A precious opportunity to take the first three levels of Shambhala Art with Acharya Arawana Hayashi a long time practitioner and teacher of performing arts and contemplative practices.
Tuition: $195 Canadian/per Part , $395 Parts 1 – 3. Each Part is the prerequisite for the next part.
Shambhala Art Teacher Intensive with Acharya Arawana Hayashi
Program Dates: Sept. 22 thru lunch Sept. 24, 2010
Location: Karme Choling, Barnet, Vermont.
“It is very important to realize how powerful all of us are. What we are doing may seem insignificant, but this notion of dharma art will be like an atomic bomb you carry in your mind. You could play a tremendous role in developing peace throughout the world.”
-Vidyadara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Shambhala Art teachers are warmly invited and strongly encouraged to attend this year’s East Coast Shambhala Art Teachers Intensive at Karmê Chöling beginning on the evening of Wednesday, September 22 and ending with lunch on Friday, September 24th. This precedes the Shambhala Art Parts 1-3 which starts September 24 and ends on the 29th.
Shambhala Art 2010 Five Part Intensive in Los Angeles. Part 1 of 3 videos showing showing some of the exercises used by this non-profit arts education program designed to integrate meditation with the creative and viewing processes. In this first video you can see exercises lead by Shambhala Art Teachers Amanda Tasse, Marcia Shibata, and Anne Saitzyk.
Part 2 of 3 of the Shambhala Art Five Part Intensive 2010 in Los Angeles. This video shows the Director of Shambhala Art International, Steven Saitzyk,demonstrating object arranging as a means to explore one’s felt sense and thought sense of the Principles of Space, Form, and Energy. This is followed by participant examples and an introduction to the Five Elements as a means to further explore the phenomenal world as part of one’s creative process.
Part 3 of 3 of the Shambhala Art Five Part Intensive 2010 Los Angeles. In this video we see participants continue to create arrangements based on some of the Elements. This is followed Steven Saitzyk and Marcia Shibata demonstrating the use of the Four Actions in the creative process. What follows this is a collaborative exercise where all the participants create four installations as an expression of what they have learned. It is called the “Feast of the Five Elements.” The installations include objects, food, and drink that embody the Elements and their Actions. On completion, the food and drink are consumed during a celebration that includes brief performances and readings.
Marcia Shibata demonstrates the use of the principles of Space, Form, and Energy (also known as Heaven, Earth, and Human) in Kado (flower practice) at the 2010 Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles.
Marcia Shibata demonstrates the principles of Space, Form, and Energy in Kado, flower practice at the 2010 Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles. Part 2 of 3.
Part 3 of 3. Marcia Shibata completes her demonstration of the principles of Space, Form, and Energy at the 2010 Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles.
Marcia Shibata does a demonstration of the 4 form elements (water, earth, fire, and air/wind) by way of Kado (flower practice) at the Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles in 2010. This Part 1 of three parts.
Marcia Shibata does a demonstration of the 4 form elements (water, earth, fire, and air/wind) by way of Kado (flower practice) at the Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles in 2010. This Part 2 of three parts.
Marcia Shibata demonstrates the four form elements of water, earth, fire, and air (wind) by way of Kado (flower practice) at the Shambhala Art Intensive in Los Angeles in 2010. This is part 3 of three parts.
This intensive is a rare opportunity to participate in all five parts of the Shambhala Art teachings in one intensive program
Part One:Coming To Your Senses Part Two:Seeing Things as They Are Part Three:The Creative Process Part Four:The Power of Display Part Five:Art in Everyday Life & The Feast Of The Five Elements
Program Location: Exact location to be determined
For more information please contact:
Angelika Thome (nalanda.koeln@googlemail.com)
Program Date: January 4-8, 2012 (Dates subject to change) 9:30AM-5:30PM each day. Bonus Day, January 9 Field Trip to a museum to engage in contemplative viewing. (Available to only graduates and teachers of the Shambhala Art program. No charge for this event. Exact time and location to be announced.)