Tag: Eva Leick
Khaita Practice Meeting in Prague
Prague, Czech Republic
April 12—13, 2025
In Tibet Open House in Prague Khaita teachers and practitioners gathered to remember and practice together several complex Khaita dances:
Intensive dancing was complemented by joyful time together (photos below):
“Today we have gathered,we had the good fortune to gather.
Friends, drink chang!
With the chang we are drinking long life.”
– from Ngatso Dering Dzomsong.
M 2.4.04 Sergyi Metok / གསེར་གྱི་མེ་ཏོག / Golden Flower
by Lhalung Tso / ཧོར་གཙང་ལྷ་ལུང་མཚོ།
M 2.3.01 Zhijey Lhandzom / གཞིས་བྱེས་ལྷན་འཛོམས། / Reunion of Those Living in Tibet and Abroad by Lhakar Dolma / ལྷ་དཀར་སྒྲོལ་མ།
M 2.4.09 Gangjong Bumo / གངས་ལྗོངས་བུ་མོ། / A Girl from the Land of Snow
by Yeshe Paltso / ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔལ་མཚོ།
M 3.3.08 Thundril Bodkul / མཐུན་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་འབོད་བསྐུལ། / Appeal for Unity
by Namgyal Choetso / རྣམ་རྒྱལ་ཆོས་མཚོ།
Dzamling Gar Song
Yeselling, Austria
March 28—30, 2025
On the course we were not only focused on the learning of the steps and movements of the dance for Dzamling Gar Song, but also watched and read a lot of videos and quotes by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, related to it.
We talked a lot about Khaita goals and reasons, and how Rinpoche introduced it as practice.
We managed to work well with all three aspects of body, speech and mind, the singing was also quite powerful.
Practice Weekend
Vienna
December 13th - 15th
Dear Khaita enthusiasts and fellow instructors,
We want to warmly invite you to our 3. Khaita practice weekend in Vienna (Samdrubling) from 13th to 15th of December, Friday – Sunday. We would like to propose to use these days to dedicate to our practice, learn something new, meet other Khaita enthusiasts and enjoy together!
There is an open agenda: suggestions and leading by other instructors are very welcome! We propose that we dedicate Sunday morning to shooting one of our Khaita dance demonstration videos that we don’t have yet (to be decided together).
Sleeping in Samdrubling is possible for a contribution of 15€ / night. The Gakyil must be informed about your stay in advance.
If you are planning on coming to this Khaita practice weekend, please let us know as soon as possible and feel free to write us any wishes for dances / songs / explanations that you might have. And invite your friends!
Contacts: evaleick@hotmail.com or +436649240499 (Eva Leick)
Location: Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74, 1160 Vienna
Contribution: free donation
Looking forward to you all!
Khaita Practice Meeting at Gyamtsholing, Venice
Gyamtsholing, Venice
October 26–27, 2024
Taste of a rich Khaita weekend in Venice: a warm and joyful gathering of new and senior teachers and other practitioners who love the Joyful Dances.
We reviewed some slightly more complex but beautiful dances that we worked on a lot in the past with Rinpoche. The Master’s presence and light accompanied us during the weekend, like a warm and bright caress on our hearts.
The meeting was interspersed with enjoyable moments strolling around the city, in pizzerias and local ‘bacari,’ accompanied by our native guides.
Adriana Dal Borgo for The Mirror
Practice Weekend
Vienna
July 26th – 28th
Dear Khaita enthusiasts and fellow instructors, We want to warmly invite you to our 2. Khaita practice weekend in Vienna (Samdrubling) from 26th – 28th July, Friday – Sunday. Our first weekend of this format took place in February and it was a success! We would like to propose to use these days to dedicate to our practice, learn something new, meet other Khaita enthusiasts and enjoy together! Time schedule:26th, Friday from 18:00: Arrival for people travelling and sleeping in the Ling / optional Khaita practice / dinner27th, Saturday: full day of Khaita practice including Khaita Forever28th, Sunday: Khaita practice in the morning and departure around 13:00 There is an open agenda: suggestions and leading by other instructors are very welcome! We propose that we dedicate Sunday morning to shooting one of our Khaita dance demonstration videos that we don’t have yet (to be decided together).
Sleeping in Samdrubling is possible for a contribution of 15€ / night. The Gakyil must be informed about your stay in advance. If you are planning on coming to this Khaita practice weekend, please let us know as soon as possible and feel free to write us any wishes for dances / songs / explanations that you might have. And invite your friends! Contacts: evaleick@hotmail.com or +436649240499 (Eva Leick)
Location: Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74, 1160 Vienna
Contribution: free donation
Looking forward to you all!
Khaita at the International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, Oxford
Wolfson College, Oxford
September 2–4th, 2024
In the begining of September Khaita Joyful Dances were presented on The International Seminar of Young Tibetologists at Wolfson College, Oxford. On the seminar an academic talk on Dzamlingar Song and Dance was given by Eva Leick. The talk was started with demonstration of the dance by our dancers.
The evening program of the conference included Khaita performance, done by Khaita dancers together with Tibetan dancer Tenzin from London. The performance was followed by 3-hour Gorshey, Tibetan circle dances, danced together by Tibetans and Khaita dancers.
The seminar was followed by art exhibition with Drugu Chögyal Rinpoche’s paintings on the Bardo. An introductory speech on Khaita given there by Lena Dumcheva was translated on Tibetan, and also materials and books for further study were provided to listeners.
Outside the exhibition there were also Khaita performance, followed by dancing several Khaita dances together with audience.
Read the full story in The Mirror: Shang Shung UK and Khaita at Oxford University
Practice Weekend
Vienna
July 26th - 28th
On July 26th-27th in Samdrubling took place the 2nd Khaita practice weekend led by Eva Leick and Anna Jiresch.
Participants repeated Kawa Bap, learnt on the 1st practice weekend, learnt the dance Kelsang Yardro Lak (Good Fortune Increases) and shot a learning video to it, prepared and led Khaita Forever practice.
It was joyful and beautiful time spent together in learning, dancing, exchanging ideas and just relaxing. Thank you so much to all participants!
