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
Stories That Imprison Our Heart - Part 2
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing fai…
Meditation: Arriving in Embodied Presence (23:59 min)
This meditation guides you to arrive fully in embodied presence—awakening through the senses, relaxing into the breath, and gently returning to the aliveness of the here and now. With a nurturing ble…
Stories That Imprison Our Heart - Part 1
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of facing fail…
Meditation: Homecoming to Our Life Breath (16:06 min.)
Perhaps the most universal place to collect and deepen attention is the breath. This meditation begins with an intentional breath that calms the nervous system, and then opens to a clear, intimate p…
The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 2
These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, t…
Meditation: Breathing into Presence (19:46 min)
The breath can be our gateway into the boundless awareness that holds all life. This meditation begins with a breath that calms our nervous system, and then invites a relaxed presence with the breath…
The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1
This two-talk series explores our capacity to be tender – sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by f…
Meditation: Awake Awareness is Our Home (19:08 min)
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 relaxing back into the presence over and over, we…
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence, Part 5
The final session of this series explores the most powerful strategies Tara knows to bring mindfulness alive in all facets of daily living. These informal practices help our entire life to become an …
Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and a…
Introduction to Mindfulness: Mindfulness of Thoughts – Part 4
This talk examines how the trance of thinking imprisons us, veiling our full aliveness, love, and spiritual essence. Through contemplative reflections and short guided practices, we’ll explore pathwa…
Meditation: Cultivating a Mindful Awareness
Mindfulness means paying attention on purpose to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation invites us to collect our attention with the breath and use the breath as a home base for mindful pre…
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 3 (of a 5-week series)
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times.
This fresh…
Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again, learning to rest in the fo…
Introduction to Mindfulness: Part 2 - The Power of Heart Presence
NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life.
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced pr…
Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, …
Introduction to Mindfulness: The Power of Heart Presence – Part 1
Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced pr…
Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life
NOTE: Tara invites you to use this 15-minute meditation to help nurture a steady and strong practice during her upcoming Introduction to Mindfulness series.
Mindfulness Meditation, also known as Vipa…
Devotion: Grounds of a Path with Heart, Part 2
In this two-part series, we reflect on the power of devotion as a gateway to awakening that reconnects us with what we love most deeply. Together, we’ll look at how prayer and heartfelt longing can o…
Meditation: Relaxing into the Flow (25:03 min)
In this guided meditation, we are invited to rest in the aliveness of the present moment. Beginning with a reflection on intention, the practice guides attention through the body—softening, sensing,…