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: Calming and Opening (14 min)
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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: 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…
Meditation: Suffering and Compassion (8:07 min.)
This brief meditation is a version of the Tibetan Tonglen practice: With the support of the breath we allow ourselves to open to the realness of suffering, and then offer…
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…
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…
Guided Meditation: Opening to the Sea of Presence (19:53 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: Awake, Relaxed and Open (26:27 min.)
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing…
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: From Head to Full Being (18:57 min.)
When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and…
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: Letting Life Live through You (15:53 min)
This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound. We become fully awake and alive as we…
Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be (16:44 min.)
We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it…
Meditation: Embodied Awareness (22:18 min)
This meditation reconnects us to the vibratory aliveness of our bodies, and the space of awareness that suffuses that aliveness. We inhabit embodied awareness in the moments of non-doing, of…
Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness (17:22 min)
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow…
Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (20:48 min)
Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself – it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us…
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