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A Field Guide to Nature Meditation
52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom, and Wonder
by Mark Coleman
Have you ever wanted to take your meditation practice outdoors? Wondered how your time in nature can be a support for well-being, joy, and peace? Or, do you already meditate in nature and wish to deepen your practice?
Whether you are new to meditation or have extensive experience, insight meditation teacher and wilderness guide Mark Coleman has created a clear and easy-to-use field guide that shows you step-by-step how to develop a nature-based meditation practice. Learn accessible mindfulness practices that deepen your awareness of the natural world, open you to states of wonder and love, and help bring connection, clarity, and focus to your daily life. With meditations for every week of the year, you’ll be able to practice in different seasons, various terrains, and whatever the weather. Follow these simple, yet profound meditations and you’ll discover immediate ways to relieve stress and access peace, joy and beauty anywhere you are.
Listen to a Sample from the Audiobook Narrated by Mark
More from the Experts on A Field Guide to Nature Meditation
“Mark Coleman’s field guide is the real deal, a lucid compendium of practices for the craft of awakening—simple skills for opening awareness, through the whole of one’s body, to the animate earth in all its many-voiced wonder and strangeness.”
—David Abram
author of Becoming Animal and The Spell of the Sensuous
“For those called to let ‘the more than human world’ be their meditation teacher, this book is your guide. Let it open doorways of awareness your ancestors knew, and you are remembering. A beautifully written, comprehensive, and timely guide for this moment on Earth.”
—Micah Mortali
author of Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature
“A marvelous book, so rich with the spirit of practice and the soul of nature.”
—Roshi Joan Halifax
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
“I delighted in reading Mark Coleman’s A Field Guide To Nature Meditation, which offers our senses 52 rich portals for experiencing our interconnected wholeness with the natural world around us. Mark offers us a seminal work of simple and elegant meditations that can be integrated into our daily lives for all who wish to embrace a natural path for awakening deeply and intimately to who they truly are.”
—Richard Miller, PhD
author of iRest Meditation: Restorative Practices for Health, Resiliency, and Well-Being and Yoga Nidra: The iRest Meditative Practice for Deep Relaxation and Healing
