Kīrtan Articles
A Few Words on: ‘Why Start a Yoga Practice Session With a Mantra?’
There are many great reasons to work with a mantra at the start of a period of yoga practice or study. For a start, working with a mantra can help set the space of our body-borne field of awareness....
December 15th, 2020
Caritas and Amor Yoga means gathering together, harmonising the whole field of our being. There are many reasons I so love the sound based practices that are cherished in the Indian tradition. One...
Picking up Good Vibrations – Sanskrit and Yoga Part One by James Boag
Yoga is a state of balance, of integration. It could be described as that state in which the seeming pairs of opposites that characterise our experience of existence: such as up and down, light and...
A Few Words About Ganesa Saranam
In the Bhagavad Gītā, one of the most treasured texts of the yoga tradition, yoga is described as ‘samatva’ – ‘evenness’, or the integration of all the powers of our awareness; and as ‘karmasu...
Kirtan – Yoga of Song
In a traditional kīrtan, a bard-like leader ‘tells’ of the kīrti - the glory – of the Lord; or, we might say, of the divine qualities that are our potential. This may include compelling renderings...
The Glorious Yoga Practice of Kirtan
Last Sunday a young child came to kirtan. I realised ‘after the event’, that I had missed the opportunity to really invite her into the practice in a way that could resonate with her and help her to...