Recorded April 2023: This is a one-hour conversation and practice session hosted by Stephen Dinan of Shift Network with Nina Rao. Nina has been studying Veda chanting with her teacher from the Mysore lineage for a couple of years, as she continues to lead the singing of kirtan as a
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The Goddess Experience
During this 20-week program, Acharya Shunya weaves together inspiring, authoritative goddess stories with immersive practices (including mantra chanting and meditations) to evoke the energy of each goddess from within you. Taking the teaching one step further, Shunya links the goddesses to our individual chakras, creating an embodied and systematic pathway to transformation.
Read MoreRam Dass's Yoga of Heartfulness
In this four-week course, Ram Dass' Yoga of Heartfulness, you will learn how to integrate wisdom from Bhakti, secular, and inter-spiritual traditions into your daily life as an antidote to division, polarity, and tension.
You will follow in Ram Dass' footsteps by learning how to revive your heart and, in the process, help to germinate goodness in the hearts of others. Not in a "phony holy” or “spiritual bypassing” way, but by authentically embracing your humanity while simultaneously tapping into the abiding space of loving awareness that is your true nature.
Read MoreFinding Harmony In Today's World
This 6-week course weaves timeless teachings with present-day introspection and provides context for walking confidently through a rapidly evolving world. We are thrilled to announce the release of the re-mastered original footage from Naropa in an updated 6-week virtual course: Finding Harmony in Today's World: Ram Dass on the Mystical Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
Read MoreSacred Traditional Mantra & Chant Practices to Find Your Way Home to Your Heart
Sacred Traditional Mantra & Chant Practices to Find Your Way Home to Your Heart
We will talk about chanting as a personal practice and actually practice together, kirtan, japa, prayers to the goddess, the vedic form of Gāyatrī mantra, chants to Mother Earth.
Read MoreChanting Hanuman Chalisas with Lyrics (free video for practice with music)
Enjoy this recording of live group chanting of Hanuman Chalisas at Bhaktifest in Joshua Tree, California. It's been a tradition for many years now for us to get together for an hour and immerse in this powerful devotional prayer. In this video are three different melodies: Ocean of Ram Hanuman Chalisa & Nina Hanuman Chalisa from my album 'Antarayaami-Knower of All Hearts" and Ramaya Hanuman Chalisa which will be released on my second album in spring 2018. We have included a very simple English transliteration of the words to help pronounce the words along with the video to be helpful for those who wish to learn this prayer. Without using diacritical marks it is hard to represent all the Indian sounds accurately, but it's a start.
Read MoreCultivating Wise Hope
Cultivating Wise Hope is a 16 hour virtual retreat experience that explores hope, compassion and resilience through the lens of a diverse lineup of Bhakti, Buddhist, Christian and Sikh visionaries and teachers. This digital download features a wide spectrum of Dharma talks, meditation, storytelling, music and Q&A sessions.
Read MoreLearning The Hanuman Chalisa on Insight Timer
We will journey together through this 40-verse hymn, the Hanuman Chalisa, a devotional prayer that is chanted widely throughout India and around the world. A version of this chant 'Nina Hanuman Chalisa' is available for free listening here on Insight Timer. In the sacred text of Ramayana or Ramacharitmanasa, Hanuman is revered as the perfect devotee of the divine presence in the form Sri Ram, and an embodiment of intelligence, wisdom, compassion, courage, and surrender. While we invoke his qualities in this prayer, we remind ourselves that each of us is a reflection of Hanuman and can find these same qualities of perfection in our own hearts.
Read MoreFlow of Grace Immersion
Flow of Grace Immersion with Krishna Das and Nina Rao - Meditation, Chanting & Story-Telling for Entering Into the Presence of the Powerful, Compassionate Being Known as Hanuman. Whether you are new to chanting, or have been doing the practice for a while, this 12+ hour self-paced course gives us a chance to immerse together in heart-opening practices invoking Hanuman. We will go over the text, pronunciation, and meaning of Hanumat Stavan and the Hanuman Chalisa and go deeper with readings from the Sundarakand (the ‘beautiful’ section of the Ramacharitmanasa) and KD’s book, Flow of Grace. We will spend time discussing how Hanuman lives in our every-day lives, as well as our relationship to practice and the Guru.
Read MoreWisdom Rising: Mandala of the Five Wisdom Dakinis & Goddess Traditions of India and Tibet
Experience transformation through the power of chanting to the goddess in her many forms and through meditation on the maṇḍala—a universal map for inner and outer balance, wholeness, and practical awakening. Chandra and Nina share a deep interest in the complementary wisdom and devotional traditions of Tibet and India honoring the divine feminine. They will weave together mystical stories, visualizations, meditations, mantra repetition, and singing chants.