Talks and Meditations with Videos
A collection of all of Tara’s talks and meditations that include videos.
Also view Tara Talks – a web series of short videos from the full-length recordings.

The Gift of Self-Compassion: A Conversation with Tara Brach & Kristin Neff, PhD
This conversation includes what turned Tara toward a path of compassion in her early life, the evolution of the RAIN practice to include nurturing/compassion, the spiritual...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own...

Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own...

Meditation: Resting Your Heart in Presence (20:12 min.)
When we’re having difficulty, we typically tense up our body and mind, and armor our heart. This practice offers a pathway of relaxing that tension and tasting the peace that...

Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris
How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva...

The Courage to Say Yes – A Conversation with Tara and poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read...

The Sacred Work of Bridging Divides – Teachings from Roshi Joan Halifax and Tara Brach
There is no more relevant exploration than how we awaken to our connection as family, as belonging to this precious web of life. In their talks, Tara and Roshi Joan look at the...

Waking up from Bias: A Conversation with Tara and Anurag (Anu) Gupta
Given how our biases create separation and unfold into violence and suffering, this is a crucial domain for each of us to explore. In this interview, author and teacher Anurag...

Inner and Outer Democracy: The Practice of True Inclusion
Happiness and freedom arise as we include all parts of our being in a loving awareness. In this talk we explore how this inner work of inclusion is the grounds of democracy, and...

What is Love Asking from Us? A Conversation between Tara Brach & Gabor Maté
In this conversation, Tara Brach and Gabor Maté come together to explore the heart-wrenching situation in Gaza through the lens of the Bodhisattva path. Drawing from the...