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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. To receive our regular newsletter of events, please fill in the form below. |
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Ongoing Events |
Buddhist Teachings with Lama Tsundu 
Ongoing Buddhist teachings with Tibetan Lama Tenzin Tsundu have resumed in October 2013 in Sechelt and in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast.Beginning Sunday, November 10th, Lama Tsundu will teach on Training the Mind to Deal with Disturbing Emotions. These classes will be the foundation for topics to follow during the months ahead. Classes also include meditation and purification practice. Sechelt Location: Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, 5714 Medusa Street, Sechelt. Days & Times: Every Sunday, 4:30 to 5:30 pm. Cost: by donation. Gibsons Location: Gibsons United Church, 724 Trueman Road, Gibsons. Days & Times: 2nd and 4th Friday each month, noon to 1:00 pm. Cost: by donation. Tibetan Resettlement Project 
At the request of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Canadian government has committed to welcoming exiled Tibetan families to Canada over the next few years. Along with other local sponsors, Spirit Dance Centre is bringing several Tibetan families to resettle on the Sunshine Coast, beginning in Fall 2013.Have a look at our Updates on the Tibetan Families page to see how this project is progressing! Please see our Information Sheet for more details and to find out how to become involved. You can also donate toward this cause by clicking on the "Donate Now" button below and choosing "Tibetan Resettlement Fund" for your donation allocation. |
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Upcoming and Recent Events |
Tibetan Sand Mandala Lama Tenzin Tsundu will create a Sacred Sand Mandala of Green Tara, the female Buddha of Compassion, at the Creek Gallery, behind the Gumboot Restaurant in Roberts Creek, during the week of April 7 to 13, 2014. Drop by each day between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm to watch the progress. The Opening Ceremony will be at 10:00 am on April 7th and the Closing Ceremony at 2:30 pm on April 13th.A mandala is painstakingly made by placing grains of coloured sand in intricate traditional patterns, usually covering a circular area three to five feet in diameter. Depending on the size of the mandala, it may take four to seven days to complete. 
When a mandala is completed there is a ceremony in which the sand is swept up into a pile to celebrate the impermanence of physical creations. Some of the sand is given to the people present at the ceremony and the rest is ceremonially taken to a nearby ocean or river where its blessings are dispersed to all the world.We now have an hour-long video for sale of the creation of the Green Tara sand mandala which Venerable Tenzin Tsundu created in Sechelt in 2010. The cost is $20 and all proceeds from the sale go toward supporting Tsundu-la's activities and toward the Tibetan Children's Village in Dharamsala, India. You can use this link to securely purchase the video online or contact us by mail or email at the addresses below. Ngakpa Kalzang Dorje 
Last fall the Coast was blessed with Buddhist teachings from Ngakpa Kalzang Dorje. In the Tibetan tradition, a Ngakpa is a non-monastic tantric master or mystic yogi and Ngakpa Kalzang belongs to a rare lineage of this tradition. He is also a highly trained scholar and teacher and we are fortunate that he agreed to come to the Coast for what we hope was the first of many visits.Generating Healthy Mind Through Meditation Meditation is used to explore and gain insight into mental qualities. Through learning and practice, these qualities can become consciously engaged in our daily lives. This two-day retreat was held in November 2012 in Halfmoon Bay, B.C. Ngakpa Kalzang is the Spiritual Teacher at Thubten Choling, a non-sectarian Tibetan Buddhist Centre in Duncan on Vancouver Island. His teachings focus on the mind, its role in every situation, and how breaking patterns and habits of mind is the way of change and the process of training the mind. You can read about him here. MomoLuck! A mini Tibetan festival and information session for the Sunshine Coast Tibetan Resettlement Project On November 11th we held a cultural event, information session and fundraiser, open to anyone interested in the Tibetan Resettlement Project. There were traditional and veggie Tibetan “momos” available for lunch, other Tibetan items for sale, a taste of Tibetan culture, a chance for current sponsors to share information about their preparations for the Tibetans’ arrival, and all the information a person could need for finding a way to become involved. Proceeds from this event went toward supporting Tibetan families to resettle on the Sunshine Coast.(A traditional Tibetan momo is a meat dumpling often served with a spicy sauce. A veggie momo is like a cross between a perogy and spanakopita.) |
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Contact us at: Mail: Spirit Dance Centre, 8050 Redrooffs Road, Halfmoon Bay, BC, V0N 1Y1Email: centre@spiritdance.net or just click on Koko below. Phone: (604) 885-3602 |
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