Online Workshops & Retreats 2025

Next Workshop: Saturday, July 19 @ 9am - 12pm, 2025 EST

* You can view the workshop time in your time zone by viewing the Google Events Calendar above.

Suitability: Suitable for everyone. New to meditation? You are welcome to join our community in this monthly meditation workshop.

Instructor: Monica Heiser. 

Cost: by donation: https://paypal.me/MonicaHeiser

*MIDL teachers rely on your support to teach. When offering a donation, it is important to consider that they give up time with their family and friends to offer this gift to you.
 

Registration: Please fill in the Workshop Registration Form below. 

Zoom link: Join on Zoom *Note: all classes/workshops use the same zoom link.

Workshop Topic: "Creating Goals in your Meditation"  

In this session, we will focus on embracing new ideas around our practice, refining goals and what progress looks like, and exploring the structure of MIDL. In this three-hour session, join MIDL teacher Monica Heiser in a series of short talks and guided meditations. These workshops are ideal for practitioners seeking extended practice time in the comfort of their own homes, accompanied by community and guidance.

Structure:  

9 am Grounding exercise.

9:10 am - 9:30am: Overview of the MIDL structure
9:30 am Guided meditation.
10am Movement break.
10:10 - 10:30 am: Hindrances as Progress in MIDL
10:30 am Guided meditation.
11 am Movement break.
11:10 - 11:30 am: Setting Goals in Practice
11:30 am Guided meditation.
12 pm Q&A / Closing remarks. 

**This retreat is Booked Out.

An in-person retreat is being held by MIDL Insight Meditation Teacher Krister Tranguis from August 11th to 17th, 2025, in Valinge, Sweden, at a beautiful meditation hall built there.

If only Scandinavians join the retreat, it will be conducted in Swedish; however, if non-Scandinavians join, it will be held in English. 

**Keep watching or sign up as a member to be informed of upcoming retreats.

This retreat will run for 24 hours per day for 9 days. It also has the option of starting 30 minutes earlier for a meet-and-greet with the community. MIDL retreats are very flexible and offer the option of joining the Full Retreat (FR), Working Retreat (WR), or Dropping In when You Feel Like It (DI).

Below are retreat times in three main time zones worldwide. You can check your time zone using this link.

Example retreat starting time:

AUS (AEST) 

• 5 am Saturday, 30th Aug to 5 am Monday, 8th Sept, 2025.

US (EDT) 

• 3 pm Friday, 29th Aug to 3 pm Sunday, 7th Sept, 2025.

EU (CEDT) 

• 9 pm Friday 29th Aug 9 pm Sunday 7th Sept, 2025.

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) 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. 

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

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

MIDL Teachers: Join MIDL teachers Stephen Procter, Monica Heiser, and Krister Trangius in a 10-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. 

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 daily retreat group activities. 
3. Drop in Meditator means that you are welcome to join any of the daily retreat group activities online as displayed in the MIDL Class Calendar.

Online Meetings: The retreat will include online group meetings on Zoom throughout the day including Group sharing, Mindfulness of movement, Dhamma talks, and Optional 15-minute interviews.

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 teachers time, if you miss an interview and did 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. Please note, to respect the teachers time, if you miss an interview and did not let the teacher know ahead of time that you could not make it, you will forfeit your remaining interview sessions.

Retreat Schedule: So that you can time your meditation with the MIDL community, retreat schedules are provided in US (EDT), EU (CEDT)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 together.

With kindness and love,

Stephen, Monica & Krister.