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- Mark Coleman: Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.44 min
- Mark Coleman: Wisdom Teachings From Nature(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.56 min
- Mark Coleman: The Four Foundations In Nature Dharma(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of reality.44 min
- Mark Coleman: What’s Love Got to Do With It?(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the many dimensions of the heart that effortlessly arise with intimate connection with the natural world, including the four Brahma Viharas.48 min
- Mark Coleman: Exploring Dependent Arising and Nature of Self in Nature(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindful immersion in nature reveals timeless truths of causality and the emptiness of self.50 min
- Mark Coleman: Exploring Wisdom and Insight in Nature Practice(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk draws on the innate lessons of nature to deepen understanding of impermanence, time, and imperfection.54 min
- Mark Coleman: The Fruits and Blessings of Nature Practice(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Why do we practice in nature? This talk explores the dimensions of wisdom and love that are cultivated through mindfulness in nature.58 min
- Kirsten Rudestam, Mark Coleman: Opening Night Orientation to Nature Retreat(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)45 min
- Mark Coleman: Monday Night Live Talk from Spirit Rock(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk1 hr 28 min
- Mark Coleman: Awareness in Nature - Exploring Mindfulness in Nature Meditation Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talks explores how one can practice with the four foundations of mindfulness outdoors with the support of the natural world in an embodied and effortless way and how nature illuminates Dharma teachings and wisdom.49 min
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Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.
He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the woods in Marin County, Northern California.