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Meditation and Psychotherapy: Learning from Nature

Mark will be leading the first webinar session of the "Meditation and Psychotherapy: Learning from Nature" course on April 4 and talking about "Mindfulness in Nature Practice - Pathways to Wonder, Wisdom, and Well-Being". The talk will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session.

4 Month Awake in the Wild Immersion Meditation Program

During the program, you will immerse in the beautiful landscapes of Spirit Rock while cultivating a receptive, embodied mindful attention. This allows openness to receive nature’s wisdom teachings, including about impermanence, selflessness and the inter-connection of all life. You will explore how nature evokes profound insight, transformation and helps bring forth inspired ecological action.

Tricycle’s Meditation Group in April

This April, meditation teacher Mark Coleman will offer a rich variety of mindfulness in nature practices. During the program, you will discover how taking your meditation outdoors invites a natural, embodied, awake presence. Nature practice not only attunes us to the beauty, wonder, and mystery of the natural world, but awakens wisdom into inter-dependence, impermanence, and the selfless nature of experience. It also supports resilience, restoration, and renewal, key qualities especially needed at this time.

The Power of Loving Awareness

Padma Studio 56 Bolinas Road, Fairfax, CA, United States

Join Mark Coleman for an enriching class exploring how mindfulness and compassion can be essential tools for navigating life’s challenges. Through guided meditation, lecture and discussion we will explore how to meet inner and outer adversity with clarity, compassion and resilience.

Earth as Refuge, Earth as Teacher

In this unique 4-part online series, Mark Coleman will share some key principles, practices and wisdom teachings that will help you be able to take your meditation and contemplative practice into the natural world.

Awake in the Wild One Day Hiking Retreat on Mount Tam

In this contemplative one day Awake in the Wild hiking and meditation retreat on Mount Tamalpais, we will open to the joy, beauty and tranquility of the natural world. We will utilize various sensory awareness practices, and mindfulness based meditations to support us being present and awake to our direct experience and to the wonder and mystery of nature. This time will be one of deep nourishment, regeneration and connection.

Awake in the Wild: Nature as Refuge, Healer and Teacher

In this nature-based daylong, come meditate in the serenity and beauty of meadows, trees, and hills at Spirit Rock. This immersive, nature-based retreat offers potent sensory awareness practices that cultivate insight, interconnection, and love—an antidote to the busyness and stress of modern life.

Awake in the Wild: Meditation in Nature at Esalen with Mark Coleman and Lori Schwanbeck

Esalen Institute 55000 Highway 1, Big Sur, United States

Following ancient spiritual traditions that value the transformative power of nature, this experiential workshop will be spent meditating entirely outdoors among the natural beauty and mystery of Esalen. Whether under a blazing sunset or in the stillness of cypress trees, we will open to the profound serenity and wisdom of nature. We will cultivate mindfulness — being present to ourselves while developing a contemplative relationship with nature. This leads to beautiful states of joy, peace, wonder, love and connection with oneself, one another and the larger web of life.

Awake in the Wild Nature Meditation Retreat in New Mexico

Vallecitos Mountain Ranch NM, United States

This silent retreat is grounded in the practice of Mindfulness – the capacity to be present to ourselves and our environment. Participants will learn to bring this receptive presence to develop a contemplative relationship with nature. By cultivating an inner quiet and curious spirit we can learn from nature as a perennial teacher. The natural world reveals timeless Dharma teachings that support a natural letting go and a wise relationship to all experience.

Nature as Refuge: Cultivating Awareness, Love and Awakening in Nature

Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Retreat Center 8941 Overland Rd, Ward, CO, United States

Like the Buddha, people for millennia have sought refuge, clarity, and wisdom in the natural world. On this silent mindfulness retreat in the serenity and beauty of nature, we will explore potent awareness and heart-based meditations that open the heart and mind to insight, interconnection with life, and a profound peace.

Mindfulness Teacher Training – Based in North America

with Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward This unique, yearlong, professional U.S. mindfulness teacher training combines transformational cultivation of your own mindfulness practice and systematic development of mindfulness teaching skills, enabling you to teach a variety of mindfulness programs with confidence and clarity. You will be part of a committed, focused group of like-minded individuals with whom you will receive skilled, guided direction and personalized instruction that will allow you to flourish as a mindfulness facilitator. Our yearlong teacher trainings utilize in-person teaching intensives, online learning, individualized guidance from the teachers and learning mentors and peer group support.

Your Brain Isn’t Broken: Meeting ADHD with Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion Retreat

Spirit Rock 5000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Woodacre, CA, United States

Do you have challenges with focus and time management or struggle with emotional hypersensitivity or frustration tolerance? Do you find it hard to follow through on tasks or commitments, or to be reliable and consistent? The good news is that with mindfulness, compassion, and with the application of skillful techniques, it is possible to understand and function more effectively with care and wisdom. On this retreat we’ll explore navigating these challenges, how they interrupt our functioning, and how we can meet ourselves with compassion.

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