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Marlies Myoku Cocheret

Modern Advaita

Teaching

Presence, silence and embodiment: resting as the silence of one's true nature and letting it pervade heart, body and everyday action. 2, 4, 7

Who it is for

For people who want to combine meditation, satsang dialogue and a body-oriented approach. Some offers are explicitly for women.

Life and places
  • Born and raised in Amsterdam, she studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and spent almost a year with Osho in Poona; she also studied with Barry Long. 4
  • Open Gate Sangha describes her as a psychologist, a Hakomi therapist and a certified Tantric educator. 8

Where to start

  • Her short talks and guided meditations on her YouTube channel, linked from her website, for example Resting as your True Nature (2026). 3, 6, 7
  • Her own account on her website of meeting Adyashanti in Santa Cruz and of his invitation to teach in 2000. 1
Public context
  • Adyashanti asked her to teach in 2000 and gave her the Zen name Myoku, "wondrous emptiness", according to her website and Open Gate Sangha, the organisation of Adyashanti's teachings. 1, 8
  • Deep Water Sangha, established in 2012 as a program of a non-profit organisation, supports her teaching. 5

Documented teaching relationships

  • Invited to teach by Adyashanti

    Cocheret’s own retrospective describes Adyashanti’s invitation to teach in 2000.

    Self-reported · marliescocheret.com

  • Learned personally with Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

    Marlies Myoku Cocheret writes that she met her teacher Osho at his ashram in Poona, spent almost a year in his presence and later continued with Osho meditations in the Netherlands.

    Self-reported · marliescocheret.com

Teaching relationships are documented statements. They confer no trust and do not attest realisation.

Sources
  1. Marlies & Adyashanti Her own detailed account of meeting Adyashanti and of his invitation to teach in 2000; read in full. Not independent evidence of formal Zen transmission. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  2. Presence: Our Only Refuge · teaching text and event Organiser's page with a teaching text attributed to her and a biography; a past event, no current event recommendation. accessed 8 Oct 2026
  3. Marlies Myoku Cocheret · Deep Water Sangha Home page of her website; links her YouTube channel. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  4. Get to Know Marlies Her own biography on her website; read in full. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  5. Deep Water Sangha Page of the organisation that supports her teaching, on her website. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  6. Marlies Myoku Cocheret (YouTube channel) Her YouTube channel, linked from her website; list of videos read. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  7. Resting as your True Nature (YouTube) Talk published on her YouTube channel on 7 March 2026 (7:42); heard in full through our transcript and compared with YouTube's automatic captions. accessed 19 Oct 2026
  8. Marlies Cocheret de la Moriniére · Open Gate Sangha (archived copy) Her entry in the list of Open Gate Sangha, the organisation of Adyashanti's teachings; web.archive.org copy of 17 May 2021. accessed 19 Oct 2026

Compiled by us from the sources listed. Last checked 19 Oct 2026.

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