[Tango-A] NA-E: Tango With the Buddha, Tango Zen, at Omega Institute, July 6-8

[Tango Zen: Dance Here Now]

Tango With the Buddha, Tango Zen
with Chan Park, Eugenia Park, and Helena Bacellar
July 6-8, 2007

Please visit for details of the weekend workdhop at Omega Institute:

http://eomega.org/omega/workshops/9388e300269f96027702da8f997d9572/

Tango Zen is about learning to appreciate traditional tango through
disciplines of Zen, which is synonymous to simplicity and clarity of body
and mind. For decades dancers have discovered that learning to enjoy dancing
requires not only physical but also mental disciplines.  Tango Zen is to
advocate and promote the traditional tango with aid of the Zen, which
teaches us to devote 100% of our physical and mental attention to what we
are doing Here Now.

Many tango dancers, for example, struggle to deal with an issue of
follower's anticipation of leader's next movements while dancing tango.
This issue can be easily addressed and resolved with the Zen principles such
as awareness of presence.

Goal of the Tango Zen courses is to help the students appreciate the
tradition tango by experiencing total concentration on dancing while dancing
Tango. To accomplish the goal, the students in the Tango Zen courses are
guided to practice a number of exercises, which are fundamental and closely
linked to tango dance movements.  The exercises are adopted from martial
arts such as Tai Chi and Chi Kung, and meditation techniques such as yoga.

Practicing the exercises can lead the students to be attentive of one's body
and mind, to recognize importance of connection with partner, to be
sensitive to music, and to appreciate the surroundings including other
dancers while dancing. Through the exercises repeated over time dancers can
acquire and increase sensitivity to balance, connection, centering, and
groundedness, and weight shifting, all of which are known critical for tango
dancing.

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"Tango Zen is about learning to appreciate traditional tango through 
disciplines of Zen, which is synonymous to simplicity and clarity of body 
and mind. "
http://www.TangoZen.com

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