Dakini’s Passion: The Face of Vajrayogini
Four Week Online Course with Tiffani Gyatso
THURSDAYS OCTOBER 14th, 21st, 28th & November 4th
10 - 11:30 AM (Los Angeles Time Zone)
Classes are held live on Zoom
$80 for Four Classes
(Recordings will be uploaded in your course platform and available for viewing for one year).
The images of enlightened beings in Tibetan Buddhism are as rich as our own imagination can go. All images exist with our own minds and if we focus on them, as if we were looking for a long period of time at the mirror, our perception shifts. If we practice such contemplation with the right effort and motivation, it can be a path for liberation.
Vajrayogini is a semi-wrathful dakini, who is also a Yidam, or a meditational image. Her body is red magnetising beings to her enlighten activity like the flame attracts the month. In her fire we can experience deep transformation facing specially our attachments and desires. Passion is a powerful energy and she teaches how to keep it, enhance and point it to true liberation. Turning poison in the antidote.
Vajrayogini has the power to defeat all negative forces and demonic beings, assuming that their true self is empty. This applies in particular to the destructive emotions such as anger, hatred, greed, selfishness, attachment, and ignorance.
CLASS 1:
We will practice mantra and meditation and learn about the symbols of Vajrayogini's image. We will then initiate the proportional lines of the face with pencil, a ruler and paper.
CLASS 2:
After mantra and meditation we will draw first lines of her sky-turned head and her fully opened eyes and mouth as well as the details of her crown and hair
CLASS 3:
After mantra and meditation we will finalize the drawing of Vajrayogini's face to prepare for the coloring.
CLASS 4:
We will color the drawing with pencils and bless it with intentions.
Complete Three Part Course Series
The Mothers of Liberation:
Drawing and Coloring the Female Buddhas of the Tantric Tradition
SEPTEMBER 16 - OCTOBER 7
Mother of Liberation: The Face of Tara
OCTOBER 14 - NOVEMBER 4
Dakini’s Passion: The Face of Vajrayogini
NOVEMBER 11 - DECEMBER 9
(No Class Thanksgiving, November 25th)
Wild Wisdom: The Face of Simhamukha
$225 for three-part series (12 classes)
Open to all. No prior experience in drawing or Buddhist studies required!
About Tiffani Gyatso
Tiffani Gyatso is an artist from Brazil who focused her studies on the sacred expressions of art from different cultures. She specialized in traditional Tibetan Thangka painting, which she learned in India at the Norbulingka Institute from the years 2003-2006 and later furthered her studies at the Prince School of Traditional Arts in London where she studied sacred Geometry of the Middle East. Today she runs her own art retreat center at the Atelier YabYum at the mountains of Brazil and guides art groups to India and Nepal.