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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.

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Update frequency
every 3 days
Average duration
38 minutes
Episodes
1524
Years Active
2010 - 2025
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Part 2 - Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14)

Part 2 - Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14)

Part 2 – Compassion - Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-14) - Compassion - the tender resonance of heart -  awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerabi…

00:51:51  |   Fri 16 Feb 2018
Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14)

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14)

Meditation: Awareness Is Our Home (2018-02-14) - This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing fl…

00:21:33  |   Thu 15 Feb 2018
Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07}

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07}

Part 1 ~ Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love (2018-02-07) ~ Lovingkindness: We awaken our natural lovingkindness by learning to attend to and take in the goodness of this life.

This seri…

00:54:12  |   Fri 09 Feb 2018
Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07)

Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07)

Meditation: Living Presence (2018-02-07) - 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 …

00:21:20  |   Thu 08 Feb 2018
Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31)

Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31)

Part 3 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-31) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same condition…

00:52:24  |   Sat 03 Feb 2018
Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (2018-01-31)

Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (2018-01-31)

This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring the gap between though…

00:21:04  |   Fri 02 Feb 2018
Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24)

Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24)

Part 2 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-24) - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same condition…

00:48:55  |   Fri 26 Jan 2018
Meditation: Resting in Reality (2018-01-24)

Meditation: Resting in Reality (2018-01-24)

Meditation: Resting in Reality - This guided practice awakens attention to sensations, sounds, space and aliveness, and encourages a continued “relaxing open” from thoughts into the living stream of …

00:23:01  |   Fri 26 Jan 2018
Part 1 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-17)

Part 1 - Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us (2018-01-17)

Freedom from Othering: Undoing the Myths that Imprison Us - Part 1 - A primary source of our suffering is the conditioning to create “bad other,” or “inferior other.” This same conditioning leads us …

00:46:55  |   Sat 20 Jan 2018
Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17)

Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17)

Meditation: Receiving Life with an Open Awareness (2018-01-17) - We begin with listening and then bring a receptive attention to experience the life of the body. We then open the attention to the who…

00:20:45  |   Thu 18 Jan 2018
Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart  (2018-01-10)

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10)

Winds of Homecoming: How Intention Frees our Heart (2018-01-10) - The Buddha taught that we live our lives on the tip of intention, it is the seed of our future. This talk explores the difference bet…

00:50:42  |   Sat 13 Jan 2018
Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10)

Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10)

Meditation: Space and Aliveness and Awareness (2018-01-10) - This meditation engages the breath in a way that it connects us with our energetic aliveness and the space that holds and is intrinsic to …

00:21:37  |   Thu 11 Jan 2018
Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom (2018-01-03)

Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom (2018-01-03)

Three Gateways to Peace and Freedom - This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness. We look at the outer and inner aspects of each refuge, and then through guided refl…

00:55:08  |   Fri 05 Jan 2018
New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2018-01-03)

New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (2018-01-03)

New Year's Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence - Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, …

00:22:24  |   Thu 04 Jan 2018
Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28)

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28)

Remembering and Choosing Loving Presence (retreat talk) (2017-12-28) - We are conditioned to go into a limbic trance—an emotional reactivity to life within and around us—that keeps us identified with…

01:03:10  |   Fri 29 Dec 2017
Meditation: Basic Body Scan (2017-12-28)

Meditation: Basic Body Scan (2017-12-28)

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2017-12-28) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2017 New Year retreat, Tara offers an introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath…

00:20:01  |   Thu 28 Dec 2017
My Religion is Kindness – Part 2  (2017-12-20)

My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 (2017-12-20)

My Religion is Kindness – Part 2 ~ Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armored to a free and loving heart. The first looks at how we can a…

00:32:39  |   Sat 23 Dec 2017
Meditation: “Yes” to Life (2017-12-20)

Meditation: “Yes” to Life (2017-12-20)

2017-12-20 - Meditation: “Yes” to Life (2017-12-20) - This guided practice awakens a relaxed and friendly attention that rests in the breath and opens to whatever is arising. We deepen that presence …

00:13:01  |   Fri 22 Dec 2017
Meditation: Transforming Fear (2017-12-06)

Meditation: Transforming Fear (2017-12-06)

Meditation: Transforming Fear - This guided practice invites us to identify a situation where we habitually become anxious or fearful, and then to explore bringing mindfulness and self-compassion to …

00:11:19  |   Tue 19 Dec 2017
My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13)

My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13)

My Religion is Kindness - Part 1 (2017-12-13) - Authentic kindness must include the life within us. These two talks examine the movement from an armored to a free and loving heart. The first looks at…

00:54:24  |   Sat 16 Dec 2017
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