Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) (16:58 min)
Meditation: Vipassana (Insight or Mindfulness) - A gift of meditation is learning to open to life just how it is, with awake awareness. This meditation guides us in establishing...
Brief Guided Meditation – with no bell at end (9 min.)
Given in the early morning on the first day of retreat, this recording can settle you into a meditation of any length. There is no bell at the end, so you can make your session...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:25 min)
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment to moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (11:56 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...
Reflection: Deepening the Truths We Share (8:32 min)
Our capacity for love grows as we practice deepening the truths we share with each other. This short reflection offers guidance in how to bring your presence and heart to truth...
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment (19:01 min)
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment - When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment to moment experience. This...
Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness (11:02 min)
Meditation: Awake, Openhearted Awareness This meditation guides us in recognizing the formless awareness that is always here, but often outside of conscious awareness. As...
Meditation: Breath and Presence (18:32 min)
Meditation: Breath and Presence - For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in...
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:58 min)
Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that...
Meditation: Receiving This Life in Awareness (23:43 min)
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to...
Meditation: Listening to and Feeling Our Life (17:56 min)
Guided Meditation – Listening to and Feeling Our Life Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This...
Meditation Instructions – RAIN and Question-Response (14:23 min)
Tara gives morning instruction on retreat including RAIN (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nourish), then responds to questions from retreatants. Includes a question on resourcing...
On Deepening Our Meditation and a Guided Meditation from Retreat (24:48 min)
Meditation Instructions and a Guided Meditation from Retreat (2016-08-27) - Tara gives morning instructions about ways to deepen our meditation practice, then leads us in a...
Meditation: Your Future Self – Accessing the Wisdom of Your Heart (7:17 min)
When we are cut off from our natural love and wisdom, there’s a way home. This meditation guides us to a visit with our future self, and reveals a pathway to our awakened,...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (21:32 min)
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever...
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19:00 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....
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:44 min)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (20:57 min)
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...
Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness (28:50 min)
Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. "Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to...
Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) (3 min)
Take 3 minutes to listen to a brief and beautiful Japanese flute passage from "A Touch of Grace" - an album by Tara’s husband, Jonathan Foust. Then Tara will guide you into...
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