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Nina Rao performed two deeply rooted sets at the festival. On Saturday afternoon she and her band led a beautiful kirtan of her classic chants as well as a couple of newer ones. And as she has for many years at the festival, on Sunday morning she led the early morning practitioners in a session of chanting the Hanuman Chalisa, a 40 verse prayer to the immortal servant of Sri Rama, Lord Hanuman.
Read MoreIn a world that asks so many of us to keep carrying more than the heart was meant to carry alone, Navaratri becomes a return. For a few sacred days, you do not have to keep pushing forward. You are invited to sit closer to the Divine Mother and remember another rhythm of being. Each morning, Acharya Shunya will guide a 30-minute live transmission of mantra, stillness, and direct insight into the Goddess of the day.
Durga will steady you. Lakshmi will soften and restore you. Saraswati will clear the mind and bring you back to wisdom. This is a daily return to the Divine Feminine within you: not as an idea, but as shelter, strength, and living grace.
Read MoreMantra can be encountered through the precision of Vedic chanting and through the musical, participatory current of kīrtan. What remains constant—and what changes—across these two approaches?
Join Nina Rao and Shantala Sriramaiah for a thoughtful exploration of sound, lineage, pronunciation, devotion and shared practice.
Where Love Meets Awareness at the Intersection of Bhakti & Buddhism is a course from the Love Serve Remember Foundation comprised of recordings from the Ram Dass Legacy 2026 Summer Mountain Retreat.
Read MoreIn this intimate offering, Nina explores the Hindu Goddess tradition and share practices to connect with the Feminine aspects of the Divine, while also honoring the interplay of both Feminine and Masculine energies in her own path.
Read MoreOver ten days, we gathered with teachers including Jack Kornfield, Lama Tsultrim Allione, Gaylon Ferguson, Nina Rao, Benjy Wertheimer, and many others to explore the great wisdom traditions and the single mountain they all point toward. Whether you joined us live a few weeks ago or are discovering it for the first time, all sessions are now permanently available for the duration of your membership.
“Even though, ultimately, there is merger and union and One and the eternal presence and God is formless and all of that, the methods of climbing the mountain are many.” – Ram Dass
Read MoreWhat if the Sacred Feminine is not something to learn about, but someone to feel, hear, and recognize within all beings and all things?
She appears across cultures and traditions, in nature and in the unseen, in the mystics of old and the lived experience of your own body. She is vast, and the only true doorway to her is your own direct experience: the way she meets you uniquely.
Join kirtan leader Nina Rao and interspiritual guide Mirabai Starr for a rich, experiential journey into the Sacred Feminine. Through devotional singing, mystical teachings, storytelling, and contemplative practice, we will explore the many forms of the Divine Feminine as she appears in chant, in story, in nature, and within our own lives.
Read MoreNāda for Healing explores how sacred sound can support emotional balance, neurological healing and spiritual growth.
Guided by Dr Shubham and Smt Nina Rao, the series offers a practical doorway into healing with sound through nāda, mantra and rāga. Rooted in the classical teachings of Āyurveda, Gāndharva Veda and living devotional paramparā. it introduces nāda cikitsā, saṅgīta cikitsā and rāga cikitsā in a grounded, experiential way, with applications in daily life, clinical support and contemplative practice.
Read MoreThis hybrid audiobook & course features 24 of the most compelling Passages featuring Sita from the epic Rāmāyana. Here we bring these Passages into the light with narrations by master storytellers, and then weave them together with radiant commentary by 12 women wisdom leaders. Join us on the journey into the nature of Sita…
Read MoreRecorded 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
Read MoreIn 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 MoreThis 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
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 MoreEnjoy 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 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 MoreWe 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 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 MoreExperience 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.
This is an experiential program in chanting the names of the Divine from the Indian tradition. Chanting of these Names creates a devotional space for your hearts to open into.
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