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Day of Practice

Saturday, September 28th

As If Everything Is Sacred

with Martin Aylward

7-10am PT / 10am-1pm ET / 3-6pm BST / 4-7pm CEST

What is your sense of the sacred?

As meditative practice becomes common in our culture, as mindfulness has gone mainstream and embedded in wellness and self-development, we can lose a sense of the sacred – the numinous, the profound and mysterious.

When the title says as if everything is sacred, it invites us to practice in that way.

We are invited to cultivate metta as if our offerings genuinely bless people. And we are invited to listen to and call on life as if celestial beings and guardian spirits can protect and bless us, as if our ancestors are alive in and guiding us.

This holding of as if keeps us free of blind belief, or blind rejection.

This will be the focus of a Live Day of Practice with Sangha Live’s founding and guiding teacher, Martin Aylward.

Unconcerned with trying to objectify or define the mysteriousness of life, this Day of Practice will explore how a sense of the sacred can simply and powerfully transform our practice.

Our explorations will include ways to:

  • Treat life, and all it contains, as sacred
  • Find depth and meaning amidst the ordinary
  • Open up realms of experience beyond the rational and familiar

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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