Mark Coleman is a senior teacher at Spirit Rock and has taught insight meditation worldwide since 1997. Mark is passionate about integrating meditation and nature and leads wilderness retreats through his organization, Awake in the Wild, as well as nature based meditation teacher trainings.

Co-founder of the Mindfulness Training Institute Mark also leads year long mindfulness teacher trainings in the UK and US.

He is author of Awake in the Wild: Mindfulness in Nature as a Path of Self-Discovery and Make Peace With Your Mind and his recent book From Suffering to Peace.

He lives in Northern California and likes nothing more than hiking, biking, and kayaking in the outdoors.