…discover deep communion through offering and letting in love. NOTE: This meditation is a favorite from the archives – from the end of the talk, “Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart…
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Meditation: Opening to Life (20:49 min.)
This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts,…
Meditation: At Home in the Moment (20:07 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: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (19:55)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all…
Questions, Guided Meditation and Group Sharing
An evening of questions, guided meditation and sharing led by Tara….
Cultivating Equanimity (Duck Meditation)
…two primary pathways for coming home to this natural state of balance and presence. Image: Anna Hirsch – positivelypolyanna.com Enjoy a series of cartoons on the RAIN meditation also done…
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: The Silence That is Listening (14:00 min)
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us…
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (18:36 min.)
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience….
Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly (18:08 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 resting…
Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence (18:14 min.)
This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in…
Meditation: Opening and Calming (14 min. video and audio)
This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. Explore more videos from Tara at…
Meditation: Center of Now (24:29 min)
– Tara is away on retreat, so asked for a meditation from the archives. This is from 2/1/2012….
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You (22:07 min.)
…flow of life. The meditation ends with the poem, “Hokusai Says” by Roger Keyes. Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He…
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: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:40)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all…
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness with Intro (24:31 min)
This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all…
Meditation: Invitation to Practice (no bell at end) (3 min)
…you into meditation. With no bell at the end, you can choose how long a session you would like – however will fit your day. (flute passage with permission from…
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (15 min)
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us…
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…