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Tara Brach

Guided Meditation: Vipassana Instructions

Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.811.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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2014-05-14 - Guided Meditation: Vipassana Instructions

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0:00.0

The following meditation is led by Tara Brock, meditation teacher, psychologist and author.

0:12.2

And as you come into stillness, just feel the sitting posture from the inside out.

0:19.0

You might close your eyes and then make any additional adjustments, subtle moving to

0:26.8

sense yourself sitting upright.

0:29.2

So there's not, you're not leaning forward or back to the sides.

0:34.1

There's a balance.

0:35.7

Sitting tall, but not stiff.

0:41.3

And sense the possibility in that tallness to then relax your arms, your shoulders, relax

0:50.8

your face.

0:53.9

Keep breathing.

0:56.6

In fact now let's extend this in-breath, this next in-breath so you take a nice, full

1:02.3

deep in-breath.

1:07.1

And then a slow out breath.

1:08.7

Slow enough so that you can feel the sensations of the breath as you release it.

1:16.0

And again, inhaling deeply, nice full in-breath.

1:23.1

And slow out breath, feel the sensations of letting go.

1:32.0

And once again inhale deeply, fill the chest and lungs.

1:41.4

And then a slow out breath, softening, softening down the length of your body.

1:48.1

Letting go, letting go.

1:53.2

Then allowing the next in-breath to come in naturally, resuming in your natural rhythm

2:00.8

of breathing and feeling the quality of presence that's here.

2:15.5

Just as you listen to sounds, you can listen inwardly.

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