Mark Coleman, M.A. has been engaged in meditation practice since 1981, primarily within the Insight meditation (Buddhist) tradition. He has been teaching meditation retreats since 1997. His teaching is also influenced by his studies with Advaita and Tibetan teachers in Asia and the West, and through his teacher training with Jack Kornfield. Mark primarily teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in California, though he also teaches nationally, in Europe and India.

He leads backpacking retreats, nature-based retreats, and teaches retreats for environmental activists in the wilderness at Vallecitos Mountain Refuge in New Mexico, and at Knoll Farm in Vermont. In the Bay Area, Mark has a counseling practice, where he integrates his studies of psychotherapy and meditative work. He is the author of “Awake in the Wild – Mindfulness in Nature as a path of Self-Discovery”, published by Inner Ocean Publishing, November 2006.Mark has been an avid hiker, and backpacker for most of his life and spends much of his time in the outdoors. He lives in the woods in Marin County, Northern California. Mark is currently working on a volume of poetry for publication.

In addition to his nature / meditation teaching Mark is also a mindfulness consultant – bringing mindfulness to a variety of corporate settings including companies such as Proctor and Gamble, Gucci, Prana, Dolce Gabbana and others. He leads trainings in mindfulness as well as offering mindfulness based executive coaching – helping professionals integrate a wise mindful awareness into all aspects of life. For more info go to www.themindfulnessinstitue.com

He may be reached via email at info@awakeinthewild.com