Dance Dance Evolution
This week's show has the music to get you up and dancing through your last minute holiday errands and into the New Year -- it's also the last podcast of 2013. Our first show in 2014 will be an interview with Nina Rao, longtime assistant to Krishna Das and kirtan...
Walking With Kirtan
It's the holidays, we're making "unwise nutritional choices", and it's cold -- who wants to exercise? Well, this is the set to get you out the door. Let's take a walk with some great kirtan music, your body will thank you for it in January! With the snow we had last...
Fresh Tracks 21
This week we have another set of new music from artists familiar and brand new, and there's more to come -- the next Fresh Tracks will be from Kundalini artists! It's official -- New World Kirtan will be at the Denver Chant Fest on Valentine's Day weekend with...
OM Shiva
Lord Shiva, "he who is oblivious to the world", is the most powerful of the Hindu deities. He is known as the destroyer, and is believed to be at the core of the centrifugal force of the Universe. Shiva, with Brahma (the creator) & Vishnu (the preserver) are...
Fresh Tracks 20
In the introduction to the podcast this week I talk a lot about Ram Das. When I was in my early twenties Be Here Now literally blew the doors of perception open for me, and my life changed because of it. Through his old lectures and the Here And Now podcast curated by...
Sunday Satsang (Blast From the Past)
This episode begins a new series for the podcast called Blasts From the Past. As mentioned last week, I've been trying to figure out the best way to put the older episodes up on SoundCloud, and re-running them seemed a good way to do it. It has been interesting to go...
The Get Real Set
After what we just went through in the United States with the government shut down, I'm feeling angry -- how about you? Being angry is not a pleasant place to be, so as usual I've been turning to kirtan to change that energy. Chanting the Names always works because...
Feeding Your Demons Meditation
In this special edition of the podcast we have an excerpt from an interview done by the Mindrolling Podcast with Lama Tsultrim Allione. In the course of the interview (which was fascinating) she did a meditation on Feeding Your Demons -- demons defined as anything...
Fresh Tracks 19
The Fresh Tracks sets are some of my favorites. This week's show features a mix of kirtan artists who are new to the scene, and several from old favorites. I hope you enjoy the offering. Here's a link to the Mindrolling podcast mentioned in the show. More on the the...
Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band at Bhakti Fest 2013
Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band played a beautifully moving set at Bhakti Fest West this year. Their music was colored by a terrible family tragedy -- the death of Sean's younger brother Jeremy early in the summer. As I produced the podcast & listened...