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Choosing to Love 2026: A Community of Practice with Tara Brach

When we bring RAIN to the inner storms, what remains is heartspace—a vast tenderness that holds all life.    

- Tara Brach -


In shadowed times, we remember the light together.

These are turbulent times—marked by cruelty, division, and profound delusion. Many of us feel overwhelmed, afraid, and disconnected—from our own hearts, from each other, and from the living world.

In the face of such widespread suffering, it’s natural to feel helpless and wonder, “What can I possibly do?”

Yet even now, a refuge of presence and love lives within us. This innate capacity not only carries us through—but empowers us to be a force of healing and compassion in the world.

 


An Invitation to Lean In...

Choosing to Love: A Community of Practice is a yearlong journey with Tara Brach to nurture inner refuge, deepen spiritual presence, and engage the world with wise, loving action.

Together, in a vibrant and supportive community, we’ll explore how mindfulness and compassion—especially through the practice of RAIN—can become steady companions. You’ll be guided in processing difficult emotions, cultivating inner resilience, and responding to life with clarity, equanimity, and courageous love.



How the Program Works:

🌿 Monthly Live Sessions with Tara

Each month, gather live online with Tara for teachings and guided practices that bring the heart of awakening into your personal life—and into our shared world. In community, we’ll reflect on the challenges of our times and explore pathways to mindful presence, compassion, and love in action. View the Updated Program Schedule 

 

🌱 Ongoing Support Between Sessions

You’ll be held and supported through weekly gatherings and opportunities to ask questions and connect with others in the program, including:

  • RAIN Partner Practice Groups - Connect in small, trusted circles to deepen your understanding and apply RAIN to real-life experiences.

  • Teacher Led Community Meditation Groups - Meet & meditate together with your peers and the guidance of an experienced teacher.

  • Online Community Hub - Share insights, ask questions, and walk the path alongside fellow practitioners.

  • Bonus Content - Receive additional guided meditations, reflections, and tools to sustain and enrich your practice.



Bonus Content: Transforming Emotional Suffering with RAIN

When you register for Choosing to Love: A Community of Practice in 2026, you will get free lifetime access to one of Tara's most popular programs. This course is a $49.99 value - but is included in your registration!
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Transforming Emotional Suffering with RAIN


What You’ll Explore and Develop:

  • Inner Resilience & Freedom - Learn to pause and meet your experience with mindful awareness. By applying RAIN to moments of fear, stress, and reactivity, you’ll transform self-judgment into compassion and discover the stillness at the center of the storm.

  • Authentic Connection & Belonging - Experience deep community through shared practice. RAIN Partner groups and dialogues help you bring mindfulness into relationships, nurture empathy, and rediscover your connection with all beings.

  • Compassionate Action in a Troubled World - Explore what it means to live as a bodhisattva in today’s unraveling world—not transcending suffering, but transforming it with love. This path empowers you to respond wisely and compassionately to both personal and collective pain.


The crises in this world come from forgetting our belonging. 

Let’s help each other remember.

- Tara Brach -


Is This for You?

This program is designed for dedicated practitioners.

To participate, you must:

  • Have a regular meditation practice
  • Be familiar with mindfulness and self-compassion
  • Have prior experience with the RAIN meditation

Registration is now open.

Space is limited. Join us in creating a sacred container for presence, healing, and action grounded in love.



Program Cost


Senior Teacher Tara Brach, PhD

Tara Brach is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including international bestselling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion and Trusting the Gold. Her popular weekly podcast on emotional healing and spiritual awakening is downloaded 2 million times a month. Tara is founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington and has been active in bringing meditation into schools, prisons and underserved populations. Together with Jack Kornfield, she has co-founded Cloud Sangha and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program, which serves participants from 74 countries around the world. Tara’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.

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Refund Policy: Refunds requested after January 15th, 2026 will be subject to a $50 administrative fee, and pro-rated according to the month in which the request was received.