Warming Up With Mantra

If you’re a podcast listener, you know that I work as a voiceover actress.  I like to sing to warm up my voice before I start work, and this week I’ve been using the creativity chant from Deva Premal’s “Mantras for Precarious Times”. ...

No Place Like Home

After a wonderful trip to the East coast (my second home) it feels very good to be back in Oregon where we are having an amazing Indian summer.  This is my favorite season no matter what coast I’m on. As I mentioned in the podcast, here’s the link to the...

Sinking Into The Presence

I don’t know about you, but I’m a God-a-phobic.  I was raised a strict Catholic, and in that worldview God isn’t someone you could ever think of as a friend.  For years I described myself as a recovering Catholic, and swiftly turned and ran from any...

Swimming In Kirtan

I’ve been doing some lap swimming this summer, especially in the last week when Oregon has been so hot.  A wonderful discovery has been the chant playing in the background of my mind will come to the front in the silence that swimming creates.  It’s a...