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Benjy Wertheimer, with his wife Heather, is the co-founder of the beloved kirtan duo Shantala; and over the years I've come to know him as the kind of guy who decides to stop waiting for the world to change and simply starts to change it. Benjy joins me from Portland,...

Welcome back to New World Kirtan. I'm so glad you're here. For the first episode of our new season, I sat down with the extraordinary Saul David Raye — musician, teacher, and devoted practitioner of yoga and sacred world music. We talked about what community means in...

Hello friends! After two years away, the New World Kirtan Podcast is returning. This episode of the podcast will tell you more about the why. But basically, when we lost our beloved Bhakti brother David Newman — Durga Das — in April of 2024, the heart went out of me...