Radical Compassion as Pathway to Healing and Freedom with Tara Brach

Join us for an evening of teaching and practice with Tara Brach celebrating her new book Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN In addition to toxic self-blame, we humans have an evolutionary-driven tendency to create “bad others,” and to cause each other harm. Our species is also on a trajectory towards greater compassion and collaboration; a pathway we can actively facilitate through deliberate practice. This evening talk explores how the practice of RAIN—a weave of mindfulness and compassion–can undo our primitive fear-based reactivity, reveal our mutual belonging, and awaken our hearts. 00.01 - Trudy Goodman, InsightLA Founding Teacher, introduces Tara. 3:00 - Tara begins her talk 7:30 - Tara guides a meditation 16:30 - Tara explores the acronym RAIN 45:23 - Tara guides a meditation with the first 2 letters of the RAIN acronym. 1:06 - Guided movement practice 1:40 - Tara guides a partner-based repeating question exercise. What do you love.