Spirit Dance Centre for Spiritual Ecology

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Spirit Dance Centre for Spiritual Ecology is a charitable multi-faith organization whose goals include promoting inter-faith understanding, respect for the planet, compassion for all beings, and ethical and spiritual values.

Our past events include Medicine Ways: World Healing Ceremonies with Tibetans and First Nations. We also brought Tibetan Geshe Gendün Yonten to Williams Lake during February 2005 to teach a ten-day Lam Rim course as the first teaching of our Buddhist Studies Program. In 2007 we held a highly successful three-day Inter-faith event in Sechelt, B.C., bringing together Tibetan lama Tenzin Tsundu with the Anglican priest Reverend Mark Lemon for a series of discussions and a beautiful combined spiritual service.

Mission Statement

The mission of Spirit Dance Centre is to provide accessible opportunities for people to learn and experience a variety of traditional and indigenous spiritual practices; to promote multi-faith and multi-cultural understanding which contributes toward international understanding and world peace; to promote compassion, love and joy through the advancement of ethical and spiritual values; and to encourage socially and ecologically sustainable practices.

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I'll do a proper update of this website very soon! But just so you know what's going on...

Vancouver Tibet Fest

We are one of the sponsors of the Vancouver Tibet Fest on July 11th. This day-long cultural and arts event will feature traditional Tibetan music, dance and chanting as well as demonstrations of traditional painting, sand mandala art and butter sculpture. There will be Tibetan food, door prizes, speakers, vendors and films. This event is a fundraiser to support those areas of Tibet hit by a devastating earthquake this past April. If you're going to be in the Vancouver area next weekend, you might like to visit Vancouver's Tsengdok Monastery website for more information.

Location: Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver
Times: 10:00 am to midnight, Sunday, July 11th
Entrance: by donation (suggested $5 for the whole day).

Coming up this fall ~

We are very happy to bring Geshe Lama Tenzin Tsundu back to the Sunshine Coast this fall. Tsundu-la was last in Sechelt in 2007 when he moved and delighted hundreds of people during a three-day interfaith event at Saint Hilda's Anglican Church. This time he will be making a solo sand mandala (his specialty!) and hopefully he will also lead some teachings and meditations. As always, we will be treated to his deep-throated chanting, his wisdom and his abundant laughter.

Another returning guest in late October will be Tulku Lama Lobsang. Tulku Lobsang last gave teachings in B.C. at Spirit Dance Centre in Williams Lake in 2005 and many of you will remember him from the Medicine Ways spiritual festival in 2004. This time he will be speaking at Banyon Books and another location in Vancouver and leading a three-day retreat here on the Sunshine Coast.

In the meantime...

A number of you have asked me about other events I'm helping to organize this summer. So if you wouldn't mind me changing to my Lotus Speech Canada hat at the moment, I'd like to tell you about two exciting programs being offered by this organization.

Celebrating a Century of Blessings: This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, one of the most remarkable spiritual teachers of our times. Not long after his death in 1991, Khyentse Rinpoche was reborn; his successor, Dilgo Khysentse Yangsi Rinpoche, is now on a year-long world tour of countries where his predecessor taught. We are delighted to welcome Yangsi Rinpoche and his travelling party to Vancouver between August 20th and 23rd.

A number of events are planned for this time, including Teachings, Empowerments, a Life-release Ceremony, a free Children's Blessing and a free Display of Sacred Relics from Shechen Monastery. For more information, a full schedule and to register for teachings please visit Dilgo Khyentse Vancouver.

Changling Rinpoche's 2010 teaching tour: At the age of ten Changling Rinpoche was recognized as a tulku - a reincarnated master - by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. He is a lineage holder of the Rechung Kagyu, passed down from Milarepa's disciple Rechungpa. Rinpoche is returning to B.C. for his fifth time to give new and continued teachings on the Sunshine Coast, in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. Among other events, these will include: Lojong teachings - Tibetan Mind Training, and a talk on happiness, in Sechelt July 30 to August 1; and a four-day Mahamudra Retreat on Vancouver Island August 12 to 15. For a complete schedule of events and information please see Lotus Speech Canada.

It is central to the aims of Spirit Dance Centre that our programs are readily accessible for those who cannot normally afford to attend expensive courses, retreats and workshops. We plan to continue to lower the costs of programs offered at our retreat facilities so that more people will have access to these opportunities. In order to accomplish this, the Centre must raise funds to substantially subsidize the programs so that they can be offered for very low cost. In general the Centre charges a modest fee for its programs which is waived or reduced in the case of anyone who tells us that payment of the full fee would create hardship for them.

Through programs and ceremonies at our educational and retreat facility, as well as Interfaith gatherings we hold in several communities, we open eyes and hearts to a more hopeful future. Your support helps us give all people, regardless of financial ability, the opportunity to share in these profound and life-altering experiences.

Now it is easy to donate to Spirit Dance Centre! Through the services of Canada Helps, we are now able to accept your donations securely online – and you will be emailed a tax receipt automatically. Or if you prefer, there is always the mail…

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Mail: Spirit Dance Centre, 8050 Redrooffs Road, Halfmoon Bay, BC, V0N 1Y1
Email: centre@spiritdance.net or just click on Koko below.
Phone: (604) 885-3602

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