Guided Meditations
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Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:12 min.)
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and...
Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile (18:45 min)
This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By...
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 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...
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Meditation: Awareness and Flow (20:17 min.)
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the...
Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.)
The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our...
Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence (20 min.)
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the...
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Meditation: Wakeful, Open Awareness (19:39 min.)
When we awaken our senses, we can sense in the background a wakeful openness that is our true home. This meditation guides us by first attending to the space, aliveness and...
Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (16:58 min.)
Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence...
Meditation: Breath by Breath – Relaxing with Our Life (18:39 min.)
The breath can be a powerful portal to presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing with the breath, including the breath in a body scan, and then allowing the breath to serve...
Meditation: Opening to Life (20:49 min.)
This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by...
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...