Guided Meditations
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![RAIN Partners Co-Meditation: Audio Guided Session (33:45 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/tulips-3441256_1920-e1646955442236.jpg)
RAIN Partners Co-Meditation: Audio Guided Session (33:45 min.)
What Are RAIN Partners? RAIN – Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture, the process of bringing mindfulness and compassion to difficult emotions, can be practiced with another person...
![Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (retreat) (26:55 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/water-3244961_1920-e1546553938425.jpg)
Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves (retreat) (26:55 min.)
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then...
![Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (11:07 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/rose-3802424_1920-e1545877487342.jpg)
Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings (11:07 min.)
Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover...
![Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (18:01 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/flower-1869123_1920-e1545343615397.jpg)
Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence (18:01 min.)
This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from...
![Meditation: Aware and Alive (20 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/soul-636097_1920-e1651623394841.jpg)
Meditation: Aware and Alive (20 min.)
Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we...
![Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat (31:15 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2016-12-30-14.52.56-e1645313679773-1080x675.jpg)
Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat (31:15 min.)
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then...
![Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (18:36 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/peacock-feathers-3617474_19201-e1543540427207.jpg)
Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space (18:36 min.)
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience.
![Meditation: Yes to Life (19:53 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/yes-2076813_19202-e1653600756711-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Yes to Life (19:53 min.)
After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: "What is Happening...
![Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/drop-3698073_1920-e1542321532412.jpg)
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come...
![Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/woman-2795589_1920-e1653250234292-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.)
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the...
![Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/morning-2243465_1280-e1541111220569.jpg)
Retreat Short Talk & Meditation: Loving Kindness – Awakening and Expressing Our Heart (36:50 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize...
![Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:53 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/fall-foliage-3705550_1920-e1540502858415.jpg)
Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness (18:53 min.)
This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the...
![Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:27 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/backlit-1867975_1920-e1691622871480-1080x675.jpg)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery (18:27 min.)
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in...
![Méditation: Arriver chez Nous, Ici, avec la Respiration (16:07 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Untitled-design-1-e1647999710764.png)
Méditation: Arriver chez Nous, Ici, avec la Respiration (16:07 min.)
Notre souffle, comme chemin de retour à la Présence, est toujours disponible. Cette méditation très simple nous mène à la relaxation, à l’éveil du corps, pour établir ensuite la...
![Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:48 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/2018-10-10-08.09.27-e1539285143650.jpg)
Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath (14:48 min.)
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for...
![Méditation: Arriver chez Nous, Ici, avec la Respiration (16:07 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Untitled-design-1-e1647999710764.png)
Méditation: Une pause pour être Présent (12:02 min.)
Une méditation guidée qui nous invite à faire une pause sacrée dans notre quotidien. Une manière de s’ouvrir à la vie, de se centrer et de recommencer à nouveau lorsque nous...
![Ten-Minute Basic Meditation (10 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/drop-of-water-3671613_1920-e1706647388842.jpg)
Ten-Minute Basic Meditation (10 min.)
Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath and sounds, then resting in awareness in silence for the final 3.5 minutes ~ from the...
![Méditation: Arriver chez Nous, Ici, avec la Respiration (16:07 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Untitled-design-1-e1647999710764.png)
Méditation: Pratique de méditation de base de 10 minutes (10:00 min.)
Cette courte méditation d’introduction avec scan du corps amène l’attention sur la respiration puis les sons pour finir en se reposant dans la Conscience. Cette méditation...
![Reflection: Learning to Stay (4:41 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/black-2660280_1920-e1538089666355.jpg)
Reflection: Learning to Stay (4:41 min.)
We open the door to healing by bringing a mindful and kind attention to inner vulnerability and fear... "Learning to stay opens up the space that gives us our life. That's when...
![Meditation: Opening to the Flow (24:17 min.)](https://www.tarabrach.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/fountain-3412242_1920-e1537481271418.jpg)
Meditation: Opening to the Flow (24:17 min.)
This meditation begins with gathering awareness of the breath. We then reflect on our deepest intention, sensing what most matters. With a listening attention, becoming aware of...
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