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: 1523
Years Active: 2010 - 2025

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Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (2015-11-25)

Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list.

00:23:12 | Sat 28 Nov 2015

Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with Oms) (2015-11-25)

Meditation: Awake and Open Awareness (with community chanting Om's) (2015-11-25)

Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her email list…

00:28:02 | Sat 28 Nov 2015

Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat)(2015-10-12)

Heart Meditation: Loving Presence (from retreat)(2015-10-12) - Scanning the body, filling it with the image of a smile, meditation continues with loving presence of someone easy to love, our own bein…

00:33:55 | Sun 22 Nov 2015

Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-18)

Part 2: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-18) - While we have strong conditioning to react to aggression with more aggression, we have the capacity to pause, and instead deepen…

00:53:37 | Fri 20 Nov 2015

Instructions on Working with Trauma - Q and A from Retreat (2015-04-20)

Instructions on Working with Trauma - Q and A from Retreat (2015-04-20) - a short segment that includes a message on working with trauma as part of a morning question-response session at the IMCW 201…

00:13:15 | Fri 20 Nov 2015

Part 1: Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-11)

Awakening through Anger - The U-Turn to Freedom (2015-11-11) - Anger is naturally triggered when we feel an obstacle to meeting our needs. How do we honor the intelligence within anger, but not get h…

00:56:35 | Fri 13 Nov 2015

Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (2015-11-11)

Meditation: The Heartspace That is Home (2015-11-11) - This meditation awakens attention to the space of awareness, and then explores how this awake awareness is experienced as heartspace, the vast t…

00:26:47 | Fri 13 Nov 2015

Compass of Our Heart (2015-11-04)

Compass of Our Heart (2015-11-04) - All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, w…

00:50:27 | Fri 06 Nov 2015

2015-10-10-Morning-Instruction-and-Meditation (from retreat)

2015-10-10-Morning-Instruction-and-Meditation (from the IMCW fall residential retreat)

Free download of Tara’s new 10 min meditation: “Mindful Breathing: Finding Calm and Ease” when you join her emai…

00:30:01 | Thu 05 Nov 2015

Relating Wisely with Imperfection (2015-10-28)

Relating Wisely with Imperfection (2015-10-28) - Our survival brain reacts to perceived imperfection with aversion and anxiety, and if we are habituated to this reaction, we become imprisoned in the …

00:54:22 | Fri 30 Oct 2015

Meditation: A Healing Breath (2015-10-28)

Meditation: A Healing Breath (2015-10-28) - This meditation introduces a simple breathing practice that brings relaxation and inner ease.

00:26:06 | Fri 30 Oct 2015

Awakening Beyond Self (2015-10-21)

Awakening Beyond Self (2015-10-21) - Suffering is our call to deepen attention and discover the truth of who we are beyond the identity of a separate, deficient self. This talk examines how thoughts,…

00:59:49 | Sat 24 Oct 2015

Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is (2015-10-21)

00:25:57 | Sat 24 Oct 2015

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice (from retreat) (2015-10-10)

Ten-Minute Basic Meditation Practice (from the first morning instructions at the 2015 IMCW fall retreat) (2015-10-10)

00:10:33 | Tue 20 Oct 2015

Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves (retreat talk) (2015-10-11)

(Retreat talk) Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves (2015-10-11) - In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at…

01:04:37 | Sun 18 Oct 2015

Retreat Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (2015-10-15)

Retreat Meditation: Radiant Empty Heart (2015-10-15) - an open focus meditation given at the 2015 IMCW Fall 7-day Residential Retreat

00:38:02 | Sat 17 Oct 2015

Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life (2015-10-07)

Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life (2015-10-07) - How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice th…

00:52:30 | Fri 09 Oct 2015

Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence (2015-10-07)