Founder of the MIDL System
Stephen Procter
Stephen is a full-time insight meditation teacher and founder of the MIDL Insight Meditation System. MIDL is a systematic way of practicing traditional Buddhist Insight Meditation by following the middle (MIDL) way in daily life.
Stephen began meditating at the age of 12 and by 29 was a live-in manager with his wife Linda at Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre west of Sydney. He has studied the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw intensively under the guidance of Sayadaw U Kundala, John Hale and Patrick Kearney.
After years of intensive meditation and 12 years of self-study in an abusive workplace, Stephen developed the MIDL Meditation System, a method of Buddhist insight meditation designed for practitioners living a modern household life. Stephen, now 58, lives with his wife Linda near Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia.
Accredited Teachers.
Monica Heiser
Monica is a full-time public school art teacher passionate about practicing insight meditation in her daily life and wishes to use her teaching skills and personal meditative experience to help others experience freedom and peace.
Monica began practicing in the MIDL Meditation System under the guidance of Stephen in August 2021. MIDL inspired her with its potential to practice samatha (calm abiding) meditation in a clear and precise way while living a busy lay life.
Through her practice, the intimate relationship between samatha and vipassana (insight in reality) was revealed. Monica has 15 years of experience in meditation understands that awakening is an accessible reality for those that are ready to directly investigate their own experience."
Deb Grills
Deb is a business owner, wife, and mother who understands the need to meditate while raising a family. She began meditating in MIDL over eight years ago to help her settle down what she calls an extremely overly energetic mind.
Her children were 16 and 14, and she had successfully run her salon for 19 years. Her family had always been active in sports, business, activities, etc., and at this time her life was pretty crazy. Deb shares that there were parts of this life she loved, but mostly, her heart felt empty.
With daily practice of relaxing and letting go, Deb began to understand the drive within herself that led to this feeling of emptiness and developed a sense of peace and joyful presence that is well known in the MIDL community.