Tag: practice
Celebrating Losar with Khaita
Dejamling, France
March 1—2, 2025
In Dejamling (France) Losar was celebrated for whole weekend by Khaita dance practice and momo-workshop.
In two days 10-14 practitioners succeeded to practice a series of Tashi dances:
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M 3.6.03 Tashi Monlam བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྨོན་ལམ།
Invocation of Fortune, -
M 3.5.10 Tashi Mondun བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྨོན་འདུན།
Auspicious Aspiration Prayer, -
B 4.06 Tashi Drogar བཀྲ་ཤིས་བྲོ་གར།,
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B 4.07 Tashi Kordro བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྐོར་བྲོ།
Auspicious Circle Dance, -
B 3.08 Tashi Lungpai Phukla བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལུང་པའི་ཕུགས་ལ།
In the Auspicious Country, -
M 3.6.02 Jigten Tashi འཇིག་རྟེན་བཀྲ་ཤིས།
The Fortune of the World.
They also practiced other dances:
- M 2.2.10 Tsed la Dro རྩེད་ལ་འགྲོ། Let’s Go to Play,
- M 2.6.02 Kordro Nyamtrab སྐོར་བྲོ་མཉམ་འཁྲབ། Dancing Together in Circles,
M 1.2.04 Sadog Jangtra ས་མདོག་ལྗང་ཁྲ། Colorful Green Land,
M 3.4.02 Yangkhor Dzongdruk གཡང་འཁོར་རྫོང་དྲུག The Six Prosperity Gathering Districts,
- B 5.09 Ema Sorela ཨེ་མ་བསྭོ་རེ་ལ།.
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!
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!
Practice Day Khaita Joyful Dances
Vienna
Saturday, February 03, 2024, 10am - 5pm
With Anna Jiresch & Eva Leick
On February 3, in Samdurbling there was a practice day dedicated to the Khaita Joyful Dances. We studied Khawa Bap, a dance with complex choreography, connecting the movements with the meaning of the song lyrics. We also danced a repertoire of simple dances without explanation to really get into the ‘flow’.
Time: 10:00-12:30 and 14:30-17:00
Location: Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74, 1160 Vienna
Contribution: free donation
Enquiries and registration (by 27 January 2023) to: evaleick@hotmail.com or +436649240499
Please bring comfortable clothes that allow you to move well. No street shoes in the studio – all types of dance or gymnastics shoes that provide good support are recommended for dancing. Barefoot is possible, but can be disadvantageous for certain spinning movements.
Regular Classes and Workshop in Vienna
October 8, 2023
In the beautiful ling of Vienna, Samdrubling, we practice Khaita – Joyful Dances every Monday from 18:00-20:00.
We are a small but dedicated group of dancers who are curious about discovering new dances and exploring the meaning of the Tibetan lyrics. Led by Eva Leick and Anna Jiresch, we focus on a new dance each week and expand our repertoire of steps and choreographies in a joyful way. Everyone is welcome!
Contact: +436649240499 (Eva) or evaleick@hotmail.com
Address: Friedrich-Kaiser-Gasse 74, 1160 Wien
As part of the ‘Day of Open Temple Doors’, Samdrubling hosted an open Khaita – Joyful Dances workshop on 8th October 2023.
People had the opportunity to watch a short presentation of Khaita prepared by the local group and learnt several dances. The dancing experience directly introduced participants to important aspects of Khaita, revolving around bodily coordination, presence, collaboration and joy.
For more information, please the website of Samdrubling: https://www.samdrubling.at/
Khaita at the Ligmincha Sangha in Poland
Khaita courses with instructor Wojciech Torczyński took place for the first time before and during the summer retreat at Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s Ligmincha retreat center near Warsaw, Poland.
“It is beautiful to experience joy and relax at the same time and this is what I felt before leading this first ‘external’ course and practice for Ligmincha. When I arrived in Chiamma Ling it only got better with each session and each day. The Ligmincha community is very dedicated toward practice, aware and cooperative. The Khaita sessions were attended by a large number of participants, most of whom have danced Tibetan steps for the first time. This practice of presence in movement was widely appreciated and recognized as a beneficial suplement to the programme of the course.
Regardless of age or fitness people approached these dances with great enthusiasm and joy. Most importantly participants observed and understood how this practice positively impacts their state of body, energy and mind. Many have literally expressed their experience of joy and harmony that arose with practicing Khaita. It is worth underlining that this is the very message and meaning of Khaita. I feel great satisfaction and gratitude for this opportunity.”
During the last day of the retreat Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche underlined the importance of collaboration between Sanghas including the International Dzogchen Community.
Wojciech Torczyński for The Mirror, Turning the Wheel of Khaita Joyful Dances
