Featured Interview
Mark Coleman joins Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson to share how we can learn from nature and incorporate it into our practice. Mark shares his insights and experiences from years of leading wilderness retreats, and explains how reconnecting with the natural world can deepen mindfulness and enhance our well-being. You’ll learn specific meditative practices, how to bring the outside inside, the power of our “wild” aspects, and how we can move from being in nature to simply being nature.
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Featured Audio
Resources for Pandemic Times
Nature-Based Practice
Mindfulness
Talks
Meditating in Nature
Part 1& Part 2
App-Based Guided Meditations
Hosted by Waking Up
In Meditating in Nature, Mark Coleman invites us to cultivate “the joy and profundity of a nature-based practice.”
Across eight guided sessions, Mark reveals how the simplest of experiences—”listening to morning birdsong, gazing up at the vastness of the night sky, lying in a wildflower meadow”—can make meditation more effortless and enjoyable, and even “open the mind to insight about timeless truths.”
Where to Find More Online Meditations and Talks
Meditation Journeys the VR App
Presented by The New York Times
with Mark Coleman
Take a moment to be more mindful as The New York Times presents Meditation Journeys, an immersive VR experience that will transport you to a spectacular Pacific Ocean vista, the peaceful shade beneath the giant redwoods, a babbling stream where you can watch the sunrise and the quiet stillness atop the California hills at sunset. Throughout each journey, the meditation coach Mark Coleman, founder of Awake in the Wild and The Mindfulness Institute, will guide you through these mindful meditations.
With four videos in this collection, you can choose the meditation and location that suits your mood. Meditating while immersed in VR may change the way you think about mindfulness – or simply make it easier to shut off the outside world and focus on your meditation practice.