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Day of Practice

Saturday, October 4th

Where Heart Meets World

with Martin Aylward

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

Living skilfully in a world of countless blessings and endless suffering

As headlines fill the 24-hour news cycle with global dangers, disasters, and dysfunction, we take in ’the news of the world’ in ways that shape our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and actions.

What is appropriate response? How can our dharma practice show us a wise and loving way to meet the world around us – in all its beauty and tragedy?

This Day of Practice with Sangha Live’s founding teacher, Martin Aylward, will be a deep exploration of the relationship between your heart and the world.

With Martin as our guide, we will look at what constitutes ’the world’ and the degree to which, as Anaïs Nin famously said, “we see the world not as it is, but as we are”.

And together we will explore how we create and curate our sense of the world, how we consume and interpret information, and how to be wise and loving with the thought, feelings and impulses that arise in how we meet the world around us.

Day of Practice - Martin Aylward - Oct 04, 2025

Practice themes will include:

  • Contrasting the immediate, sensory world and the abstract, imaginary/illusive world
  • Exploring boundaries between inner and outer worlds
  • Discerning actual truths about the world from our culturally and psychologically conditioned views

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. Click here to learn more about Martin Aylward.

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