Yangchenma Arts & Music
connecting humans
Yangchenma Arts & Music is a community organization aimed at preserving, promoting and celebrating the richness and diversity of human cultures through their artistic and musical wisdom traditions, kept alive through the connection and shared experience of humans throughout the world.
Yangchenma (Tibetan: དབྱངས་ཅན་མ།) is the Tibetan name of Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, higher learning, music, and the arts. She transcends culture and sectarianism, embodies the all-embracing female healing energy, and expresses and educates on all that is vital to the human spirit through the instruments of music, speech, and arts.
Live concerts, workshops and educational cultural immersions are offered at Pure Land Farms: Center for Tibetan Medicine, Meditation, and Rejuvenation in Topanga, California and in collaboration with other venues in the Los Angeles area and internationally.
Upcoming WORKSHOP
Journey through the Dance of Form
5-Part Workshop series with Chelley Sherman and Jouseph Houseal
November 3, 10, 17, 24 & December 1
Presented by Core of Culture
This series of workshops bridges ancient traditions, advanced interdisciplinary sciences, and art to explore how various forms—from embodied practices, yogic dances, and spiritual rituals to computational models and emergent systems—reveal the invisible structures that shape reality.
By examining how these diverse elements weave and morph across time, and across physical, biological, and energetic domains, we illuminate the patterns that give rise to our conscious and sensory experiences. The ancient and the contemporary are joined in mutual illumination.
By elevating these forms from the subconscious to conscious awareness, over the course of the workshop participants will discover how to use these models as tools to actively engage in transforming their own way of thinking and being. Please join us for a robust and mind-expanding exercise.
“Ὁ βίος βραχύς, ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή
Life is short, art is long.”