praise & Movement: embodying the awakened ones
with prajwal vajracharya

saturdays september 19th - november 7th, 2020

11am Los Angeles | 2PM New York | 7PM London | 8PM Rome

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About your teacher

Prajwal is a priest of one of the Vajrayana Buddhist lineages of Nepal and a ritual master both of the Charya Nritya dance tradition and other ritual forms performed by the Newar Vajracharya lineage. Prajwal began his training in Charya Nritya at eight years old, receiving formal instruction mainly from his father, the Buddhist scholar and ritual master Ratna Kaji Vajracharya. Prajwal Vajracharya is now the premier teacher, practitioner, and performer of the tradition and is a veteran of several world tours with beginning and advanced students around the globe. He founded Dance Mandal: Foundation for Sacred Buddhist Arts of Nepal to preserve and expand this rare art form and its related traditions. With the survival of this sacred ritual dance threatened by modernization, Prajwal, at his father’s wishes, has dedicated his life to bringing this unique Buddhist heritage from the temples of Nepal to the world, while adhering to its original purpose as a profound spiritual practice. 

praise & Movement

In this unique course, Prajwal will introduce one sloka (Sanskrit verse) in praise of a particular Buddha, bodhisattva, or dakini each week and teach us physical movements and gestures that express their enlightened qualities of wisdom, compassion and power. This is a powerful practice for recognizing that their qualities and energies exist also without our own selves so that we may begin the process of genuinely embodying and expressing them through our own unique bodies, voices, and minds. Part one of the course focuses on the male manifestations of awakened energy and wisdom, inviting their heroic qualities into our own embodied experience through movement and mudra. Part two of the course brings us into connection with the Dakinis — the Tantric goddesses, or feminine embodiments of enlightened energy, bliss, and freedom, without whose blessings it is said progress on the path is impossible. This course lays the groundwork for the practice of Charya Dance.