Dark Days — Chants for Winter Solstice
The dark and cold of winter lends itself to introspection, and lately I’ve been thinking about this past year & the changes it brought to my life. Last December I had just been diagnosed with a large spinal tumor, and had the surgery to remove it was in January. Now...
Interfaith Voices
The use of chanting and spiritual music for awakening has a long history, and in this week’s podcast we have chants from many different religious traditions. We’ll begin with a chant from the Sufi tradition with HuDost, then a Gregorian chant from Thomas Barquee, then...
Songs For The Soul
This week's set is for those of you who don't play an instrument but would like to gather in satsang to sing kirtan. It's structured much like our Friday night kirtan here in Corvallis, and the chants are ones we love to sing in our satsang. You could get a few of...
Community Kirtan with Jen Canfield & Ian Boccio!
I really loved doing this interview with Jen Canfield of the Call & Response Foundation & Ian Boccio of the Atlanta kirtan community & the kirtan band Blue Spirit Wheel, and it kicks off a new direction for the podcast. I’ve felt deeply drawn to creating community...
Fresh Tracks 33
This edition of the podcast is a rich Fresh Tracks set, and as it worked out several of the artists featured in the set will be playing at Omega Fall Ecstatic Chant this weekend, so I’m happy to give them a shout-out! We start with the Hanumen’s ‘Invocation’, the...
More Mantras For Prosperity
This week’s set is based on one released in 2013 that is by far the most downloaded of our podcasts over at Soundcloud -- it also came from a desire I had to create a setlist that affirms power & prosperity. The chants in the set are from the incredibly rich Kundalini...
Deva Premal & Miten Come To Portland
I’m still glowing from the beautiful experience of seeing Deva Premal & Miten with Manose in Portland last week. Several members of our satsang were there, including the two friends who won the tickets in the giveaway. We were admitted to the hall early to hear their...
The Shanti Mantras
Our set this week is based on one our satsang group loved several weeks ago. The selections are from a group of chants called Shanti Mantras or Peace Mantras, the Hindu prayers for Peace (Shanti) found in the Upanishads. The chants this week are only a few of them,...
Jai Uttal and The Story of Hanuman
In this week's episode I'll tell you all about my current obsessions -- physical therapy & narrating the beautiful book 'Sid' by Zen master Anita Feng. I'll also let you know about my big idea of featuring stories of local kirtan communities on the podcast! As you all...
It’s Spring. Jai Ma!
This week's set is to honor the Divine Mother, the force behind the new life bursting forth all around us as Earth returns to the light. I can also feel this force re-awakening in me as I recover from spinal surgery -- it's as though my body is coming back to life....