This 20-minute meditation led by Mark Coleman will guide you toward open awareness, a state of effortless presence.

Open Awareness

This is a mediation featured in Mark Coleman's book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder

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For more information about his work guiding and teaching nature meditation, please visit: https://markcoleman.org/

A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder 

Meditating in Autumn, Fullness and Letting Go

Loving The Earth Meditation

Contemplating the Four Elements

This is a meditation featured in Mark Coleman's book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder.

Available on:
Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Nature-Meditation-Mindfulness/dp/B0BJT9WHFL/
Audible - https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Nature-Meditation-Mindfulness/dp/B0BL9TWDF2/
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For more information about his work guiding and teaching nature meditation, please visit: https://markcoleman.org/

A Field Guide to Nature Meditation

Listening To Silence

This meditation on meditating in the summer is led by Mark Coleman and is from his Book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder.

For more about Mark's work, please visit: https://www.markcoleman.org

59- Chapter Forty Nine Meditating In Summer On Abundance

Poems from the Wild by Mark Coleman. 

Mark Coleman is a nature meditation and mindfulness teacher who has used his love of nature to write his own poetry. For more about Mark, visit: https://www.markcoleman.org

Your Only Duty

Mark Coleman discusses the nature of the inner critic.

This is the first part of a talk given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA.

For more about Mark's work, visit: markcoleman.org/

Reflections on the Inner Critic - Full Dharma Talk

This meditation was originally published in Mark Coleman's A Field Guide to Nature Meditation.
 
To learn more about Mark Coleman and his work: https:markcoleman.org

A Field Guide to Nature Meditation: 52 Mindfulness Practices for Joy, Wisdom and Wonder

Lying on the Earth Meditation

This dharma talk by Mark Coleman explores the ways in which we can preserve and grow resilience even when faced with challenges. It was recorded at Spirit Rock in October 2024.

Resilience in These Challenging Times

Does your inner critic take control when you meditate? Saying that you are not meditating long enough, you are in the wrong position, that your attention wanders too much? Does that inner critic follow you into your daily life?

In the following meditation and dharma talk, Mark Coleman guides you through a meditation, helping you to silence the inner critic whispering in your ear, and then tackles ways to make room for self-compassion and acceptance, the natural enemies of the critic.

This recording was originally given at Spirit Rock in February 2024.

For more on Mark's work, visit https://www.markcoleman.org

Meditation and Reflections on the Inner Critic

Part One. This meditation and talk were given by Mark Coleman as part of Spirit Rock's Monday Night Meditation Group. The dharma talk continues with "Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion".

Being the Earth - Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration

Part Two, after "Being the Earth" meditation and Talk. This dharma talk continues to explore how Buddhist perspectives influence how we respond to the climate crisis. This talk was given by Mark Coleman at Spirit Rock in March 2025.

Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion

Why do we practice in nature? This talk explores the dimensions of wisdom and love that are cultivated through mindfulness in nature. The talk, lead by Mark Coleman, ends with a meditation.

This talk was originally recorded at Vallecitos Mountain Ranch in spring 2024.

For more information about Mark and nature meditation practices, visit: https://markcoleman.org

The Fruits and Blessings of Nature Practice

This guided walking meditation will open you up to the joy and delight to be found in the natural world and within yourself. Led by Mark Coleman, this meditation is from his book, A Field Guide to Nature Meditation.

For more info about Mark and his work, visit, https://www.markcoleman.org

Meandering with Joy and Delight

This standing meditation led by Lori Schwanbeck is an exploration in our interconnectedness with each other and all beings on this earth.

To begin the meditation, please take a comfortable standing position with your legs hip distance apart and your knees gently bent.

This recording was made in nature in the presence of a group of participants in the Awake in the Wild Teacher Training program that Lori leads with Mark Coleman. 

For more information about nature meditation practices and the Awake in the Wild Teacher Training, please visit: Https://markcoleman.org

Lori Schwanbeck - Standing Meditation, Strong Back, Soft Front

Mark Coleman leads a guided nature meditation on winter, using it as a guide for your own cycles of rest.

This meditation is excerpted from Mark's A Field Guide to Nature Meditation. 

For more about this book, visit: https://markcoleman.org/books/a-field-guide-to-nature-meditation/

For more about Mark's work and retreats, please visit: https://markcoleman.org/

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Meditating in Winter on Fallowness and Rest

June 8, 2017: Taped as part of The Wisdom of Nature Practice retreat at Spirit Rock, Mark Coleman leds a talk on the wisdom and benefits of nature meditation practice.

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The Wisdom of Nature Practice

Mark Coleman, mindfulness teacher and meditation in nature guide, leads you through a meditation meant to be practiced outdoors in nature.

13/11/2017

Awake in the Wild Meditation in Nature

Insight Meditation is a profoundly liberating practice that is a path to genuine well-being, happiness and freedom. In the daylong, you will immerse yourself in the beautiful quality of mindfulness.

10/03/2017

Introduction to Mindfulness

Lovingkindness (metta) is taught as a mindfulness meditation that cultivates our capacity for an open and loving heart, enriches compassion, and encourages joy in the happiness of others.

18/05/2017

Mindfulness/Metta Guided Meditation, 15 Minutes

This morning stillness meditation led by Mark Coleman uses mindfulness to calm the mind and connect with nature.

This meditation is best experienced in nature during the morning.

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Guided Morning Stillness Meditation

In this eight minute dharma talk on the four elements--followed by a 26 minute guided meditation--Mark Coleman explores our interconnectedness with nature.

This practice is best experienced outdoors.

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Awake in the Wild Teacher Training

Four Elements Talk and Meditation

This meditation is intended to be done in the presence of a tree.

Find a tree someplace where you will be undisturbed. If you don’t have a particular tree in mind, take a walk, and allow yourself to be called to a particular tree.

Stand in front of the tree and simply take it in with all your senses. Let go of any thoughts or labels like what kind of tree it is or how old it is. Allow your eyes to wander from the roots, to the trunk, branches, leaves, and canopy.

Interest will arise when you pay close attention to every detail, as if this were the first time you were seeing a tree.

This guided meditation practice may be found in Mark Coleman's book, Awake in the Wild. To learn more about the book and Mark's book, please visit https://www.MarkColeman.org

Beginners Mind Meditation

Beginners Mind Meditation (Standing in the Presence of a Tree Meditation)

Calming the Anxious Mind

In the Gratitude Meditation led by Mark Coleman, we learn to extend an appreciative heart to all the life that sustains us. This includes the air we breathe, the sun that warms us, the plants that nourish us, the beauty that inspires us and the rains that hydrate us.

Resilience and Nature

Gratitude Meditation

This meditation led by Mark Coleman focuses on inclining to joy.

It is so easy in times of stress to focus on the negative, to what is broken, wrong, distressing or problematic. Although we need to attend to the challenges in our life, to only give them our attention and not to the other things in our life that are not stressful, leads easily to burn out and contraction.

So, with that understanding and with skillful, mindful intention, we can learn to incline our awareness to that which allows us to feel nourished, grounded, joy. All these qualities are key factors in developing a sustainable resilience in the face of difficulty.

Mark Coleman

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