Tara Brach
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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Jan 17, 2014 • 0sec
Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk)
2013-12-29 - Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) - It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three essential facets of the pathway to awakening: Leaving the fortress of aversive judgment, entering the wilderness of our embodied being and encircling this life with love.
Jan 17, 2014 • 6min
Walking Meditation Instructions (from retreat)
2013-12-28 - Walking Meditation Instruction (from the IMCW 2013 New Year's retreat)
Jan 11, 2014 • 55min
Path of True Refuge
2014-01-08 - Path of True Refuge - This talk explores the three archetypal gateways to liberation - awareness (Buddha), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha). It includes guided reflections and a refuge ceremony that can help us discover the path “inside out” through daily life.
Jan 11, 2014 • 28min
Guided Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence
2014-01-08 - Guided Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence
Jan 3, 2014 • 52min
Part 2: The Sure Heart's Release
2011-02-16 - Part 2 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.
Jan 3, 2014 • 24min
Guided Meditation: The Center of Now - Includes Body Scan
2011-02-16 - Guided Meditation: The Center of Now - Includes Body Scan
Dec 27, 2013 • 24min
Guided Meditation: The Sky of Awareness
2011-02-09 - Guided Meditation - The Sky of Awareness
Dec 26, 2013 • 60min
Part 1: The Sure Heart's Release
2011-02-29 - Part 1 - The Sure Heart's release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.
No class on December 25 - enjoy a favorite from 2011.
Dec 21, 2013 • 52min
Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love
2013-12-18 - Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love - This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence - in relating inwardly and in communicating with others - that awakens and frees our hearts.
Included at the end: "Holiday Dharma" - fun and song from La Sarmiento as part of IMCW's 2013 winter solstice celebration.
Dec 21, 2013 • 26min
Guided Meditation: Being Presence 2
2013-12-18 - Guided Meditation: Being Presence 2
