The Dance of the Song of the Vajra

14 – 15 September 2019

The Dance of the Song of the Vajra

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Six weekends to learn the Dance of the Song of the Vajra

with Rita Renzi and Maurizio Mingotti

Reserved to those who have received teachings from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

“In the Dzogchen Teaching sound and movement are very important because they are the means to integrate oneself into the state of contemplation.”

“The Vajra Dance is not an ordinary dance, because when we say ‘Vajra’ it means our real nature, our real condition. So, first of all, we should get into that state and then we should integrate our actual existence of body, voice and mind in that condition. That is why we have Vajra dances in the Dzogchen teaching.”

Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

 

The Dance of the Song of the Vajra is practiced on a Mandala of five colors that symbolically represents the correspondence between the inner dimension of the individual and the external dimension of the world. Twelve practitioners, six females and six males, dance together in a coordinated way, singing the syllables of the Song of the Vajra.

The sounds of the Song of the Vajra are mantras which contain the essence of the entire Dzogchen teaching, while the movements and mudras of the Dance represent, in a symbolic form, its three series of Semde, Longde and Upadesha.