The Dance of the Vajra, first taught by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in the early 1990s, is a meditation in movement.
The purpose of the Vajra dance is to harmonize the three aspects of body, voice and mind in a relaxed and natural way, to dissolve any blockages and discover the true nature of our being and its characteristics. With regard to the body, in some movements we can, for example, notice our natural search for accuracy. With the mind we can have experiences related to time (sometimes time seems to pass very quickly, other times it seems to stop). Through the voice or energy different experiences can be manifested, for example joy.
In these two days in Merigar we will acquire the bases to practice The Dance of the Vajra that Benefits Beings, a symbolic dance of compassion. We will dance on a mandala of five colors, a symbolic figure that represents the correspondence between the dimension of the individual (microcosm) and that of the world (macrocosm) based on mantras found in the original Dzogchen tantras. Simple and harmonious movements loosen the body, soothe the mind and relax the tensions of everyday life.
