We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then we open our attention to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence….
Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (18:50 min)
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Blog: Turning Toward Fear with RAIN
…Learning to directly face anxiety and fear with the RAIN meditation—Recognize, Allow, Investigate, and Nurture—gives you a pathway to inner transformation and a fearless heart. Recognizing the Trance After a…
Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (23:48 min.)
This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base. The…
Meditation: Living Presence – with Body Scan (17 min)
A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play of sensations. We then deepen attention…
Meditation: The Return to Presence – Rest Your Mind in What Is (21:17 min.)
It’s natural that our attention wanders, and the more we relax back, the more that becomes our habit…returning to presence. This meditation opens with conscious breathing and awakening through the…
From Longing to Belonging
…someone we barely know. In the course of a few hours of meditation, I had lived through courting, marrying, having a family with this man—over and over, in various versions….
Meditation: Living Presence (19:55 min)
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order…
Practicing Meditation: “Getting Out of Your Own Way”
The depth and vitality of a meditation practice depends on our sincerity, and an attitude of curiosity and friendliness. With this as the grounds, our practice will cultivate the clear…
Meditation: Know That You’re Here (19:37 min)
…holds every sound, sensation, and breath—revealing the natural peace and wakefulness that are always available. Whether you’re beginning a meditation practice or deepening an existing one, this meditation offers a…
Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (18:05 min)
The Buddha taught that one of the most powerful ways to begin meditation is by gladdening the mind—remembering what we love, resting in gratitude, and opening to the goodness that…
Guided Meditation: Space of Awareness (from Spring 2012 IMCW retreat) (28:52 min.)
This meditation is adapted from a meditation called “Open Focus.” Let whatever comes spontaneously to your awareness to be there as you follow along with the questions, which begin with,…
Article: Awakening From the Trance of Unworthiness
…identify as a separate self, we become the background “owner” of whatever occurs. Ajahn Buddhadasa, a twentieth-century Thai meditation master, describes this conditioning to attach an idea of self to…
Meditation: Meeting Anger with Awareness (15:16 min.)
…allow, investigate and nurture. [NOTE: this meditation was given at the end of Tara’s Anger and Transformation talk on 2020-06-10. A brief context is given, then the meditation begins…
Wednesday Night Meditation Class Information
Wednesday Night Meditation Class Information Tara’s weekly Wednesday night meditation class is webcasted via Tara’s YouTube Channel starting at 12:30pm ET (New York). The talks are pre-recorded to maximize broadcast…
Guided Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life (15 min.)
Note: Over these five weeks of the Introduction to Mindfulness series, Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation, Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with Our Inner Life, to help nurture a steady…
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Resources RAIN: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture New to Meditation Establishing a Meditation Practice Articles & Interviews Resources for Further Reading Online Courses Translations to Other Languages Vegan Resources Residential, Online…
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15:19 min)
Meditation: Relaxing with a Smile into Living Presence (15 min) – This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body….
Meditation: Energy and Source (19:35 min)
In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites you to step out of the trance of incessant thinking and return to the living presence of your body, breath, and awareness. As…
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind …listening to sounds (24 min)
Meditation: A Sky-Like Mind …listening to sounds… This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara…
Meditation: Awakening Compassion (11:35 min)
…what has touched us. This meditation uses the breath to guide us in letting in and contacting suffering, and offering out our love. With practice this meditation enables us to…
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