Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and full, compassionate engagement with our world. Her teaching is aimed at freeing ourselves and society from suffering.
In 1998, Tara founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), a non-residential meditation center. She gives presentations, teaches classes, offers workshops, and leads silent meditation retreats at IMCW and at conferences and retreat centers in the United States and Europe.
Her website says her podcast is downloaded more than 2.5 million times each month. Her themes include the possibility of emotional healing and spiritual awakening through mindful, loving awareness as well as the alleviation of suffering in the larger world by practicing compassion in action.
She has fostered efforts to bring principles and practices of mindfulness to issues of racial injustice, equity, and inclusivity; peace; environmental sustainability, as well as to prisons and schools. Together with Jack Kornfield, she co-founded the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program.
In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, Tara is the author of the books Radical Acceptance (Bantam, 2003) and True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart (Bantam, 2013), Radical Compassion (Viking, 2019), and Trusting the Gold (Sounds True, 2021). She has a son, Narayan, and lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, Jonathan Foust.
