Miksang Retreats in Europe

Discover ordinary beauty with your Good Eye & camera, and learn how to make true authentic pictures with contemplative photography

3-9+

Days emerging in heartfelt looking seeing & photography in France

6+

Days for advanced Miksang learning in Gran Canaria, in the Maspalomas Dunes

1001+

New experiences of seeing from the heart in the here and now, every now-moment

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9-day Miksang Retreat - Deep Dive into Pure Perception & Pure Expression | Open to all

Start your Miksang Photography with 3 consecutive 3-day Miksang Retreats where you will be introduced into all the basic principles and ins & outs of Miksang Photography.

Immerse yourself in the process of pure perception, the mechanics of looking and seeing and genuine photographic expression.

Take a deep dive in pure poetic photography and how to gain genuine confidence in your authentic expression. Discover the everyday beauty by seeing from your heart and fully familiarising yourself with the step-by-step Miksang Method, which also makes improving your pictures surprisingly easy.

Get to know the 'How to do Miksang Photography' and learn to integrate the Miksang approach to contemplative photography in your everyday life, as well in your existing photography.

Allow yourself a deepening of connection within yourself and with your immediate surroundings by embracing the freshness of each now-moment into your daily activities. Wherever you are, in whatever outer and inner circumstances.

• 1x 3-day Miksang 1 - Seeing From the Heart

• 1 day off/rest day

• 1x 3-day Miksang 2 - True Connection & Fields of Perception

• 1 day off/rest day

• 1x 3-day Miksang 3 - Moments & Visual Haiku

Dates: April 3-13, 2025

Pre-requisite: Online introductory talk

Location: Zandvoort, Netherlands

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3-day Miksang 1 - Introductory Retreat

3-day Miksang Introduction | Seeing From the Heart - Start your Miksang Photography experience with this 3-day Miksang Retreat.

Experience yourself how Miksang Photography changes your view on the everyday world and outlook on life itself, and how you can wake up to your everyday world with fresh eyes. While opening up and stabilising your refreshed seeing you discover the beauty and delight of the ordinary world.

Learn how to photography in a simple manner with your camera and the Miksang principles.

Every day with talks, visual exercises, new photographic assignments, Q&A and each day ends with the image reviews.

Step-by-step you will be introduced to the Miksang basics with a series of visual exercises for uninhibited looking and fresh seeing. Each day you set out from the open space within with a new photographic Miksang assignment.

Discover how photography, waking up and fresh seeing come together as mindfulness and meditation in action.

In these 3 days the emphasis is on the process of perception through synchronising body and mind, connecting truly with your direct perceptions, and seeing from a state of simplicity, while it provides a doorway to easily improve your pictures.

Dates: April 3-5, 2025

Pre-requisite: Online introductory talk

Location: Zandvoort, NL | Googlemaps >

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3-day Miksang 2 - Deepening Miksang Retreat

3-day Miksang 2 | True Connection & Fields of Perception - After your Miksang Introduction wherein you have experienced seeing from the heart, now you stabilise your Miksang foundation. With a new series of visuals exercises you will deepen your renewed fresh eyes, crystalising equanimity and equality about what you see. In these 3 days we will explore the is-ness, that-ness and the richness of unmoving essential qualities of things as they are. Each day we will explore fields of perception such a tree-ness, sidewalk-ness, person-ness and more.

You will be introduced to the Miksang fundamentals with a series of exercises and deep looking.

It provides a doorway to further improve your pictures in a genuine way. All exercises and assignments are designed to encourage you going beyond the biggest inner obstacle of 'hot boredom' and the outer obstacle of 'photographic ambition' landing in 'coolness'. And developing a state of deep inner stillness and unmovingness, locking in to the delight of visual richness.

Dates: April 7-9, 2025

Pre-requisite: Having completed Miksang 1

Location: Zandvoort, NL | Googlemaps >

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3-day Miksang 3 - Moments & Visual Haiku

3-day Miksang 3 | Moments & Visual Haiku

Here is where you enter the heart of your Miksang Photography. In these three days you will further stabilise your confidence in genuine and elegant photography. Having understood 'thatness', you now immerse yourself in the transience of moments and the magic of moments 'plus' - visual haiku. A moment dawns, for a fleeting time, and dissolves again.

You are here, letting it in, surrendering to the impermanent nature of things as they are, waking up to the visual delight.

Every day with talks, Q&A and new exercises where you set out from the open space within yourself with a new Miksang photo assignment as meditation-in-action.

Each day ends with an image review.

Dates: April 11-13, 2025

Pre-requisite: Having completed Miksang 2

Location: Zandvoort, NL | Googlemaps >

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6-day Advanced Miksang Retreat | TBA

For advanced Miksang students. With the ancient principles of Heaven, Earth and Man and the overlap with Space, Moments and visual Haiku you will be able to look deeper. This is in in-depth exploration of your personal magic and the poetry of forms and figures with Miksang Photography.

We will visit the Dunes of Maspalomas, including visiting a nearby village and another location on this volcanic island.

Allow yourself to let really go of what you already know, and surrender yourself fully to the idea of infinite perceptions. From this state of begin and seeing you will explore this beautiful area with your camera and crystalizing the faith of seeing from your heart.

Experience the delight of combining being a tourist and practicing Miksang Photography, deeply embodying fresh moments and your unique 'first thought, best thought' expression.

All-in-all a truly wonderful exotic experience and your personal Spanish Miksang Journey!

Every day with talks, new exercises and in-depth Miksang photographic assignments.

Dates: TBA 2025/2026

Prerequisite: Having completed Miksang 3 & on invitation

Lodging: Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain

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