Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:05 min.)
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then...
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:46 min)
The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous system, and then invites a relaxed...
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:59 min)
This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxing back into the...
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Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body (18 min.)
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in...
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness (18:14 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: Living Presence with Body Scan (21:07 min.)
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again,...
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Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (21:23 min.)
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness...
Guided Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life (15 min.)
Note: Over these five weeks of the Introduction to Mindfulness series, Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation, Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life, to...
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guides attention through the...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:40 min.)
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the...
Guided Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness – Metta (17:05 min.)
This guided meditation, grounded in the practice of Metta, invites us to awaken the heart by softening the body and quieting the mind. We begin with the simple image of a...
Heart Meditation: Taking in the Goodness (24:08 min.)
Taking in the Goodness: Rumi said, “Whenever some kindness comes to you, turn that way – toward the source of kindness.” This meditation guides us to look for the source of...
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (21:38 min.)
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds,...
Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence (23:53 min.)
This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to...
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min)
In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This meditation reconnects by opening all the senses,...
Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:56 min.)
We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness...
Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:40 min.)
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:39 min.)
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the...
Meditation: Living Presence (21:08 min.)
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again,...
Meditation: Embodied Metta (19:36 min.)
Lovingkindness becomes full when it is energetically experienced in our bodies. This meditation guides us in awakening the receptivity, warmth and openness of metta through our...