In-Person and Online: Work Sex Money Dharma – Full Weekend Retreat + Online Series
with Martin Aylward
Hybrid Weekend Retreat: Saturday and Sunday, March 14-15, 2026 | 10:00am – 5:00pm ET
Optional Online Follow-Up Sessions: Tuesday – Thursday, March 17-19, 2026 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm ET
In-Person Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor
Across many wisdom traditions, spiritual practice has often followed two broad paths. One emphasizes stepping away from the entanglements of ordinary life in pursuit of clarity and awakening. Another invites us to engage life fully and use its challenges, desires, and responsibilities as the ground of practice.
Work, sex, and money sit at the center of that tension. These domains shape how we relate to others, how we organize our time and energy, and how we understand intimacy, ambition, and security. They are also powerful places where our habits of mind, fears, and desires become visible.
In this immersive weekend retreat, meditation teacher Martin Aylward invites participants to bring mindful attention to these deeply human themes. Through meditation, reflection, and relational dialogue exercises sometimes described as “meditation out loud,” we will explore how our conditioning around work, intimacy, and material security shapes the way we live and relate to others.
Over the course of the retreat, each theme will be explored in depth. Participants will examine their relationship to work and livelihood, intimacy and sexuality, wealth and security, and how these areas intersect with their values and spiritual path.
Optional online follow-up sessions during the week offer an opportunity to reconnect, share reflections, and continue integrating insights into everyday roles and relationships.
All sessions will be recorded and available for rewatching or future reference.
In-Person Registration:
Note: The Tuesday-Thursday follow-up sessions are online-only, even if you attend the weekend retreat in person.
Please register below. If you are able, registering at the “Supporter” level enables others to attend at the “Subsidized” level. Thank you for your generosity! (Please note that the registration price includes a base level of teacher support, and you will have the opportunity to donate more after the program.)
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Online Registration:
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Volunteering
All of our programs rely on volunteers to support our teachers and staff with various tasks and responsibilities. Volunteering allows you to participate in our programs at no cost. To inquire about volunteering opportunities, please fill out our inquiry form, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Teacher(s)
Martin Aylward
Martin Aylward has been meditating for 35 years and teaching Dharma since 1999. He took a one-way flight to India aged 19 and spent most of the next 4 years in Asian monasteries, retreat centres and Ashrams. Martin practiced with Ajahn Buddhadasa in Thailand and sat annual month-long retreats for 10 years in Bodh Gaya with Christopher Titmuss. He spent 2 years living with Indian Sadhus and Himalayan hermits and 13 years as a student of AH Almaas’ Diamond Approach.
Martin is guiding and founding teacher of Sangha.Live and Moulin de Chaves, a retreat centre in South West France where he has lived and taught for the last 20 years, and where his children grew up. He is co-founder with Mark Coleman of the Mindfulness Training Institute, training Mindfulness teachers in Europe and the US, with 300 graduates from 30 countries worldwide, and author of Awake Where You Are (2021). Find out more at MartinAylward.com.