Winter Weekthun: Dharma Art and Co-Creating Good Communities
With Arawana Hayashi, Jude Robison and Alexander deVaron
December 27, 2019 - January 3, 2020
Join us for our annual week-long meditation intensive, an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in mindfulness meditation. This week-long program is open to all, beginning and experienced meditators.
This retreat will provide time for participants to explore dharma, art and co-creating community. Trungpa Rinpoche gave teachings on dharma art as a vehicle to explore the playfulness and naturalness of the phenomenal world. How might the practices of meditative movement, voice, and visual expression support us in creating community?
In addition to daily meditation and art practices, participants can have individual meetings with meditation teachers. Some of the days will be in silence. There will be time to walk outdoors and enjoy our sense perceptions in the quiet and peaceful surroundings of Sky Lake.
Suggested reading: True Perception, the Path of Dharma Art by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. If you have it, please bring the text with you.
***Please note: Our housing is completely full for this program, except for shrine room accommodations. You are welcome to register for that option or to book an airbnb nearby.
Leaders
Arawana’s career has been in dance, both in the theater and in communities, with a focus on cultivating individual presence and group awareness and creativity. She began to meditate and study with Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche in 1974, and has been teaching Shambhala Training and Dharma Art practices since 1980. She currently works with the Presencing Institute, creating with colleagues an art form called Social Presencing Theater, which brings the contemplative teachings of Shambhala art into the field of social change. She is the author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move.
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Jude Robison came to Buddhist practice in 1980 with a background in social activism, visual arts, theater and dance. She continues to integrate her passion for art and community empowerment through her dharma practice and teaching. A former co-director of Karme Choling, she has an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from the University of the Arts.
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For the last thirty years Alexander has been exploring and teaching the intersection of meditation practice, community and creativity. In addition to teaching in Shambhala, he has taught stress management programs for the Penn Program for Mindfulness, workshops at the Philadelphia Museum Art, and classes in meditation and resilience throughout the Philadelphia area. In 2010, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche appointed him the Shastri (senior teacher) of the Philadelphia Shambhala Center. He teaches music theory, listening skills, and composition at Temple University.
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