Guided Meditations
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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...
Reflection: RAIN – Entering the Wilderness (10:10 min)
This short reflection, guided by the acronym RAIN, engages mindfulness and compassion as we open to life that we’ve been pushing away. By including unlived life, we reconnect...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (22:18 min)
This meditation reconnects us to the vibratory aliveness of our bodies, and the space of awareness that suffuses that aliveness. We inhabit embodied awareness in the moments of...
Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (11:21 min)
Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (19:49 min)
This meditation begins by relaxing through the body, and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include sounds and sense the openness to life. At the center of the...
Meditation: Blessings of Love (11:31)
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: The Center of Now (22 min)
The portal to presence is awakening through the body from the inside out, and then opening to include sound in field of aliveness. This reveals the awake space that everything’s...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17 min.)
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness...
Meditation: Opening and Calming (14 min. video and audio)
This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. Explore more videos from Tara at her...
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (24:31 min)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all...
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:40)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to...
Reflection: The Power of Inquiry – Untangling Emotional Tangles using RAIN (10:30 min)
This short meditation helps us get unstuck from emotional difficulty with the practice of Inquiry. We use the acronym RAIN as a guide, starting with Recognizing and Allowing what...
Meditation: Space, Awareness and Letting Be (25 min)
This practice guides us into the openness of awareness, and then invites a deep resting, a letting be.
Meditation: Center of Now (24:29 min)
- 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)
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)
"...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.)
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)
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)
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.)
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...
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