Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Calming and Opening (14 min)
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)
A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life.

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

Meditation: A Healing Breath (26:06 min.)
...a simple breathing practice that brings relaxation and inner ease.

Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is (25:57 min.)
"...relaxing back into the openness that's awake..."

Guided Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (38:02 min)
an open focus meditation from the 2015 IMCW fall week long retreat

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice (10 min)
Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath and sounds, then resting in awareness in silence for the final 3.5 minutes ~ from the...

Morning Instruction and Meditation (from retreat) (30:01 min.)
Morning instruction followed by a guided meditation from the 2015 IMCW fall retreat.

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (20:04 min)
Tara Brach guides us in relaxing back into presence.

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (17:13 min)
"It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgment drops...

Meditation: The Center of Now – with Body Scan (24:45)

Meditation: Simplicity of Presence (24:20 min.)

Heart Meditation: Letting Go of Judgment (18:10 min)
from the IMCW 2015 Labor Day Retreat

Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence (25:31 min.)

Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (23:12 min)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in the...

Meditation: Touching Peace (21:37 min.)
Meditation: Touching Peace - ...with a smile.
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