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
- 1524
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 minute) - (2016-07-13)
Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 minute) - (2016-07-13) ~ This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here.
Free download of Tara’s 1…
Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 2 (2016-07-06)
Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 2 (2016-07-06) - Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way…
Meditation: Rest in Awake Awareness (2016-07-06)
Meditation: Rest in Awake Awareness (2016-07-06) - When we allow the body to be a portal, we discover the ever-present background of awareness that includes the whole play of sensation, sound, aliven…
Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 1 (2016-06-29)
Stress and Everyday Nirvana - Part 1 (2016-06-29) - Our habitual view of stress is that it is a bad thing, an obstacle to healthy living and spiritual realization. These two talks look at how our way…
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You
Meditation: Letting Life Live Through You(2016-06-29) - This meditation begins with quieting the mind and collecting attention with the breath. We then awaken the senses through a body scan, open to …
Reconnecting with Our Lives - Healing from Dissociation (2016-06-22)
Reconnecting with Our Lives - Healing from Dissociation (2016-06-22) -
Dissociation is the universal mechanism for pulling away from the pain of “too much.” While it’s necessary and natural for endur…
Meditation: Know That You're Here (2016-06-22)
Meditation: Know That You're Here (2016-06-22) - We spend many moments in a trance, time traveling to the past and future, lost in a virtual reality. This meditation helps us collect our attention wi…
Morning Question and Response on Retreat (2016-05-11)
Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-11) - Tara responds to questions including deepening our meditation practice, working with desire, and the RAIN practice.
Free download of Tara’s 1…
Remembering What Matters - Aspiration and Intention (from 2013-01-30)
Remembering What Matters - Aspiration and Intention (from 2013-01-30) ~ Our conscious aspiration toward awakening is what energizes the spiritual path. This talk reviews the main characteristic of a …
Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (2016-05-12) (from retreat)
Meditation: Gladdening the Mind (2016-05-12) (from retreat) - The Buddha taught the value of gladdening the mind. This meditation begins with an inquiry on what we are most grateful for - what we lov…
Three Gestures of Love (2016-06-08)
Three Gestures of Love (2016-06-08) - If we inquire “what is between me and presence” we usually find we’ve been caught inside a limiting story of self, contracted by wants and fears. This talk explo…
Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness - from retreat (2016-05-09)
Meditation: The Mystery of Aliveness (2016-05-09) - This meditation from the morning of spring retreat begins with a body scan, then widens to include sounds, senses and open energetic awareness. Inc…
Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (2016-06-01)
Reflection: Waking Up from Limiting Beliefs (2016-06-01) - A guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict. Full talk, "Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves fro…
Real But Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs (2016-06-01)
Real But Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs (2016-06-01) -
Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of se…
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (2016-06-01)
Meditation: The Silence That is Listening (2016-06-01) - Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasize…
Morning Questions and Response from Retreat (2016-05-09)
Morning Question and Response from Retreat (2016-05-09) - Tara responds to questions on deepening our meditation practice, working with unpleasant and pleasant thoughts, and forgiveness.
Free downloa…
Happy for No Reason - Part 2 (2016-05-25)
Happy for No Reason - Part 2 (2016-05-25) - These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the he…
Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (2016-05-25)
Meditation: Living Presence with Body Scan (2016-05-25) - A key pathway to full presence is awakening through the body. This meditation guides us through a body scan, relaxing and receiving the play …
Happy for No Reason - Part 1 (2016-05-18)
Happy for No Reason - Part 1 (2016-05-18) - These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the he…
Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (2016-05-18)
Meditation: Letting Life Live through You (2016-05-18) - This meditation awakens the senses and then guides us into the wakeful openness that includes the whole play of sensations, feelings and sound…