This guided session includes an overview of the primary components in meditation practices, and then guidance in awakening the senses, collecting the attention, and opening mindfully to changing experience (from the 2019 IMCW New Year’s 5-Day Silent Retreat). The post Introductory Meditation Instructions – Guided Practice from Retreat (39:02 min.) …

A brief meditation to gather the attention, loosen and soften the body, sense your intention for being here, and feel the quality of presence of an awakening heart. I invite you to sense what it means to you to arrive into presence. You may take a few long deep breaths. Just feel the movement of the breath collecting your attention. And letting the…

When we are lost in thoughts our mind contracts, our body tightens and we disconnect from true openheartedness. The pathway home is through “relaxing back” and reopening our attention to our senses, relaxing through our body, and gently contacting the felt sense in our heart. By repeatedly relaxing back, we become increasingly familiar with the vib…

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 deep communion through offering and letting in love. NOTE: This meditation is a favorite from the archives – from the end of the talk, “Bodhichitta – The Awakened Heart – Pa…

Meditation: Awakening Compassion with Tonglen ~ Our hearts awaken as we let ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. They shine as we respond with care to what has touched us. This meditation uses the breath to guide us in letting in and contacting suffering, and offering out our love. With practice this meditation enables us to …

This brief meditation can support you in pausing and arriving again in the life that’s right here. photo: Shell Fischer The post Brief Meditation: Arriving in Mindful Presence (1 min) appeared first on Tara Brach.Oleh New To Meditation Archives - Tara Brach

Meditation: Basic Body and Breath Scan – (2016-05-07) – from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness. The post Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness (12:18 min) appeared first on Tara Brach.…

This meditation guides us in collecting and quieting the mind with the breath, and then relaxing all effort, and simply resting in what is. Explore more videos from Tara at her YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/tarabrach. And here’s a list of the website posts that include videos: https://www.tarabrach.com/videos/. The post Meditation: Openi…

This meditation is included at the end of the RAIN of Self-Compassion talk. This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces this guided meditation based on the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering of being at war with ourselves. Meditation: The RAIN of Self-Compassion (Korean) …

This meditation practice systematically moves attention through the body, awakening a direct experience of sensation from the inside out. The benefits are a dramatic increase in vitality, sensitivity, presence and ease. The post Meditation: Mindful Body Scan (9:31 min.) appeared first on Tara Brach.Oleh New To Meditation Archives - Tara Brach