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Kirtan

Kirtan, the mindful and joyous use of music and mantras, is how yogis get high. Here you'll find stories from yogis about why and how they practice Kirtan.

How I’m Using the Power of Kirtan to Drive Positive Change

May 5, 2015 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

by guest author Madi Das, Kirtan Shakti Courtesy of Integral Yoga® Magazine, Summer 2015 Most days, I go to my regular job, wearing my regular clothes, and I type regular things into my regular computer until it’s time to go home. My co-workers know me as Joe, that guy who has enough light banter to be social, but not so much as to get distracted from his typing. Joe is a good guy. Familiar. Dependable. You know the type. But on Tuesday nights, I trade my collared shirt and GAP slacks … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energetic Practices, Kirtan, Practices, Yoga & Community Tagged With: Bhakti Without Borders, charity, India, kirtan, Kirtan Shakti, Uplifting music, Vrindavan, yoga

How Yoga Kirtan Helped Me Find My True Voice and Share it With The World

March 23, 2015 by Guest Author 1 Comment

By Premratna, Premratna Music If I try to imagine what the course of my life would have taken without yoga, I get an image of the movie Life of Pi: a small boat, huge swells, a tiger on board and a lot of fear. Yoga found me while I was doing my ‘big O.E.’; that phase of life where we are typically searching for adventure. I was no exception. In between hiking, skiing, singing and songwriting, I went to a yoga class at the gym in the Canadian Rockies where I was living and working. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: How Yoga Helped Me, Kirtan, Practices Tagged With: authenticity, Daily Practice, healing, How Yoga Helped Me, kirtan, letting go, yoga music

Why kirtan is one of the most powerful yoga practices you’ll ever do

May 20, 2009 by Kara-Leah Grant 4 Comments

Photo credit: Pete Longworth by Kara-Leah I want to let you in on a secret. Ok, it's not really a secret, because I'm telling you right? But until I actually experienced this for myself I had absolutely no idea of how powerful this particular yoga practice is. It is the most powerful practice I have done. Ever. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kirtan, Practices, Yoga Styles Tagged With: bhakti, kirtan

Bhakti Yoga & Kirtan – it’s How Yogis get High

December 21, 2008 by Kara-Leah Grant 9 Comments

Kirtan

by Kara-Leah The mission of this website is to get everybody in New Zealand doing yoga - but it's really important to remember that yoga is not just about the physical postures called asana. One of the lesser known and yet perhaps most powerful forms of yoga is Bhakti Yoga. This is the yoga of devotion and is often practiced via kirtan - or chants. Take a moment to think of your favourite music right now, and how it makes you feel when you sing it - when you lose yourself and get right into the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kirtan, Musings from the Mat, Practices, Yoga Styles Tagged With: anahata chakra, bhakti, kirtan

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