Online Workshops & Retreats 2026

Are you interested in learning how to develop relaxation and calm as a foundation for insight in your daily life. Members of the community are welcome to join this introductory workshop at any time. Fill out the registration form below for details.

When:

• AEDT: Mondays 6-7am on Feb 16, 23, Mar 2, 9.
• CET: Sundays 8-9pm on Feb 15, 22, Mar 1, 8.
• EST: Sundays 2-3pm on Feb 15, 22, Mar 1, 8.

You can check your time zone using this link.

Instructor: Stephen Procter.

• Registration: Fill out the Workshop Registration Form below to Book Your Place.
• Dana: This workshop is supported by optional donation. Donate with PayPal  

Stephen will cover:

1. Week 1: Skill 00: How to lower stress and anxiety with daily meditation.
2. Week 2: Skills 01 - 02: How to develop enjoyment in relaxing and letting go.
3. Week 3: Skills 03 - 04: How to create your foundation for calm and insight.
4. Week 4: How to bring calm and insight into your daily life to change habitual patterns. 

Suitability: This introductory series is suitable for meditators new to MIDL Insight Meditation and experienced meditators who want to increase their understanding of their foundational skills to bring insight meditation into daily life.

Retreat Code: 9-Day-Mar-Apr-2026

This retreat has many group activities that run for 24 hours per day for 9 days allowing meditators from different time zones to join together. MIDL retreats are very flexible and offer the option of joining the Full Retreat (FR), Working Retreat (WR), or Dropping In (DI) when you feel like it allowing you to participate as much as you like.

Retreat starting and ending time:

• AUS (AEDT): 5am Saturday, 28th March to 6 am Monday, 6th April 2026.
• US (EDT): 2pm Friday, 27th March to 4 pm Sunday, 5th April 2026.
• EU (CET): 7pm Friday, 27th March to 9 pm Sunday 5th April 2026.

You can check your time zone using this link.

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MIDL Insight Meditation: MIDL (Mindfulness in Daily Life) is a Buddhist Insight Meditation practice, based on Theravada Buddhist Suttas, designed for daily life. MIDL uses the development of samatha (calm-abiding) as a foundation for vipassana (insight) into hindrances to calm, during seated meditation, walking meditation and daily activities. Because of curiosity toward the integration of calm and insight, and its low levels of meditation-induced dukkha (suffering), MIDL has the advantage over other retreat practices in that it can be continued outside of meditation retreats in family and work life. 

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Registration: Fill in the Retreat Registration Form below to register your place.

*Note: Registration is not required for joining group activities, but it is necessary to register for private interviews and a retreat schedule.

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MIDL Teachers: Join MIDL teachers Stephen Procter, Monica Heiser, and Krister Trangius on a 9-day online MIDL Insight Meditation Retreat hosted on Zoom. This Retreat is a special opportunity to withdraw from the business of everyday life and deepen your experience of calm & insight practice in the Theravada Buddhist Insight Meditation Tradition. 

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Retreat: There are three options for this retreat: 

1. Full Retreat (FR) means following the 10-day schedule, with the option of joining daily retreat group activities and private interviews with a teacher. 
2. Working Retreat (WR) means organising your time to meditate mornings and evenings while still working while being mindful in daily life, with the option of joining group activities and group interviews with a teacher.
3. Drop in Meditator means that you are welcome to join any of the daily retreat group activities online as displayed in the MIDL Google Calendar. You are welcome to join the daily group interviews.

Online Meetings: The retreat will include online group activities on Zoom 24hrs per day including group meditations, sharing & discussion, mindful of movement, Dhamma talks, and Optional 15-minute interviews with a teacher for full time retreatants.

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Private Interviews:  

Full Retreat (FR): The first 27 Meditators registered for the Full Retreat (FR) will have the option of booking a 15-minute interview with a MIDL Teacher every second day. Full Retreat (FR) students who select Yes in the question on interviews in the retreat registration form will be emailed an interview time appropriate for their time zone. Please note, to respect the teacher's time, if you miss an interview and do not let the teacher know ahead of time that you could not make it, you will forfeit your remaining interview sessions.

Working retreat (WR): Meditators doing the Working Retreat (WR) will be offered group interviews. Private interviews may be offered dependant on retreat numbers. Please note, if offered private interviews please respect the teacher's time by letting them know ahead of time that you could not make it, to avoid forfeiting your remaining interview sessions.

Drop in retreat (DI): As a drop in retreatant, you are welcome to join in on any of the group meditations, discussions and Dhamma talks at a time that suits you. There is no need to register if you will be dropping in and joining the community retreat. You can follow the retreat schedule using the MIDL Google Calander.

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Retreat Schedule: So that you can time your meditation with the MIDL community, retreat schedules are provided in US (EDT), EU (CEST), India (INT) and AUS (AEST) time zones. A link to the retreat schedule, as a PDF, will be included with your confirmation and community events during the retreat will display on our community Google calendar.

Teacher Support: Dana: There is no formal charge for this 9-day MIDL Insight Meditation Retreat, as Stephen, Monica, and Krister are offering their time as a gift, preparing this retreat, and teaching it, as a gift to you in the spirit of dana (generosity & letting go). As the receiver of a gift, you also have the option to support their work by donating toward the time they have spent on the retreat using the PayPal links below.

• Stephen Procter: Donate with PayPal  
• Monica Heiser: Donate with PayPal
• Krister Trangius Donate with PayPal 

*It is important to note that there is no expectation to donate, and no one will be turned away or judged in any way. Entering into the relationship of the gift, with these Dhamma teachers, is a movement and letting go of the heart.

We look forward to sharing these 9 days.

With kindness and love,

Stephen, Monica & Krister.