A Grounding Practice to Focus Your Busy Mind
Meditation is often done with eyes closed. Soft-gaze meditation can broaden our visual field and encourage an open, receptive quality of attention. Read More
Articles by Mark Coleman
Focus & Attention
Guided Meditations
A 12-Minute Meditation on Abundance in Nature
By reflecting on a time when we felt connected to nature’s abundance and beauty, we allow our heart to open through loving-kindness. Read More
Focus & Attention
A 12-Minute Nature Meditation for Being in the Moment
Notice the ebb and flow of sounds in nature as you become present with the whole range of sounds you’re experiencing. Read More
Meditation Practices
A Quick Tip to Take Your Mindfulness Practice Outside
Mindfulness teacher and author Mark Coleman shares how tapping into your five senses can help you connect with the natural world around you, even if you live in a city. Read More
Guided Meditations
A 12-Minute Meditation to Cultivate Presence and Awareness
Bring mindfulness to your sensory experience by exploring your visual field. Read More
Loving-Kindness & Compassion
Opening Our Hearts to the Natural World
Both loving-kindness practice and being in nature are ways for us to abide more naturally in a sense of open-hearted connection. Read More
Focus & Attention
Cultivating a Sense of Presence and Awareness
Meditation is often done eyes closed. Soft-gaze meditation can broaden our visual field and encourage an open, receptive quality of attention. Read More
Focus & Attention
Mindful Listening: Attuning to What’s Present
Bringing awareness to our sensory experiences enhances how we operate in the world, no matter where we are. Read More
Depression & Grief
Meditating on the Beauty and the Devastation of our Natural World
Mark Coleman explores the paradox of continuing to open our hearts to the beauty of the natural world while also feeling the deep pain of losing what we love. Read More
Depression & Grief
Grieving For and Loving Our Planet
Wilderness expert and renowned mindfulness teacher Mark Coleman shares how he is learning to hold the intense beauty of nature—and devastation of climate change—in his mindfulness practice. Read More
