Meditative Yoga Music CDs Relaxing Kirtan Chanting

MONTREAL KIRTAN : A meditation Practice through Healing Chanting Mantras

Sharing  the love of Kirtan, a meditation practice 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 and singing devotional mantras and practicing mantra meditation through chanting sacred texts, I would have looked at you awkwardly …

 In fact, myself like many others, 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. I will explain a bit, then I just close my eyes and wish for their best experience….and mine.

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

 My first experience was when I visited India 6 years ago. 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.

I had to take everything I had learnt from my voice practice and music 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, in this “chanting” meditation class, we close our eyes and just open our hearts and voices… that’s it. 

                                   Join us every 1st and 3rd Friday Monthly!

    Now of course, there’s a deeper science behind all this: with the technology of the Naad and the meanings behind the texts and the power of the vibration that are embedded in every syllable and pronunciation.

I teach this in my YOGA VOICE workshops, but experiencing a kirtan is not a workshop class. This is a form of yoga, a meditation class…

Kirtan is for all who wish to connect within, without having to think too much about it, or at all…. It’s about the heart aspect.

I hope you will come experience your bliss with me ! 

                                                "Feel the Bliss!"

Namaste

Lea Longo (Organizer and Leader Montreal Kirtan Community and 1st Annual Kirtan Festival)

 www.montrealkirtan.com    See Complete Kirtan schedule 

About Lea : www.lealongo.com

 

 

Music Mantra Meditation-Montreal Kirtan with Lea

RAISE YOUR ALPHA WAVES ! ...and de-stress from the day with this easy meditation technique : "call and response chanting"  called Kirtan!  (Naada Yoga)

 

What's a Kirtan? 

Kirtan is an ancient practise of Yoga Chanting and practised in many forms of Yoga :

1- Bhakti Yoga- the "yoga of devotion" where the names of "Gods" are repeated over and over to enter a state of bliss....  

2- Naada Yoga- a yoga of sound where we use different "mantras" which are sacred texts repeated over and over to attain bliss.... It is a "union through sound", an ancient spiritual art and science of inner transformation through sound and tone. Meditation on sound is one universal path to Self Realization, accessible to anyone, and appropriate for people of any religion or spiritual aspiration.

Alpha Waves is that state of mind where meditation is present and this is often very difficult to attain in silent meditation. I have tried. I have a hard time myself...By using (Kirtan)- this chanting meditation, our mind easily enters this Blissful state through repetition of the mantras...and we feel the benefits almost immediately after a Kirtan... 

Dare to try?   Come join us ... this Friday at Sivananda Yoga -Feb 17-  TIME : 8PM

please RSVP at  www.montrealkirtan.com

 

Montreal Yoga Festival, Kirtan Music and More Yoga !

                      KIRTAN AND YOGA FESTIVALS COMES TO MONTREAL !!!

Exciting News !  Montreal will be  Rockin This Summer with Yoga Festivals !!

I am so excited to be part of the 1st Annual Montreal Yoga Music Festival and the Yocomo (stands for Yoga Community of Montreal) Festival to perform kirtan. My musicians and I are getting ready to rock out with new chants and music... It will be awesome - WE Can't Wait to share with you!!! What a Blessing!

Both festivals will be held in the Summer months, June 8-9-10 is Yocomo and July 14-15 is the Yoga Music festival ... Wow, what a thrill!

I feel so blessed and happy to see that the Montreal Yoga and Kirtan scene is gonna Rock this Summer !!!

Will you join me ? More details will be available soon...

PLEASE Join the Montreal Yoga Music Festival FACEBOOK PAGE by "Liking " and Share to help spread the word about this wonderful Yoga of Sound!

 

The Official Montreal "Kirtan " Festival website is:      www.montrealyogamusicfestival.com

 

VOLUNTEERS :

The festival is looking for Volunteers, You can go to the website above and just email your name and phone number with your interest..:)

You can also help by just sharing the news and or "liking" the MONTREAL YOGA MUSIC FB page... every little bit HELPS!

I am so excited ! Thank you Montreal Kirtan Peeps...

With Much Love and Gratitude,

Lea  

( Montreal Kirtan Group Leader /organizer)

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Here is the INFO again :

www.montrealyogamusicfestival.com     (JULY 14-15)

www.yocomo.org   (JUNE 8-9-10)

 

"The attitude of gratitude is the highest yoga" - YOGI BHAJAN