Mindfulness-Based Nature Connection: Enhancing Well-Being through Integrative Meditation Practices

Overview

This new, immersive in-person class series explores accessible and powerful meditation practices in the beauty of nature. Each week, you will take your meditation practice outside, supporting you to deepen your awareness of the natural world, cultivate a natural mindful attention and that will open you to delight, wisdom and awe.

During our time together, you will learn a variety of powerful yet accessible nature-based practices. There will also be short talks on various mindfulness in nature themes as well as offer times for discussion and inquiry.

About Mark Coleman

Mark Coleman has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1984. He is on the Spirit Rock Teachers Council and has been teaching Insight Meditation retreats since 1997. He also leads wilderness meditation retreats from Alaska to Peru, integrating mindfulness meditation with nature.

Mark is a psychotherapist, life coach, and mindfulness consultant to corporations. He is an avid outdoor enthusiast and passionate about combining the forces of meditation, silence, and nature.

Mark’s books include A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder, Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery, Make Peace with your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic, From Suffering to Peace: The True Promise of Mindfulness.

For more information, visit www.markcoleman.org

About Spirit Rock & Insight Meditation

Spirit Rock is a spiritual training institution in the Insight Meditation tradition grounded in the Buddha’s teachings in the Pāli discourses. Our vision and mission is to bring people to a depth of realization of the Buddha’s path of liberation through direct experience, and to provide practitioners with teachings to manifest wisdom and compassion in all aspects of their lives, for the benefit of all beings. We welcome practitioners of all backgrounds and levels of experience to join communities of learning, support, and connection in our spiritual sanctuary and refuge.

This course is part of Spirit Rock’s new Dharma Institute, which offers in-depth study of the teachings and practices of the Buddha and the Insight Meditation lineage, along with professional trainings and continuing education. 

Spirit Rock was founded in 1986 by a group of Insight Meditation teachers, including Jack Kornfield, who, along with Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, and Jacqueline Schwartz, founded Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, MA, in 1976. These centers, along with Gaia House (Devon, UK), are among the first centers teaching Insight Meditation (vipassanā) in the West. Read more about the founding of Spirit Rock and IMS in Jack Kornfield’s article “This Fantastic, Unfolding Experiment.” 

Insight Meditation is based in Theravāda (“The Way of the Elders”) Buddhism, as practiced in Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), and Thailand, though our teachers carry many different lineages within—and outside—Theravāda. Our primary practices are based in the Mahāsī lineage of Burmese vipassanā and the Thai Forest Saṅgha lineage of Ajahn Chah. Read more aboutour Buddhist Lineage and listen to talks from teachers about the roots of our practice.

Questions?

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