This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others. Given at the 2015 IMCW New Year’s retreat, it is a “guided heart” practice and includes...
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only...
(from 2015 IMCW Labor Day retreat)The scales of judgment confine us in a limited sense of self, they restrict the depth and fullness of our loving. This talk explores the genesis of projecting badness on to parts of ourselves and others, and how we can use mindfulness...
A special recording from the first morning of the 2015 IMCW Women’s Retreat that offers further guidance and addresses some frequently asked questions about meditation.
The sacred feminine expresses the qualities of heart that emerge as we open beyond identifying with the egoic, separate self. In this talk, Tara tracks a series of challenging experiences in her own life that catalyzed an awakening of heart, and explores how for each...
The trance of separation is part of our evolutionary heritage, but not the end of the story. This talk explores how several key trainings of the heart can evolve and awaken our capacity to realize connectedness, and the sacredness that shines through this living...
The most basic truths we forget, and one is this: if we don’t love ourselves, we can’t love life. In the most basic way, attending to and embracing our inner life reveals the nature of reality. This talk looks at the genesis of self-aversions and several...
(from the 2014 IMCW New Year’s retreat)This meditation shifts attention from form to the formless source of all Being. Discover and rest in continuous space, filled with the light of awareness.
2014-12-30 – Retreat Talk – Landlocked in Fur – Three Domains of Formless Presence – While we have evolved to experience a defining sense of separate self, our potential is to awaken to the formless dimension – the pure awareness is our...
