Kirtan Podcast Archive
Kirtan Kriya
The Kirtan Kriya meditation was mentioned in last week's podcast, and I've been enjoying it so much that I was inspired to dedicate this week's podcast to the meditation. Ramdesh Kaur explains it here, and there are lots of references to it on the New World Kirtan...
Kirtan All Stars
This week I wanted to put together a set of my favorite kirtan chants, and found it was a very hard task indeed! We just have to have more All Star sets, because there is no way I can fit all my best-loved songs into one week's show! So these are some of my all...
Enter The Sound Current
This week's set was inspired by an article on Spirit Voyage's blog called "Healthy Living: 10 Reasons to Meditate". The blog tells how it's possible to create specific states of mind by entering the sound current and chanting kirtan with intention. The article is...
Sunday Satsang II
The chants in the Sunday Satsang sets are designed to be sung! You can sing them in a group, as we do, especially if you're also in a small town where live kirtan is hard to find. The lyrics to the chants can be found here. So sing in the shower, sing in your car,...
The Power Of Intention
The mighty ape Hanuman is featured in the music this week, in honor of his Birthday. Hanuman is said to represent the untold power that resides within each one of us just waiting to be tapped. A book that taught me about this immense power and how to tap it was "The...
Fresh Kirtan Tracks 3
Happy Solstice everyone, and Happy Birthday to the New World Kirtan podcast! As we turn two years old our podcast community continues to grow--and so does the word about the magic of this music We'll be on a short hiatus for the Holidays, and I wish for you the...
And Now For Something Completely Different
This week's set is a mostly English set (that's the different part). Our favorite kirtan artists perform songs that aren't in Sanskrit, and I thought you might enjoy hearing some of them. Also, in the podcast I talk about how much I'm enjoying ginger tea these...
Toss & Turn Kirtan
One of my least favorite times of the day is around 4AM. That's because I'm often awake, up much earlier than I'd like, and trying to get back to sleep. My mind has jumped on the opportunity and has become a thought-generating monster. Once you're caught up in the...
Not In Our Town
There was a candlelight vigil in our town tonight. It was organized as way to surround a mosque firebombed this weekend with light and community support. The outside world comes to Corvallis--the mosque was attended by the young man who attempted the car bombing in...
Sunday Satsang
This week's set is eminently singable--this I know because our kirtan group sang these chants at our Sunday Satsang this week. You can use the podcast this way also, and the Sunday Satsang sets will be designed to allow you to use them as a basis for a community...
Fresh Kirtan Tracks 2
This week's set is another one of all new kirtan, as new CDs have been arriving fast & furiously. And if you're a fan of the October 8 Jai Uttal podcast, fear not--the digital noise in the original podcast is now gone. If you download it again Jai's music will...
“Keep Going, Say What You Know”
This summer I happened to catch an entry by Tami Simon on the Sounds True blog. The entry was titled "Keep Going, Say What You Know". It struck me as a wonderfully simple way to live life, and also a gift we could give to each other ... the gift of our true selves. ...
Kirtan For Election Night
Probably like most of you, I'm constantly struggling with my need to be informed and my desire to stay positive. A balance has been especially hard to achieve during this demoralizing election season. Kirtan, as always, has been my refuge--and that's where I've...
Mostly Dave
What's not to love about Dave Stringer? He inhabits a genial spirit, and creates music which never fails to lift my mood. In my heart there is a special place for him, because many moons ago when the podcast was just starting he kindly invited me to attend his...
A Thought for the Times
"When despair for the world grows in me and I awake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of...
Travelling Kirtan
A good thing about travelling is I have time to listen to a lot of kirtan on the plane, and this trip there were CDs from a lot of new artists. It's good to be back home, and back to a regular schedule, and now it's my pleasure to share the music of the artists who...
Living Spiritual In A Material World
As you know we've been traveling, so this week we have a repeat podcast from July 2009. We'll be back to a regular schedule starting next week. Enjoy the flashback. Namaste. I don’t know if Mother Meera is exactly my guru, but I go to see her whenever she comes to...
It’s All Jai
The podcast this week comes to you from Cape Cod in October—what more need I say? The weather is incredible, there's lots of seafood and I’m surrounded by historical stuff—Heaven. The set this week is all Jai Uttal. His set at Bhakti Fest was amazing—seeing him live...
Conversation With Sridhar
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Sridhar, the executive producer of Bhakti Fest. For those of us who are craving to be back in the Bhav at Joshua Tree--and who don't want to wait until next September--listen for an exciting announcement. Things are a...
BhaktiFestified!
I read the word "BhaktiFestified" somewhere recently, and it so perfectly describes how I feel—I’ve had a taste of the Bhav, and now there’s no going back—and whyohwhy would I ever want to? Bhakti Fest is over, but little pieces of it have broken off and spread around...