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Retreat Dharma Talks at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

Awake In The Wild

A week long retreat with Mark Coleman and Kirsten Rudestam

2026-06-07 (8 days) Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

  
2026-06-08 Arriving/Nature Awareness/Open Awareness 42:10
Mark Coleman
2026-06-08 Exploring the Foundations of Mindfulness through nature practice 53:08
Mark Coleman
2026-06-09 Meditation in Nature Instructions-Exploring Vedana & Mindfulness of the Body 48:56
Mark Coleman
2026-06-10 Nature Reveals the Dhamma 53:45
Mark Coleman
Exploration of how nature practice is a doorway to understanding the 3 characteristics. The impermanent, uncertain, & selfless nature & self reality
2026-06-11 Belonging to the World: Reciprocity, Gratitude, & Generosity 42:33
Kirsten Rudestam
Drawing in the Buddhist teaching of dependent co-arising, this talk explores what it means to belong to a living world
2026-06-12 Nature of Awareness Meditation 47:18
Mark Coleman
2026-06-12 Garden of the Heart 58:08
Mark Coleman
Exploring the Brahma Viharas in Nature
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