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Chanting is the yoga of devotion, or Bhakti yoga. There is a conscious intention to open the heart with the love of Spirit. Devotion is a path of immense joy. My Anusara yoga philosophy teacher Douglas Brooks would say that the goal of yoga is to experience the beauty of embodiment. The goal and the practice are inseparable. The practice of kirtan creates a direct experience of incredible beauty, praising the creator of the beauty.

The chants, the mantras, we sing are praising the names of ancient deities. It is said that chanting these names evokes the qualities of the names themselves. People have been chanting these names for thousands of years.

Gathering in a sacred sound circle is like stepping into a river that's been flowing forever; we get taken along in the current. The practice leads to change, a heightened awareness of love, which can be either rapid or gradual.

The chants we know are in Sanskrit. The Sanskrit language is incredibly old and is made up of sounds that are considered to be sacred, primal sounds of the universe. The sounds themselves can have an energetic impact on the physical and spiritual levels. One of the functions of Sanskrit is to focus pranic energy, the central life energy that many people know as "chi" in the Chinese tradition. This approach to the spiritual sound of the mantras themselves joins with the beauty of the melodies and power of the rhythms.

Coming together, we experience sacred song as a unique and powerful expression of Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion.

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