Awake Where You Are, Martin Aylward
Awake Where You Are, Martin Aylward
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Awake Where You Are
The Art of Embodied Awareness

Author: Martin Aylward

Narrator: Martin Aylward

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/01/2023

Synopsis

“All that we cherish—love, creativity, wisdom, and aliveness—becomes available when we are fully grounded in our bodies. Martin Aylward offers timeless practices that lead us home.”—Tara BrachWhen we’re overwhelmed by desires and distractions, we’re easily disconnected from ourselves. Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it.The practices in this “guidebook to awareness of the body” (Sharon Salzberg) literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. More than a meditation manual, this book is a guide to living an embodied life. You’ll learn about the following areas and practices: How to inhabit our sensory experience carefullyThe art of living from the inside out.How to understand and liberate our primal human drives.Ways to integrate psychological understanding with meditative practice.How to investigate the nuances of loveIn the process, practitioners find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom.“Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life.”—Jack Kornfield

Reviews

Goodreads review by Willa

Awake Where you Are is an accessible and profound guidebook for spiritual seekers...highly recommended! Martin's many years of authentic practice have led him back to the body, where mindfulness, freedom and joy are found. With humor and anecdotes from his life, Martin shows us that we too can find......more

Goodreads review by Unleash

Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it. Have you ever been asked, are you living or just existing? I have come to learn that a majority of us are just existing. Going through the motions of life. Doing what we believe is the right thing to do. F......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

I loved this book, grew weary of it, then ended up loving it again. I took the subtitle at its word: "The art of embodied awareness." This made sense. From what I've seen, this is Martin Aylward's specialty. Embodiment. The first third of the book delivered, in spades. Aylward gets you out of your hea......more

Goodreads review by Karli

I really took my time with this book. It is densely filled with ideas about who we are as humans and how we live in a world primarily out of touch with our physicality and reality in general. He offers many reflection questions throughout to help deepen the experience of the book. On page 201, Aylwa......more

Goodreads review by tpei

Martin has a unique voice that does a wonderful job showing us that what we are looking for, what we most fundamentally need, cannot be found somewhere out there but only right here with us. With a wonderful blend of buddhism, wisdom, practical exercises, humor and personal anecdotes Martin reminds......more

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