Udaipur Shakti Works proposes to establish a dance academy, circus arts center, healing retreat, and eco-sanctuary in Udaipur, India. The project aims to provide training and creative outlets to local talented youth while promoting ecological awareness through performances and workshops. It will feature tents for training, performances, and healing therapies. Future phases include landscaped gardens, cottages, and studios. Financial projections estimate an initial investment of $275,000 with profitability achieved within 4-5 years through income from performances, classes, and retreat services catering to the millions of tourists that visit Udaipur annually.

3. Introducing
Udaipur Shakti Works
A Gypsy-inspired Dance Academy, Circus Arts Centre,
Healing Retreat and Eco-Sanctuary in India’s Most Romantic Resort
What: A replicable, self-sustaining education/entertainment project to help
talented at-risk youth and raise the public’s eco-sensuous awareness with
perceptible healing energies and spectacular performing arts.
Who: A small community of artists, healers, naturalists & social entrepreneurs
working to dramatize and deepen our connections to the living world.
Why: Udaipur has beauty but very little excitement; many gifted youth but few
creative schools or outlets for their talents; and millions of short-term visitors
with little motivation to extend their stay. We believe this project can help
the fabled City of Lakes become an incubator of world class performing
arts, healing magic & ecological intelligence, all linked together synergistically.

5. Udaipur
Medieval Silk Road Oasis
Udaipur is world famous for its superb
architecture, traditional arts, and noble
reputation as capitol of old Mewar, India’s
most respected princely state.
Historically Revered
Mewar is honored as the only state that
resolutely defied both Mogul and British
conquest, with an egalitarian force of tribals,
warriors and citizens of every caste & creed.
Artistically Blessed
Udaipur is home to over 3000 artists, six
universities, and dozens of small schools
for traditional dance, music and art.
Romantically Beautiful
Udaipur’s sensual splendor attracts over
one million international visitors each year,
as well as 9 million Indians and some of
the world’s most spectacular weddings.

6. Udaipur
Legendary City of Lakes, Art & History
A High Visibility Venue to Spread New Values and Ideas
Illustrious – Accessible – Affluent
Voted “World’s Best City 2009”
by the international travel community
600,000 citizens, hundreds of hotels
Nine international 5-star resorts
Over 10 million visitors annually
(1.2 million foreign, 9 million domestic)
15% growth in tourism each year
Halfway between Delhi & Bombay
New ’08 airport, highway, train line
Six major colleges and universities
India’s top per capita car ownership

7. Udaipur’s
“Empty Evening” Opportunity
Hundreds of Hotels – Countless Artists – Millions of Visitors
Yet No Public Clubs, Live Theaters or Event Spaces
Udaipur is Asia’s 2nd most popular tourist destination
but still has NO venues devoted to presenting,
developing or teaching innovative
music or performing arts.
India

8. Udaipur Shakti Works
Location
Two Acres of Fertile Land Surrounded by History, Beauty and 5-star Resort Luxury

9. Udaipur Shakti Works
The Palatial Neighborhood
Hundreds of 5-star ($600+/day) rooms
within a 500m radius
The opulent Shiv Niwas Palace,
The legendary Taj Lake Palace,
The Leela Udaipur Palace Kempinski,
City Palace
And the sumptuous Oberoi Udaivilas,
voted "world’s best resort hotel" in 2006

11. Udaipur’s
Indigenous Artistry
Stunning Color,
Traditions and
Energy

12. Udaipur’s
Indigenous Artistry
Udaipur artists can evoke mythic magic, but their only outlets
are hotel shows and special events. With a permanent base
they could do so much more and co-create with global artists.

14. USW P roject
Land Development
Stage I – 2013-2014
- Dance, Acrobatic, Yogic Arts STARTING THE TALENT NURSERY
Training & Performance Tent A Simple Local/Global Classroom Tent
to Train and Introduce Young Adepts
in the Performing, Martial & Meditative Arts
INITIAL FACILITY
A large instruction/performance tent to train local talent by day and showcase its promise at night.
OPERATIONAL CONCEPT
- Offer dance, acrobatic and yogic classes led by local & overseas teachers (live via internet).
- Allow local youth to interact & collaborate with masters and students around the world.
- Present evening dances/shows/movies for tourist community to subsidize teaching program.
Closed during day for classes Opened for shows at night

15. USW P roject
Program Development
Stage I – 2013-2014
-Distance Learning & Collaboration Global Telepresence
Program via Live Internet Sessions
Dance Teaching and Co-creation
CONCEPT & PROGRAM DESIGN
Live internet lectures/discussions now link universities worldwide. With the same simple tech we can launch India’s
first global interactive yoga/dance/performance workshops to teach more physical and sensuous arts. Teachers in
the US, Brazil & Japan have already agreed to cooperate. Sample video: youtube.com/watch?v=xpL9bHGYOuI
TECHNOLOGY
- Requires only video projector, screen, camera & computer connection to link partner studios around the world .
COORDINATED CLASS TIMINGS
- 8:30 AM Udaipur = 11:00 AM Shanghai/ Manila; 12:00 AM Tokyo; 10:00 AM Ho Chi Minh; 2:00 PM Sydney…
- 9:30 PM Udaipur = 5:00 PM London; 6:00 PM Cape Town; 12:00 PM New York; 11:00 AM Buenos Aries…
Widely dispersed teachers, students & collaborating groups interacting in real time via the internet

16. USW P roject
Program Development
OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED VISUAL RESOURCES
Intro for Online Viewers
The next two slides present the following videos:
1) Dance & Distance Learning - a five-minute demo of telepresence
dance teaching and collaboration by the pioneering Cowle Center.
2) Helping Shakti Rise - a ten-minute intro to a Shakti Dance Academy film
project, its Vanaver Caravan co-creators & the dance riches of Rajasthan.
Links for Powerpoint & PDF Viewers
1) Dance & Distance Learning – http://youtube.com/watch?v=xpL9bHGYOuI
2) Helping Shakti Rise - http://youtube.com/watch?v=t2qWxXJZvK8
3) Shakti Arising Youtube channel - http://youtube.com/user/ShaktiArising
4) Shakti Rising Blogspot - http://udaipurshakti.blogspot.in/

17. USW P roject
Land Development
Stage II – 2014-2015
- Big Top Performance Tent Big Top “Gypsy Tent”
Main performance tent will seat 150 luxuriously for aerial/stage acts, movies and concerts.
Presentations will vary every night each week to extend patronage and tourist stays.
Will also serve as daytime studio for circus art workshops, tourist lessons & resident classes.
Sample Design & Layout for Big Top “Gypsy Tent”

18. USW P roject
Healing Centre
Stage II – 2014-2015
- Healing Spa Centre
- Eco-Somatic Energy Lab
- Meditative Bodywork Dojo
The USW Healing Centre will offer:
• a variety of Asian & holistic therapies
• a research lab for energy medicine
• yoga, bodywork and meditation classes
• training courses for aspiring healers

19. USW P roject
Land Development
Stage III – 2014~2015
- Landscaped Medicinal Plant Gardens
- Eco-tech/Permaculture Demo Park
- Office/AV Recording Studio
Stage II: Before Landscaping
• The USW site is now being prepared to become a certified organic eco-park by
2015 featuring medicinal plants, permaculture design and Asian landscaping
• The entire complex will be designed to dramatize renewable solar/wind energy,
water purification/recycling, zero waste operation and organic agriculture.
• The site will also introduce visitors to the most promising green technologies via
sustainability demo projects on the land in association with “Greening India”.
• A primary goal of the entire project is to help visitors/students understand that creative,
healing and natural energies are all intimately interconnected and indeed indivisible.
• The complex will also create its own A/V recording studio to document USW events,
introduce/support new artists and generate saleable media.

20. USW P roject
Land Development
Stage III - 2014~2015
- Village-style Cottages for Shaktipur Village
Rental & Artist Residency - Lush Low-end Accommodations -
The USW project will gradually add 8~10 village style cottage lodgings for visiting teachers,
artists and paying guests. Cottages will offer double rooms for multiple occupancy or live-in
studio arrangements. Besides work/sleeping facilities, each will contain a shower and tiny
kitchenette, but also be jointly served by a common kitchen, library and community room.
The design concept is sensuous simplicity and low tech luxury using beautiful local materials,
traditional craft-intensive interiors and Balinese style garden toilets.
Artist Residence Cottage Sample Village Complex Balinese composting toilet

22. Key Advisors
- Music -
USW’s Muladhara Project Advisers
to generate creative intra-Asian workshop tours and a graduate music
school that teaches improvisation and trans-genre collaboration
Zakir Hussain is recognized worldwide as the undisputed king of Indian
percussion. He has not only performed with Ravi Shankar and every major Indian
classical virtuoso, his co-creation of the legendary Shakti group with guitar
master John McLaughlin and his Grammy Award-winning work with the Grateful
Dead’s Mickey Hart virtually birthed the new global fusion genre now known as
“world music“ .
Leonard Eto is Japan’s most creative and prolific master of taiko
drumming. His early work with the celebrated Kodo taiko ensemble
helped bring the group to international attention and involve it with
percussion prodigies around the world. His extraordinary performances
and compositions have both won major awards and been featured in
such films as JFK, The Lion King, The Thin Red Line, etc.

23. Key Advisors
- Arts Production -
Bhanu Barti has directed more than 70 plays in his
eventful 40-year theatrical journey, most with themes
and casts from India’s inspiring tribal communities. He
has also served as Drama Department Head,
Rajasthan University, Director of the Delhi Shri Ram
Centre for Art and Culture, and chairman of Rajasthan
Sangeet Natak Akademi. See more about his
extraordinary achievements at http://bhanubharti.com/
Pepe Ozan is a renowned sculptor, designer, ethno-
videographer and originator of the Burning Man Operas.
Pepe also co-founded Artnetwork Productions, an award
winning independent film company, and personally filmed
and directed "Ganga Ma: A Pilgrimage to the Source", a
haunting study of India's most sacred river, and "Jaisalmer
Ayo - Gateway of the Gypsies," a critically acclaimed study
of Rajasthan's rich nomadic cultures.

24. Key Advisors
- Arts Production -
Asa Sokol-Kubiak is a Junior Olympics diving champion, Cirque du Soleil star and
innovative aerial performer/choreographer. After years of training in ballet, music,
gymnastics and water sports, Asa joined Cirque du Soleil’s Quidam as a headline hand-to-
hand artist and toured with the troop for 4 years. In 2008 she developed her own unique
aerial tissu acts and starred in original productions in Kyoto, Quebec, New York and the
Dubai Film Festival. In 2010 she was invited to return to Cirque and is now performing with
their Corteo show as a featured aerialist.

25. Key Advisors
- Healing -
Duncan Wong is a Kung Fu and Astanga Vinyasa yoga master who has studied
martial arts and body-mind disciplines for 20 years to create a flowing holistic new form
which he calls Yogic Arts. He has shared his unique multi-disciplinary yoga with celebrities
like Sting, Madonna & Bjork, and as well as Balinese orphans and the street kids of L.A.
Julio Peralta, a healer skilled in many
disciplines, has lived in India for over 30
years and mastered Fantan Chi Gung,
Reiki, Acupressure, Pranic Healing, and
Reflexology. Julio finally integrated his rich
repertoire into Pranergia, his own unique
healing system that also embodies
insights he absorbed from personal study
with J. Krishnamurti, Osho Rajneesh,
Punjaji, Dhirendra Brahmachari, and the
great Mongolian master Tsa Gaadai.

26. Key Advisors
- Healing -
David Crow is an accredited master in clinical herbology, acupuncture, Ayurvedic &
Tibetan medicine and Vipassana meditation. Through writing, teaching, and activism, David
promotes grassroots healthcare systems based on community herbal gardens. He also
founded the aromatic essence firm Floracopeia as an international fair trade enterprise and
educational knowledge base to promote botanical medicines as solutions to the interrelated
global problems of poverty, healthcare scarcity, and environmental destruction .
He will be helping USW develop performing arts & aromatic education tours, organic
medicinal farming curricula, and herbal essence production skills.
Swami Rajneesh received his name and calling from his philosopher/mystic guru
Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh. After 30 years of rigorous practice in taichi, vipassana, silent
satsang and euphoric dance, he began writing, teaching and finally stepped out onto the
world stage to spread this healing wisdom across Europe, Asia and his own native India.
He now attracts millions of visitors to his website and ever expanding audiences on the
ground, and he will be helping USW integrate our spiritual and healing elements with
regular workshops and camps. For more on his global activities, visit his website here.

27. Key Advisors
- Design -
Masaki Ueshima is a master Mariyo Yagi has given bold new
of many Japanese arts, but of late dimensions and a fresh philosophy
most renowned for his genius with to the concept of public art through her
rocks and exquisite garden writings, designs and spectacular
designs. He has created marvelous environmental monuments, which she
havens on three continents, but contracts and builds herself. See more of
USW will be his first endeavor in her magic at www.mariyoyagi.net.
India.

28. Key Advisors
- Design -
Günter Nistchke is a renowned architect, scholar and landscape designer. He has
taught at MIT, Princeton, and UCLA and written scores of monographs and books on
historical, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of Asian architecture and design.
In addition to ongoing work at his Institute for East Asian Architecture & Urbanism in
Kyoto, Günter has started a new initiative to open sustainable architecture departments in
universities around the world and will be beginning pilot projects shortly in Bali and Nepal.
He will be helping us apply those same green principles to our Udaipur constructions.
Piki Chappell has been a volcanic Theater 3.0 creative force for two decades with a
career stretching from San Francisco's rich underground art/music scene and Burning
Man culture to the "cirque nouveau" renaissance of Montreal, Quebec. He has created
new instruments and musical interludes for Cirque du Soleil shows, performed in many
Cirque galas & premiers, and served for years as musical director of Circo de Bakuza.
He has sung, DJed, and jammed with music greats around the world, and is currently
turning his imaginative focus to Japan and India. He will be helping USW design
collaborative soundscapes and magical stage sets for our Udaipur performances

29. Entertain and Inspire Wealthy Tourists at Night
Educate and Empower at-risk Youth by Day

30. Udaipur Shakti Works
Business Projections
Basic Financial Parameters
Initial start-up costs (2013-2015) Rs 13,715,000 (≈ US$275,000@Rs 50/US$)
(school tent, performance tent, healing centre, eco-park facilities, artist village & AV studio)
Projected annual operating costs (3rd year) Rs 13,950,500 (≈US$280,000)
Projected annual gross income (3rd year) Rs 27,471,500 (≈US$550,000)
Projected annual net income (3rd year) Rs 13,521,000 (≈US$270,000)
Maximum period of initial cost recoupment from operating profits: 4~5 years
Detailed breakdown of budget projections available online here:
http://udaipurshaktiworks.com/docs/USWbudget4.doc
Untallied potential profit centers: Creative studio/media projects; dance/music
classes; external show/tour organizing; yoga, bodywork, meditation classes; herbal
medicine sales; gallery & costume sales; special dinners, parties & events
Chief risk areas: unabated global economic meltdown, tourism-depressing Indo-Pak
hostilities and/or Islamic/Hindu extremist conflicts, prolonged drought conditions...

31. Investment
from the Heart
Inviting your Participation
Organization: Udaipur Shakti Works is now a collaborative project between Big Medicine, a
US/Japan green think tank/project developer and Catalyst Mewar Pvt. Ltd, proprietor of the
project land and infrastructure. Together we are creating a new so-called "Section 25" non-profit
corporation to manage USW cultural, educational and environmental activities from 2014 on.
Donors: India’s Section 25 non-profit companies can offer tax exemption certificates for those
who wish to donate to this cause as well as attractive rates for long term loans.
Investors: Those wishing to invest are invited to participate in the management company, which
will lease the land and infrastructure for the project, manage its media enterprises, and develop
satellite centers, artist residency programs, and other related projects.
In sum we would like potential supporters to note that given:
• Udaipur's 1.2 million foreign visitor and 9 million Indian tourists each year,
• and the total absence of any other creative entertainment venues,
this project can and will make money, enough to support both its growth and ecological work
and even contagious replication in other lands.
However, rather than conventional investors, we seek engaged likeminded partners with ideas
and creative energies to contribute as well as needed funds.

32. USW Key Staff
W. David Kubiak, USW Development Director
• taught PR & mass communications for 10 years at Kyoto’s Ritsumeikan University,
• is an international award-winning journalist on social trends and the environment,
• co-founded Jittoku, Japan’s first live house, and other successful event spaces
• organized Chikyu Saisozo, Asia’s largest international environmental media conference
• has worked as communications director for US environmental firms and NGOs
• is currently co-organizing “Greening India,” India’s first series of grassroots green festivals
Rita Dixit-Kubiak, USW Health & Environment Director
• founded the Indo-Japanese Shimin Gaiko Kyokai (Citizen Diplomacy Association) that sponsored
10 years of cultural, educational and environmental exchanges between Kyoto and Udaipur
• organized Kyoto’s Metamedical Forum, a long running series of seminars for Japanese
environmentalists, physicians and alternative health professionals
• led a series of international health/environment study tours with leading Indian NGOs
• has written on health & ecology for journals in the US, India and Japan
Kathy Arlyn Sokol, USW Performance & Event Director
• is an Emmy Award-winning narrator, journalist & author (Rasta Time, Japanese Living…)
• has interviewed scores of music legends from Ravi and Mamata Shankar to Bob Marley and Sting
• co-organized major international conferences & concerts for peace and the environment
• coordinated 2006 Pakistan earthquake relief for Japan’s Peace Boat NGO
• co-produced documentary film projects on conflict resolution in South Asia
Banwar Lal Kabra, USW Financial Director
• is an experienced Udaipur legal expert, businessman and land developer
• co-founded the Indo-Japan Citizen Diplomacy Association, Indian partner to Kyoto’s Shimin Gaiko
Kyokai and has visited Japan to promote its environmental projects
• has helped launch many successful trade relationships between Indian & western firms
• serves as pro bono legal and tax advisor to Udaipur’s growing foreign community.

33. Contact
Udaipur Shakti Works
India Office
#1 Sajjangarh Road, Udaipur,
Rajasthan, India 303001
Tel: (+91-294) 243-4721
Internet: www.udaipurshaktiworks.com
Email: info@udaipurshaktiworks.com