Enjoy the sounds of the intense rainstorm that ran through Tara Brach’s meditation class at the Bethesda, MD River Road Unitarian Universalist Church that evening!…
Meditation with the Rain(storm) (25:55 min.)
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Meditation – Resting in Awareness (29:18 min.)
Tara leads a meditation on resting in awareness….
Guided Meditation: Relaxing the Heart (23:04 min.)
Tara explores relaxing the heart as guided meditation….
Smile Guided Meditation (25:29 min)
This meditation relaxes and opens our hearts with the image and felt sense of a smile. We then awaken all the senses and discover the vastness and full aliveness of…
Meditation: The Center of Now (16:29 min)
This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence,…
Guided Meditation on Listening (26:26 min.)
This guided meditation was given as a prelude to the November 17th talk on “A Listening Presence – Three Domains of Training.“…
Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence (19:34 min.)
This meditation guides us to rest in the aliveness of the changing stream of sensations, sounds and feelings. As we open to the awareness that includes all life, we touch…
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that…
Meditation: RAIN on Self-Blame (9:45 min.)
One of the greatest roots of suffering is being at war with ourselves. This meditation, based on the acronym RAIN (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture), guides us in releasing the armoring of blame, and…
Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)
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: Openhearted Presence (23:26 min.)
This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O’Donohue….
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness (27:01 min.)
In this meditation we are guided to discover the space and aliveness that fills the body, sense the space in the universe, and then to realize our Beingness as continuous…
Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence (22:30 min.)
Our experience includes a foreground of changing experience – sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts. In the background is an alert inner stillness, the awareness that is our true nature. This meditation…
Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:01 min.)
Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then…
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (21:42 min.)
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just…
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…
Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (19:57 min.)
The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of…
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be (16:48 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: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (18:56 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: Being Here (21:55 min.)
This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies, awaken…
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