-967895_1920-Katia_M-Pixabay-e1646964766611-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:26 min)
A blessing is whatever reminds us of the sacred loving presence that shines through all of us. This meditation is a transformational practice in receiving and offering blessings....
![Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-01-18.12.54-e1506033951702.jpg)
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min)
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness ~ In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life....
![Reflection: Transforming Suffering & Awakening the Heart (12:45 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-18-08.40.03.jpg)
Reflection: Transforming Suffering & Awakening the Heart (12:45 min.)
[Excerpt from Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering a talk given on January 25, 2017.] [read the full transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps...
![Meditation: Coming Home to Being (19:54 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/JonMcRay_2016_0917_D500_029966-LR16.jpg)
Meditation: Coming Home to Being (19:54 min)
Meditation: Coming Home to Being - "What it's like to be here right now and listening to your heart… sensing the state of your heart? It might have been a while since you've...
![Meditation: Choosing Living Presence (22:40 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2016-06-05-16.31.44-1-scaled-e1650762508219-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Choosing Living Presence (22:40 min)
Meditation: Choosing Living Presence - A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes chanting the Om's - a favorite from Tara's Wednesday night...
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