One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This meditation guides us…
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence – This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming…
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life – This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the…
Metta Meditation – Happiness (Lovingkindness Practice) – (same afternoon as Meditation: Loving This Life – Happiness (Lovingkindness Practice), but longer – 26 min)…
Meditation: Befriending Our Experience We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience – with an intention towards gentleness and kindness as the attention goes inward. We scan…
…This meditation, “Awakening Compassion,” is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence (meditation given at the 2011 IMCW New Year’s Silent retreat)….
Guided Meditation: Metta (Lovingkindness) – Short heart meditation from the end of the talk, “Part 1: Universal Faces of Love” (audio and video)…
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations,…
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 moment to moment…
The Weekly Meditation Class is webcasted each Wednesday via Tara’s YouTube Channel starting at 12:00 pm ET (New York time). The class is pre-recorded to maximize broadcast quality and is…
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness ~ In daily life we often leave ourselves, get lost in thoughts, and cut off from a direct, openhearted experience of our life. This…
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own…
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these…
Meditation: Breath and Presence – For many, relaxing and attending to the movement of the breath provides a powerful anchor for presence. This guided meditation guides us in establishing the…
Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment – When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment to moment experience. This…
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 resting…
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. In this guided meditation, we begin by opening to sound…
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 changing…
Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body…
Meditation – Letting Life Live Through You – This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body scan,…
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