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Day of Practice

Saturday, July 5th

Purpose, Meaning and Fulfillment

with Martin Aylward

7-10 am PDT / 10 am-1 pm EDT / 3-6 pm BST / 4-7 pm CEST

What is your purpose? Why are you here? What are you meant to be doing with your life?

These heavy duty questions plague many people, yet maybe they are not very helpful ways of inquiring into experience.

Is it possible you take your purpose, your life, your self, way too seriously?

Join Sangha Live’s guiding teacher, Martin Aylward, for a Day of Practice that will clarify ideas about purpose and meaning.

Together we will learn to untangle ourselves from abstract, unhelpful ideas and pressures, and instead to consider and put into practice that which gives genuine meaning to our lives and activities.

Day of Practice - Martin Aylward - Jul 05, 2025

This powerful and provocative day together will include:

  • Examining and understanding the cultural and familial layers of conditioning around purpose, meaning and fulfilment.
  • Ways of moving from an inner climate of pressure and problem, to one of confidence and clarity.
  • Considering true purpose. Who knows, maybe you’ll really find the meaning of life in this class!

What is Day of Practice?

Sangha Live’s 3-hour, LIVE Day of Practice allows for you to drop in deeper, develop your meditation skills, and reset your intentions through sustained sitting.

Days of Practice includes longer periods of meditation, interspersed with wise teachings, an interactive Q&A with our teacher, and more.

Replay access will be available to all registrants within 48 hours of the live session.

How is Day of Practice different from Sangha Live’s Daily/Sunday classes?

Our shorter Daily Meditation (60 mins) and Sunday Sangha (90 mins) programs emphasize dharma teachings, while our longer Days of Practice (3 hours) emphasize development of meditation practice.

Daily practice is crucial for watering seeds of mindfulness, but extended periods of deep attention such as these, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life, can be uniquely fruitful.

Cost

Day of Practice is offered on a sliding scale basis, with a suggested rate of $35. We wholeheartedly welcome all to practice with us; no one turned away for lack of funds.

Questions?

Please email us at info@sangha.live.

About Martin Aylward

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Martin Aylward is the founding teacher of Sangha Live. After spending his early adult years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits, Martin settled in Southern France with his wife Gail and their 2 children, co-founding the Moulin de Chaves retreat centre where he lives and teaches.

Martin teaches meditation, guides students and leads retreats internationally, emphasising the integration of the deepest wisdom teachings into the midst of the lives we live. He is also a director of the Mindfulness Training Institute. Martin’s book Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness (2021) is now available via Wisdom Publications. Click here to learn more about Martin Aylward.

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