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Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the wood

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Episodes

  1. Mark Coleman: Monday Night Talk: The Poignancy and Tenderness of Change

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  2. Mark Coleman: Exploring & abiding in Awareness

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  3. Mark Coleman: The path & fruit of nature awareness practice

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  4. Mark Coleman: Meeting the tenderness of change & exploring the nature of self

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores holding the pain of change & loss in compassion.

  5. Mark Coleman: Four ways to establish Mindfulness in Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how a nature retreat/practice/immersion is an ideal way to cultivate the 4 foundations of mindfulness.

  6. Mark Coleman: Meditation Instructions on Exploring Emotions in Nature Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation instructions on Exploring emotions in nature practice.

  7. Mark Coleman: The wisdom dimension of nature practice - exploring impermanence and the nature of self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk discusses the 3 characteristics of phenomena and how they are revealed as one cultivates awareness in nature.. In particular Mark explores how impermanence is experienced and how the emptiness of self is revealed

  8. Mark Coleman: Garden of the Heart

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the Brahma Viharas in Nature

  9. Mark Coleman: Nature of Awareness Meditation

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  10. Mark Coleman: Nature Reveals the Dhamma

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploration of how nature practice is a doorway to understanding the 3 characteristics. The impermanent, uncertain, & selfless nature & self reality

  11. Mark Coleman: Meditation in Nature Instructions-Exploring Vedana & Mindfulness of the Body

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  12. Mark Coleman: Exploring the Foundations of Mindfulness through nature practice

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  13. Mark Coleman: Arriving/Nature Awareness/Open Awareness

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  14. Mark Coleman: Open Awareness in Nature Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Open Awareness in Nature Meditation

  15. Mark Coleman: Why Practice in Nature - Exploring the Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores why one would practice meditation in Nature, even when conditions are difficult. Mark explores how the Four Foundations of Mindfulness are beautifully explored in Nature.

  16. Mark Coleman: Sangha

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  17. Mark Coleman: Guided Meditation

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  18. Mark Coleman: Nature as Beloved

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the four diving abodes amidst the natural world

  19. Mark Coleman: Wisdom Teachings From Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice

  20. Mark Coleman: Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  21. Mark Coleman: Being the Earth - Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  22. Mark Coleman: Taking Refuge

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  23. Mark Coleman: Exploring the Nature of Awareness

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is Awareness. This talk explores its presence, dimensions, function and capacity and how recognizing and abiding in awareness allows freedom and non-reactivity.

  24. Mark Coleman: Resilience in These Challenging Times

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  25. Mark Coleman: Anattā - Dissolving The Sense Of Separation In Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Immersion in nature, with a contemplative awareness, can support insight into the ephemerality of the sense of self. Dissolving of the habit / contraction of self can emerge effortlessly and in doing so reveal its intrinsic empty nature.

  26. Mark Coleman: Exploring The Beauty And Power Of Love In Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world is a playground for the heart - where love/metta, compassion and joy can be experienced in abundance. Nature is a perfect environment to cultivate these innate heart qualities and where they can also arise effortlessly.

  27. Mark Coleman: Wisdom Teachings From Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The natural world beautifully and eloquently sings the Dharma. there are countless wisdom teachings emanating from nature. In particular, we explore how nature teaches us about impermanence, dependent arising, perfection and imperfection and belonging.

  28. Mark Coleman: The Four Foundations In Nature Dharma

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of...

  29. Mark Coleman: What’s Love Got to Do With It?

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the many dimensions of the heart that effortlessly arise with intimate connection with the natural world, including the four Brahma Viharas.

  30. Mark Coleman: Exploring Dependent Arising and Nature of Self in Nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how mindful immersion in nature reveals timeless truths of causality and the emptiness of self.

  31. Mark Coleman: Exploring Wisdom and Insight in Nature Practice

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk draws on the innate lessons of nature to deepen understanding of impermanence, time, and imperfection.

  32. Mark Coleman: The Fruits and Blessings of Nature Practice

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Why do we practice in nature? This talk explores the dimensions of wisdom and love that are cultivated through mindfulness in nature.

  33. Kirsten Rudestam, Mark Coleman: Opening Night Orientation to Nature Retreat

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  34. Mark Coleman: Monday Night Live Talk from Spirit Rock

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Includes meditation & dharma talk

  35. Mark Coleman: Awareness in Nature - Exploring Mindfulness in Nature Meditation Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talks explores how one can practice with the four foundations of mindfulness outdoors with the support of the natural world in an embodied and effortless way and how nature illuminates Dharma teachings and wisdom.

  36. Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 5

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  37. Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 4

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  38. Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 3

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  39. Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 2

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  40. Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 1

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  41. Mark Coleman: Reflections on the Inner Critic

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  42. Mark Coleman: From Nature to Dharma, To Dharma Nature

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  43. Mark Coleman, Robin Craig: Closing/ Home practice talk

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  44. Mark Coleman: Meeting the eco-crisis with wisdom

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How does the earth wish to move through you? How to inquire deeply into wise responsiveness to the eco- reality.

  45. Mark Coleman: Self, Not Self---explaining our inter-dependence in nature

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Being mindful in nature helps reveal how inter-dependent we are wit all life and provides conditions to see through the constructed, separate self.

  46. Mark Coleman: The Fruits of Nature Meditation Practice

    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

  47. Mark Coleman: Awakening in Nature through Insight into Interconnection and Anatta

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Nature teaches us so many things about the nature of reality, including how profoundly interconnected and interdependent we are with all life. By sensing this directly, it profoundly shifts and dissolves belief in the reality of a separate, independent self.

  48. Mark Coleman: Inner Joy on the Path

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  49. Mark Coleman: Everyday is Earth Day

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

  50. Mark Coleman: For the Love of Nature

    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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About this show

Mark Coleman has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita Vedanta and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild - Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery." Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the wood

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Mark Coleman's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed) has 144 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on October 19, 2026.

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