What You'll Learn During “The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting”

How do you cope when circumstances feel out of control?

How do you sustain yourself and heal when events occur in your life, or in the outside world, that leave you feeling destabilized, afraid, or grieving — as if you’ve been thrown off your path with no roadmap to follow?

What strategies do you use to find your footing again?

According to beloved chantress Nina Rao, spiritual seekers have for centuries turned to the ancient devotional practice of chanting mantras to cultivate a powerful internal container — providing a sense of sanctuary and the kind of inner refuge we’re all longing for.

Even in our busy modern world, the discipline of a daily chanting practice can help you access this space of strength, comfort, and safety within yourself whenever you need to.

Chanting offers spiritual sustenance that feeds and supports you — providing inner strength and peace that you can return to time and again when life throws you off your axis.

Thousands of years ago, this mantra tradition was shared with all spiritual seekers. Over time, however, in an effort to suppress the masses, it became a privilege only accessible to monastic men. Our culture today is harkening back to the ancient roots of chanting to re-establish that Vedic mantras were meant to be available to everyone who wishes to undertake the practice.

Iterations of mantra chanting are found in the form of call-and-response kirtan, which is easily accessible to everyone and practiced all over the world by those who long to immerse themselves in the ocean of divine love through prayers sung from the heart.

Nina grew up in India and learned traditional chanting from her grandfather when she was just nine years old.

When she moved to the States, she met world-renowned chant master Krishna Das, and began chanting and working with him. Her own personal chant practice grew organically out of a natural resonance with music, mantra, and the Divine Feminine.

Nina draws on both her background and on ancient Sanskrit sacred texts to bring a unique perspective to her chanting and teaching… one that fuses East with West.

Class Topics for “The Sound Medicine of Sacred Vedic & Kirtan Chanting”

Join her for a nourishing hour-long event where she’ll share the sacred practices of both Vedic and kirtan chanting, which you can carry with you into your own practice.

During this illuminating experiential workshop, you’ll:

• Learn how Vedic mantras are precise and rule-driven,which helps you develop stronger concentration, deepen your practice, and honor the ancient tradition… compared to the kirtan that most of us are used to hearing (and singing!) in the West
• Discover how mantras create an auspicious inner state of gratitude, intention, and wellbeing — a sanctuary for refuge and sustenance in times of duress
• Hear Nina chant one verse from the Sri Rudram, the invocation of Rudra in the Vedic style — to cope with the karma of life and ask Shiva for his blessings
• Sing Om Namah Shivaya with Nina in kirtan style — call and response — repeating the name of God to calm your mind, open your heart, and help realize your inner Self
• Experience the dispelling of fear, and the peace and love that can wash over you as you chant mantras

Drawn from the highest authority in Hindu dharma, Vedic chanting is the practice of repeating a mantra in which exactness in notes, rhythm, and pronunciation is vital…

… while kirtan, which evolved from the original roots of the Vedic mantras, is sung.

They both result in a state of wellbeing of your physical, mental, and emotional bodies, although the Vedic style guides you deeper into your own devotion.

As Nina will explain, knowing how to access your palpable inner haven can soften anxiety and inspire feelings of confidence and calm you can carry throughout your day.

Sustained practice will help you deepen your devotion and cultivate a greater sense of surrender, patience, courage, generosity, clarity, and wisdom.

Chanting helps you develop a loving heart of kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity. As a form of prayer, mantras guide you to exercise your true free will, turning what can feel like helplessness into positive action.

With Nina’s guidance, you’ll experience for yourself the exhilarating truth that chanting is an expression of your own innate devotion.

About Your Teacher – Nina Rao

Nina Rao learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in South India when she was nine years old. Her childhood was spent living in and moving between many countries around the world. Prior to rediscovering chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996, she worked in banking before switching to organizing and leading photographic wildlife safaris in Africa and India. For many years, she has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanist as well as a chant leader in her own right.

Nina tours with Krishna Das, playing cymbals and singing with him. In 2007, she recorded the track “Nina Chalisa” on Krishna Das’ CD Flow of Grace: Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa. In January 2013, she released her debut album, Antarayaami: Knower of All Hearts, which includes a duet with Krishna Das. Later that year, she was honored to accompany him at the Grammy Awards webcast performance. Her second album, Anubhav, released in 2018, was entirely crowdfunded.

For over 20 years she has supported conservationists in preserving the sacred wilderness and forests of India via her charity, Saving Wild Tigers. Nina regularly leads kirtan, chanting in workshops, festivals, and retreats in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and beyond.

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Beloved seeker and chantress Nina Rao believes that we’re all longing for sanctuary, a place of refuge. This place, she says, lives within each of us, and we can access it through the daily discipline of a devotional chanting practice.

Just knowing that this sanctuary exists can soften anxiety and clear a more open path as you walk through life. And, when you enter this practice intentionally — day after day — the transformations become that much greater:

• The confidence and calm you find are the sanctuary, and become yours to carry through the day.
• The divine influence of this sacred place permeates your being.
• You trust that you will continue saying yes to life no matter what it delivers to your door.

During this free online spiritual healing class, Nina will share how traditional kirtan evolved in India — before it became known and practiced in the West for its psychological and emotional impacts.

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What You'll Learn During “Open the Door to Your Inner Sanctuary” With Nina Rao

• Be led in the chant Antaryaami: Knower of All Hearts, and experience its heart-opening qualities for yourself
• Take a virtual tour of sacred places in India to understand the roots of kirtan, how it evolved, and what the West has contributed to this sacred practice
• Discover how traditional chanting is folded into the celebration of Indian deities to evoke various aspects of our divinity within
• Be introduced to the mind-calming and heart-expanding benefits of a daily chanting practice — and receive guidance on creating and committing to one of your own

This is your opportunity to discover your inner sanctuary by answering the call to chant.

Nina will share how a daily practice of kirtan and prayer can help you discover whatever’s resonating in your heart.

Join her for this hour to experience for yourself the exhilarating truth that chanting is “love made visible” through song.

You’ll discover a loving, empowering place that already exists within you through the practice of devotional chanting…

An experience made richer as you learn about the roots and tradition of kirtan.

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About Your Kirtan Teacher – Nina Rao

Nina Rao learned traditional chants (bhajans) from her grandfather in a village in South India when she was nine years old. Her childhood was spent living in and moving between many countries around the world. Prior to rediscovering chanting with Krishna Das in New York in 1996, she worked in banking before switching to organizing and leading photographic wildlife safaris in Africa and India. For many years, she has been Krishna Das’ business manager and accompanist as well as a chant leader in her own right.

Nina tours with Krishna Das, playing cymbals and singing with him. In 2007, she recorded the track “Nina Chalisa” on Krishna Das’ CD Flow of Grace: Chanting the Hanuman Chalisa. In January 2013, she released her debut album, Antarayaami: Knower of All Hearts, which includes a duet with Krishna Das. Later that year, she was honored to accompany him at the Grammy Awards webcast performance. Her second album, Anubhav, released in 2018, was entirely crowdfunded.

For over 20 years she has supported conservationists in preserving the sacred wilderness and forests of India via her charity, Saving Wild Tigers. Nina regularly leads kirtan, chanting in Hanuman Chalisa workshops and retreats in her hometown of Brooklyn, New York, and beyond.

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The spiritual practice of bhakti enables us to face ourselves with courage while surrendering to the Divine. We’re able to expand our conscious awareness when we accept both the upside and the downside of our anger, grief, and shame, so we can transform it into compassion for ourselves and others.

Bhakti, perhaps the simplest and most powerful of the four classical schools of yoga, is the practice of selfless devotion and recognition of the Divine in everything. It requires little to no physical movement, just a loving and open heart, and is often accompanied by beautiful kirtan chanting, sacred music that celebrates our connection to God.

During this free online spiritual healing class, Jai Uttal, an internationally renowned kirtan sacred musician, will introduce you to bhakti and how it can help you uncover the place within where your true nature resides…

A place where you desire nothing because you are fully immersed in the present moment, and your heart, mind, and soul are filled with joy.

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What You'll Learn During This Free Virtual Kirtan & Bhakti Class

• How bhakti is a devotional practice, enabling you to nurture an exalted, heart-centered relationship with the Divine
• A practice that can help you release all your worries and concerns to the Divine, enhancing spiritual awareness and awakening compassion in your daily life
• The power of kirtan and devotional chanting
• The ways that practicing bhakti can remove stress and anxiety, replacing them with positivity, love, and awe
• How following the path of bhakti can enhance your soul connection and provide a respite in difficult times

Bhakti is all about surrendering your intellect and leading with your heart.

Jai will show you how bhakti, along with kirtan, India’s ancient call-and-response sacred chanting — and the most important technique in bhakti yoga…

Can eliminate our feeling of separateness and connect our hearts through song.

You’ll see how bhakti and kirtan together can help you invoke the energies of various deities through chanting…

And transform you into an instrument of grace, unconditional love, service, and gratitude, exalting you to a life of joyful celebration.

You’ll experience higher consciousness through the practice of sacred kirtan chants and bhakti…

As you devote yourself to the Divine and open yourself to more profound love, compassion, and connection to others.

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About Your Bhakti & Kirtan Teacher – Jai Uttal

Grammy-nominated Jai Uttal is a kirtan artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist. He is a pioneer in the world music community, influenced by both Indian music and American rock and jazz. Jai has been leading, teaching, and performing world music and kirtan — the ancient yoga of chanting or singing to God — around the world for close to 50 years, creating a safe environment for people to open their hearts and voices.

Growing up in New York City, he lived in a home filled with music. He began studying classical piano at the age of seven, and later learned to play old-time banjo, harmonica, and guitar. At age 17, he heard Indian music for the first time; two years later he moved to California and studied under the famous sarod player, Ali Akbar Khan. Jai later began taking regular pilgrimages to India, living among the wandering street musicians of Bengal, and singing with the kirtan wallahs in the temple of his guru, Neem Karoli Baba. He has released 20 highly acclaimed CDs, the latest being the double album, Roots, Rock, Rama!

Jai has emerged as a leading influence in the Western Bhakti movement. He considers Bhakti Yoga to be the core of his musical and spiritual life.

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