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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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20:10

Meditation: The Blessings of Yes (20:10 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/09/11

When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness.

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01:20:40

Awakening Trust in a Fractured World, Part 1

Tara Brach ·

2025/09/05

In an age of polarization, conspiracy thinking, and deepening mistrust, how can we cultivate a trust that is wise and healing –for our own heart and the world? This talk explores the personal and collective forces that foster mistrust, and through reflection and applied practices, we’ll explore how to nurture a trust in basic goodness and a felt sense of belonging, even in the most divided times.

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12:30

Meditation: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/09/04

This brief practice calls on conscious breathing, relaxing, letting go and a touch of lovingkindness to nurture inner balance, harmony and ease. The post Meditation: A Relaxed, Open Presence (12:30 min.) appeared first on Tara Brach.

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01:01:04

Presence and Compassion in a Violent World

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/28

As our societies unravel in fear and reactivity, we are called to live from our most awake and wise heart. This talk and meditation was first offered to Satyam, a community of Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals devoted to creating a future of justice, safety, freedom, and dignity for all. It invites us to move beyond the conditioning of “bad-othering,” and to cultivate clarity, compassion, and the capacity to respond in ways that seed healing. In this talk, Tara explores: how the trance

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22:11

Meditation: Resting in Knowing (22:11 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/28

Behind the activity of thinking, and the ever-changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings, there is a great and awake silence that holds all that unfolds. This space of awareness is our formless essence, and learning to open and rest into this alert, knowing vastness has the blessings of homecoming.

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01:01:36

From Head to Heart

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/21

If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart. In this talk, Tara explores: * how fear-based thoughts create suffering and keep us locked in cycles of insecurity and separation. * the pathway of

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17:34

Meditation: Opening to the Mystery (17:34 min)

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/21

"It only takes a reminder to breathe, a moment to be still, and just like that, something in me settles, softens, makes space for imperfection. The harsh voice of judgment drops to a whisper and I remember again that life isn’t a relay race; that we will all cross the finish line; that waking up to life is what we were born for. As many times as I forget, catch myself charging forward without even knowing where I’m going, that many times I can make the choice to stop, to breathe, and be, and walk

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54:11

Embodied Presence - Portal to the Sacred, Part 2

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/14

This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical and emotional pain, and the gifts of love, wisdom, creativity and aliveness that arise as we learn to fully inhabit these living forms and all our senses with awareness. In this talk, Tara explores: how embodied presence awakens love, creativity, and wisdom—inviting us to meet life’s moments with full

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18:40

Meditation: Entering Heartspace with the “Smile-Down”...

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/14

The practice of visualizing and feeling a smile spreading through the body helps us access the natural tenderness and openness of our being. This meditation guides us in the smile-down, and then invites a full opening and resting in openhearted presence. We close by bringing that awake heart to an area of difficulty in our life.

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51:48

Embodied Presence - Portal to the Sacred, Part 1

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/07

This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical and emotional pain, and the gifts of love, wisdom, creativity and aliveness that arise as we learn to fully inhabit these living forms and all our senses with awareness. In part 1, Tara explores: how embodied presence is the gateway to healing, love, and spiritual connection. the four common

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20:53

Meditation: Being Here (20:53 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/08/07

We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; relax through our bodies; and then include the changing dance of sounds, sensations and feeling in open awareness. Our practice is to recognize the quality of Hereness, and when we drift, return again to this open presence, relaxing with the changing flow of life. https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-being-here-2-2/

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57:25

Listening to the Song – Part 2

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/31

Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if we are to navigate the great divides that separate us from our inner life and others. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the fears and vulnerability that ask for our attention. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that

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21:32

Meditation: The Silence that is Listening (21:32 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/31

Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself.

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58:08

The Transformative Power of Deep Listening: Healing...

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/24

Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. And given our current times, this capacity is essential if we are to navigate the great divides that separate us from our inner life and others. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the fears and vulnerability that ask for our attention. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that

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20:29

Meditation: The Sky-like Mind (20:29 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/24

This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to deepen the experience of receptivity and openness. The meditation progresses to include all experience - sounds, sensations, thoughts, feelings - in the vast, transparent, timeless space of awareness.

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55:07

The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself...

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/17

What if a key to personal and collective transformation lies in reclaiming our deep capacities for presence and imagination? In this two-part series, we’ll explore how mindfulness awakens us from the trance of fear and separation, reconnecting us with our innate clarity and compassion. And we’ll discover how imagination, when grounded in presence, becomes a superpower—allowing us to envision new possibilities for our lives, our relationships, and our world. These talks include reflections that

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20:41

Meditation: Pathway to Inner Peace (20:41 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/17

“Peace is this moment without judgment,” writes poet Dorothy Hunt, “this moment in the heart-space where everything that is, is welcome.” This meditation is a guide to opening to the truth of what’s here, and meeting it with a gentle, allowing presence. As we do, we can touch the inner peace of non-judging awareness, and source our actions in that balance and wisdom.

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01:03:18

The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself...

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/10

This two-talk series explores how spiritual imagination can awaken us to our deepest potential for healing and transformation. In times of fear and division, our imagination often contracts, fueling separation and suffering, yet through mindful presence we can reconnect with our basic goodness and the goodness in others. Through inquiry and story, we can imagine what’s possible—personally and collectively—when we trust in our shared capacity for change, belonging, and wise hope.

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18:55

Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (18:55 min.)

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/10

This meditation scans through the body – arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the sea coming and going. And in the background, experiencing an alert inner stillness – a vast presence from which all activity pours forth.

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01:03:36

Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings

Tara Brach ·

2025/07/03

The ritual of Namaste – bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others – helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home. In this talk, Tara explores the sacred meaning of “Namaste” as a living practice—an invitation to see past the masks we wear and honor the light and goodness in all beings. how our “spacesuit self”—a conditioned identity shaped by

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