Miksang Retreats in Europe

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 gain genuine confidence in your authentic expression.
• Discover the everyday beauty by seeing from your heart
• Fully familiarising yourself with the step-by-step Miksang Method, which will improve 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.

• 3-day Miksang 1 - Seeing From the Heart: April 9-11

• 1 day off/rest day: April 12

• 3-day Miksang 2 - True Connection & Fields of Perception: April 13-15

• 1 day off/rest day: April 16

• 3-day Miksang 3 - Moments & Visual Haiku: April 17-19

Dates: April 9-19, 2026

Pre-requisite: Open to all

Location: Zandvoort, Netherlands | Googlemaps

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.

Exploring Is-ness, That-ness

Immerse yourself in 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.
• Providing a doorway to further improve your pictures in a genuine way, wearing out old patterns of 'wanting' and 'not wanting', 'liking' and 'not liking' - the constant push and pull: calming the moving away, avoiding, and grasping.
• With new exercises and assignments, designed to encourage you to go beyond the biggest inner obstacle of 'hot boredom' and the outer obstacle of 'photographic ambition', leading inner 'coolness'.
• Developing a state of deep inner stillness,  unmovingness and equanimity, locking in to the delight of visual richness. 

Dates: April 13-15, 2026

Pre-requisite: Having completed Miksang 1

Location: Zandvoort, NL | Googlemaps >