MEDITATION AND YOGA: Awakening in Stillness and Movement
With Martin Aylward and Gail Aylward
July 11 - 16, 2022
Language: English and French
This retreat will interweave the practices of meditation with mindful movement and yoga practice, all as supports for insight, awakening, and freeing ourselves from habitual patterns. The retreat will include 2 periods of mindful movement each day along with silent and guided meditations, and meetings with the teachers. The movement practices are designed to greatly enhance the sensitivity and steadiness of mind in attending deeply to moment-to-moment experience, and to be integrative in bringing awareness and inquiry into all moments and activities of life.
The retreat is suitable for both beginners and more experienced practitioners in yoga and/or meditation but is not suitable for pregnant woman.
The retreat will be held mostly in silence, except for times indicated by the teacher.
The retreat conforms to guidelines for MBSR instructors fulfilling retreat training requirements.
About the Teachers
Martin Aylward
Moulin resident and founding teacher Martin Aylward began dharma practice and study aged 19, spending several years in Asian monasteries and with Himalayan hermits. Teaching worldwide since 1999, Martin co-founded the Mindfulness Training Institute and the online dharma community Sangha Live. He is married with two adult children. Living full time at the Moulin with his wife Gail, Martin integrates dharma into […]
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Gail has been meditating for many years, starting in 1994 with a 10 day silent retreat in India, Bodhgaya, the sacred place where the Buddha got enlightened. Two years earlier, whilst living and working in London and pregnant with her first child, Gail attended her first Hatha Yoga class in London, and felt straight away […]
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