Miksang Retreats in the Netherlands, Belgium & Spain

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 Introduction Module

Dates: TBA, 2024

Pre-requisite: Online introductory talk

Location:Zandvoort or Huy, Belgium

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 walking dunes of Bolonia, the city of Tarifa and the whitest town of Andalusia, Vejer de la Frontera.

Allow yourself to let really go of what you already know, and surrender yourself fully to the idea of infinite perceptions, wherein you 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 off-grid experience and this Spanish Miksang Journey!

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

Dates: November 11-14, 2023 (To be confirmed)

Prerequisite: On invitation

Lodging: Dar Cilla Guesthouse, Tarifa, Spain