Guided Meditations
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Meditation: At Home in the Moment (19:29 min)
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to...
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:08 min.)
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: Being a Kind Witness (18:01 min.)
Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and...
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Meditation: Openhearted Presence (19:26 min.)
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence. Écouter en-Français:...
Méditation : Présence à cœur ouvert (19:18 min)
Cette méditation nous guide à éveiller la pleine conscience par l’attention portée à nos sens et nous permet de nous reposer dans cet état d’éveil avec une présence réceptive et...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:11 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in...
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Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (9:45 min.)
One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing...
Meditation: Choosing Living Presence (19:14 min.)
A meditation on being present with our living, breathing life (includes body scan and chanting the Om’s in community – a favorite from Tara’s Wednesday night archives). Sense the...
Méditation: Choisir la vie présente (19:18 min.)
Une méditation qui nous amène à être présent avec notre vie, et la vie de notre respiration. Cette méditation est de Tara Brach. Elle est traduite et dite avec sa...
Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness (a Metta Practice)(16:30 min.)
This meditation turns us toward naturally arising happiness with the image of a smile, welcoming the aliveness and presence of each moment with the spirit of “yes” and then...
Meditation: Being Here (22:40 min.)(includes community OM’s)
This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (19:49 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: Sea of Loving Presence (22:14 min.)
In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and the entire field of...
Meditation: Letting Life Be (22:55 min.)
This meditation establishes an atmosphere of loving kindness with the “smile”; relaxes and awakens through the body; and guides us into a spacious presence. We then rest in that...
Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (18:14 min.)
This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life - sounds, sensations, aliveness - to live through us, resting...
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality (17:38 min.)
Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be...
Meditation: Being Here (with community OM’s) (20:43 min.)
We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; relax through our bodies; and...
Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” (18:29 min.)
The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This meditation guides us in the...
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (22:57 min.)
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that...
Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence (20:49 min.)
This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we...