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Day of Practice

Saturday, May 9th

Loving, Curious, Spacious: Three Key Facets of Awareness

with Martin Aylward

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

How you meet your practice is how you meet your life

There are many ways to understand and to embody meditative awareness.

This Day of Practice with Sangha Live’s founding teacher, Martin Aylward, will take you experientially through three of the most fundamental – clarifying them through shared practice and exploration.

Our time together will include reflections and guided meditations from Martin on:

Loving awareness: Cultivating gentle, soothing, caring attention as a way to settle the mind and be more fully embodied in our meditation practice.

Inquiring awareness: Learning to enter more fully into, to find out more deeply about, and to see with greater clarity, what is happening in your immediate experience, moment to moment.

Spacious awareness: Letting go of any particular object of attention, our meditation centres directly on awareness itself; on the mysterious, immediate, natural knowing which is the ground of all experience.

These three qualities of awareness complement and deepen one another, providing an integral and multi-faceted approach to meditation.

Day of Practice - Martin Aylward - May 09, 2026

Join this live session with Martin to practice:

  • Turning toward love, the boundless capacity to hold it all
  • Opening to curiosity through attention and inquiry
  • Resting into spaciousness as the ground of presence

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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