Tara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This channel is a compilation of Tara Brach's video offerings, including her popular Wednesday night weekly livestream; a library of guided meditations; short clips from the "Tara Talks" web series; interviews and various other engagements.

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Tara explores how the trance of unworthiness contracts us away from presence, and how activating mindfulness and self-compassion with RAIN loosens the grip of self-aversion and awakens our hearts.

https://youtu.be/fMHqL6R475E

2 days ago | [YT] | 390

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In today’s world of polarization, conspiracy thinking, and deepening mistrust, how can we build a trust that is wise, grounded, and inclusive?

youtube.com/live/hEF1uL-F-4E

Tara Brach explores the personal and collective forces that fracture trust—including the powerful myths of good vs. evil and chosen vs. unchosen.

3 days ago | [YT] | 92

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Tara offers three interrelated strategies that can serve us when we’re triggered by stress, and help us find our way back to our natural wisdom, empathy and wholeness of being.

https://youtu.be/ymPF0q7U5oM

By de-conditioning habitual reactivity, we are increasingly able to respond to our life circumstances in ways that serve healing and awakening.

4 days ago | [YT] | 302

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Join Tara Brach, renowned meditation teacher and author, for a transformative teaching on awakening the heart through mindfulness and compassion.

https://youtu.be/dOVkxC3cS2o

5 days ago | [YT] | 93

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Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true acceptance.

https://youtu.be/fMHqL6R475E

This means meeting our unfolding life with an unconditional, open and tender presence.

1 week ago | [YT] | 606

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Tara Brach leads a powerful talk and guided meditation on forgiveness.

https://youtu.be/49xApC-IS-A

Learn how to let go of blame, release resentment, and awaken compassion through mindful presence. Tara shares practical tools and real-life stories to help you break free from the trance of victimhood and experience true healing.

1 week ago | [YT] | 110

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To truly experience well-being, we often need to let go of habits like obsessive worry, blame, and overconsumption. Yet, even when we know this, it’s common to feel stuck and judge ourselves for lacking control.

https://youtu.be/f4rzLjRf40U

Tara Brach explores why letting go is so challenging and why it can’t be forced, but instead approached with a willingness to release.

1 week ago | [YT] | 480

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Letting Go of Obsessive Thinking | A Special 3-Part Compilation from Tara Brach
September 16, 1 pm ET | 10 am PT

Tara Brach explores the universal struggle of obsessive overthinking and offers a path to freedom. She shows how our habitual thoughts, judgments, and fears keep us trapped in an “egoic identity.”

https://youtu.be/FVWekEidwIA

Through mindfulness, we can recognize that our repetitive thoughts, worry, and mental control tower are not who we truly are. Suffering becomes a signal — a call to awaken, let go, and open into a larger, more free awareness.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 118

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Tara Brach explores the essential elements of the spiritual path, drawing from the ancient story of Nachiketa.

https://youtu.be/hmP2S1zkobY

In this talk, Tara delves into the transformative power of forgiveness and compassion, guiding us from reactivity and blame toward a heart that is open and free.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 98

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During times of global uncertainty, finding connection and belonging is more essential than ever.

https://youtu.be/68xJ0gAlk00

Tara Brach explores the bodhisattva path—practices for awakening beings committed to living from love. Through mindfulness and compassion, Tara invites us to transform the challenges of this pandemic into a deepened commitment to care for ourselves, each other, and our world.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 377