MIKSANG WORKSHOPS in European cities taught in English

Opening the Good Eye - An Introduction to Contemplative Photography

Three-Day Workshop

LONDON, UK, AUGUST 26 - 29 with Hèlen Vink

Info & registration: Stuart Greenwood - miksanguk@live.co.uk

Cost: £ 325 - including the Miksang sourcebook

Location: The Shooting Star - see streetmap
125 - 129 Middlesex Street, Liverpool Street
London E1 7JF

Tube/rail: Liverpool Street

ZANDVOORT, NL, MARCH 24 - 27, 2011 with Hèlen Vink

In English with German translation

In English mit deutscher Übersetzung
Info und Anmeldung: Hiltrud Enders
mail@hiltrud-enders.de

helen@miksang.nl  / cell: +31 (0)6 53525759

Cost: € 375 - including the Miksang sourcebook

Location: Brederodestraat 15 - 27

2042 BA Zandvoort - click here for Googlemaps

Pre-requisites: None

Open to all levels of photographic experience

Workshop Description:

Opening the Good Eye is an introduction to the discipline and delight of direct seeing and perception based photography. We begin to develop the ability to synchronize our mind and eye so that our habitual patterns of seeing and labeling dissolve in a moment of stunning vivid, perception.

During the course we will work with visual assignments to explore and dissect the world of form. We develop confidence in our ability to connect directly with what we see, stay fully present with the perception as we fully understand its qualities, and then express our experience precisely with our cameras.

Workshop Details:

The workshop begins on Thursday Evening at 7.30 pm with an introductory talk and slide show. Friday through Sunday takes place from 9.30 am - 5.30 pm and includes exercises, field trips, assignments, talks and reviews.

Teacher: Hèlen Vink studied photography and sculpture at the Utrecht School of Arts in Utrecht, Netherlands. She has been practising meditation and studying Dharma Art and Buddhism since 1997 and has lived and worked in Shambhala Buddhist centres in France and the USA. She has been practising Miksang Photography since 2006 as a student of Michael Wood, the founder of the Miksang Institute of Contemplative Photography, and became a Certified Miksang Instructor in 2008. She is also a meditation instructor.

Watch a film about Miksang Photography: Quiet Mind

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Miksang Journey

The Essential Instructions on Looking and Seeing
Three Day Workshop
Pre-Requisite: Opening the Good Eye

The basis of the Miksang journey is to have a relationship with the actual practice of clear seeing. This involves understanding and working with three aspects:
•The Flash of Perception
•Visual Discernment
•Forming the Equivalent

This class will guide you so that you can become a master of your ability to express your experience. This is not an introductory course.

In order to be able to collapse our discipline into a single moment so that shooting

is completely free and spontaneous, we have to be firmly balanced on the two legs

of genuineness and confidence. Without these, we can become confused by uncertainty, self doubt, and external reference points.

We can slip into the conventional trap of negotiating our direct experience.

This intensive helps us refine our ability to move through these seemingly separate moments seamlessly with confidence and genuineness. Each day of the workshop we will explore as a group one of the above aspects in more detail than is possible during normal Miksang Levels.

We begin on Thursday evening at 7.30pm with a slideshow and introduction talk.
Friday through Sunday from 9am to 5pm with visual exercises, talks, field trips,
assignments and reviews.

This workshop is highly recommended after Opening the Good Eye

 

More on Miksang workshops

The Miksang workshops are designed to allow us to explore our ordinary everyday visual world in a fresh way and express these perceptions in a clear and genuine way with our cameras.

Program information: All workshops start on the first evening with a talk and slideshow at 19.30 hrs. The following days include visual exercises,talks, field trips, and photo reviews. From 09.30 - ±17.30 hrs. All digital.

Teachers: The workshops Opening the Good Eye – an introduction to contemplative photography - are taught in the Netherlands and other countries in  Europe by Miksang teacher Hèlen Vink. She works together with Miksang teachers Michael Wood and Julie DuBose, who come to Europe to present 3-day and 4-day follow up workshops annually.

For a full description of all Miksang workshops click here.

 

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