Tara Brach

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**Tara Brach**

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.

Latest Episodes:

Guided Meditation: A Listening Presence Jan 24, 2014

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2014-01-22 - Guided Meditation - A Listening Presence

Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) Jan 17, 2014

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2013-12-29 - Realizing Our Undefended and Awakened Heart (retreat talk) - It is our evolutionary and spiritual potential to release unnecessary habits of violating other tribes, individuals and unwanted parts of our own being. This talk explores three essential facets of the pathway to awakening: Leaving the fortress of aversive judgment, entering the wilderness of our embodied being and encircling this life with love.

Walking Meditation Instructions (from retreat) Jan 17, 2014

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2013-12-28 - Walking Meditation Instruction (from the IMCW 2013 New Year's retreat)

Path of True Refuge Jan 11, 2014

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2014-01-08 - Path of True Refuge - This talk explores the three archetypal gateways to liberation - awareness (Buddha), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha). It includes guided reflections and a refuge ceremony that can help us discover the path “inside out” through daily life.

Guided Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence Jan 11, 2014

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2014-01-08 - Guided Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence

Part 2: The Sure Heart's Release Jan 03, 2014

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2011-02-16 - Part 2 - The Sure Heart's Release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.

Guided Meditation: The Center of Now - Includes Body Scan Jan 03, 2014

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2011-02-16 - Guided Meditation: The Center of Now - Includes Body Scan

Guided Meditation: The Sky of Awareness Dec 27, 2013

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2011-02-09 - Guided Meditation - The Sky of Awareness

Part 1: The Sure Heart's Release Dec 26, 2013

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2011-02-29 - Part 1 - The Sure Heart's release - Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.

No class on December 25 - enjoy a favorite from 2011.

Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love Dec 21, 2013

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2013-12-18 - Part 2: Evolving Toward Unconditional Love - This two part series explores the evolutionary conditioning of fear and judgment that contracts us away from love and acceptance, and the quality of mindful presence - in relating inwardly and in communicating with others - that awakens and frees our hearts.

Included at the end: "Holiday Dharma" - fun and song from La Sarmiento as part of IMCW's 2013 winter solstice celebration.

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