Pejn: Hi and thank you for the recommendation. I will make the effort to visit Vipassanagruppen. It's actually close by where I live! I don't know what it means when you say the teaching is more traditional. Care to elaborate?
Björn: Can you tell me about the other places in Stockholm to practice vipassana? I only know about Vipassanagruppen and Stockholm Buddhist Vihara. Of course you are correct that the best thing to do is to visit all of the places myself and form my own experience and opinion. The thing is I don't have the motivation to do that. I suffer from social anxiety and to get a recommendation from someone and a little bit of information about what to expect when I get there helps a lot with overcoming my fears. Just writing these posts is kind of a big deal for me.
In the same spirit of openness and sharing what we know to help each other I will share what little knowledge I have about practice in Stockholm. I attended a beginners course on Stockholm Buddhist Vihara a few years back. The main focus was meditation practice with a little theory to back it up. After just a few weeks results were expected from the monk/teacher. He was even a bit surprised that the results weren't showing in my practice.

I can only blame myself for this though, as I didn't follow the instructions very well outside of the weekly sittings. So overall I would say this is a good place to practice (although I have nothing to compare to). The only thing I found negative is perhaps a bit of difficulty with language as the teacher's swedish and english was somewhat lacking and also that I was uncomfortable with the buddhist ceremonial stuff surrounding the practice. I would perhaps go there again, only that I moved to the other side of Stockholm so it's a bit far to travel.
If you don't think it's a good idea to share this kind of stuff or that this thread is not the right place, please say so, and maybe we can start another thread about swedish meditation centers. /Kim