Talk
Tara Brach with Tami Simon | Living with a Courageous Heart
A conversation between Tara Brach and Tami Simon on practising with a courageous heart.
About the teacher
Tara Brach
Tara Brach trained in both clinical psychology and Insight Meditation, and built her teaching around what became her best-known concept, RAIN, a structured way of meeting difficult emotion with mindfulness and self-compassion rather than avoidance. Her book Radical Acceptance introduced this integration of Buddhist practice and Western psychotherapy to a wide general audience.
She teaches a weekly livestreamed class through the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, reaching a large ongoing podcast audience, and continues to lead retreats in the United States and Europe alongside the teacher-training programme she runs with Jack Kornfield.
“"It's okay, sweetheart. You'll be all right; we've been through this so many times before…trying to come through on all fronts." — Tara Brach, describing a nurturing message from her own RAIN meditation practice, in "Practice the RAIN Meditation with Tara Brach," Mindful.org.”Tara Brach
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Talks & videos
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Talk
The Three Steps of Letting Go, with Tara Brach
Brach outlines a three-step process for letting go, combining Buddhist practice and psychology.
Listen
Recordings from Tara Brach.
Talks, guided meditations and podcast conversations, playing from the platform this teacher publishes them on.
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A Path with Joy — A conversation between Tara Brach and James Baraz
From the podcast Tara Brach
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Listening to the Song: The Transformative Power of Deep Listening - Part 2
From the podcast Tara Brach
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Path
The wider context.
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Lay practice, Burmese roots
Insight Meditation
The modern Insight movement that brought Theravada meditation practice to lay audiences in the West, largely independent of monastic robes and ritual forms.
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