Guided Meditations
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Tara Talks: Guided Reflection on Inhabiting This Body (12:50 min)
When we are not inhabiting our bodies, we are not experiencing our full aliveness. When pain arises, how much can you open to it and let it be as it is? Just like waves in the...
Meditation: Aliveness and Presence (20:02 min.)
This meditation includes a body scan, using the imagery of a smile, and establishing the senses as a portal to presence. The more we open into the aliveness of the senses, the...
Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body (19 min.)
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in...
TaraTalks: Meditating with RAIN – Working with Difficult Emotions (11:43 min.)
This guided practice applies mindfulness and self-compassion to challenging emotions. It is based on the acronym RAIN, and provides a four step practice that is accessible and...
Meditation: Resting in Breath, Relaxing into Life (21:22 min.)
This meditation invites us to collect our attention with a calming breath, and then with the senses as a home base, settle into presence. The reminders encourage a letting go of...
Meditation: Intimacy with Life (21:16 min.)
This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We widen the attention to include...
Meditation: Spring Morning on Retreat (33:47 min.)
In this guided meditation, we include an overview of different components of mindfulness practice. The reflection includes a body scan, establishing a home base for attention,...
Meditation: Cultivating a Clear and Relaxed Presence (22:01 min.)
This guided meditation begins with a calming breath to quiet the mind and relax the body. Following this, we establish our presence with an anchor - the breath, sound or...
Meditation: Mind Like a Vast Sky (18:13 min.)
This meditation opens with listening and discovering the sky-like awareness that includes changing sounds, thoughts, feelings and sensations. The sounding of bells and chimes...
Meditation: A Listening Receptive Awareness (23:56 min.)
The capacity to truly listen allows us to realize the vast and sensitive awareness that is our true essence. This meditation focuses on listening to sounds, and then listening to...
Meditation: Awareness and Flow (19:46 min.)
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the...
Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness (18:42 min.)
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with...
Meditation and Short Talk: Basic Elements of a Mindfulness Meditation Sitting (34:30 min.)
This short talk and guided meditation offers an overview of what many people find is a natural unfolding within a meditation sitting. It includes the process of arriving in an...
Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness (24:11 min.)
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of...
Meditation: Homecoming with the Breath (23:53 min.)
This meditation focuses on the breath as an anchor for homecoming. We begin with an intentional breath (coherence breathing) and then establish the natural breath as a home base....
Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:55 min.)
We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness...
Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:36 min.)
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region...
Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:32 min.)
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the...
Meditation: Living Presence (21:19 min.)
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again,...
Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking (21:04 min.)
This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring...
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