Mark Coleman is a teacher at Spirit Rock and has taught insight meditation retreats since 1997 worldwide. 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, Make Peace With Your Mind, and his recent book From Suffering to Peace.
He lives in Sausalito, Marin and likes nothing more than hiking biking and kayaking in the outdoors.