New Year Retreat (online) with Martin Aylward

End 2024 in practice and in community.
4 days Zooming in together for meditation, dharma reflexion, and exploration.
Practices will include guided and silent meditation, teachings and reflexions and exploratory dialog exercises with others on the retreat. There will also be some chanting practice and a transitional ritual moment on New Year’s Eve.

Those of you who have been meditating with me at Sangha live in the mornings for these last months will know how much intimacy, support and shared presence can be cultivated when we come together online. Come and join me for these last days of the year, and share your love of the dharma with other like-minded souls.

Martin Aylward began dharma practice and study aged 19, spending several years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. Teaching worldwide since 1999, Martin co-founded Moulin de Chaves,  the retreat center where he lives and teaches in SW France; the Mindfulness Training Institute  and the online dharma community Sangha Live. He is married with two adult children, and integrates dharma into daily life with programs like Work Sex Money Dharma.  His latest book is Awake Where You  Are (2021).

Registration fee:

€100, plus dana offerings for the teachers. Dana can be paid at the end of the retreat.

BOOKING OPEN SHORTLY

The Sangha Live 3-hour Day of Practice sessions are an invitation for you to delve deeper into your practice, develop your meditation skills and Dharma understanding, and reset your intentions through sustained sitting.

Each Day of Practice is  oriented around a specific theme or technique – which we will explore in depth through guided contemplation and practice. These sessions include longer periods of meditation interspersed with wise Dharma teachings, mindfulness exercises, and interactive Q&A’s.

Day of Practice is offered on a sliding scale basis; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

The Sangha Live 3-hour Day of Practice sessions are an invitation for you to delve deeper into your practice, develop your meditation skills and Dharma understanding, and reset your intentions through sustained sitting.

Each Day of Practice is  oriented around a specific theme or technique – which we will explore in depth through guided contemplation and practice. These sessions include longer periods of meditation interspersed with wise Dharma teachings, mindfulness exercises, and interactive Q&A’s.

Day of Practice is offered on a sliding scale basis; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

The Sangha Live 3-hour Day of Practice sessions are an invitation for you to delve deeper into your practice, develop your meditation skills and Dharma understanding, and reset your intentions through sustained sitting.

Each Day of Practice is  oriented around a specific theme or technique – which we will explore in depth through guided contemplation and practice. These sessions include longer periods of meditation interspersed with wise Dharma teachings, mindfulness exercises, and interactive Q&A’s.

Day of Practice is offered on a sliding scale basis; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

In-person: More than Meditation: Ritual, Cosmology and Alchemy at the Heart of Buddha Dharma with Martin Aylward
Martin Aylward

31 May 2025 10:00 am – 5:00 pm £15.00 – £50.00

Meditation has become increasingly popular and accessible, partly through isolating it from its traditional Buddhist context, where meditation is inseparably embedded in a body of teachings, beliefs, rituals and other practices.

In the popularisation and secularisation of meditation, has something essential been lost along the way? What might your practice be missing that meditation alone cannot provide? Might some traditional complements to meditation such as an altar, devotional gestures, chanting and making offerings be in some way vital, and how might you engage with them without the traditional cultural context?

This day of practice and teachings will explore meditation in relation to and with the engagement of these adjunct practices, as we inquire together to distinguish the merely superstitious from the vital and transformative. Oh, and we’ll also meditate together.

June 9-21 ENG
BREADTH AND DEPTH: A 13 day retreat for experienced practitioners

DESCRIPTION:

(This retreat conforms to the criteria necessary for Mindfulness Instructors in Training)

Teaching fees: Dana

Earth Below and Sky Above: A Meditation and Qigong Retreat

Aug 9-15 ENG
Co-teaching with Mimi Kuo-Deemer

DESCRIPTION:
Qigong is a Chinese energy cultivation practice with Daoist and Buddhist roots, using slow, circular, fluid movements. Practiced with meditation and Dharma teachings, it awakens us to the matrix and flow of life within and around us, cultivating physical spaciousness and ease while deepening our capacity for embodied presence. This retreat, co-led by Martin Aylward and Mimi Kuo-Deemer, will combine movement sessions with silent and guided meditations, teachings on the nature of mind, and meetings with the teachers. Open to all levels and abilities.
(This retreat will be held in silence. It conforms to the criteria necessary for Mindfulness Instructors in Training)

TEACHING FEES: TBC

The Mindfulness Training Institute offers professional, yearlong teacher training courses, providing experiential learning, in-depth instruction and practical skills to teach with confidence and clarity. Trainees are educated in the scientific research on mindfulness, contemporary teaching forms and the historical Buddhist context.

Co-founded and co-directed by two world-renowned teachers and friends – Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward – MTI trainees will get the opportunity to learn from two teachers who have been studying and teaching the art of mindfulness around the world for decades.

Join our 350+ graduates now teaching Mindfulness to students around the world, in a variety of settings such as healthcare, education, government and the general public.

Bring the practice you love into the life you live, while helping transform the lives of those you teach.

Ouvert et Libre: Mindfulness, bienveillance et la conscience libérée

Oct 13-19 2025

Langue: Français

Assistante: Elena Zahariev

La pratique de la Mindfulness est surtout orientée vers la libération de la conscience, une compréhension qui va au-delà du conceptuel, et une profonde guérison des anciens schémas. La conscience libérée est telle qu’elle peut accueillir, explorer et vivre toute expérience sans compulsion, sans contraction, sans confusion. Cette retraite de méditation silencieuse va explorer ces thèmes, en enseignements, en pratique, et en entretiens individuels et en groupes.
(La retraite se déroulera en silence. Elle conforme aux critères nécessaires pour celleux qui suivent une formation d’Instructeur MBSR ou MTI)

FRAIS D’ENSEIGNEMENTS:
200€ + TVA + Dana

En achetant votre billet, pour éviter une surcharge, veuillez être sûr de faire le choix correct et de cocher une case uniquement, sauf si vous achetez pour plusieurs personnes.

Le Dana peut être offert à la fin de la retraite.

REMBOURSEMENT DES FRAIS D’ENSEIGNEMENTS: 


Jusqu’à 14 jours avant le debut de l’événement: remboursement -50%
Moins de 7 jours avant le debut de l’événement; aucun remboursement
Si nous annulons l’événement, vous recevrez un remboursement total.

The Sangha Live 3-hour Day of Practice sessions are an invitation for you to delve deeper into your practice, develop your meditation skills and Dharma understanding, and reset your intentions through sustained sitting.

Each Day of Practice is  oriented around a specific theme or technique – which we will explore in depth through guided contemplation and practice. These sessions include longer periods of meditation interspersed with wise Dharma teachings, mindfulness exercises, and interactive Q&A’s.

Day of Practice is offered on a sliding scale basis; no one is turned away for lack of funds.

The Mindfulness Training Institute offers professional, yearlong teacher training courses, providing experiential learning, in-depth instruction and practical skills to teach with confidence and clarity. Trainees are educated in the scientific research on mindfulness, contemporary teaching forms and the historical Buddhist context.

Co-founded and co-directed by two world-renowned teachers and friends – Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward – MTI trainees will get the opportunity to learn from two teachers who have been studying and teaching the art of mindfulness around the world for decades.

Join our 350+ graduates now teaching Mindfulness to students around the world, in a variety of settings such as healthcare, education, government and the general public.

Bring the practice you love into the life you live, while helping transform the lives of those you teach.