This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds that arise…
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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 smile-down,…
New Year’s Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:27 min.)
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to…
A Brief Meditation: Gathering and Arriving in Presence (3:50 min.) with transcript
A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart. I invite…
Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (21:37 min.)
This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliveness and the space that holds and is intrinsic to all life. A body scan…
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (22:51 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…
Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:27 min.)
…in that heart-space including other beings in this world. Holding the world in your heart and sensing your prayer of care for all beings. ~ Tara (from the meditation) https://youtu.be/ymCohrE4b4A…
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…
Meditation: Dedicated to Maya Angelou – Being Home (23:49 min.)
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence – arriving into our bodies and meeting the present moment with the image of a smile. When the mind drifts, we relax back…
Meditation: Transforming Fear (11:19 min.)
…By engaging fear with an embodied and caring presence, we discover the fearless heart that includes but is not contracted by fear. NOTE: this meditation is from the end of…
Meditation: Basic Body Scan (20 min.)
From the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year’s retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness….
Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (23:12 min)
When our body and mind is relaxed, we become filled with a very awake, dynamic quality of presence. This meditation guides us in relaxing, opening our senses and resting in…
Meditation: Embodied Spirit (16:55 min.)
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence,…
Brief Inquiry – Intention in Meditation Practice (2:23 min.)
Brief Inquiry – Intention in Meditation Practice (2:23 min.)…
Meditation: Touching Peace (21:37 min.)
Meditation: Touching Peace – …with a smile….
Meditation: Refuge in Presence (18:26 min.)
…and body sensations. As we include whatever arises with a gentle and kind attention, our inner refuge becomes increasingly stable and openhearted. This meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer….
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (26:47 min.)
This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters to us. With a listening attention, becoming aware of sounds…
“Coming Back” – Meditation Instructions with Q and A
A special recording from the first morning of the 2015 IMCW Women’s Retreat that offers further guidance and addresses some frequently asked questions about meditation….
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life (27:44 min.)
We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us…
Meditation: Uprooting Limiting Beliefs with RAIN (9:21 min.)
This short meditation guides us in using RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture) when we discover we are caught in a limiting belief (an excerpt from the full talk, Freedom from the Prison of…