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![Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:32 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-03-10.32.00-e1518737741897.jpg)
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:32 min.)
…When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation…
![Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here (19:46 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-02-12-23.59.46.jpg)
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here (19:46 min)
Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when we’re…
![Meditation: Listening to Life (18:23 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dog-3981506_1280-e1717022929290-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Listening to Life (18:23 min)
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,…
![Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-09-01-18.12.54-e1506033951702.jpg)
Meditation: Coming Home to Openhearted Awareness (19 min)
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…
![Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:19 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/wellness-geralt.jpg)
Meditation: Relax into Happiness (19:19 min.)
Meditation: Relax Into Happiness ~ Lama Gendun Rinpoche writes, “Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower, but it is already there, in relaxation and letting go.” This meditation…
![Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (16:58 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/62509349_10157367978814044_9034832838100254720_o-e1560461871233.jpg)
Meditation: Effortless and Wakeful Presence (16:58 min.)
Striving in meditation only creates more tension in our psyche and a solidified sense of self. This meditation invites us to awaken our senses and relax back into the presence…
![Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (19:49 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/animal-4129838_1920-e1556231266291.jpg)
Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body (19:49 min.)
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: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/backlit-1867975_1920-e1691622871480-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:27 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost…
![Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen (11:35 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-10-18-18.51.35-e1508437651682.jpg)
Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen (11:35 min)
Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation…
![Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dog-2559466_1920-e1544831987559.jpg)
Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us
…evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives – part 2 includes working with sleep issues. Listen: Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us…
![Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) (23:14 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-16-Donna-IMG-4428-copy-e1669858858631-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) (23:14 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then…
![Introduction to the Heart Practices (instruction and meditation from retreat) (39:55 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/flower-g79bf32cb1_1920-e1647623363896-1080x675.jpg)
Introduction to the Heart Practices (instruction and meditation from retreat) (39:55 min.)
These instructions on the heart practices were given at the IMCW 2012 Spring Retreat. A guided lovingkindness or “metta” meditation to open the heart, call on love, and come home…
![Guided Meditation: Space of Awareness (from Spring 2012 IMCW retreat)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2015-11-16-16.08.38-scaled-e1646966131891-1080x675.jpg)
Guided Meditation: Space of Awareness (from Spring 2012 IMCW retreat)
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,…
![Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dog-2785077_1920.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness (20 min.)
Meditation: Relaxed Attentiveness – The primary qualities of a healing and freeing presence are being alert, open and tender. This meditation arouses these qualities by engaging a mindful awareness of…
![Meditation: Listening to Life (18:15 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2023-02-01-324OldGuilford-IMG_9506-scaled-e1712773025998-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Listening to Life (18:15 min)
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,…
![Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/slide_252150_1554416_free.jpg)
Guided Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat) (34 min)
This meditation introduces the loving-kindness (metta) heart practice. After brief instruction, it begins with scanning the body, filling it gradually with the image of a smile. The meditation continues with…
![Meditation: Relaxing into Presence (14:46 min)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-07-08-19.31.30-scaled-e1674664572486-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxing into Presence (14:46 min)
Meditation – Relaxing into Presence (bell at end) This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep. https://youtu.be/OfxTy5v7yIA…
![Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:44 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Hunter_E_Hydrangea_3small.jpg)
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (19:44 min.)
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…
![Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:45 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-06-08-JMerrick-IMG_5041-scaled-e1718229993786-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:45 min.)
…When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation…