Shambhala Art Parts 1-3: Dorje Denma Ling, Nova Scotia

with Acharya Arawana Hayashi

September 15 / 6:00 AM – September 19 / 6:00 AM

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.

Dorje Denma Ling
2280 Balmoral Road – B0K 1V0 Tatamagouche
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TELEPHONE : 902 657 9085
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Shambhala Art Teachers Intensive -KCL

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.

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Shambhala Art Intensive 2010 Los Angeles Part 1

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.

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Shambhala Art Intensive 2010 Los Angeles Part 2

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.

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Shambhala Art Intensive 2010 Los Angeles Part 3

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.

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Marica Shibata -Space, Form, and Energy Kado -Part 1

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.

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Marcia Shibata -Space, Form, and Energy Kado -Part 2

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.

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Marcia Shibata -Space, Form, & Energy Kado -Part 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.

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Kado Demo of the 4 Elements Part 1

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.

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Kado Demo of the 4 Elements Part 2

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.

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Kado Demo of the 4 Elements Part 3

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.

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European Shambhala Art Intensive – December 2010

with Acharyas Arawana Hayashi & David Schneider

December 3 – December 9, 2010

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)

Cologne’s Shambhala website

Available to all, no prerequisites. However, participants may not skip any part and continue with the intensive.

Price: 220€ for parts 1-3  / 300€ for parts 1-5

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Shambhala Art Intensive: All Five Parts Los Angeles 2012

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.)

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