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.
Events with Arawana Hayashi
2023 Snow Lion Winter RetreatDecember 27, 2023 - January 2, 2024
This hybrid retreat is offered in person at Sky Lake, with a Zoom option available. It is open to all beginning and experienced meditators. You are warmly invited to join our annual holiday meditation intensive, an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in five days of mindfulness-awareness practice. We live in challenging times. Practicing mindfulness together invites steadiness and stability, a settled confident openness to the personal and societal struggles of daily life. Awareness rises like the full moon of insight into compassion-emptiness, limitless loving-kindness for all living beings. In addition to daily meditation practice, participants hear talks, have lively group conversations about practice and meditation in action, engage in…
2023 Snow Lion - Zoom OptionDecember 27, 2023 - January 2, 2024
This hybrid retreat is offered in person at Sky Lake, with a Zoom option available. It is open to all beginning and experienced meditators. You are warmly invited to join our annual holiday meditation intensive, an opportunity to fully immerse oneself in five days of mindfulness-awareness practice. We live in challenging times. Practicing mindfulness together invites steadiness and stability, a settled confident openness to the personal and societal struggles of daily life. Awareness rises like the full moon of insight into compassion-emptiness, limitless loving-kindness for all living beings. In addition to daily meditation practice, participants hear talks, have lively group conversations about practice and meditation in action, engage in…
