Guided Meditations Archive

Meditation: Center of Now (24:29 min)

Jan 27, 2016

- Tara is away on retreat, so asked for a meditation from the archives. This is from 2/1/2012.

Meditation: Relaxing Open (17:53 min)

Jan 6, 2016

This meditation invites the shift from thinking into open awareness. Our practice is to awaken the senses - feeling aliveness, listening to sound - and then rest as the awareness...

Meditation Instructions with Question/Response (14 min)(retreat)

Dec 31, 2015

"...discover what’s happening here, beyond the veil of thinking.” Tara gives additional instructions and responds to questions after the morning meditation at the 2015 IMCW New...

Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is (19:00 min.)

Dec 30, 2015

Tara taught on retreat this week, so wanted to share this meditation from 2010 with you.

Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion (34:54 min) (from retreat)

Dec 29, 2015

This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others. Given at the 2015...

Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (6:11 min)

Dec 28, 2015

When we focus on what we appreciate in others, our very attention helps allow that person to shine. (6:11 min) (a practice meditation from the end of "Secret Beauty - Solstice...

Reflection: Learning to Stay (4:33 min.)

Dec 27, 2015

We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear. "Learning to stay opens up the space that gives us our life. That's when it...

Meditation: Awaken to HeartSpace (23:04 min)

Dec 23, 2015

Awaken to HeartSpace, the open awareness that is intrinsically tender and wakeful,and discover how to experience this life from the domain of heart.

Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (10:42 min)

Dec 16, 2015

This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces this guided...

Meditation: Aliveness, Space and Awareness (21:36 min)

Dec 16, 2015

This practice includes a body scan that opens into experience of continuous space, filled with the light of awareness.

Meditation: Calming and Opening (14 min)

Dec 9, 2015

This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. photo: Mary VanDevanter

Meditation: Choosing Living Presence (23:54 min)

Dec 2, 2015

A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life.

Meditation: Mindful Body Scan (9:31 min.)

Nov 29, 2015

This meditation practice systematically moves attention through the body, awakening a direct experience of sensation from the inside out. The benefits are a dramatic increase in...

Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness (23:32 min)

Nov 25, 2015

This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with Om’s) (28:01 min.)

Nov 25, 2015

(with community chanting of Om's) - This practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.

Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (33:55 min)

Nov 22, 2015

Scanning the body, filling it with the image of a smile, meditation continues with loving presence of someone easy to love, our own being, and offering care to others. - from...

Meditation: The Heartspace that is Home (26:46 min)

Nov 11, 2015

This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness... "No matter how far you've wandered, this heartspace - this awake tender awareness - is only a half-breath of...