Christophe Marion

My name is Christophe Marion, I am French born and raised in Paris. At 28 years old, I left my country to study meditation in Vietnam. I practiced Zen meditation for 5 years, mainly at the Thiền Viện Trúc Lâm Zen school in Dalat. A couple of years later, I spent a year in the Myanmar forest to learn and practice another type of meditation: samatha. Back to my country, I went to university to pursue a master’s degree in language teaching. Then, I began research in psychology on meditation, focusing on the well-known concept of mindfulness. Currently, I have just finished my first year as a doctoral student, working on the barriers to the practice of meditation.