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If you have never experience kirtan, please consider giving it a try - it is a beautiful spiritual practice that many find easier than meditation - and yet is has similar effects. If you can speak, you can chant! And if you wish, you can just come and listen. We welcome the entire yoga community - CONTACT US W/ questions. Children are welcome (w/ parent supervision) Please bring a vegetarian dish to share - main dish, salad, side dish or dessert. Email us if you are coming (but feel free to show up at the last minute too!)

What is Kirtan?

Kirtan or Chanting is a wonderful practice for anyone, especially in this day and age of over-scheduling and over-doing, we need a balm for daily life and tools to help cultivate the inner awareness of our true contented nature, that which connects us to all other beings. Kirtan does this and more…

The practice is especially wonderful for those who feel they have trouble focusing the mind in meditation. The music and singing captivate the mind – and hold it fast to one point – the repetition of Divine Mantra, which summons the experience of the inner Divine in all beings, focuses the mind, and singing changes the practitioners rate of breath – all of which serve to quiet the mind, and bring peace, tranquility and contentment - a true and deep soothing of the soul.

Read an article about KIRTAN click here

Kirtan is a traditional yogic, call and response singing of mantra, practice that can draw participants inside to a meditative state. Singing changes the rate of the breath and facilitates greater awareness of the Divine within all things and all beings. If the spirit moves you...singing (whether you think you are good at it or not) is encouraged!!...and you are also welcomed to just come nd listen! Contact us for more info.

To learn more about kirtan: read on for an article that was adapted from www.raganiworld.com

"Kirtan is a participatory, cross-cultural music experience that incorporates the audience into the performance. This call and response sacred experience is swiftly gaining popularity throughout the U. S. as it follows on the heels of the yoga movement. All ages and cultural back grounds are welcome to the event - no prerequisites for participation.

Though it involves music, the practice of kirtan is not about musical ability or training, it is about the heart. These ancient chants contain powerful healing and transfromational energies that serve to reconnect us to the Ever-present Eternal Self that is inherent in all Beings. All the mantras, melodies and instruments are used to lead us toward this meditative state. Althought the language of kirtan is often Sanskrit, the true language of kirtan is universal, it is the language of the heart. As part of the bhakti yoga path (devotional), kirtan utilized nada yoga, the yogic science of sound. Through absorbtion in the sound, the eternal love that lies within each of our hearts can awaken. Chanting the different names and aspects of the divine, by calling out to the divine, we naturally reflect upon and call forth the inner Divine. Indeed, this call-resonse style chanting, is a means of finding our way back to the core of our being, to our heart, and to our connection to each other."

Sutra's Song Album Cover

Cover Art by Ian Boccio