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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Mark Coleman.

Mark is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center

and has been teaching Insight Meditation Retreats Worldwide since 1997. He's the author of the book

Awake in the Wild, Mindfulness in Nature as a Path ofdiscovery, and also the audio program, Poems from the Wild.

As a founder of the Mindfulness Institute, Mark offers mindfulness consulting, coaching, and trainings in companies across the United States,

as well as leading mindfulness teacher trainings in Europe and San Francisco.

Mark Coleman will also be a featured presenter

at the 2014 Wake Up Festival in Estes Park, Colorado.

That festival takes place August 20th to the 24th and for more information you can

visit wakeup festival.com. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Mark and I spoke about some of the most

important wisdom that he's gained from spending immersive retreats in nature.

We also talked about how nature can be a mirror for our own deepest experiences.

Mark shared with us a few of the initiation experiences he has had in nature.

And finally, we explored how we might change and how our society might change

if we paid more attention to our sensory experience of the natural

world.

Here's my conversation with Mark Coleman.

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