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events | Kirtan: Chanting with Shyama

Chanting relaxes the mind, opens the heart, and moves us into a more direct experience of life as energy, an experience of freedom from our thoughts, self-concepts, and attachments.

Kirtan is call and response chanting in the Hindu tradition. Accompanied by harmonium and hand drums, the chants are clearly taught and it is easy to follow along. Enjoy the resonant sound of the Sanskrit language with simple,
beautiful melodies.

This is a deep and profound practice:
nothing to learn; nothing to change.
Only, the calling out to our own true nature as Love!

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Shyama Chapin started singing before she could talk and she hasn't stopped yet! After a New York City childhood and many years as a performing songwriter in New England and California, she stumbled into the practice of kirtan quite by grace, and in spite of never before having had the slightest interest in traveling to India, suddenly couldn't imagine anything better. Having spent much of the past several years in her Guru's beautiful temples nestled in the Himalayan foothills, as well as at the feet of several of the seasoned Western kirtan singers here in the States, Shyama is now inviting friends known and unknown to come and sing the beautiful Names with her.

A little more about this practice:
Chanting devotional songs in Sanskrit is an ancient form of meditation. Thousands of years ago, yogis recognized the profound effects of sound vibrations on our states of consciousness and discovered that chanting specific words and names of God gives rise to an experience of the divine. Word sheets are provided; no experience necessary!

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