Tara Brach

Tara Brach

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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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Your Awake Heart Is Calling You: Healing Separation and Returning to Loving Presence

<p>In this talk, we'll explore the deep evolutionary and spiritual currents that shape our lives—the pull of fear and separation, and the quiet, persistent call toward love, compassion, and belonging. …

Apr 03, 2026 · 56m

Meditation: Listening to our Heart (22:52 min)

<p>In this guided meditation, we are invited into a gentle, receptive presence—listening not only to sound, but to the living experience of our body and heart. Through mindful awareness of …

Apr 01, 2026 · 22m

Meditation: A Witnessing, Kind Presence (20:21 min)

<p class="MsoNormal">Starting with scanning through the body and awakening the senses, we then rest in presence, with the breath as a home base. The meditation invites an openness to whatever …

Mar 25, 2026 · 20m

Love-Based Activism: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Mohsen Mahdawi - Part I

<p class="MsoNormal">In this conversation, Tara is joined by Mohsen Mahdawi—Palestinian refugee, Buddhist practitioner, and courageous voice for justice—whose life bridges worlds that are so often held apart. Growing up in …

Mar 19, 2026 · 33m

Meditation: The Pathway of Deep Listening (21:16 min)

<p>Listening is an ideal template for awareness itself - it is naturally receptive, open and awake. This meditation invites a deep listening to and feeling our lives, and opens us …

Mar 18, 2026 · 21m

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 2

<p>How can the simple act of asking a sincere question awaken us from the trance of our habitual thinking? In this talk, Tara Brach explores the transformative power of spiritual …

Mar 12, 2026 · 57m

Meditation: Embodied Awareness (18 min.)

<div class= "et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_1_tb_body et_pb_specialty_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough"> <div class="et_pb_row_inner et_pb_row_inner_2_tb_body"> <div class= "et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et_pb_column_inner et_pb_column_inner_2_tb_body et-last-child"> <div class= "et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body"> <p>This guided meditation includes a full body scan, …

Mar 11, 2026 · 18m

The Power of Inquiry in Spiritual Awakening - Part 1

<p>Part I - In spiritual life, inquiry arises from our deep yearning to understand reality, and it involves bringing an interested, engaged attention to our immediate experience. These two talks …

Mar 05, 2026 · 56m

Meditation: Inhabiting Awake Awareness (21:49)

<p>This meditation begins with collecting attention with the breath, and awakens us to the experience of aliveness and inner space by scanning the body. We then open to receive all …

Mar 04, 2026 · 21m

Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers

<p>Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn …

Feb 26, 2026 · 1h 5m

Meditation: Know That You're Here (19:38 min)

<p>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 with our breath, awaken …

Feb 25, 2026 · 19m

The Bodhisattva Path—Nurturing the River of Caring

<p>As humans face the darkness of fear, violence, and division, something else is also stirring: an awakening field of courage, care, and connection. </p> <p>This talk explores the primitive survival …

Feb 19, 2026 · 51m

Meditation: Vipassana – Opening Our Hearts to Life as It Is (20 min.)

<p>This meditation awakens the senses with a mindful scanning of the body, establishes an anchor for presence, and invites us to arrive again and again, deepening the pathway home. When …

Feb 18, 2026 · 20m

Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace (18:27 min)

<p>In this guided meditation, we explore how true peace and happiness arise not from controlling life, but from gently opening to it. When we meet our moment-to-moment experience with tenderness …

Feb 12, 2026 · 18m

Letting go of Controlling: The Path of Freedom, Part 1

<p></p> <p>While it's natural to try to control our life experience, our chronic controlling cuts us off from presence and obscures the loving awareness that is our essence. …

Feb 05, 2026 · 1h 0m

Meditation: Relaxed and Alert (20:43 min.)

<p>This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long, deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, …

Feb 04, 2026 · 20m

3 Degrees Friendlier: Small Shifts That Transform Everything

<p class="MsoNormal">What might change if you were three degrees friendlier than you are now? Not more accommodating or self-sacrificing, but authentically friendlier—to your inner life, with others, and in how …

Jan 29, 2026 · 52m

Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (18:33 min.)

<p class="MsoNormal">This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the body. We then settle with the …

Jan 28, 2026 · 18m

Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness (20:34 min.)

<p>This meditation awakens a receptive attention to the senses, starting with physical sensations and opening to sound. Then we sense how open awake awareness is receiving the moment to moment …

Jan 21, 2026 · 20m

How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2

<p>What if hope is not something we cling to—but a capacity we can cultivate?<br /> In this talk, we'll explore how hope becomes a healing and liberating force when it …

Jan 21, 2026 · 58m