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Mark Coleman

Mark is an inner and outer explorer, who has devotedly studied mindfulness meditation practices for three decades. He is passionate about sharing the power of meditation and has taught mindfulness workshops and meditation retreats in six continents for the past twenty years. Mark is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has taught there since 2000. Through his organization Awake in the Wild, he shares his passion for integrating meditation and nature.
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Being the Earth

Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration

Between poisoned soil and coral regrowing on a sunken fishing boat, something in us might already know: we were never separate. What happens for the heart and mind when we intentionally know ourselves as one way Earth hears, grieves, and heals?
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The EcoSattva Training

Fostering Courage, Forging Community and Loving this World

The EcoSattva Training is a journey designed to support you in reckoning with and responding to ecological crises. It unfolds over a series of eight sessions, each of which provides teachings from a diverse group of leaders along with practices, contemplations, and follow up resources. Join us in this journey to cultivate steadiness, wisdom, and connection. Together we can nourish the seeds of unshakable agency.
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EcoDharma

How Does the Earth Wish to Move Through Me?

Meeting the Reality of the Climate

What do you do when you’re in love with a burning world? Here Mark Coleman offers seven R's for meeting the ecological crisis without going numb and without burning out. Can we move from falling in love with the Earth, to feeling what we're losing, to finding others who can stand with us in the fire.
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Creative

Song for Species

A Poem in Honor of Endangered Species Day

If our winged, scaled, and shelled relatives could speak with us, what might they say? On Endangered Species Day, we share from our archive this original poem by our guiding teacher Mark Coleman.
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Practice

Rest in the Grace of the World

A Nature Meditation on Calm and Peace

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Mark Coleman meditates on peace in the presence of wild things. How is it that the stone and the tree remain still, even in the midst of human pandemonium? You’ll have to practice to find out.
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Loving the Earth

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For the cultivation of our own responsivity, Mark takes us on a guided journey outward into rich ecosystems and inward to the natural reverberations of our hearts.
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Practice

On Fallowness and Rest

Meditating in Winter

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In a world that values endless growth, what lessons does the stillness of winter hold for us? Mark Coleman offers this practice from his book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation.
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Practice

Fullness and Letting Go

Meditating in Autumn

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As the northern hemisphere moves deeper into the autumn season, we offer this practice from Mark Coleman, guiding teacher One Earth Sangha. The practice is part of his new book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation. 
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Working with Paradox and Uncertainty in the Anthropocene

An EcoDharma Exploration with Mark Coleman

In this gathering on February 20, 2022, Awake in the Wild founder and One Earth Sangha guiding teacher Mark Coleman led a heartfelt investigation of how we might hold the pain and joy of the Earth as we practice compassionate engagement.
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