Kirtan Podcast Archive
Cure Your Kali Yuga Blues
This week's show started out being about the Kali Yuga -- otherwise known as the Age of Quarrel -- and ended up being about an epic back spasm that, thanks to the work of Dr. John Sarno, took me on an unexpected & deeply emotional ride. It's a story about the...
Shiva’s Dance of Creation & Destruction
Shiva has always been a difficult deity energy for me to get my mind around. He is both the creator and the destroyer -- what's that about? After doing this interview with Blue Spirit Wheel's Ian Boccio, I can now hold this deity in a different place -- he's still...
Fresh Tracks 26
Happy New Year, and welcome 2015 -- I hope you all had a beautiful holiday! It's a favorite time of the year for me, and a highlight this year was our annual Christmas Eve family kirtan, where our band was blessed to play with several of our family members. If you'd...
The Great Invocation
Tonight is Winter Solstice, and it's also the 6th anniversary of the launch of the podcast. This has been a beautiful path of seva for me, a joyous circle of giving and receiving. If you're reading this, or if you're a listener I want to say thank you. My life has...
Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles
This week we continue our 'Visions of the Deities Through Sacred Chant' series with Ian Boccio as we explore the energy of Ganesha, the beloved remover of obstacles. The show features Ian & I talking for about a half hour, followed by chants to Ganesha by Kristin...
A Thankful Heart
If you've been listening to the podcast for a while you know that the kirtan community here in Corvallis started with a group of us singing to CDs -- the set lists from those Sunday evening satsangs formed the play list for the first year of the podcast. Fast forward...
A Cup of Tulsi Chai
In last week's podcast I gave you the recipe for a tulsi masala chai tea concentrate we've been enjoying hot and iced. Tulsi is known in India as holy basil, and it is crazy good for you. It's an adaptogen -- meaning it helps the body cope with stress. Research has...
Calling Out to Hungry Hearts, Words & Music by Krishna Das
This week at the top of the podcast we have the recipe for a yummy tulsi chai tea concentrate that you can make either iced or hot -- SO good on a cold morning. It's based on the bulk tulsi teas from Organic India, I use the Tulsi Chai Masala & sometimes the Tulsi...
Dance Dance Evolution 2
Dance Dance Evolution. Because every once in a while you just want to dance your way into the Lightness of Being. Until next week dear friends.
Darshan: Visions of the Deities through Sacred Chant with Ian Boccio
I met Blue Spirit Wheel's Ian Boccio when he came through town several years ago setting up the band's first tour. We had coffee, and have been friends ever since. Based in Atlanta, Ian is the creative director of the annual ChantLanta Sacred Music Festival and a...
Fresh Tracks 25
This is our TWENTY FIFTH Fresh Tracks set. I find that a bit hard to believe, hence the shouting. What a musical feast that number 25 represents! For the artists a cornucopia of hopes, dreams, and development -- both spiritual & musical. For us an always changing...
Let’s Play Kirtan III
The 'Let's Play Kirtan' series is for those of you who have an instrument and would like to accompany yourself as you chant. The chants in the sets are ones our band covers, and below you'll find a link to the charts so you can accompany yourself or put your own...
Surprise Package
One of the best things about 5-years of producing the podcast is the huge file I've accumulated of my all-time favorite kirtan chants. The show this week features some of these chants -- the ones that play in the background as I drive my car or cook dinner, even as I...
Donna De Lory Live at Bhakti Fest West 2014
This week we have the second of the sets recorded at Bhakti Fest West 2014 -- Donna De Lory's Sunday evening dance party that ended the festival. The mood goes from danceable to exquisite -- the duets with Hans Christian -- back to danceable then more exquisite -- the...
A Conversation With Donna De Lory
I'm almost finished listening to the recordings made at this year's Bhakti Fest, and I'm happy to let you know that Donna De Lory's great set at this year's festival will be our podcast for next week. As a companion to that show I thought you might enjoy a re-run of a...
Memories of Bhakti Fest West 2014
This week's podcast is very different from our usual Bhakti Fest wrap-up, and it's because this year I had a very different experience at the festival. All weekend I recorded live updates from Bhakti Fest for Soul Traveller Radio, an Internet radio station based in...
Bhakti Fest West 2014 Sampler
At long last the time has come to pack our bags and head to Joshua Tree, CA for Bhakti Fest. For a lot of us who go to the festival it's an annual pilgrimage, a chance to connect with old friends and make new ones. It has always been a special time for me -- there's...
A Conversation with Deva Premal & Miten
Years ago I was doing Yoga to a CD by Shiva Rea, when I heard a voice on the soundtrack singing words that were unfamiliar to me. The voice was so pure & compelling I had to pause the CD to find out who was singing and what was being sung. The singer was Deva...
Fresh Tracks 24
We've just gotten back from our annual visit to Cape Cod, and the introduction to this week's podcast was recorded by the lake at my mother-in-law's home. The lake has become a source of renewal for me -- I look forward to seeing it every year. It gives us a lot of...
Jai Uttal’s Kirtan Camp — and other stuff (Part 2)
This week we pick up where we left off with Jai Uttal in this second part of our conversation, listen to Part 1 here. Jai has lots of great insights about our Bhakti Yoga practice, and a wonderful story about Hari Guna Gao, a chant on his new CD Return To Shiva...