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 selfblame, we humans have an evolutionarydriven 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 fearbased 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 partnerbased repeating question exercise. What do you love.

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InsightLA is a meditation center teaching the highest quality evidencebased mindfulness practices throughout the Greater Los Angeles area. For 17 years, we have offered classes, retreats, and special events in an open and welcoming community. We strive to make mindfulness practices accessible to all communities with the intention to be inclusive across, race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, gender identity, religion, body size, ability, age, and class.

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