MUDRA-MANDALA-INTENSIVE

MUDRA SPACE AWARENESS
and
THE FIVE BUDDHA FAMILIES

Practice for Intense Times directed by Lee Worley

Mudra Space Awareness is a physical training designed as a practice for working skilfully with space and with other people. How can we experience reality fully, and precisely? Only when we meet space on its own terms are we able to have the fearlessness to remain present in intense and difficult seeming situations and work creatively for the benefit of the beings involved.

About the Mudra Mandala
We are extremely fortunate in Poland to have access to a fine set of the Maitri Buddha Family rooms designed by Trungpa Rinpoche which were part of his presentations on space awareness. Because of these rooms, it has become possible to combine the Mudra space awareness material with an investigation of the basic energies that inhabit that naked space. These energetic, or, "Buddha Family" principles are discovered through meditating in each of five differently coloured rooms. In solo and group improvisational experiments we learn both how these energies embody into materiality as the five elements that make up our world, and into psychological patterns of human behaviour--both neurotic and enlightened-- that make up our social structures! Working as an ensemble, taking meals, chores, and walks together, discovering the balance and dance between these energies provides us with cellular tools and understanding for how to keep ourselves and our world in harmony.

About the Workshop
This is an experiential workshop of meditation practice and other exercises that is quite physically and mentally demanding, especially at the beginning. The exercises will be interspersed with talks and discussions. You can think of it as a workshop of "meditation in action". If a person has physical impairments they need not be excluded since above all it is the mind that we are training in awareness. Modifications can be made.

Lee Worley was a founding member, actress and director with Joseph Chaikin's historic Open Theater prior to moving to Boulder in 1976 at Trungpa Rinpoche's invitation to create the Naropa Institute theatre department. Currently her work at Naropa University is featured in the MA in Contemplative Education and in Traditional Eastern Arts, as well as the BFA in Performance Training.

She regularly teaches Space Awareness, and performance training in various contexts throughout the United States and Europe where her students range from actors to lawyers to educators, healers and homemakers in search of cultivating more presence in their life and work. Her recent book, Coming From Nothing: the Sacred Art of Acting, provides an overview of her teaching pedagogy and technique of contemplative performance.

Co-teachers:
Acharya Fenja Heupers studied Buddhist Studies at Naropa Institute. She was a member of the Mudra theatre group in Boulder and has been teaching Mudra Space Awareness in Europe since 1990. For the past five years she has been researching the stories of women-practitioners at the time of the Buddha, and working part-time as an assistant-nurse. She lives in Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Sabine Putze - physician, long term Mudra, Buddhist and Shambhala student, counsellor, Mudra teacher. She lives in Vien.

Location:
The program will take place in Gadom. This is a very comfortable land center near Szczecin (Stettin) in the north-west of Poland (only 2 hours car drive from Berlin International Airports). There are good rooms with 3-5 beds each and private bathroom. The transfer from Berlin airports or train stations can be organised comfortably.

Costs (including food and accommodation and teaching costs):

Prices for people registred:           until 1st June 2010 / and after

part 1      28.07 - 31.07. Introductory program only:   140 / 150 Euro
part 2      01.08 - 11.08  Advanced program only:       340 / 360 Euro
part 1+2  28.07 - 11.08  Both programs together:      460 / 480 Euro

REGISTRATION by 1th June 2010 jointly with a 100 Euro deposit

Osrodek Misyjny Szambala Polska,
Ul. Zupańskiego 16/1
71-440 Szczecin, Poland
   
Bank:                 Nordea Bank Polska S.A. Oddzial Szczecin
IBAN:                PL 50 1440 1143 0000 0000 0467 8327    
SWIFT  code:  NDEA PLP2  

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Limited number of participants

Traveling informations:

Arriving: July 28th, 6.00 p.m 
Departure: August 11th, 12.a.m

Access: At present Berlin (180 km from Szczecin) is now easily accessible via several discount airlines: www.ryanair.com, www.easyjet.com, www.berlinair.com and www.germanwings.com. There are now also daily budget flights from London (Stansted) to Szczecin with Ryanair. Upon request the organizers will provide the participants a shuttle bus service from Berlin to Szczecin for 25 Euro one way and from Szczecin to Gadom for 5 Euro one way. It's possible to travel by bus to Szczecin: www.centrala-autobusowa.pl

There are only places on the waiting list available!

Informations:

Edyta Wańkowicz
edyta@fiber.net.pl
+48 696 357 385