MONTREAL KIRTAN Practice through Healing Chanting Mantras and Meditation

Sharing the love of Kirtan – meditation chanting for everyone!

Sometimes life will lead you in many directions, the expected and the unexpected.

If you would have told me 10 years ago, that I would be chanting mantras and singing devotional songs and and practicing mantra meditation through chanting sacred texts, I would have looked at you awkwardly …

In fact, many people are still quite new to the practice…

I love the look in people’s eyes when it is their “1^st time”.

I can just feel their anxiousness or curiosity. The state of bliss through using sound and chanting sounded a little woo-woo at first, but after 10 minutes or so, something starts shifting…

I will explain the process a bit at the beginning of our session, and then I just close my eyes and wish for the participants’ best experience….and mine.

And then, I just Chant…and they follow … (Thank God !)

My India Discoveries

My first experience was when I visited India, in 2006. I, like many folks, was not familiar to the idea of a “chanting” meditation… gee, it was so hard for me to just sit there and meditate, now you want me to sing too?

I am a singer, and have been all my life. From singing jazz, pop, country, but I never thought I’d be singing mantras.

In fact, this is not singing, like singing perfectly crafted notes and perfect breathing techniques with vibrato etc…. this is freedom from all that.

Nada

I had to take everything I had learnt from my voice practice and music theory knowledge, and throw it out the window….it doesn’t work here….no place for the ego.

There is no place for the “performance factor”, this is pure divine connection.

Here we open our hearts and experience full-on mindfulness with music. This makes the whole experience even better; a musical meditation.

Here, in this “chanting” meditation class, we close our eyes and just open our hearts and voices… that’s it.

So even is this is your first time , you will love it, cause it helps everyone who is open and willing to try to go deeper within themselves…and connect .