Charya Dance
Sangita Shakya, course teacher
Course details
Teachers: Swayambhu Ratna Shakya and Sangita Shakya
Dates: 15 May - 21 August 2024
Duration: Every Wednesday for 15 weeks, for one hour
Time:
11.15am - 12.15pm UK time
6.15am - 7.15am East Coast time
4pm - 5pm Nepal time
Location: Online
Format: Livestream with the option of attending this class in one of our centres in Kathmandu or Castle Douglas. For those interested in taking this class at our centre in Scotland, the teachers will teach online but you can be together with other participants and be supported by a member of our team who has studied under these teachers for 5 years.
Language: All classes and instruction are in English
Fee: US$350
Abiding Heart Education is offering a new, online, short course in Charya dance.
Charya dance portrays the Buddhist peaceful and wrathful deities. This dance has been practiced by the Newari priests, called Bajracharya, of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal for centuries. Charya Nritya in Sanskrit means dance as a spiritual discipline. Charya is a dance of the mudras and a moving meditation which helps us develop a deeper understanding and recognition of Buddhist deities and explore the transcendent qualities of sound through reciting the relevant deity dance mantra and song.
Charya dance forms part of the Abiding Heart Education™ primary curriculum. The experience of engaging in this dance can help children learn, understand and experience the activity, appearance, and qualities of a deity, and in doing so, cultivate wisdom and compassion.
We develop an experiential understanding of Chayra dance which enables us to share it with children in a developmentally appropriate way.
In this short course we welcome primary and secondary school teachers who would like an introduction to this Buddhist dance.
Classes will be online via livestream.
For more information, please email admissions@abidingheart.education, complete an admissions inquiry form or message us on WhatsApp at (+977) 9746235508.