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Vajra Dance of the Song of the Vajra Weekend July 12-14

With great pleasure we invite you to a Vajra Dance weekend in Amsterdam, organized by Rangdrolling, with second level Vajra Dance instructor Robert Czabanski, July 12th-14th 2024.

This weekend we will focus on learning, refreshing, dancing and celebrating

The Vajra Dance of the Song of the Vajra

If you would like to learn the Vajra Dance of the Song of the Vajra, but are not yet working with Transmission from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu or Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, please contact us.
For learning this Dance, Transmission is a requirement.

About the Instructor

Robert Czabanski was born in 1972 in Tychy (Poland). Teacher and researcher in computational intelligence. He has been following Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Dzogchen teachings since 2005. He was qualified for the first and the second level of the Vajra Dance Instructor in 2012 and 2015 respectively.

This weekend is dedicated to Stoffie, our teacher and friend.

Dates and Times

Friday July 12: 14:00 – 17:30
Saturday July 13: 10:00 – 17:00
Sunday July 14: 10:00 – 17:00

Location

Broedplaats HW10 – Studio 14
Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10
Amsterdam

Find us on google maps here

Costs

The weekend is donation based.

Suggested donation:
120 Euro for the whole weekend.
30 Euro per session.

All participants will be asked to donate. Please donate according to your possibilities. But financial challenges should not be the reason not to join.

Please register and let us know that you’re joining!

Registration and questions via our contact page.

Vajra Dance & Contemplation Weekend in Amsterdam February 2-4 2024

Dear Dancers,
With joy we invite you to a Vajra Dance & Contemplation Weekend in Amsterdam, February 2 till 4, organized by Rangdrolling, with Natalia Gershevskaya and Maarten Schoon.

In this weekend we will practice Vajra Dance thuns and sitting contemplation practices such as Guruyoga and Semdzins, focusing on integrating with sound. We will also refresh and then practice one thun of the Expanded or Irregular Vajra Dance of the Three Vajras.

If you would like to learn the Vajra Dance, but are not yet working with Transmission from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, please contact us.

Song of the Vajra by Giorgio Dallorto

Dates and Times
Friday February 2: 14:00 – 17:30
Saturday February 3: 10:00 – 17:00 (2 sessions and lunch break)
Sunday February 4: 10:00 – 17:00 (2 sessions and lunch break)

Location
Broedplaats HW10  – Studio 14
Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10
Amsterdam
https://goo.gl/maps/ijsDX39neNL2kuym8

Costs
The weekend is donation based. All participants will be asked to donate. Please donate according to your possibilities. Your participation is more important to us than the amount that you donate.

Suggested donation:
80 Euro for the whole weekend
20 Euro per session

Please register to let us know how many dancers are joining!

Registration and questions to info@dzogchen.nl

Tara Practice & Vajra Dance Weekend in Amsterdam September 1-3

With joy we invite you to a Vajra Dance weekend in Amsterdam, organized by Rangdrolling, with Natalia Gershevskaya and Maarten Schoon.

We will refresh our knowledge of The Vajra Dance That Benefits Beings.
This is an opportunity to start to learn this Dance.

Over the weekend we will focus on the practice of Vajra Dance and sitting practice of Green Tara, dancing the Song of the Vajra.

If you would like to learn the Vajra Dance, but are not yet working with Transmission from Chögyal Namkhai Norbu or Yeshi Silvano Namkhai, please contact us.

Dates and Times

Friday September 1: 15:00 – 19:00
Saturday September 2: 10:00 – 17:00 (2 sessions plus lunch break)
Sunday September 3: 10:00 – 17:00 (2 sessions plus lunch break)

Location

Broedplaats HW10 – Studio 14
Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10
Amsterdam

https://goo.gl/maps/ijsDX39neNL2kuym8

Costs

The weekend is donation based. All participants will be asked to donate. Please donate according to your possibilities. Your participation is more important to us than the amount that you donate.

Suggested donation:
80 Euro for the whole weekend
20 Euro per session

It is possible to donate with a bank transfer or cash during the weekend.

Please register to let us know how many dancers are joining!

Registration and questions to info@dzogchen.nl

Vajra Dance of the Song of the Vajra Weekend

August 31, September 1&2 in Amsterdam with Stoffelina Verdonk

Rangdrolling Amsterdam is exited to announce the next Vajra Dance of The Song of the Vajra weekend in our series, specially suitable for refreshing and learning this Dance. It is the third weekend and we are starting the second half of the Dance. We will repeat what we have learned before and start from Sambharatha on.

A special element of this course is its focus on learning the correct rhythm and way of singing of the Song of the Vajra. Those who are not learning the Dance now, are welcome to join and learn!

About this course Stoffelina writes:
In this course the new Pamo are learning the steps, while the Pawo or others who are present, sing the natural sound of the Song of the Vajra. They can experience how to be present in the correct timing with the syllables and melody, while they sing. Then the new Pawo start learning the steps and the Pamo sing etc.

All sounds of The Song of the Vajra present a source for contemplation. We learn how to sing perfect way in timing, offering our presence, dancers and singers, relaxing in contemplation All together.

It is a perfect practice, also a Semdzin, in which we can discover how this singing and dancing is influencing our dance, our own dance, but also the dance in harmony of Pamo and Pawo present on the mandala.

Knowing the precise timing and way of singing is presented since long time by Rinpoche, also by Adriano Clemente. In Vajra Dance, especially for those who know longer the dance, timing is important. This is a very joyful way to dance AND sing together.

All Be most welcome!!!

About Stoffelina Verdonk 
Stoffelina is a certified performer and teacher of modern dance. She met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in 1986. Since then she practices his teaching and collaborates within the Dzogchen Community. She became a second level Vajra Dance instructor in 1993, travelling to teach and practice Vajra Dance in and outside the International Dzogchen Community; and she is a very inspiring and experienced Vajra Dance teacher. In 2015 she was authorised as Santi Maha Sangha and Khaita instructor by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.
For a fuller biography see: http://vajradance.net/stoffelina–verdonk/

Place and Time
Location: Studio 14, Broedplaats HW10
Address: Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10, Amsterdam.

Time Schedule (provisional):
Friday August 31: 13:30 – 17:00 and 19:00 – 21:00
Saturday September 1: 10:00 – 13:00 and 15:00 – 18:00
Sunday September 2: 10:00 – 13:00 and 15:00 – 17:00 (practice only)

Costs
Requested donation for the whole weekend is 100 euro.
If you have financial limitations, this should not be a reason not to participate. Please contact us in this case.

Payment details:
Paypal: info@dzogchen.nl

Bank:
Account number IBAN: NL72 INGB 0006 0658 80
In name of: Int. Dzogchen Gemeenschap van Rangdrolling
Reference message: Vajra Dance Weekend

Contact
If you have any questions and/or want to register, please contact us on info@dzogchen.nl

Hope to see you on the Mandala!

Rangdrolling Vajra Dance Team

Song of the Vajra Dance Weekend 8-10 June with Stoffelina Verdonk

Rangdrolling is very happy to announce a Vajra Dance of the Song of the Vajra weekend with Stoffelina Verdonk, June 8 till 10 in Amsterdam.

This weekend is specially suitable for refreshing and learning this Dance. It is part two of our multi-part course. In the previous weekend we learned the vajra dance of the 4 contemplation and of the 4 Da (until Vaitana). This weekend we will repeat and continue the ajra dance of the 4 visions and of conduct (from Parali on).

A special element of this course is that it also focusses on learning the correct rhythm and way of singing of the Song of the Vajra. Even those who are not learning the Dance now, are welcome to join and learn! 

About this course Stoffelina writes:

In this course the new Pamo are learning the steps, while the Pawo or others who are present, singing the natural sound of the  Song of the Vajra.  They can experience how to be present in the correct timing with the syllables and melody, while they sing.

All sounds of The Song of the Vajra present a source for contemplation. We learn how to sing perfect way in timing, offering our presence, dancers and singers,  relaxing in contemplation All together.

It is a perfect practice, also a Semdzin, in which we can discover how this singing and dancing is influencing our dance, our own dance, but also the dance in harmony of Pamo and Pawo present on the mandala. 

Knowing the precise timing and way of singing is presented since long time by Rinpoche, also by Adriano Clemente. In Vajra Dance, especially for those who know longer the dance, timing is important. This is a very joyful way to dance AND sing together. 

All Be most welcome!!!

About Stoffelina Verdonk 

Stoffelina is a certified performer and teacher of modern dance. She met Chögyal Namkhai Norbu in 1986. Since then she practices his teaching and collaborates within the Dzogchen Community. She became a second level Vajra Dance instructor in 1993, travelling to teach and practice Vajra Dance in and outside the International Dzogchen Community; and she is a very inspiring and experienced Vajra Dance teacher. In 2015 she was authorised as Santi Maha Sangha and Khaita instructor by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu.

For a fuller biography see: http://vajradance.net/stoffelina-verdonk/

Place and Time

Location: Studio 14, Broedplaats HW10

Address: Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10, Amsterdam.

Time Schedule (provisional):

Friday June 8: 14:00 – 17:30

Saturday June 9 and Sunday June 10: 10:00 – 17:30  with lunch break (about 2 hours)

Costs
Requested donation for the whole weekend is 100 euro.

If you have financial limitations, this shouldn’t be a reason not to participate. Please contact us in this case.

Payment details:
Paypall: info@dzogchen.nl

Bank:
Account number IBAN: NL72 INGB 0006 0658 80
In name of: Stichting Dzogchen
Reference message: Vajra Dance Weekend June 2018

Contact
If you have any questions and/or want to register, please contact us on info@dzogchen.nl

Hope to see you on the Mandala!

Gakyil of Rangdrolling

UPDATED | 7th Lojong Retreat May 10-13 with Zoltan Cser

The 7th Lojong involves training in the state beyond thought by means of pleasure and emptiness, training in the state beyond thought by means of clarity and emptiness, and training in the ultimate nature of phenomena completely beyond thought. Zoli would like to give an experimental retreat, where we are focusing to the practice. The 7th Lojong is the supreme method in order to start on the path of contemplation, with this practices we can gain experience about a pure instant presence, beyond mind. . Tummo means inner heat, and also related with a method of 7th Lojong. With Tummo we can find meditative stability through joy and emptiness, so this is a very important practice. Beside sitting we will do different practices, breathing, doing Yantra Yoga, and dance of the 12 A .

May, 10
10.00 – 13.00
15.00 – 18.00

18:30 Chöd (Everybody is welcome!)

May, 11
10.00 – 13.00
15.00 – 18.00

18:30 Chöd (Everybody is welcome!)

May, 12
10.00 – 13.00
15.00 – 18.00

18:30 Chöd (Everybody is welcome!)

May, 13
10.00 – 13.00
15.00 – 18.00

After retreat time we finish with Chöd, so the ones who can’t participate can come and join Chöd practice with everybody. Please come!

Location: Rangdrolling (Overbrakerpad 2, 1014 AZ Amsterdam)
Registration via email: info@rangdrolling.nl
IBAN: NL72INGB0006065880 with mention 7th Lojong Retreat
Price: sustaining € 85.-  ; ordinary € 130.-
Early bird price: sustaining € 55.-  ; ordinary € 110.- (before 25th April)

Zoltan’s BIO:

Zoltan “Zoli” Cser comes from Hungary, he was working as a vicerector at the Dharmagate Buddhist College in Budapest, now he is director.

He started to practice Buddhism in 1986 in a Chan lineage, he met our Master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu first time in 2002.

Zoli is the member of the International Dzogchen Community continously from 2004. In 2013 he became second level Vajradance instructor, in 2015 SMS Base instructor  and in 2016 Yantra Yoga second level instructor.

If you have any questions: contact us!

Gakyil of Rangdrolling

Drie nieuwe cursussen in de nazomer

In september en oktober staan drie cursussen op het programma. Meer informatie volgt.

Vajra Dans: Verdiepingscursus Song of the Vajra met Stoffelina Verdonk en Ludmila Kislichenko


Wanneer: 11-15 september, overdag.

Waar: In de Orangerie in Abcoude (Driemond).
SMS Base weekend met Stoffelina Verdonk

Wanneer: 
Vrijdag 18 september ‘s avonds, en zaterdag 19 en zondag 20 september overdag.
Waar: Rangdrolling
SMS First Level weekend met Jacob Winkler
Wanneer:
Vrijdag 2 oktober ‘s avonds, en zaterdag 3 en zondag 4 oktober overdag.
Waar: Rangdrolling

Vajra Dans

earthmandalaDe Tantra “De Vajra Dans bevrijdt de Zes Klassen van Wezens naar de Zes Zuivere Dimensies” is een Terma van de Tibetaanse Dzogchen meester Chögyal
Namkhai Norbu. De Tantra “De Eenheid van Zon en Maan”, onderwezen door Vajradhara Samantabhadra bevat instructies voor het toepassen van contemplatie in de Vajra Dans. De Vajra Dans is verbonden met de oude Dzogchen traditie van Oddiyana en onafscheidelijk verbonden met de overdracht van het Dzogchen Onderricht. De Vajra Dans wordt sinds 1992 beoefend door leden van de Internation Dzogchen Community wereldwijd.
In het Dzogchen Onderricht zijn geluid en beweging zeer belangrijk omdat zij het middel zijn om onszelf te integreren in de staat van contemplatie. De Vajra Dans is hoofdzakelijk een middel om de energie van het individu te harmoniseren. Als je een diepere kennis van de Dans hebt, wordt het een methode om de drie ervaringen van lichaam, stem en geest te integreren in de kennis van de staat van contemplatie. Deze integratie is een van de belangrijkste doelen van een Dzogchen beoefenaar. De Vajra Dans wordt op een Mandala beoefend die de correspondentie representeert tussen de innerlijke dimensie van het individu en de uiterlijke dimensie van de wereld.

Voor een demonstratie video klik hier.

International Dzogchen Community Nederland organiseert regelmatig Vajra Dans beoefening in Amsterdam. Zie de agenda voor data.

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