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Shaktiyogashrama presents

AN ENGAGEMENT WITH SPACE

THE INNER & THE OUTER

31 October to 3 November 2017

www.shaktiyogashrama.com

The Shaktiyogashrama residential retreats are an unique integration of Spirituality, Arts and Environmental Studies & Life styles. A highly educative program opening up unknown areas of the Indian cultural landscape to give the larger picture from which the ancient Indian arts, lifestyles and value systems emerged. The ashram gurukul atmosphere allows an intimate engagement with these subjects through which an authentic classical worldview can be lived, experienced, enjoyed.

The program will offer an inner engagement with space though Yoga, Meditation sessions & and outer engagement with space through modules on the relationship to space in Indian culture thought the medium of arts, spirituality & environment. The three-day residential learning will culminate in a cultural performance.

VENUE – Shaktiyogashrama Gurukulam, village Telbaila, 32 kms. off Lonavla.

(2 hour drive from Pune & 3.5 hour drive from Mumbai, its 8km further from Amby Valley in Lonavla)

ACCOMMODATION – Simple and clean dormitory rooms with non attached bathrooms.

FOOD – Healthy & tasty vegetarian food served 4 times a day.

Drinking, smoking and non-vegetarian food are strictly not allowed on campus.

FEES – Fees per participant are Rs.8000

(Excluding transport) (Inclusive of modules, food & accommodation)

Though transport in not included in the fees, we can help you organize it.

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MODULES

Space – Outer & Inner, in Classical Indian Dance

By Mandakini Trivedi

The Form of Indian dance has a unique story to tell about our inner Energy World & the outer manifest world. A story, that touches philosophy ,cosmology and inner yogic processes; a story that is beautifully concealed in an aesthetic form. The lecture performance by Mandakini Trivedi will bring alive this living tradition of classical Indian Dance that effectively touches many levels of Existence.

Understanding Rabindranath Tagore

by Vandana Alase Hazra

This session is on the life and philosophy of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, poet philosopher and educationist. It will unfold through song, dance and music and will be both inter-active and educative.

Environmental Trek – Nature Trail and Tales

by Prashant Mahajan

A treasure trove for nature lovers, ShaktiYogashram is surrounded by successive basaltic layers that are home to a variety of endemic flora and fauna. Nature Trail and Tales is a journey through the surrounding landscape observing, exploring & listening to stories in and about nature.

Space in Architecture- A field-trip to the The Karla Caves

curated by Prof. Neelkanth Chhaya

The tradition of cave architecture has had an impact on Indian art and architecture over the centuries. The Karle Caves, built over the period from the 2^nd Century B.C. – the 5^th Century A. D., are one of the most important sites of early architecture in India. The caves were located in the Sahyadri Hills, along ancient trade routes active in the time when the caves were built. This chain of hills divide the north of India from the Deccan Plateau on the south. They are amongst the oldest geological formations on earth, and offer some of the most beautiful landscapes in the region.

This module consists of a visit to the Karle cave. The visit will be an occasion to share the uniqueness & beauty of this architectural site consisting of the Buddhist chaitya halls & sculptures as also the ways of life, religion and the social forms that shaped Cultural Landscapes in India.

Dhrupad – A reaching out to the Divine through music; a lecture-demonstration

by Chintan Upadhyay

Dhrupad is the combination of words Dhruva and Pada. Dhruva which means steady and Pada means the poetry.

Dhrupad is the oldest surviving form of Indian Classical music and traces its origin to the chanting of vedic hymns and mantras. Though a highly developed classical art with a complex and elaborate grammar and aesthetics, it is also primarily a form of worship, in which offerings are made to the divine through sound or nāda. Dhrupad can be seen at different levels as a meditation, a mantric recitation, a worship , a yoga or tantra based on the knowledge of the nādis and chakras and also purely as a performing art portraying a universe of human emotions.

FACULTY & ARTISTS

Mandakini Trivedi

The chief disciple in Swami Shri Harish Madhukar’s lineage, Mandakini has been chosen by him, to carry forward his work at the ashram. She is the chief visionary behind the cultural awareness programmes at the ashram-gurukul. As the creative head of Nateshvari Dance Gurukul, she is a performer, choreographer, teacher and writer on classical Indian dance. Her chief work, through all her dance activity, is to revive the tradition of practicing classical Indian Dance as a complete yoga – sadhana.

Mandakini is the chairperson of Shaktiyogashrama and the recipient of the prestigious Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2015 for Mohini Attam.

Neelkanth Chhaya

An architect practicing out of Ahmedabad. Throughout his career, he has combined teaching with architectural practice. He has taught at the University of Nairobi, the Institute of Environmental Design at Vallabh Vidyanagar and at CEPT University, where he taught for over 25 years. He retired from CEPT as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He continues to teach at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology at Bangalore and at the Goa College of Architecture. His practice has worked on a variety of projects, focussing attention on societal and ecological concerns. The use of appropriate materials and techniques as well as the integration of artisanal skills has also been of interest.

Vandana Alase Hazra

Based in Kolkatta, Vandana is a Master of Fine Arts in Bharat Natyam, Vandana is a thinker on Dance. A dancer, teacher and choreographer, she probes the depths of the art. Her engagement with children in particular both at the rural & urban level, using the multiple idioms of dance , music & theatre has been remarkably creative and has earned her the position of regular faculty at The Krishnamoorthy Schools, Junoon as well as Shaktiyogashrama. She has also deeply studied Rabindranath Tagore, his life, his philosophy and approach to art and presents his works through highly engaging and evocative modules on the Master Poet & Philosopher.

She continues to expand her horizons in the art through training in Dhrupad in the Dagar Bani.

Chintan Upadhyay

Chintan was born in the cultural ambience of Bhavnagar city, in Gujarat.

Chintan surrendered his heart and soul to the tutelage of Pt. Uday Bhawalkar, in the true tradition of Guru Shishya Parampara in 2004; Pt. Uday Bhawalkar is the torch bearer of Dhrupad music of today’s India, and was groomed under Ustad Zia Fariduddin Dagar and Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, the maestros from the ancient school of music, Dagar – vaani, represented by the legendary Dagar family. He became scholar at ITC Sangeet Research Academy- Kolkata in 2013 and continued his ‘Taleem’ from Pt. Uday Bhawalkarji. Chintan has been awarded the Junior Research Fellowship for Dhrupad studies in 2014. He has been allotted a ‘B High Grade’ by Akashvani, All India Radio, as a Dhrupad Vocalist.

Prashant Mahajan

Committed conservation professional with over two decades of experience in conservation of biodiversity & environmental sustainability in the Asian region;

Prashant Mahajan is currently heading Somaiya Centre for Experiential Learning and based in Mumbai.

Miti Desai

Designer, Classical Dancer & Educationist.

Miti is a disciple of danseuse Mandakini Trivedi. Communication through the external medium of graphic design led Miti to an internal expression of body design, rediscovering Classical Indian Dance. Indian Dance has been the key to the artist’s return to her cultural roots, symbols and world-view resulting in an innate understanding of culture, aesthetics and its influence and inspiration in design, education, arts & the environment. Miti is the founder & creative head at Miti Design Lab; an interdisciplinary design studio & the Executive Trustee at Shaktiyogasrama Gurukulam.