Kirtan Podcast Archive
Chants To Help You Sleep
I got some very good news this week -- my hip replacement surgery has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 13 — that’s tomorrow! So I’ve been gearing back up — listening to chants for healing & guided meditations for surgery. I’ll be taking a break for a few weeks...
Prayers For Peace: The Shanti Mantras
This week’s set is one I played for our Friday Satsang a week ago, and it's a collection of Shanti Mantras, Hindu prayers for peace found in the Upanishads. A Friday Satsang set always begins with Jane Winther's Om chant from her CD Mantra. Then we have Dharma study...
Chants For Divine Healing
Well, we’re all having a moment together, aren’t we? Everyone listening to this all over the world is slowed down, sheltering in place. It’s really quite remarkable, our world is having a pause and reset, and a much-needed change in perspective. In some very good...
Chants To Open Your Heart
It’s finally coming on spring here, the daffodils are starting to come up, and the hip replacement surgery is also coming up — it's on March 18! Last month we had a beautiful kirtan here led by Johanna Beekman — it was so sweet. She’s about to set out on another tour...
The Fires of Imbolc
The latest edition of the New World Kirtan Podcast is the set played at the Corvallis Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for our kirtan/meditation circle last Friday night to celebrate Imbolc, the ancient Celtic holiday that marks the beginning of Spring. The holiday...
Kirtan In China!
Over Easter weekend last April, Dave Stringer came to Corvallis to play a kirtan for our community -- it was such a sweet experience for everyone involved, and the following month he was headed to China. Dave has been to China several times to play kirtan, and over...
‘Devotee’, A Conversation With Miten
This podcast is very special to me. I had the pleasure of interviewing Miten back in September the day before Deva Premal, Manose and the gang were about to leave on tour. The interview was to be about the music on his new CD ‘Devotee’, and it turned into a...
Blast From The Past: The One About Being A Bison
This repeat podcast is from January 2017, and it’s one of the most downloaded ever in our 11-year history. The intro tells the story of how an MRI found an unexpected tumor in my spine and my mental process of dealing with the fear & preparing for the spinal surgery....
The Deva Premal & Miten Set/Friday Kirtan & Meditation Circle
Most of you know we have a kirtan & meditation circle that meets here every Friday night, and when we don’t have a live group playing for us I put together a set of chants from CDs for the satsang. This edition of the podcast is one of those sets in its entirety — it...
Lose Your Kali Yuga Blues
Reading the news these days can be so discouraging. Probably like you, I feel the need to be informed, but the energy of the news is toxic and fear-inducing. What can we do to stay centered & positive? The Mahamantra chants in this edition of the New World Kirtan...
Dave Stringer at the Corvallis Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Five years ago Dave Stringer was one of the first kirtan artists to visit Corvallis, and last month over Easter weekend he came back to town for an incredible weekend of kirtan. His band had a stellar lineup of musicians & they were mostly from Oregon — Johanna...
Our Favorite Chants to Hanuman
We have a strong kirtan scene here in Corvallis, and it's been so gratifying to watch it grow. We're a small town & there's not a lot of live kirtan, so on the weeks we don't have live music I put together a set for our Friday satsang. Over the years we've become fond...
In The Bleak Midwinter
As I sit in my basement studio & look outside with today's forecast calling for freezing rain, the title of this podcast seems appropriate. ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’ is a melancholy & evocative 19th century Christmas carol, and the title just seemed to fit the dark &...
Best of the Midwest Yoga & Kirtan Fest
In his edition of the New World Kirtan Podcast, we feature live cuts from a few of the artists who played at the Midwest Yoga & Kirtan Fest. What an incredible time we had together! I hope you can get a sense of the Spirit & the Love that was present -- it was so, so...
Healing
Thanks to our elected leaders we've had one hell of a few weeks here in the United States. The Supreme Court fight was a watershed moment for a lot of people, women and men -- triggering for many women and brutal for everyone. Last Friday I really just wanted to chant...
Community Kirtan: Pilgrimage of the Heart
In this edition of the podcast, we feature an interview with San Diego’s Pilgrimage of the Heart kirtan band, followed by the kirtan they played that night for their sweet community. You’ll hear Tom Warner, Sita Rose, Fast Heart Mart & the owner of the Pilgrimage of...
Chants from ‘Mantra: Sounds Into Silence’, Part 2
This edition of the podcast is the second to feature chants from the soundtrack of the wonderful movie ‘Mantra; Sounds Into Silence’ — if it comes to your community please support it, or be a movie captain so YOU can be the one who brings it to your community! Get the...
Chants From ‘Mantra: Sounds Into Silence’, Part 1
In this edition of the podcast, we feature music from the soundtrack of ‘Mantra: Sounds Into Silence’ -- there are so many beautiful chants we'll have two podcasts devoted to the music we heard in the movie. If you have the opportunity to see this wonderful movie in...
David Newman Live at Bhakti Fest Midwest 2013
April was quite the month for sacred music here in Corvallis! It began with a great weekend with David Newman — on Saturday night the Unitarian Church was full for his kirtan, and his band -- which included Bejny & Heather Wertheimer of Shantala, Sean Frenette &...
A Day in New Orleans: Sean Johnson’s Bhakti Immersion!
I'm just back from Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band's Bhakti Immersion in New Orleans, and what a wonderful & transformative experience it was! I spent it with 40 beautiful people, most of them Yoga teachers, who wanted to bring more Bhakti Yoga into their classes &...