Deborah: A Long-Time Meditator on Mandala Dance and Maya's Integrity

In Brief

Deborah is a long-time meditator and dancer who has lived and studied in India for almost 18 years — 12 of them at the Osho Ashram, working with music, dance, meditation and tantra, and close to 12 years in the Laya community, which gathers each year in India. In this short testimonial she describes Mandala Dance in distilled, precise images: a dance of awareness, a moving meditation that connects body, mind and spirit, and, simply, a coming home to yourself.

A Lifetime Around Dance and Meditation

Deborah's view of Mandala Dance comes from a long immersion in movement and inner practice. Almost two decades in India, twelve years at the Osho Ashram, and years of working with music, dance, meditation and tantra shape how she reads the practice. She also speaks as part of a community — gathering each year, in what she calls "a wonderful weaving of culture, energy and presence." Her recommendation rests on something she names directly: the rarity of working with someone who has created an original body of work.

Why Mandala Dance Is Different

For Deborah, Mandala Dance stands apart in what it does and how it feels. She calls it a dance of awareness and a moving meditation, one that connects body, mind and spirit — and describes the experience in two plain words: a coming home to yourself. She closes with a direct statement about Maya, offered as an assessment of integrity: "She is the dance. Mandala Dance is Maya and Maya is Mandala Dance."

About Maya Mandala

Maya Mandala is a practitioner and teacher, creator of the Mandala Dance method, and leader of programs on working with the body, femininity and masculinity, and tantric and contemplative practices. Her seminars and retreats take place both in Russia and abroad.

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