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Keen on Yoga PodcastMartin Aylward – Awakening Through MeditationAdam speaks with Martin Aylward, a seasoned meditation teacher, about the nature of meditation, its relationship with Buddhism, and the importance of having a framework for practice. They explore the essence of relaxation in meditation, the role of ego, and the significance of compassion. Martin emphasizes that meditation is accessible to everyone, regardless of religious affiliation, and discusses the cultural differences in meditation practices. The conversation also delves into the nature of suffering, the search for meaning in life, and the immediate experience of being present. Support the Podcast: Buy us a coffee: https://www.b...
2025-11-301h 00
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2025-08-2800 min
Imperfect Mens ClubAre You A Thought Leader? How Would You Know?Mark introduces the topic of thought leadership and connects it directly with critical thinking He reads the Wikipedia definition and then connects it to the profession area in our flywheel Mark says anyone who self identifies as such is not a thought leader. The market needs to determine that Jim jumps in and brings up Jordan Peterson. He then connects back to our flywheel and the other 4 areas of life Jim then brings up AI and the timeliness of our topic He differentiates between "Big" and "Small" AI. He...
2024-06-0736 min
Peripheral ThinkingMeet these three wise angels – a conversation with teacher, Martin AylwardLeaders who embody the qualities of availability, presence, and wisdom can create a culture of trust and empowerment within their organisations. When we prioritise personal responsibility and community, we foster a sense of safety and contentment among our team, ultimately leading to greater happiness.Martin Aylward helps create a culture of trust and empowerment within organisations. He’s a meditation teacher and guide who has been practicing and teaching meditation for over 30 years. He’s leads and runs retreats at his centre in the south of France.Ben and Martin explore the significance of personal resp...
2023-11-201h 04
Integrative AchtsamkeitFolge 24: Martin Aylward - The Practice of Embodied Awareness"Embodied awareness is the way back home – intimacy with where and how we are right now, with what is happening and how we are meeting it."
Life is happening right in front of us, and within us – but still, we manage to miss so much of it because we are lost in our thoughts. In this podcast episode with Usha Swamy, Martin Aylward explains how we can develop embodied awareness to live an "embodied" life – awake, present and conscious. And how this helps us appreciate the blessings of life – the gift of being alive.
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2023-03-3148 minIntegrative AchtsamkeitFolge 23: Die Praxis des verkörperten Gewahrseins. Martin Aylward im Gespräch mit Usha Swamy„Verkörpertes Gewahrsein ist der Weg zurück nach Hause. Verbunden mit dem, wo und wie wir gerade sind, mit dem, was gerade geschieht und wie wir ihm begegnen.“
Das Leben spielt sich direkt vor und in uns ab – und doch verpassen wir so viel davon, weil wir in unseren Gedanken verloren sind. Martin Aylward erklärt in diesem Gespräch, wie wir Körpergewahrsein entwickeln können, um ein „verkörpertes“ Leben führen zu können – wach, präsent und bewusst. Und wie das uns hilft, die Segnungen des Lebens wertzuschätzen – das Geschenk, am Leben zu sein.
2023-03-3150 min
The Embodiment Coaching PodcastFalling in love with everything – With Martin Aylward and Karin van MaanenMartin and Karin dive deep - only to come back up to the surface to discover the richness right here! Martin sheds light on what constitutes true freedom with his usual clarity and enthusiasm. An encouraging and inspiring conversation for depth junkies and escape artists (and anyone who meditates). https://martinaylward.com/ https://embodimentunlimited.com/
2023-03-1550 min
The One You FeedHow to Embody Awareness with Martin Aylward
Martin Aylward has practiced meditation intensively since the age of 19, spending four years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. He’s been teaching worldwide since 1999, leading retreats and courses in mindfulness, meditation, and inner freedom. Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute with Mark Coleman, which runs year-long professional mindfulness teacher training in Europe and the U.S. In this episode, Eric, Ginny, and Martin discuss his book, Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness. But wait, there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access...
2022-08-241h 06The One You FeedHow to Embody Awareness with Martin Aylward
Martin Aylward has practiced meditation intensively since the age of 19, spending four years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. He’s been teaching worldwide since 1999, leading retreats and courses in mindfulness, meditation, and inner freedom. Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute with Mark Coleman, which runs year-long professional mindfulness teacher training in Europe and the U.S. In this episode, Eric, Ginny, and Martin discuss his book, Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness. But wait, there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access...
2022-08-241h 06
Stillpoints: A Podcast with Scott Johnson#028: Martin Aylward | Reality is PlayfulScott and Dharma teacher Martin Aylward ‘chew the dharma fat’ over topics including contemplative practices, the inherent ‘juiciness’ of life, and the ultimate inevitability of liberation. ___ We'd like to invite you to join our growing Stillpoint Online Ashtanga Yoga and Mindfulness community. You can sign up for a free yoga and meditation course and a free week on our online platform here. We live stream beginner classes, Ashtanga Yoga assisted self practice and guided classes with evening mindfulness sessions, yoga philosophy and restorative yoga over 6 days with Scott Johnson and the Sti...
2021-07-271h 14
Vlan!#139 Démystifier la méditation avec Martin AylwardMartin Alwyard est le fondateur de l'application Mind, application de la méditation, on parle avec lui de ce sujet très à la mode mais aussi rempli d'incompréhensions.
Martin explique qu'il est venu à la méditation par des troubles internes, des questionnements auxquels il ne trouvait aucune réponse car la vision de la réussite occidentale autour de l'accumulation ne résonnait pas en lui. Il a fini par arriver en Inde pour essayer trouver des réponses à 19 ans.
Avec Martin nous avons une discussion franche sur la tendance autour de la méditation et...
2020-07-1436 min
Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness(Gaia House) Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
2019-10-0848 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness(Gaia House) Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
2019-10-0848 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Dharma Talk - The Hallmarks of Insight(Gaia House) Martin looks at the quality of investigation. He shows how to inquire directly into experience, and explores the features of liberating understanding and insight into different realms of experience.
2019-10-0645 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Dharma Talk - The Hallmarks of Insight(Gaia House) Martin looks at the quality of investigation. He shows how to inquire directly into experience, and explores the features of liberating understanding and insight into different realms of experience.
2019-10-0645 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freely Knowing(Gaia House) These talks build on one another and work well as a series. This talk looks at the inherently knowing nature of mind. Martin looks at the way we get stuck in knowledge, or knowing about, and generate anxiety and a sense of deficiency about not knowing. He invites us beyond conventional knowing into non-conceptual awareness, and the direct knowing of whatever is happening.
2019-03-1746 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freely Knowing(Gaia House) These talks build on one another and work well as a series. This talk looks at the inherently knowing nature of mind. Martin looks at the way we get stuck in knowledge, or knowing about, and generate anxiety and a sense of deficiency about not knowing. He invites us beyond conventional knowing into non-conceptual awareness, and the direct knowing of whatever is happening.
2019-03-1746 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freely Abiding(Gaia House) These talks build on one another and work well as a series. In this talk Martin explores the capacity to inhabit experience, to be with experience from the inside; to abide in the midst of what is happening. The talk uses the storm that is raging outside the hall as an example of sitting steadily in the midst of turbulence, and all that swirls around our attention.
2019-03-1650 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freely Abiding(Gaia House) These talks build on one another and work well as a series. In this talk Martin explores the capacity to inhabit experience, to be with experience from the inside; to abide in the midst of what is happening. The talk uses the storm that is raging outside the hall as an example of sitting steadily in the midst of turbulence, and all that swirls around our attention.
2019-03-1650 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care(Gaia House) Martin looks at these Curiosity qualities as both inherent qualities of awareness, and qualities we can support and cultivate in each moment, whether in meditation or daily activity, in silence or in communication.
2018-10-1043 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care(Gaia House) Martin looks at these Curiosity qualities as both inherent qualities of awareness, and qualities we can support and cultivate in each moment, whether in meditation or daily activity, in silence or in communication.
2018-10-1043 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Dharma and the Drama(Gaia House) Martin explores the meaning of dharma as Nature. What would it be like to meet all our experience as natural? To let in all that arises so as to meet and explore the whole of experience. And what of the drama that we generate? Maybe, the more we can make room for our inner dramas, the less hold they might have over us.
2018-10-0743 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Dharma and the Drama(Gaia House) Martin explores the meaning of dharma as Nature. What would it be like to meet all our experience as natural? To let in all that arises so as to meet and explore the whole of experience. And what of the drama that we generate? Maybe, the more we can make room for our inner dramas, the less hold they might have over us.
2018-10-0743 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Life is Out of Control !(Gaia House) Martin explores the various ways we attempt to control our experience and the psychology behind our controlling tendencies, and points to how dharma practice can both lead to wise restraint, and to the liberation of relinquishing control over our lives.
2018-03-3046 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Life is Out of Control !(Gaia House) Martin explores the various ways we attempt to control our experience and the psychology behind our controlling tendencies, and points to how dharma practice can both lead to wise restraint, and to the liberation of relinquishing control over our lives.
2018-03-3046 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Livestreaming Through Awareness(Gaia House) Buddhas teachings use the image of a stream in two different senses: Going against the stream of our habits and reactivity, and entering the stream of awakened practice and understanding. Martin uses this talk to explore and connect the two, and to point to the way life streams through awareness.
2018-03-2942 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Livestreaming Through Awareness(Gaia House) Buddhas teachings use the image of a stream in two different senses: Going against the stream of our habits and reactivity, and entering the stream of awakened practice and understanding. Martin uses this talk to explore and connect the two, and to point to the way life streams through awareness.
2018-03-2942 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Question and Answer Session(Gaia House) Martin answers questions from students on the closing night of the retreat. Subjects covered include Martins own relationship to dharma practice, questions about integration, exploring Buddhist teachings and working with various obstacles.
2017-09-1654 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Question and Answer Session(Gaia House) Martin answers questions from students on the closing night of the retreat. Subjects covered include Martins own relationship to dharma practice, questions about integration, exploring Buddhist teachings and working with various obstacles.
2017-09-1654 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment and Freeness(Gaia House) Martin explores resources for wellbeing, noting the importance of being nourished and uplifted by our practice, in order for it to be sustainable. He looks at the nature of happiness and our relationship to pleasure; the practice of opening up to joy, and points to ways in which dharma practice is fulfilling and freeing.
2017-09-1545 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment and Freeness(Gaia House) Martin explores resources for wellbeing, noting the importance of being nourished and uplifted by our practice, in order for it to be sustainable. He looks at the nature of happiness and our relationship to pleasure; the practice of opening up to joy, and points to ways in which dharma practice is fulfilling and freeing.
2017-09-1545 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Healing Layers of Dukkha(Gaia House) Martin explores the layers of Basic Dukkha, Reactive Dukkha and Judgemental Dukkha; exploring how they show up in different areas of our experience and pointing to different ways of meeting, exploring and healing our relationship with painful experience.
2017-09-1447 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Healing Layers of Dukkha(Gaia House) Martin explores the layers of Basic Dukkha, Reactive Dukkha and Judgemental Dukkha; exploring how they show up in different areas of our experience and pointing to different ways of meeting, exploring and healing our relationship with painful experience.
2017-09-1447 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: An Embodied Look at Consciousness(Gaia House) Martin explores the two pali terms for consciousness - Vinnyana and Chitta. He looks at their functioning in experience, and how we can inhabit our conscious experience to as to meet, explore and understand it better.
2017-09-1339 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: An Embodied Look at Consciousness(Gaia House) Martin explores the two pali terms for consciousness - Vinnyana and Chitta. He looks at their functioning in experience, and how we can inhabit our conscious experience to as to meet, explore and understand it better.
2017-09-1339 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here(Gaia House) Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
2017-09-1353 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here(Gaia House) Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
2017-09-1353 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk(Gaia House) Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
2017-09-1228 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk(Gaia House) Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
2017-09-1228 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Afternoon Teachings: Time, Space, and Becoming(Gaia House) Martin explores the flexible nature of perception, and how deepening meditative skill can uncover, deconstruct and understand how we create the familiar reference points of experience.
2017-03-0953 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Afternoon Teachings: Time, Space, and Becoming(Gaia House) Martin explores the flexible nature of perception, and how deepening meditative skill can uncover, deconstruct and understand how we create the familiar reference points of experience.
2017-03-0953 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Independent in This World - Introductory Talk(Gaia House) In this opening talk, Martin points to 3 kinds of liberation that form the ground of the retreat practice - freedom from views, freedom from compulsions, and freedom from self-concern.
2017-03-0727 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Independent in This World - Introductory Talk(Gaia House) In this opening talk, Martin points to 3 kinds of liberation that form the ground of the retreat practice - freedom from views, freedom from compulsions, and freedom from self-concern.
2017-03-0727 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life(Gaia House) This talk was given on the Summer solstice, and the teachings were held outside under the large Plane tree in the Gaia House gardens. Martin explores 3 facets of awareness practice, seeing how they can be applied in any moment, both within the formality of meditation and moment by moment in our wider lives. The 3 are Embodied Presence, Exploration and Inquiry, and Openness to the Nature of experience.
2016-06-2145 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life(Gaia House) This talk was given on the Summer solstice, and the teachings were held outside under the large Plane tree in the Gaia House gardens. Martin explores 3 facets of awareness practice, seeing how they can be applied in any moment, both within the formality of meditation and moment by moment in our wider lives. The 3 are Embodied Presence, Exploration and Inquiry, and Openness to the Nature of experience.
2016-06-2145 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Ambiguity of Self and World(Gaia House) We rely on a sense of certainty and familiarity with how things are, yet when we look closely our experience is uncertain and always presenting anew. Martin looks at the big reference points for our experience; Life, Death, Self and World, pointing to a liberating way of understanding and relating to them that is free of the narrowness of certainty.
2016-06-2037 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Ambiguity of Self and World(Gaia House) We rely on a sense of certainty and familiarity with how things are, yet when we look closely our experience is uncertain and always presenting anew. Martin looks at the big reference points for our experience; Life, Death, Self and World, pointing to a liberating way of understanding and relating to them that is free of the narrowness of certainty.
2016-06-2037 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Spaciously & Graciously(Gaia House) Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
2016-06-1943 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Spaciously & Graciously(Gaia House) Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
2016-06-1943 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Spaciously and Graciously(Gaia House) Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
2016-06-1943 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Spaciously and Graciously(Gaia House) Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
2016-06-1943 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Human Experience Under the Microscope of Awareness(Gaia House) Martin looks at the constructs of human experience (Nama-Pupa or the aggregates) and explores the transformative insights available to us in looking closely at our moment to moment sense of ourselves and the world around us.
2016-06-1855 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Human Experience Under the Microscope of Awareness(Gaia House) Martin looks at the constructs of human experience (Nama-Pupa or the aggregates) and explores the transformative insights available to us in looking closely at our moment to moment sense of ourselves and the world around us.
2016-06-1855 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Art of Non Doing(Gaia House) In this introductory talk to the retreat, Martin invites us to practice by doing nothing, not in terms of the retreat format, but in the midst of all activity. He explores how we can speak, move and direct our attention and intention, from a place of profound rest, allowing and inviting everything to happen naturally.
2016-06-171h 06Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Art of Non Doing(Gaia House) In this introductory talk to the retreat, Martin invites us to practice by doing nothing, not in terms of the retreat format, but in the midst of all activity. He explores how we can speak, move and direct our attention and intention, from a place of profound rest, allowing and inviting everything to happen naturally.
2016-06-171h 06Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Life is Your Teacher(Gaia House) Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
2016-03-1447 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Life is Your Teacher(Gaia House) Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
2016-03-1447 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Inclining Towards Freedom - Clarity, Skilfulness and Love(Gaia House) Martin looks at qualities of mind that open up our Freedom of Being.He explores how Clarity dissolves our wrong views, how Skilfulness transforms our habits of mind, and how Love can hold all types of experience gently and wisely. The talk keeps references our common experiences, offering practical ways to integrate the teachings.
2016-03-1352 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 2)(Gaia House) In this follow-up, Martin continues to look at the purificatory nature of dharma practice, opening up a space to meet and transform the impact of past habit energy. The teaching deconstructs the notion of karma, and maps the purification of mind-states.
2015-10-0946 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus(Gaia House) Martin points out the 3 different kinds of stimulation (vedana) and explores skilful ways of exploring and responding to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience. Emphasis is given to somatic practice, recognizing the physical contractions that form around the 3 types.
2015-10-0745 minNew York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. AM(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-041h 30New York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. PM(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-041h 28Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. AM(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-041h 30Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering The Deep Truth of Experience - Sat. PM(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-041h 28New York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering the Deep Truths of Experience - Friday evening(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-031h 31Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Way Things Are: Uncovering the Deep Truths of Experience - Friday evening(New York Insight Meditation Center) Meditation practice is a way of directly and intimately exploring life in the laboratory of our own hearts and minds. In cultivating and deepening our practice, we learn about our inner compulsions and contractions, learning to soften and release them.
Simultaneously though, meditation also reveals to us the nature of reality, the way life is, how experience forms and impacts on consciousness. This evening and day with Martin Aylward will focus on some of the more difficult aspects of Buddhist teaching, offering ways to make these profound subjects accessible and even obvious.
Martin will lead...
2015-04-031h 31Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Collective Body - Solidarity, Community and Love(Gaia House) In this final talk of the series, Martin looks at the social implications of widening our sense of identification, including not only the world but also other human beings within the field of our experience. The talk explores the suffering born of the us and them mentality and points to how the need to awaken together and take all beings into our heart.
2015-01-2747 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Existential Body - From Thing-ness to Process, Knowing to Loving, Subjective to Inclusive(Gaia House) In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
2015-01-2641 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Psychological Body - Self Image, Self Reinforcement and Self Judgement(Gaia House) Continuing from the previous talk, Martin looks at the ways we imagine, maintain and reinforce our psychological sense of self. The talk explores how we live in images and descriptions of who we think we are, layered by our constant critical self evaluation, and points us beyond our psychology to a fuller and freer embodying of our life.
2015-01-2551 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Instinctual Body - Sex, Survival and Social Drives(Gaia House) We are bound by our biology, and our health, longevity and death are largely out of our control. This talk explores the way our biology impacts us, including the influences of the sex drive, the survival drive and the social drive. Martin looks at how we can explore and understand our biology in such a way as to inhabit it freely.
2015-01-2440 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: The Body is the Universe - Introduction(Gaia House) In this talk Martin looks at the tendency to conceive in terms of objects rather than process, unpicking the way we maintain and reinforce the ego structure, and offering a vision of a more expansive and inclusive participation in life.
2015-01-231h 12Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Against the Stream - Teachings of Revolution in the Heart and in the World(Gaia House) Martin uses this talk to examine the Buddhas description of Dharma practice as Going against the stream of Greed, Hatred and Delusion. He traces these forces in our contemporary lives in their personal, social and global dimensions, inviting us to reflect on how to make an appropriate response to the life in which we find ourselves.
2014-06-2452 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Intimacy and Infinity - Born of Love(Gaia House) This talk questions our willingness to really be in contact with our experience. Martin explores our tendency to divide ourselves from life, from others and from our own experience, and points the way back to an undivided, undefended existence. The talk also reflects on the natural boundlessness of heart that opens up as a liberated response to different types of experience.
2014-06-2351 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Meeting Anger and Hatred(Gaia House) Martin explores different personality styles of resistance and rejection, the ways anger functions and the importance of letting ourselves feel negative emotions as a way of freeing them up and letting go of our personal hard luck story. He also explores the way practice can transform anger into fearlessness as an important force against injustice, oppression and inequality.
2014-06-2248 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Beneath the Trees - The Body of Life(Gaia House) On this summer solstice evening out under the trees at Gaia House, Martin reflects on the importance of trees in the Buddhas life, the disingenuousness of the term mindfulness and what it means to be embodied.
2014-06-2143 min
Longelyguru Yoga DialoguesLG25 – Martin Aylward – Multidimensional PracticeMy guest is Martin Aylward. Martin has been leading retreats worldwide, teaching meditation and supporting groups and individuals since 1999. He is the founding teacher of Moulin de Chaves, a residential retreat centre in South West France, where he lives. Martin works with students around the world in retreats and in ongoing individual support. He also runs an […]
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2014-06-1746 min
Lonely Guru Dialogues with Ryan SpielmanLG25 – Martin Aylward – Multidimensional PracticeMy guest is Martin Aylward. Martin has been leading retreats worldwide, teaching meditation and supporting groups and individuals since 1999. […]
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2014-06-1746 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Non-Difference and Bringing Our Practice into the World(Gaia House) Here, Martin looks at the dichotomy we easily make between the retreat situation and the rest of life, and explores the skilful integration of our practice, as well as looking at some of the forces that tend to shape our into our personal, relational and cultural lives.
2014-03-0437 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Non-Duality, the World and the Void(Gaia House) Using the zen image of first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is, Martin charts the evolution of relating to form and emptiness, exploring the fundamental duality of conventional experience, and the natural pull towards its dismantling, transcendance and integration.
2014-03-0339 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Open and Free: A Life of Liberation(New York Insight Meditation Center) Dharma practice points us towards liberation; boundless freedom of being, great depths of love and joy, and a graceful participation in life’s unfolding.
What is liberation?
What seems to be in the way, right now, of living freely?
What is your deepest knowing, and how can it liberate you, here and now?
The day will be led by Martin Aylward, and is open to both committed dharma students, and those who may be totally new to practice, but feel themselves drawn to freedom of being. There will include silent and guided meditation practice, teachings an...
2013-10-271h 52New York Insight Meditation Center: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Open and Free: A Life of Liberation(New York Insight Meditation Center) Dharma practice points us towards liberation; boundless freedom of being, great depths of love and joy, and a graceful participation in life’s unfolding.
What is liberation?
What seems to be in the way, right now, of living freely?
What is your deepest knowing, and how can it liberate you, here and now?
The day will be led by Martin Aylward, and is open to both committed dharma students, and those who may be totally new to practice, but feel themselves drawn to freedom of being. There will include silent and guided meditation practice, teachings an...
2013-10-271h 52Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freedom From Opposites(Gaia House) When we hold tightly to our views and positions, we feel like we are right. In this talk Martin explores then tendency to cling to views, to see life through the dichotomies of rational mind that obscure what is outside of our own view. He invites us in to to abiding with life's ambiguity, the inclusion of all opposites, the infinite breadth of the Middle Way.
2013-05-2139 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Love, Death and Indivisibility(Gaia House) Martin explores the indivisible nature of life, the mystery of an existence that is constantly slipping away from us, and love as the true heart's response to the inevitability of death. This talk stands alone, yet also builds on the themes of the previous two teachings from the same retreat.
2013-05-2046 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: What Do I Really Want?(Gaia House) Avoiding fixed positions and judgements about desire, Martin encourages an open inquiry into wanting. He examines the root of all desire; wanting things to be different, and explores how we can use wanting as a mirror to learn from our reflected experience. The talk points towards the deep desire to give up our endless interventions and manipulation of our experience, and discusses the freedom of undemanding, undefended, undistracted awareness.
2013-05-1944 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Inhabiting the Body of Life(Gaia House) In this talk, Martin explores the ideas and images we hold of Body, the habitual ways we react to bodily experience and body image, and the tendency to relate to body as a thing rather than a process. He guides the listener through the direct experience of body as a fluid, edgeless, inconceivable unfolding, inviting us to more and more inhabit the visceral ground of all experience; the body of life.
2013-05-1849 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Defenses Against Spaciousness(Gaia House) We long for inner space and peace, yet we also defend against it, compulsively filling the open space of consciousness with the endless mental proliferation that gives us our sense of self and world. In this talk Martin explores the 3 major expressions of this inner momentum, showing us ways to recognise, understand, and let go of our demands, defences and distractions, and allowing instead the genuine, wide open spaciousness of our nature.
2013-03-0950 min
Anything Goes w/ Darren Frost & Dave MartinBrianAylwardOur guest this week is East-Coast comedian Brian Aylward. Afterward, stay tuned when there are off-air remarks from Levi MacDougall, Vesta Suicide, Andrew Clark & Casey Corbin. We talk about Waxing, TV shows, Apartments & Comedy School.
2013-02-221h 27Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Freedom From Clinging: The Experience of the Unlimited Heart(Gaia House) This talk looks at the way we respond to life when consciousness is not caught in obsessions or reactivity. Martin explores 4 specifically different dimensions of love (Brahma Viharas) and invokes their commonality in dissolving our sense of separateness; beckoning us into an exquisite intimacy with life.
2012-05-2938 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Clinging to Thoughts: About the World, About Others, About Self(Gaia House) Martin explores how our various views condition our experience, and keep us locked into viewing and reacting to life in all too familiar ways. We look at the way our views limit our experience of who we are, and how investigating those views can lead us into a more ambiguous, and more liberated sense of our participation in life.
2012-05-2745 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions(Gaia House) Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
2012-05-2647 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Talk Five - The Heart Free of Clinging: Four Expressions of Love(Gaia House) The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. This fifth and closing talk looks at the affective quality of our experience in the heart. This explores the subjective experience of clinging as greed, hatred and delusion, and...
2011-09-111h 21Gaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Talk Four - To Be Or Not To Be : Is There a Self or Isn't There?(Gaia House) The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. Starting with the existential, progressing towards the personal, this fourth talk explores the Buddhas teachings on the third realm of clinging - to existence and non-existence. Martin explores what...
2011-09-1041 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Talk Three - Beyond Belief(Gaia House) The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. This third talk explores how our ideas, beliefs and opinions obscure our true knowing of reality. Martin progresses through our views about life itself, unconsciously conditioned by both scientific...
2011-09-0948 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Talk Two - Freedom and Desire(Gaia House) The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. This second talk explores the powerful force of wanting, and how to meet, explore and understand our clinging to desire. Martin encourages us to inhabit the movement of wanting...
2011-09-0843 minGaia House: Martin Aylward's most recent Dharma talksMartin Aylward: Talk One: Opening Talk for Live and Let Go - Freedom From Clinging Retreat: Inhabiting the Heart, Body and Mind(Gaia House) The series of 5 talks from this retreat explore a central feature of Dharma practice and teachings: How we get uptight and reactive (Upadana / Clinging) around our experience, and the transformational possibility of letting go. The talks cover the Buddhas teachings on the 3 main realms of experience that we cling most tightly to, as well as exploring and pointing towards the nature of the heart that is free from clinging. This introductory talk looks at the broad 3-fold field of our experience corresponding to the experience of body, heart and mind; Sensation, Feeling and Thought. Martin explores the differences...
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