Tara Brach

In this guided meditation, we explore the freedom that comes from allowing our experience to be just as it is. Beginning with the breath and a gentle body scan, we soften habitual tension and awaken to the aliveness within and around us.
As the practice deepens, we sense thoughts, emotions and physical sensations as waves moving through a larger sea of awareness. When fear, sadness, anger or discomfort arises, rather than pushing it away, we practice making room—remembering that this, too, belongs.
This meditation offers a pathway to greater presence, self-compassion and emotional resilience. By learning to rest as the ocean rather than becoming lost in the waves, we discover the spaciousness and tenderness that can hold the whole of our lives.
In this meditation:
• Mindfulness of breath and body
• Releasing physical tension
• Working with difficult emotions
• Allowing thoughts and sensations to come and go
• Cultivating acceptance and self-compassion
• Resting in the spaciousness of presence
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

What becomes possible when we learn to imagine from presence rather than fear?
In Part 2 of this series, Tara explores spiritual imagination as a powerful capacity for healing, transformation and awakening. When we are caught in stress, fear or limiting beliefs, our imagination contracts and reinforces a world of separation. Yet when grounded in mindful presence, imagination can open us to new possibilities—to our basic goodness, our capacity to change and our potential to create a more loving world.
Through teachings, stories and guided reflections, Tara explores how mindfulness, prayer and imagination can help us loosen the grip of old narratives, heal self-judgment and envision new ways of relating to ourselves and others. We discover how learning to trust what is deepest in us can bring wise hope, resilience and greater freedom to our lives.
Ultimately, spiritual imagination invites us to sense beyond who we have believed ourselves to be and begin living from the love, awareness and goodness that are already here.
In this talk, Tara explores:
✨ Spiritual imagination as a pathway to healing and transformation
✨ Moving from fear-based thinking toward possibility and wise hope
✨ Trusting our basic goodness
✨ Using mindfulness and prayer to awaken imagination
✨ Healing limiting beliefs and self-judgment
✨ Imagining more loving relationships and a more compassionate world
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

Behind the changing sounds, sensations, feelings and thoughts is an alert inner stillness that is purely aware. This meditation begins with accessing the receptivity of a smile, awakening through the body and opening the senses. We then sense the background of awareness and relax back to inhabit that wholeness. When the mind is distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back, and the essential practice is non-doing, allowing life to be just as it is.
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

What becomes possible when we learn to imagine from presence rather than fear?
In Part 1 of this series, Tara explores spiritual imagination as a powerful capacity for healing, transformation and awakening. When we are caught in stress, fear or limiting beliefs, our imagination contracts and reinforces a world of separation. Yet when grounded in mindful presence, imagination can open us to new possibilities—to our basic goodness, our capacity to change and our potential to create a more loving world.
Through teachings, stories and guided reflections, Tara explores how mindfulness, prayer and imagination can help us loosen the grip of old narratives, heal self-judgment and envision new ways of relating to ourselves and others. We discover how learning to trust what is deepest in us can bring wise hope, resilience and greater freedom to our lives.
Ultimately, spiritual imagination invites us to sense beyond who we have believed ourselves to be and begin living from the love, awareness and goodness that are already here.
In this talk, Tara explores:
✨ Spiritual imagination as a pathway to healing and transformation
✨ Moving from fear-based thinking toward possibility and wise hope
✨ Trusting our basic goodness
✨ Using mindfulness and prayer to awaken imagination
✨ Healing limiting beliefs and self-judgment
✨ Imagining more loving relationships and a more compassionate world
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music

In this guided meditation, Tara Brach invites us into an embodied practice of metta—loving-kindness—awakening a felt sense of openness, warmth and care throughout the body.
Beginning with the image of a smile, we soften the eyes, face, throat, heart and body, allowing this spirit of friendliness to gradually permeate our whole being. As we deepen into presence, we learn to bring this same loving attention to places that feel wounded, blocked or in need of healing.
This meditation offers a simple and nourishing pathway back to an embodied, kind presence—a way of meeting whatever is here with greater space, tenderness and acceptance. We close by resting in the shared field of loving awareness and offering the prayer that all beings everywhere may be held in loving-kindness and live from an awake and loving heart.
This practice is especially supportive for cultivating self-compassion, metta, mindfulness, emotional healing, nervous system relaxation and a more loving relationship with ourselves and our lives.
 
Our introduction music is from "Opening" by Adrienne Torf, © 2025 ABT Music