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.