Celebrate the sungod, Surya, that she is beginning her Northward journey.
Fire, sun, heat, …how do these qualities affect us human beings? This event is being organized on the day of Makar Sankranti, a festival in India that celebrates the sun god, Surya.
At I time when I as an architect am fully implied in the push toward decreasing the energy consumption of buildings I find it interesting to explore what it implies for human beings, and seek the best ways to approach it.
Makar Sankranti marks the astronomical event of the Sun entering Capricorn and thus beginning it’s Northward journey toward the summer solstice. It’s a conducive occasion to reflect on the winter season and the role the sun plays in it.
We will perform a ritual to evoke the sungod, Surya. A ritual is an immersive performance where all participants together are the performers the ritual. Participating, coupled with activating several senses makes the immersion, having a stronger effect on us than an event or building where we are spectators. There will be a pictorial diagram that in the Hindu tradition is called a yantra, of which in the center we will make a fire that we will throw offerings while we chant mantras.
In the Immersions we organize at DadaBhum we use the Tantric method of using a triad of mantra – yantra – mandala to expand our consciousness from the space that we perceive with our five senses to our subconscious space. The mantra choses tunes in to a particular vibration. We strengthen the vibraation by giving it a visual form, the yantra. The mantra and the yantra and the participants of the ritual, as well as the carefully designed space the ritual is conducted in form a totality that really helps us to align our personal vibrations with universal vibrations.
More information to be published
Place
DadaBhum Centre, 1076 Herri Erdiko Bidea, 64480 Halsou, FRANCE
Reservation
The Fire Ritual
RSVP minimum 48 hrs in advance.
The Preparatory Classes
RSVP minimum 24 hrs in advance.
By phone: +33 6 52 47 55 23 / By email: martin.ceder@outlook.com
Pricing
Adult : 15€ / Children below 15 years of age : Free / Reduction for families -20% / Unemployed : 12€
- Payable by cash or cheque