Photography

The photography immersion at Mystic Art Retreats is built around darshana, the sacred act of seeing and being seen, using the camera as a way to meet the world with reverence rather than to collect images.

In the Hindu tradition, darshana (दर्शन) means both to see and to be seen: a mutual gaze between the devotee and the deity in which seeing itself becomes worship. The eye is not an instrument of capture but a vessel of recognition. One does not take darshana; one receives it.