6-day Miksang Retreat
Heaven, Earth, Man & Magic

Refresh your eyes, open your heart, and take one genuine picture at a time in Gran Canaria, Spain

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Deepening your Miksang Photography while exploring an exotic location

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With like-minded friends & personal attention for your Miksang process

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Your unique perceptions and the delight of infinite unfolding Miksang Moments

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Heaven, Earth & Man

Discover the sacred world of forms, and figures and new visual depths with these 3 universal principles.

Your personal Magic

Magic is already within you; in each experience of connection when your eyes, heart & mind are aligned.

In the here and now

Dissolve the idea that you take better photos 'elsewhere' and in 'a special location': always in the now.

Coast of Light

Experience the warmth of everyday beauty in southern Spain, Costa de la Luz - Coast of Light - in the Spanish province Andalusia.

Walking Dunes

This is a beautiful natural phenomenon at the Duna de Bolonia, where you also can have a real off-grid experience!

White village

Hold your Miksang seat during an Miksang outing to the whitest town Vejer de la Frontera. Explore with uninhibited curious looking.

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Your Miksang seat

I have developed this 6-day deepening in Miksang Photography around the 3 universal principles of Heaven, Earth and Man based on the Dharma Art teachings of Chögyam Trungpa. So you can deepen your confidence in your flashes of perception.

Sacred geometry is present in everything, including yourself. Consciously looking and photographing with the 3 principles brings you closer to the sacred geometry of all forms and shapes, and within yourself. Beautiful compositions and beautiful art always has this natural sacred geometry. This is a universal and timeless aspect of the brilliance of everyday beauty.

Miksang Photography as a lifestyle and taking your Miksang seat is the combination of you as a 'tourist' in this uniquely beautiful location on a volcanic island, practicing pure perception and genuine photographic expression.

You can connect completely and fully in the each now-moment. Which enables to your Miksang seat every time you press the button of your camera. Still, calm, connected, confident, passionate, committed to give expression in a simple and genuine way.

Feel what you see

See, feel, come to a full stop, let in what resonates. Learn to fully surrender what you notice and feel when seeing from the heart. One delightful perception at a time, one click at a time.

What to expect?

Surrendering to the idea of infinite perceptions
Deepening your Miksang photography in an exotic location
Mixing being a tourist and awakeness
Looking at the visual world in a poetic way with 3 ancient principles of heaven, earht, man
Refreshing your inner and outer eye
Strengthening feeling, noticing and trusting your 'flashes'
Discovering your personal magic
Slowing down with the fastest medium, your camera
Self time, together time and timeless time
Crystallising inner calmness & stilness
Deepening your insights and manifesting creative action
Stabilising your Miksang awareness in your daily activities
Grounding exercises and in-depth visual exercises
The proximity of powerful nature
Your personal rich Miksang adventure!

What a lovely week!

The combination of practicing Miksang, Tarifa itself, a wonderful guesthouse and great food makes it a pleasant place to develop yourself and at the same time gives a real holiday feeling. Practicing with the Heaven, Earth, Man and Magic principles and new Miksang assignments is a great and deepening addition to the Miksang training. The variety of locations made this trip a complete package. I highly recommend this Miksang retreat!

Laurina van Dam

Every day is completely different...

I really liked being there, away from the world and the daily worries.

What I experienced as very special is that you go to the same place for three days (the dunes of Bolonia) and every day is really completely different.

From my lovely apartment I had easy access to the roof terrace of DarCilla Guesthouse, where you are literally above everything.

Joke van der Zwaard

Your 6-day Miksang Retreat in Gran Canaria

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€890

€ 740

Early Bird pricing | €150 discount off of €890

Allow yourself this opportunity to refresh and deepen your Miksang practice, and learn how to take and hold your Miksang seat in exotic places.

Discover how you can always look uninhibited, seeing from the heart and meet the already always present presence of the sacred world, in the direct connections of your surroundings with your unique resonance.

Deepen your inner calmness, crystalize your confidence with genuine photography while being a tourist, visiting interesting places!

Every day with talks, new Miksang assignments, Q&A, photo reviews.

Exclusive group size: 4-8
Locations we visit: Las Palmas area, the Dunes of Maspalomas and a surprise location
Price does not include accommodation, meals
Exluding local busses and outing costs

Yes, I'll join the retreat!

Program

Day 1 - Maspalomas

Introduction - the first day we start by exploring Maspalomas earea with Miksang Photography, and the emphasis is on 'simplicity'. Which is joyful and helps you landing in this new place. Enjoy al the newe shapes and forms, blend in in the pleasant mild Mediterranean climate, surrounded by the two oceans, plenty of palm trees and the Spanish-Moorish.

After the first Miksang gathering in the morning and the exercises on the rooftop terrace you have time to stroll in Tarifa, in the white city center, the harbor, the beach and enjoy a typical Spanish joint (late) lunch (optional). The day ends with the review of experiences and everyone's selection of Miksang photos.

Day 2 - Dunes

Day 1 of the 3 consecutive days in the Dunas Las Maspalomas - we start with the introduction of two of the three principles; Heaven and Earth on the outer and inner level, with photo examples. In this Sahara sand you will explore the principles of heaven and earth, and the overlap with space as form & form as space. And the fact that every moment is a place you've never been before - your personal magic.

This special dunes area is known for moving slowly, so you can surf on the waves of thinking slowly. It's different every day. Just like the now is different in each moment, like the light can be very different, and you as well in every moment.

Day 3 - Dunes

Day 2 of the 3 consecutive days in the Dunas Las Maspalomas - where you experience the magic of yourself at the dunes, beach and palm trees. You continue practicing with the intention of the thee principles of heaven, earth & man.

You rest with more ease in the comfort and discomfort in yourself. Your total experience of equanimity and equality in your immediate environment, the larger world and in yourself. You bring your inner & outer journey together in the vastness of the dunes and the power of nature.

Day 4 - Dunes

Day 3 of 3 in the dunes; you experience the magic of yourself at the dunes, beach and forest. You continue practicing with the intention of the thee principles of heaven, earth, man & moments. You allow yourself to look deeper and more precisely and surrender to the idea of your inherent clear seeing and infinite perceptions.

This is your foundation for in-depth looking and fresh seeing. being and seeing centered in your heart, and the warmth of your heart comes together in as genuine and your poetic expression with your camera.

Miksang photography in Vejer de la Frontera Spain

Day 5 - outing

How to be a tourist and do Miksang photography? Experience your experience during our Miksang outing to one of the picturesque villages on the island. This is a day of 'Miksang as lifestyle'; looking and being relaxed with active Miksang eyes enjoying your immediate surroundings with your fellow Miksang buddies.

This day begins and ends with your fresh eyes & Miksang photography.
And everything in between. The world of phenomena is an illusory reality and at the same time your experiences are real!

You don't have to go out and about for Miksang anymore, because wherever you are: something will resonate. You notice what you feel seeing fresh, you come to a full stop, allowing it in and photographing your experience of direct vivid perception into an equivalent. This is your personal visual poetry of the sacred world, in the multidimensionality of the sacred and mundane world.

Day 6 - Maspalomas

Crystalizing the heart of Miksang. On this final day you will explore from your expanded visual awareness your new normal. Your unique & visual poetic moments of NOW. In your apartment, strolling through the area of Maspalomas, on the beach, wherever you are NOW, standing or sitting.

What strikes you - unexpected and unthought - is your personal magic and giving genuine photographic expression is the heart of Miksang. You put what you have learned and unlearned into practice in your personal adventure, on the two legs of confidence and sincerity. You as a tourist and your very unique perceptions come together effortlessly and joyfully!

You allow yourself to follow the whispering of your intuition, every hunch, gut feeling, leads you. Not in a rebellious way, or wanting things differently or from the sentiment 'this is my last day'. The elegant impulses of 'first thought best thought', of 'fresh' during a delicious lunch, a siesta, strolling, chilling etc. We will close the retreat with a celebration, discussing everyone's experiences and sharing our pictures.

Your wakeful magic

The only magic that exists is the life, this world, the particular phenomena right this moment. Right now, right here, you are this magic. Magic is direct and personal and lingers in your state of being. It is choiceless magic.
This magic is wakeful magic.

Chögyam Trungpa

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DATES TBA: MARCH or NOVEMBER 2025

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