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Aged 19, Martin left for India with a one-way ticket and no luggage, and spent most of the next 5 years in Asian monasteries, retreat centres and Himalayan hermitages, developing a meditation practice based on Vipassana / Insight Meditation and exploring many different teachings. He spent several months with Ajahn Buddhadasa at Wat Suan Mokkh in Thailand and sat annual month-long retreats all through the 1990s at the Thai Monastery in Bodh Gaya with Christopher Titmuss.He has also studied and practiced with various Buddhist teachers and traditions, including the Vajrayana practices of Mahamudra and Dzogchen.
Martin spent two years living with Sukhanta Giri Babaji at his hermitage near Dharamsala and has lived and practiced with various other Indian sadhus and Himalayan hermits. He was also a student of the Diamond Approach of A.H. Almaas for 13 years. He has been teaching meditation, guiding students and leading retreats worldwide since 1999. He co-founded Moulin de Chaves in 2005, a residential retreat centre where he lives and teaches with his wife Gail, and where their now adult children grew up.
An early pioneer in offering online teachings. Martin created Work Sex Money Dharma in 2011, supporting people in integrating transformational practices and meditative insight into daily life. He is a founder and the guiding teacher of Sangha Live which offers weekly free, live, and interactive dharma teachings online, and has a meditation app in French, called MIND, with over 500 000 downloads. He is also the co-founder, with Mark Coleman, of the Mindfulness Training Institute, running year-long certified Mindfulness teacher trainings in Europe and the US. He has been vistiing faculty on Masters programs at universities in Ireland, France, South Africa and USA.
Martin's French publications are Ne te quitte pas (Les Arènes, 2019) and Tout le monde peut méditer (Les Arènes, 2021). His first book in English, Awake Where You Are, is published by Wisdom Publications, in late 2021
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