Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (22:07 min.)
This guided meditation invites you into the living presence that is always here—an awake awareness that can hold the changing waves of sensation, emotion, and thought with...
Meditation: Living Presence (21:35 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: Touching Peace (23:12 min.)
This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax...
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Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:31 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: Widening Rings of Being (20:26 min.)
If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the...
Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness (19:42 min.)
Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole...
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Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (21:46 min)
No matter how far you’ve wandered, this heartspace – this awake tender awareness – is only a half-breath of remembrance away. This meditation awakens attention to the space of...
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart (25:39 min.)
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever...
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (22:19 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: Receiving This Life in Awareness (22:37 min)
In our everyday life we are conditioned to feel that life is happening to us, or that we are the doer. This meditation deconditions that self-centrality by bringing attention to...
Meditation: In the Body (20:29 min.)
This guided meditation invites you to gently come home to the aliveness of the body. Through mindful awareness, you’ll learn to soften tension, release mental agitation, and rest...
Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:10 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: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.)
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us...
Meditation: Resting in Knowing (22:11 min.)
Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of...
Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (17:34 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: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down” (18:40 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: Being Here (20:53 min.)
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to...
Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:32 min.)
Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and...
Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to...
Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (20:41 min.)
“Peace is this moment without judgment,” writes poet Dorothy Hunt, “this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.” This meditation is a guide to opening to...