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Tara Brach

Tara Brach

Keynote Speaker: Author & Mindfulness Teacher; Host of the "Tara Brach" Podcast

Tara Brach Biography

Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world. The result is a distinctive voice in Western Buddhism, one that offers a wise and caring approach to freeing ourselves and society from suffering.

As an undergraduate at Clark University, Brach pursued a double major in psychology and political science. While working as a grassroots organizer for tenants’ rights, she also began attending yoga classes and exploring Eastern approaches to inner transformation. After college, she lived for ten years in an ashram—a spiritual community—where she practiced and taught both yoga and concentrative meditation. When she left the ashram and attended her first Buddhist Insight Meditation retreat, led by Joseph Goldstein, she realized she was home.

Over the following years, Brach earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Fielding Institute, with a dissertation exploring meditation as a therapeutic modality in treating addiction. She went on to complete a five-year Buddhist teacher training program at the Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Working as both a psychotherapist and a meditation teacher, she found herself naturally blending these two powerful traditions—introducing meditation to her therapy clients and sharing Western psychological insights with meditation students. This synthesis has evolved, in more recent years, into Brach’s groundbreaking work in training psychotherapists to integrate mindfulness strategies into their clinical work.

In 1998, Brach founded the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC (IMCW), which is now one of the largest and most dynamic non-residential meditation centers in the United States. 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. Brach’s podcast is downloaded more than 3 million times each month. Her themes reveal the possibility of emotional healing and spiritual awakening through mindful, loving awareness and 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, Brach co-founded Banyan and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, which serves participants from 74 countries around the world. In addition to numerous articles, videos, and hundreds of recorded talks, Brach is the author of the books "Radical Acceptance," "True Refuge," "Radical Compassion" and "Trusting the Gold."

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Tara Brach Videos

Awakening Self-Compassion - Tara Brach - YouTube
Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life - Tara Brach - YouTube
Learning to Respond Not React - Tara Brach - YouTube

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What topics does Tara Brach speak about?

Tara Brach is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Mindfulness, Medicine, Health, Futurism, Women's Health, Mental Health, Fitness, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Authors, Motivational and Faith & Religion.

Where does Tara Brach travel from?

Tara Brach generally travels from Great Falls, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances.

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Tara Brach is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics including Mindfulness, Medicine and Health. The estimated speaking fee range to book Tara Brach for live events is $50,000 - $100,000, and for virtual events $20,000 - $30,000. Tara Brach generally travels from Great Falls, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Tunde Oyeneyin, Jenn Lim and Shauna Shapiro Ph.D.. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Tara Brach for an upcoming event.

Tara Brach Videos

Awakening Self-Compassion - Tara Brach - YouTube
Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life - Tara Brach - YouTube
Learning to Respond Not React - Tara Brach - YouTube

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