Miksang Retreats in the Netherlands, France & Spain

Discover the everyday beauty with your Good Eye & camera and learn how to easily improve your pictures

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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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 learning 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 of the ordinary world. Learn how to photography in a simple manner with your camera and the Miksang basics. 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 exercises and deep looking. From the open space within you set out each day with a new photographic Miksang assignment. You will discover how photography, waking up and fresh seeing come together as mindfulness-meditation-in-action, connecting truly, seeing things as they are, while it provides a doorway to improve your pictures.

• 1x 3-day Miksang 1 Introduction Module - Seeing From The Heart

Dates: TBA, 2024/2025

Pre-requisite: Online introductory talk

Location: Zandvoort, NL, or Retreat Center Dechen Chöling, France

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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. From the open space within you, you will be able to experience looking deeply and inner stillness with the approach of Miksang Photography and the Miksang Method to stabilising your fresh seeing and genuine photographic expression.

It provides a doorway to further improve your pictures, going beyond the biggest inner obstacle of 'hot boredom' and the outer obstacle of 'photographic ambition'.

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

Dates: TBA 2024/2025

Pre-requisite: Having completed Miksang 1

Location: Zandvoort, NL, or Retreat Center Dechen Chöling, France

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6-day Advanced Miksang Retreat

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

Prerequisite: Having completed Miksang 3 & on invitation

Lodging: Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain

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