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Day of Practice

Saturday, December 17th

A Meditator’s Guide to the Holidays:
Wisdom, Love and Boundaries

with Martin Aylward

7-10am PT / 10am-1pm ET / 3-6pm GMT / 4-7pm CET

How can we stay grounded and sane during the end of the year?

The holiday season is generally thought of as a communal time for family, friends and folly. But for many of us, it’s a time of conflict, loneliness, alienation, overwhelming stress, or resurfacing of unresolved pains.

Sangha Live’s founding teacher, Martin Aylward, has designed this day of practice as a kind of mindful field guide to the holidays – whatever or however you choose to celebrate (or not!)

Join our community in gathering for our final day of practice of 2022, and learn how to move wisely, spaciously and graciously through this time of year.

A Meditator’s Guide will include practices and reflections for:

  • Staying grounded and present in unsupportive situations
  • Loving that which and those whom we don’t particularly like
  • Exploring and regulating our difficult emotions

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

photo of Martin Aylward smiling

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

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