New Year Retreat (online) with Martin Aylward: Gathering, meditating, exploring together (assisted by Milla Gregor)
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.
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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).
Milla Gregor collaborates with people dedicated to shifting systems towards social and climate justice. She provides facilitation, evaluation and coaching for charities and individuals, using an embodied and relational approach.
She has practised Buddhist meditation since 2005, and been a student of Martin Aylward since 2016. Other important teachers include Thich Nhat Hanh, Martine Batchelor, Leigh Brasington, Yanai Postelnik and Lama Rod Owens.
Milla offers one to one coaching to support your meditation practice, or to explore the different ways creativity practice and systemic change overlap. If you’re interested in a conversation about embodied coaching sessions, you can contact her here.
She lives in East London and enjoys wild swimming, cycling, running, cooking and finding ways to intervene in the capitalist consumer trance. She aspires to participate in creating more justice, liberation, contentment and joy for all.
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Dates and timings:
29 Dec – Meeting at 7.30-9pm UK, 20h30-22h EU (US Times: 11h30-13h PST, 14h30-16h EST)
30 Dec – Meeting 3 times a day at 9.30am, 2.30pm and 6.30pm UK time (10h30., 15h30, 19h30 EU). (US times: 01h30, 06h30, 10h30 PST/ 04h30, 09h30, 13h30 EST)
31 Dec – Meeting 4 times a day at 9.30am, 2.30pm, 6.30pm UK time (10h30., 15h30, 19h30 EU) and 10.30-11.30pm UK (23h30 – 00h30 EU) (US Times: 01h30, 06h30, 10h30 PST/ 04h30, 09h30, 13h30 EST) and (14h30 – 15h30 PST/17h30 – 18h30 EST)
1 Jan – Meeting at 10.30am UK time (11h30 EU) for the closing session (US Times: 02h30 PST/ 05h30 EST)
To calculate your time zone please use the EU time as reference. This is the time that the sessions will be recorded at live. There are many websites that convert time such as Google or https://greenwichmeantime.com/time-gadgets/time-zone-converter/
Sessions will be 60-90 minutes long and will be recorded. Recordings will be available to all the attendees for two weeks.
Registration fee:
€120 (€100 plus VAT) plus dana offerings for the teachers. Dana can be paid at the end of the retreat.
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