Join Jaya Madhava Das (aka James Cennamo) at Dóchas House of Yoga for an evening of live music, ecstatic chants, and community! Join us to experience the depth of the yoga practice through chanting!

Kirtan comes from the Bhakti tradition of yoga: a lineage of devotion, sound, and song, rather than physical postures (asana). Kirtan is a call and response form of chanting mainly compromised of Sanskrit mantras. When chanting these mantas, we call out to the Divine. Mantra is a Sanskrit word composed of two sounds: “man” means mind and “tra” means to cross over or protect. Kirtan means “to speak of” or “to mention”. The world is sound.

All that is manifest proceeds from sound and continues to pulsate at sound vibration. There are no hard and fast rules for chanting! If you feel like chanting, go ahead, and if not, enjoy the chanting. This is community chanting, and an opportunity to be open together in community in a sacred space.