Tara Brach
Tara Brach, Ph.D is an internationally known meditation teacher and author of bestselling Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices. The podcast addresses the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 1523
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home - This meditation guides us in awakening our awareness by opening to all our senses and recognizing the alert presence that is always, already here. By relaxin…
Freedom Beyond Selfing
Freedom Beyond Selfing - We spend many moments in a trance of selfing - preoccupied with the stories, wants and fears of what feels to be a separate self. The suffering is that this self-fixation obs…
Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be
Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be - 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 t…
IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel
IntraConnected – Part 2: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets formed,…
Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments
Meditation: "Yes" to Our Moments - When we open without resistance to the changing flow of aliveness, we discover the formless presence that is our true home. This meditation guides us through a body…
IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel
IntraConnected – Part 1: Conversation with Tara and Dan Siegel - In this conversation, Tara interviews Dan about the themes in his new book, IntraConnected. They explore how our identity gets formed,…
Meditation: Body and Spirit
Meditation: Body and Spirit - As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem (…
Our True Nature – Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk)
Our True Nature - Emptiness Dancing (retreat talk) - The most profound question in spiritual life is “who (or what) am I?” This talk explores ways of inquiring into the nature of awareness, and the b…
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open Awareness - Our habit is to try to manage our experience from a mental control tower. This meditation awakens us through the body, and then invites us to rest in th…
Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation
Embracing Life and Realizing the Nature of Awareness - Tara and Mingyur Rinpoche in Conversation -
In this interview, Mingyur Rinpoche shares about his 4 1/2 years on a wandering retreat and the less…
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat)
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (from retreat) - We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This medit…
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart
A Grateful, Giving, Happy Heart - Gratitude is like breathing in – letting ourselves be touched by the goodness in others and in our world. Generosity is like breathing out – sensing our mutual belon…
Meditation: Touching Peace
Meditation: Touching Peace - This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and …
The Calling of These Times - Part 2
The Calling of These Times - Part 2 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current g…
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart
Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart - In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart …
The Calling of These Times - Part 1
The Calling of These Times - Part 1 - The Dalai Lama invites us to trust in the power of heart and awareness to awake through all circumstances. What does that look like in the midst of our current g…
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves - 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 wi…
Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope
Three Practices for Nurturing Wise Hope - Wise or spiritual hope includes the aspiration to manifest our full potential, individually and collectively, and the trust that this is possible. This talk …
Meditation: Befriending Our Experience
Meditation: Befriending Our Experience - We begin the meditation with a sense of befriending our experience - with an intention towards gentleness and kindness as the attention goes inward. We scan t…
Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene
Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene -
What gives us the inner strength to meet life’s challenges with resilience, heart and wisdom? Drawing on themes in Lori…