Meditation doesn’t come easy for many people. And that’s where kirtan – and ancient participatory music experience – offers another method. Without the work of mentally quieting the mind, kirtan can carry us effortlessly to a place of quiet, to stillness. One of the oldest sacred music traditions of the word, the kirtan call-and-response chanting genre comes to us from India. Using ancient Sanskrit mantras, the kirtan calls upon sacred energies which serve to quiet the mind, remove obstacles, an …

We get together to create a healing atmosphere through call and response singing. "Kirtan, or yogic chanting is a “call and response” format of chanting - a type of yoga in itself and has many of the mind-calming benefits of a yoga class or sitting meditation. Kirtans were originally written in Sanskrit, the ancient Indian language. The Sanskrit alphabet has a strong energetic and vibrational component—it is said that the words, when chanted, create a powerful vibration in the body, affecting a …