Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (22:09 min.)
Meditation - Letting Life Live Through You - This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body...
Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:22 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: Gladdening the Mind (18:05 min)
The Buddha taught the value of gladdening the mind when we begin a meditation and in our daily lives. This meditation begins with an inquiry on gratitude - what we are most...
Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (from retreat) (27:40)
This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness. Includes an application of the...
Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (8 min.)
A guided reflection meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict - from the ending of the "Real but Not True" talk. Listen to the full talk, Real...
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (15 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: Living Presence – with Body Scan (17 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 Life Live through You (18:30 min)
This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as...
Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness (12:18 min)
Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan - (2016-05-07) - from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body...
Meditation: Collecting and Quieting the Mind (18 min.)
Our conditioned mind is filled with distractions, including worry-thoughts that continually create anxiety in the body. This meditation guides us in relaxing the body, and then...
Meditation: Listening to and Feeling the Moment (16:29 min)
This meditation awakens a relaxed open presence through the body. We then widen attention to include sounds, and then relax back and fully inhabit the awareness that is listening...
Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness (28:05 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: Spacious, Clear Awareness (23 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: Vipassana – Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:38)
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: Awakening an Intimate Presence (20:30 min)
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and...
Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (20:48 min)
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us...
Reflection: This Living Body – Our Portal to Freedom (12:30 min)
Our habit is to leave home - the aliveness of our body - and seek happiness through avoiding unpleasantness and chasing after pleasure. This short talk and reflection point to...
Reflection: RAIN – A Guide for Embodied Presence (8:13)
We have deep conditioning to disconnect from our body’s awareness and, in so doing, leave the site of our creativity, love and vitality. This short meditation uses the acronym...
Meditation: Living Presence (20:01 min)
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow...
Guided Reflection: Awakening Through Conflict (13:06 min)
A guided reflection on "Awakening Through Conflict" ~ “We live in a field where our emotions are an open loop – we affect each other. When we’re with someone who’s blaming, we...
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