About Yoga Chants:
Yoga Chanting, is a form of Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti means love or devotion. Bhakti Yoga is the Yoga of devotion to the Source of life, the Creator.
Chanting and singing the names of the Divine, also called "kirtan" in Sanskrit is a remarkable and uplifting, sometimes calming and often a transforming experience. I invite you all to share the joy of kirtan with the San Francisco and Bay Area yoga community. All are welcome.
"Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space — digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.....
Kirtan is for all people. There are no masters of kirtan, no experts, no teachers, no advanced students, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves.....There is no right or wrong way to sing kirtan. Kirtan can be breathtakingly beautiful, the music can be stunning and masterful; and it can be cacophonous, dissonant, and almost painful to the ears. Aesthetics don’t matter. All that matters is the spirit, the feeling. Don’t worry about what you sound like, feel whatever you feel, have no expectations, no inhibitions. Kirtan is an oil well digging deeper and deeper into the heart." -Jai Uttal from www.jaiuttal.com
Kirtan (Sanskrit: "to repeat";[1] also Sankirtan[2]) is call-and-response chanting or "responsory" performed in India's devotional traditions.[3] A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankar. -from Wikipedia.org
Read my article about Yoga chant/kirtan and creating a hOMe Yoga practice in this eletter. Read here.
About this Website:
As a participant in these chants and after wanting to share this with my yoga students and others, I am offering this website as a way to view the SF kirtans on one site. This website is also to assist those who organize kirtans locally to share the info. with others. If you are hosting a kirtan or inquiring about one, and it is not listed on this site, please be in touch. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Namaste,
Stacie (Saraswati)
SunLight Yoga
www.sunlightyoga.com
Yoga Chanting, is a form of Bhakti Yoga. Bhakti means love or devotion. Bhakti Yoga is the Yoga of devotion to the Source of life, the Creator.
Chanting and singing the names of the Divine, also called "kirtan" in Sanskrit is a remarkable and uplifting, sometimes calming and often a transforming experience. I invite you all to share the joy of kirtan with the San Francisco and Bay Area yoga community. All are welcome.
"Kirtan is the calling, the crying, the reaching across infinite space — digging into the heart’s deepest well to touch and be touched by the Divine Presence.....
Kirtan is for all people. There are no masters of kirtan, no experts, no teachers, no advanced students, no beginners. The practice itself is the teacher, guiding us to ourselves.....There is no right or wrong way to sing kirtan. Kirtan can be breathtakingly beautiful, the music can be stunning and masterful; and it can be cacophonous, dissonant, and almost painful to the ears. Aesthetics don’t matter. All that matters is the spirit, the feeling. Don’t worry about what you sound like, feel whatever you feel, have no expectations, no inhibitions. Kirtan is an oil well digging deeper and deeper into the heart." -Jai Uttal from www.jaiuttal.com
Kirtan (Sanskrit: "to repeat";[1] also Sankirtan[2]) is call-and-response chanting or "responsory" performed in India's devotional traditions.[3] A person performing kirtan is known as a kirtankar. -from Wikipedia.org
Read my article about Yoga chant/kirtan and creating a hOMe Yoga practice in this eletter. Read here.
About this Website:
As a participant in these chants and after wanting to share this with my yoga students and others, I am offering this website as a way to view the SF kirtans on one site. This website is also to assist those who organize kirtans locally to share the info. with others. If you are hosting a kirtan or inquiring about one, and it is not listed on this site, please be in touch. Feel free to contact me with any questions.
Namaste,
Stacie (Saraswati)
SunLight Yoga
www.sunlightyoga.com
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