Mark Coleman

Mark is a meditation and mindfulness teacher and trainer who has studied extensively in the Buddhist tradition since the mid-1980s and is passionate about sharing his nature-based meditation practices with others. He has taught Insight meditation and nature retreats worldwide for the past twenty years and is passionate about helping people awaken through mindfulness in nature.

Mark has studied with renowned teachers in the Insight meditation, including Christopher Titmus, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg, and later in the Dzogchen tradition with Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. 

When he moved to the U.S., Mark fell for the vast landscapes of the Rockies, Sierras, and the deserts of the South-West and saw the natural world as a perfect temple for mindfulness. He began integrating meditation and nature as a path of practice for himself and, later, teaching others. 

This led him to write his book, Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery, and found Awake in the Wild, an organization dedicated to sharing the transformative power of meditation in nature. He has led silent wilderness meditation retreats in California, Colorado, Alaska, Mexico, Peru, and New Mexico, taking people on inner and outdoor adventures that combine meditation with the awe-inspiring beauty and the profundity of nature. 

In 2012, he founded the Mindfulness Institute with the purpose of bringing mindfulness practices to more secular environments. Through the Institute, Mark offered training, consulting, and coaching to individuals and organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 companies, like Proctor and Gamble, Google, and Ford, to non-profits like Trust for Public Land. He has also been a mindfulness consultant in the healthcare, education, and the justice systems.