Guided Meditations
Browse the entire library, or select a category below:
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:42 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...
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:32 min.)
This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the breath, and...
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:33 min.)
This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the...
Donations
Please consider a donation of any size—your generosity allows us to offer these talks and meditations freely.
Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness (21:30 min.)
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to...
Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As we...
Meditation: Meeting Life with a Kind Presence (21:28 min.)
This practice guides us to a receptive, kind presence by starting with listening, and moving through a body scan. We then rest in an open awareness, responding to whatever arises...
New to Meditation?
Get resources to help start your meditation practice.
Ready to Nourish Your Practice?
Check out Tara's "8 Essentials" Tipsheet
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...
Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:20 min)
This guided meditation practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us....
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness (16:06 min)
Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in that vast presence that...