A Weekend Workshop and Dance Offering
April 11, 2025 April 13, 2025
with Multiple Guides
SERIES OF CLASSES

What is the Tara Dance?

The Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of Tara is a ritual dance offered worldwide as a prayer of peace, protection, wisdom and capability.

The words of the Dance are based on a Tibetan Buddhist sadhana of the Mother Goddess Tara, compiled by Orgyen Dechen Chokjur Lingpa,  a  great Tibetan treasure finder. It is said that he received the sadhana from Tara Herself.

His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, and many great lamas of all the lineages of Tibetan Buddhism, have given their blessing and offered their prayers for the Dance to be shared as widely as possible.

Many of the characteristics of Tara, like protection, wisdom, and victory, are stereotypically thought of as male attributes in Western thought. By seeing these qualities as feminine, it allows for a more balanced perspective of male and female. 

This feminine voice calls for liberation within the world, rather than liberation from the world, a re-conceptualization of the sacredness of everyday activity, a call for the re-enchantment of body and speech. The Tara Mandala Dance allows both men and women to recognize the sacred in the world and to find release and benefit through the embodiment of the divine feminine. 

The ritual of the Tara Mandala Dance is a transformational process, and practitioners use this ritual to cultivate well-being in life. As a meditation, it is a practice of calming the mind, teaching practitioners the ability to mindfully observe thinking, feeling, and how the body responds to the environment and the five elements. The Dance is always taught with the meditational correspondences, though dancers come to the practice at all levels of experience.

Prema Dasara is the founder of Tara Dhatu. Using the vehicles of sacred song and dance, Prema has traveled throughout the world in dedicated service to humanity. Her purpose is to inspire and uplift, inviting everyone to experience the power of their own human potential through sacred music and dance.

The Dance has been turning since 1985 and a number of student teachers have stepped forward in their communities to hold circles of practice and annual public offerings. It has been taught to thousands of women and men throughout the world, including several groups of Tibetan nuns and laywomen.

Our Sedona community is blessed to have an opportunity to learn 

this sacred mandala dance of The  21 Praises of Tara and to perform it for

 the Tibetan Monks and the public.

Donation for Dancers

Sliding Scale $121-$221

 (a few scholarships available upon request). 

You will receive full instruction to perform the 21 Praises of Tara practice and mandala.

 Tuition also includes Sari rental, Text, the Friday night offering, and dinner after the performance. 

(Total value of $88)

Your commitment is for the whole weekend beginning Friday night until Sunday night. 

Day 1- Friday, April 11-Public invited 

Movement and Meditation of Tara Introductory Evening  

7:00PM - 8:30PM 

Suggested donation, $21 public offering @ Sedonya

(For those dancing this is included in your Tuition)

Day 2 Saturday, April 12 -For the Dance Participants 

10:00AM - 6:00PM –With an hour lunch break-(Sponsored by Chocola Tree Restaurant, RADHIKA JEN MARIE)

 and Jen

Saturday is for 21 participants to learn the Mandala Dance 

Day 3 Sunday, April 13 Dancers schedule

3:00PM - 7:30PM (For dancers to dress, practice, perform and dinner) 

Sunday, April 13 -Public Offering 

The 21 Praises of Tara Mandala Dance offering & Dinner

5:00 PM- 7:30 PM

Suggested donation, $21 for Tara Mandala Offering public. All are welcome. 

$42 For Vegetarian Potluck Dinner following the Tara Mandala Offering 

Have dinner with the Tibetan Monks, Tara Mandala teacher and Tara dancers 

 Dinner and performance $63

Donations support the scholarships for the dancers, dana for the teacher, the Tibetan Monks and Tara Dhatu

Everyone is welcome-no one will be turned away.

You can be a sponsor by:

Provide housing for out of town guests (teacher, dancers, and musicians)  

Contribute to the cost of the dinner for the dancers and teacher.

For more Information or to become a sponsor please contact Kerani Marie 

kerani @keranimarie.com or 970-946-6896

Location for all Events:

Sedonya

Conscious Living Center

120 Deer Trail Drive

Sedona, AZ 86336

Tel. (832) 748-0777