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Day of Practice

Saturday, November 1st

The Dharma of Relationship:
Connection, Intimacy and Aloneness

with Martin Aylward

8-11 am PDT / 11 am-2 pm EDT / 3-6 pm GMT / 4-7 pm CET

Transform the way you relate – with yourself, with others, with life itself

We all long for authentic, deep connection.

We want to be loved, appreciated and understood by those around us.

We are profoundly relational beings, and yet it is also in relation to others – and most particularly those close to us – that we also experience rejection, misunderstanding and hurt.

This Day of Practice will go into the psychodynamics of close relationships – including friends, family and partners – starting with the most intense of all relationships: your relationship with yourself.

Sangha Live’s founding and guiding teacher, Martin Aylward, will share practices for connection, while also exploring how we unconsciously deny it to ourselves through our defences, distractions and fears. The orientation of this day, and of our explorations together, will be to challenge and to transform the ways you relate.

Come as you are, be sincere, and let’s see together how these precious teachings and practices can support a life that is more fearless, more fluid, more free.

Day of Practice - Martin Aylward - Nov 01, 2025

The day will include teachings and practices to:

  • Understand how the way you relate to yourself creates the conditions for how you meet others
  • See into conditioned beliefs and behaviours in your current relationships, and their roots in your psychological history
  • Cultivate the heart qualities that underpin a free relationship with yourself, others and all of life

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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