Dance Your Spiritual Awakening

Dance into Wisdom and Bliss

With Prema Dasara

Austin, Texas April 7-12, 2016

Thursday, April 7, 2016

6:30pm at PPOL - Dharma and Dance of Padmasambhava

Padmasambhava is one of the most precious teachers of Tibetan Buddhism and The Vajra Seven-Line Prayer devoted to him is one of the most sacred prayers. It contains outer, inner, and innermost teachings of the esoteric trainings.

6:30-7:30pm

Lama Lobtsul Rinpoche will offering teachings on Padmasambhava and the 7 Line Prayer

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Prema Dasara will teach a dance that includes the mantra of Padmasambhava and the 7 Line Prayer. It is a joyful dance that we will offer during the Tsok Ceremony on Sunday Afternoon.

Friday, April 8, 2016

7pm at Bookwoman

Dance as a Sacred Offering: 3 Women, 3 Traditions - with Prema Dasara, Chayito, and Helene Christopher

A unique opportunity to connect with three dancers whose work is dedicated to the Divine: Prema Dasara, creatrix of the Tara Dances, Chayito Champion, flamenco singer and dancer, and Helene Christopher, belly dancer and Wiccan priestess. Presentations by each will be interspersed with demonstrations and audience participation. Be prepared to rise from your seats, but no dance experience or mobility is required.

Saturday & Sunday April 9 & 10, 2016 at PPOL –

10am-1pm; 3pm-6pm

Calling Tara From the Heart

Calling Tara From The Heart is a profoundly moving dance meditation. Based on a mind treasure featuring the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist reflections, coupled with the enchanting and powerful music of Mercedes Bahleda, it is a deeply devotional experience of powerful energies and awakenings.

Dancing our prayers helps us to integrate all the aspects of our life’s experience into a spiritual journey of awakening. Dancing in the atmosphere of the enlightened feminine we use simple techniques

that have powerful gifts. Each session of this weekend workshop introduces us to a joyful method of cultivating the tools we need to make the most of this human adventure.

Session 1, Saturday Morning, introduces us to the method and the view….waking up the body mind, orienting our human journey towards realization and the light.

Session 2 – Saturday afternoon we explore the qualities of our awakened feminine nature, developing a close relationship with our inner being as the divine Goddess. We explore the power of mantra and mudra combined with mindful movement and meditation.

Session 3 – Sunday morning – we examine our inner commitment to awakening, letting go of whatever holds us back, our guilt and our fears, our confusion and doubt, dancing into the light.

Session 4 – Sunday afternoon – we generate abundance, increasing our wisdom, wealth, energy, compassion and skill, celebrating the gifts of our lives

4:30 Pm – A celebration, a feast offering, putting together the dances in a method that leads us step by step into the blissful experience of awakening. Please bring a vegetarian food or drink offering for the feast offering.

Dances we will be working with are

1) Prayer of Motivation

2) Refuge and Bodhicitta

3) Shantideva’s Prayer

4) Dance of the 21 Qualities of Tara

5) Om Ah Hum (new dance)

6) Calling Tara From the Heart (new dance)

7) Vajrasattva

8) 8 Precious Offerings

9) Mantra Movement Prayer and Meditation

10) Vasudhara

11) Song of the Spring Queen