{"id":6162,"date":"2014-03-04T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manyvoices.soundstrue.com\/manyvoices\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-04-07T19:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:08:51","slug":"vulnerability-intimacy-spiritual-awakening-tara-brach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources2.soundstrue.com\/blog\/vulnerability-intimacy-spiritual-awakening-tara-brach\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Spiritual Awakening &#8211; with Tara Brach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, we wanted to share with you this lovely two-part video teaching from our dear friend, Sounds True author, clinical psychologist, and meditation teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundstrue.com\/shop\/authors\/Tara_Brach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tara Brach<\/a>, entitled, &#8221; Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Spiritual Awakening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Tara, we each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization. These videos explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you find these teachings as life-giving as we have, and that they reconnect you with your own innate sense of love, kindness, warmth, and compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Part I &#8211; Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Spiritual Awakening<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vulnerability, Intimacy, &amp; Spiritual Awakening (Part 1) - Tara Brach\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kc8WGMuF3KA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part II &#8211; Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Spiritual Awakening<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vulnerability, Intimacy &amp; Spiritual Awakening (Part 2) - Tara Brach\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bz_Yz0EAG78?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends, we wanted to share with you this lovely two-part video teaching from our dear friend, Sounds True author, clinical psychologist, and meditation teacher Tara Brach, entitled, &#8221; Vulnerability, Intimacy, and Spiritual Awakening.&#8221; According to Tara, we each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,381],"tags":[],"contributor":[435],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindfulness","category-self-compassion","contributor-tara-brach"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vulnerability Intimacy Spiritual Awakening Tara Brach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Explore spiritual wisdom and practices with Sounds True. 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