Tinku (Sanjay Kumar Mahato) talks about Kiirtan and Covid- Tinku is my friend and has been my research partner since 1997 in India. I stay with his family whenever I go there to research kiirtan together. Today he talks about how it is believed that kiirtan can bring rain, cleanse the environment and heal heart and mind.  The recorded sound is not good but I think you will get the good vibes if you listen to it and I try to give a few summaries. Click below (at 2;47) in this video you can see the landscape around Tinkus village. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BKkV6-Y3xk

50/365 Kiirtan Rhythms and Ecstatic Dance In this podcast I talk about the amazing khol drum rhythms and sounds in Rarhi Kiirtan. How this musical goldmine gave me the material and inspiration to  prove absolutely that kiirtan is a music genre in its own right with its own central corpus of compositions/composers/and a very unique infrastructure. Click Below to see the most amazing Rarhi kiirtan group perform, a very  senior kiirtan team, recorded during the Rarhi Kiirtan Competition that Sanjay Mahato and I organised from 2016-18.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TPdZOCa_4E&t=136s

Today I talk briefly about kiirtan literature - how incredibly subtle and sensual it is at the same time as you can hear in the Gitagovinda by Jayadeva for example, (11th century), how it reflects the potential within each of us to experience infinite love for the divine. Click below to listen to a song I write in this bhava or 'mood', called 'I Kiss Your Fingers' on Longing album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhR_SEDBThI&t=605s 

In this interview I talk to Amitabha (Erik Azzopardi) as we prepare to teach the Kiirtan Course together. We have been friends since 2004 when we both arrived in London. Now we are embarking on a new venture, one we are very excited abou. oClick Below to LIsten to' Mermaid', a song on UNity Hours II album, with Amitabha playing a beautful piano part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUIwDMoCGg

the Mermaid Kiirtan is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDMmamKgD60    

Kiirtan Dance is not as common in the west as it is in the East. But how many of us have fallen in love watching someone dance...how important is it to be able to be in the Flow and feeling Bliss. Click the link to see Rarhi Kiirtan -   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJvLcXs7yh8   

Today I interview Christina Tourin, Celtic Harp player, composer and leader of the International Harp Therapy Programme.  We talk about her vision and how she started manifesting it firstly in one small city in Vermont, then watching it grow exponentially year after year to become the most successful harp Therapy programme in the world.  WE also talk about her experience playing on the album Touched by The Sea together in Vermont. Expand the Dialogue Box and click the link to hear Tina and I play together. Thanks  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p0zCPy5nxE

What Qualification do I think I have to be giving this Kiirtan Course?. Today I share an experience I had with my guru and the events in my life that happened after that. To hear the music click on the link below. It's of a friend, Dharma singing 'You are Mine' in Portuguese, but its really about sharing the spiritual journey with others and meaningful collaborations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr3WFtCuqus

I am excited and can't wait for it to begin. I am so looking forward to sharing with you my research and experience, so am launching my Online Kiirtan Course, Transform Your Kiirtan- Transform Your life..in a few days..  Are you Ready? Will you Come? I am definitely going to be there :)  Expan he dialogue box to click the link below on the Shiva Gajan festival - rare footage of a Tantric Devotional Ceremony of Rarh, dedicated to Shiva. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXw8YKMpUp0&t=78s