Tara Brach

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4.8
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9318 reviews
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1363 episodes
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Date created
2007/09/27
Average duration
41 min.
Release period
4 days

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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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“Getting Over Yourself”: A conversation with Tara Brach and Stephen Josephs
2024/02/22
Executive coach and author Stephen Josephs has worked with many top business leaders, guiding them in transcending the egoic conditioning that limit their impact on other people, and on societal change. In this conversation we look at what he’s learned about inner freedom and awakening from his own trauma, from 60 years of spiritual practice, from models of adult development, and from the poetry of Lao Tzu. Stephen and Tara have been close friends for over 50 years, and she considers him her first inspiration for a dedicated practice of meditation. His website is stephenjosephs.com.
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Meditation: A Welcoming Heartspace
2024/02/22
Our pathway to peace and happiness is through opening, with tenderness, to our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation guides us first to be awake in our body and senses, and then to include the changing flow of life in a spacious, kind heart. We close with a short verse from poet Dorothy Hunt - Peace Is This Moment Without Judgment. 
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Letting Go of Controlling – Part 2: The Path of Freedom
2024/02/15
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.  This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart. We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go. The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.
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Guided Meditation: The Center of Now
2024/02/15
This meditation awakens our senses, then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now.  “Listening to and feeling, the changing flow - right here, right in the center of now.”
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What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz
2024/02/08
What is the Path to Peace? A conversation with Tara Brach and Assaf Katz - Assaf Katz is an activist and Buddhist teacher in Israel who opposes the Israeli governments’ devastating military action and long occupation in Palestine, and is dedicated to finding a path to peace. This conversation was part of an event for the Tovana mediation community in Israel. We talk about the inner process behind my circulation of a short piece responding to the violence in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel; how we can work with strong reactive emotions and trauma; what helps us to speak and act in a way that is truly serves the greater good, and what can give us hope for eventual peace. This offering includes the recording of a question/response period and a sharing of prayers. Read the article "What is Love Asking From Us?": https://www.tarabrach.com/blog-what-is-love-asking-from-us/
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Meditation: Relaxed and Alert
2024/02/07
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, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation ends with a sense of melting into community – relaxed and alert.
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Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom
2024/02/01
Letting Go of Controlling – Part 1: The Path of Freedom - 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. This series of talks explores how we can let go in four key domains of controlling: clinging to thoughts, resisting feelings, holding tight to beliefs and armoring our heart. We look at how egoic controlling manifests individually and as a society; the process of awakening from exclusive identification with a separate ego/self; what it means to die into a larger reality and the similarities of psychedelics and meditation in the process of letting go. The gift of releasing the grip of controlling is true freedom; inhabiting the intrinsic beauty of our beings, and having our lives be an expression of creativity, wisdom and love.
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Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be
2024/02/01
Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be - This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
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Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer
2024/01/25
Changing Unhealthy Habits of Eating - A Conversation between Tara and Judson Brewer - Countless people live with shame and distress about their eating. Dr. Judson Brewer, scientist, professor and author of “The Hunger Habit” (https://drjud.com/the-hunger-habit/) and many other groundbreaking books, is a thought leader in the field of habit change. He’s also a decades long practitioner of mindfulness, and a dear colleague and friend. In this conversation we explore how combining mindfulness practice with a basic understanding of habit change science can free us from unhealthy eating habits. We also look at the larger societal forces that drive overconsumption, as well as the shame that eating behaviors can evoke.
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Meditation: Listening to our Heart
2024/01/25
Meditation: Listening to our Heart - True listening arouses an open receptive presence that can be truly healing. This meditation awakens a listening presence; first bringing that receptive awareness to sensations and sounds, and then offering that presence to the tenderness and vulnerability of our heart.
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How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2
2024/01/18
How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 2 - The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi
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Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness
2024/01/17
Meditation: Receiving Life in Open, Awake Awareness - 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 arising and passing life. In the final part of the practice, we explore how awake awareness is receiving the experience of our heart and offer blessings to our inner life and all living beings.
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4.8 out of 5
9318 reviews
Emybear09 2024/02/21
Love
Found this podcast at a time when I needed it the most. So grateful for you Tara Brach. Thank you Thank you Thank you
Osmilli 2024/02/19
Tara is a gift!
Tara’s talks and meditations are such a source of joy and peace for me every time I listen! Beyond grateful for her podcast!
JohnMurican 2024/02/11
Love the meditations!!
Such a great collection of meditations. Thank you for sharing!!
Dannycash48 2024/02/13
Disappointed
It’s fine to call on israel for a ceasefire in gaza, but to not also call on hamas to unconditionally surrender is an intellectually dishonest positio...
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lc1183 2024/02/10
She is a gift
She is the real deal. She walks the walk. She soothes me and gets me closer to a place of peace and understanding. So grateful for her, her bravery, h...
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203gray 2024/02/03
Awakening from the habits of false refuge
To address critiques of Dr. Brewer joining Tara on her podcasts—his extensive research is based on how to use mindfulness to interrupt unhelpful habit...
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annemg 2024/01/28
Diet culture and Buddhism?
I absolutely love Tara’s podcasts. I have been an avid listener for the last six years plus. She is a remarkable in her talks and podcasts. She weav...
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Mandysoz 2024/01/23
Just Wow
My life has been moved and changed since I’ve started listening to Tara. Thank you for the light and love.
VeganLawyer 2023/12/30
A Gift
She is truly a gift to us all. Authentic, compassionate wisdom. Namaste.
Emmie Jones 2023/12/18
My church
I started listening to Tara on my long morning commutes to work. When I am grumpy or in autopilot Tara continually breaks down my walls and shakes me ...
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