This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the…
Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (20:02 min.)
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Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:22 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go…
Brief Guided Meditation – with no bell at end (9 min.)
Given in the early morning on the first day of retreat, this recording can settle you into a meditation of any length. There is no bell at the end, so…
Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
…evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives. Listen: Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us Visit: Community Wisdom on Sleep “Be empty of…
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: 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: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:57 min.)
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we…
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality (19:04 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…
Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:07 min.)
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention…
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (23:30 min.)
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…
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…
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (22:56 min.)
We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds…
Meditation: Calming and Opening (14 min)
This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. photo: Mary VanDevanter…
Meditation: Seeing the Goodness (6:11 min)
When we focus on what we appreciate in others, our very attention helps allow that person to shine. (6:11 min) (a practice meditation from the end of “Secret Beauty –…
Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is (19:00 min.)
Tara taught on retreat this week, so wanted to share this meditation from 2010 with you.
Meditation: Relaxing Open (17:53 min)
This meditation invites the shift from thinking into open awareness. Our practice is to awaken the senses – feeling aliveness, listening to sound – and then rest as the awareness…
Meditation Instructions with Question/Response (14 min)(retreat)
“…discover what’s happening here, beyond the veil of thinking.” Tara gives additional instructions and responds to questions after the morning meditation at the 2015 IMCW New Year retreat. photo: JonathanFoust.com…
Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)
This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home. When…
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…
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…
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