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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.

You Are Not Your Fault: Meeting ADHD with Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion

Esalen Institute 55000 Highway 1, Big Sur, 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.

Wisdom of Gratitude & Teachings of Nature in Baja

How often do you find yourself truly disconnecting from the chaos of daily life to reconnect with nature and your inner self, particularly during the chaos of the holiday season? Can you envision how connecting with your body, community, and the natural world could lead to a profound sense of gratitude and awe that could carry you forward? This spacious workshop will be an invitation to unplug, reset and realign as we connect to ourselves, others and nature.

Spirit Rock Daylong Retreat – TBD

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

The topic and details of this retreat are still in progress. They will be posted as soon as we are able.

Make Peace With Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Help Free You from the Inner Critic

Esalen Institute 55000 Highway 1, Big Sur, United States

Have you noticed the painful effects of self-judgment? Do you feel tormented by negative critical self-talk and the harsh words of the inner critic?  Are you prone to judging everything you do as not good enough, not quite right, not living up to some impossibly high standard? Do you find yourself harshly judging your meditation, your practice or your other spiritual practices? If you wish to be more free from the influence of the inner critic, then this workshop offers tried and tested methods for overcoming the challenges of self-judgment.

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

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

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.

Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

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

In the storms of our lives we need refuge, nourishment, and support—a place to replenish our tired bodies and troubled hearts. When the Buddha offered his teachings, his first instruction was to go meditate under a tree. Throughout this retreat, we will practice together in the age-old tradition of being outside in the company of the natural world. We will explore tapping into the natural stillness and dynamism that surrounds us and teaches us. As we integrate stillness and movement, we move toward being active participants in the world while maintaining balance and ease in our hearts and minds.

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. On the retreat there will be guided nature-based meditations, mindful walks, Dharma talks on meditation and nature and group meetings with the teacher. There will be time to relish in the silence outdoors and to explore the wilderness of Vallecitos Mountain Ranch both in solitude and as part of the group.

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.

Make Peace with Your Mind at Spirit Rock

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

If you wish to be more free from the influence of the inner critic, then this workshop offers tried and tested methods for overcoming the challenges of self-judgment.

Mindfulness Teacher Training – Based in Europe

This unique, yearlong, professional 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.

Awake in the Wild at Esalen

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 entirely outdoors to explore embodied sensory practices in the natural beauty and mystery of Esalen. Whether during a sunset meditation as we listen to the soothing waves or while we sit graced by the stillness of cypress trees, we will open to the profound serenity and wisdom of nature.

Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness Practices for Cultivating Well-Being in Nature

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

This retreat is grounded in ancient traditions that value the transformative power of nature. In the spirit of the Buddha and his followers meditating in the forest, this guided, silent, meditation retreat will be spent entirely outside in beautiful meadows nestled up in the hills of Spirit Rock.

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.

Awake in the Wild Teacher Training – Based in North America

The Awake in the Wild Meditation in Nature Teacher Training is an apprenticeship training in guiding meditation in nature practice, inspired by the wisdom teachings from the Buddhist tradition, by Mark Coleman’s book Awake in the Wild (AITW) and by the wilderness retreats led by Mark for more than a decade. Nature meditation brings mindful awareness practices into the outdoors as a support for presence, connection, and insight.

Spirit Rock Daylong Retreat – TBD

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

The topic and details for this daylong retreat are still being worked out. They will be posted as soon as they are finalized.

Making Friends with ADHD with Mindfulness, Wisdom, and Compassion

Esalen Institute 55000 Highway 1, Big Sur, United States

In this workshop, through engaging in various mindfulness meditations, loving kindness and forgiveness practices and contemplative inquiry, you will discover how ADHD interrupts our functioning, how to navigate the challenges it creates, and how we can meet ourselves with compassion, forgiveness, and a good sense of humor.

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