Winter Solstice Celebration of Light

Sunday,  December 19th

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

"There are two ways of spreading light: To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." Edith Wharton

Midwinter's day has been an important time for celebration throughout the ages. On this shortest day of the year, the sun is at its lowest and weakest, a pivot point from which the light will grow stronger and brighter. This is the turning point of the year.

Join PranaShanti Owner, Devinder Kaur, and friends from different spiritual and devotional paths for a Winter Solstice Celebration to welcome the light!

•Buddhist - Kelsang Rabjor, Joyful Land Buddhist Centre

•Christian - Father Jack Lau, Galilee Retreat Centre

•Aboriginal - Cindy Gaudet, Metis woman, Global Heartbeat

•Yogic/Sikh - Devinder Kaur, Yoga Teacher

Experience the healing qualities of meditation, prayer, blessing and song from these sacred and spritual traditions. Be surrounded by joy, peace and upliftment in the soothing and restful glow of candlelight.

Warming spiced mulled apple juice and a special Winter Solstice dessert buffet with decadent chocolate fountain, fresh fruit and holiday treats served afterwards.

Cost: $22 per person. Proceeds donated to the Food Bank.  Children's Winter Solstice Celebration with Jmaie Reardon occurs at the same time with a special program for ages 3 to 8.  $11.00 per child.

Everyone welcome! Bring a meditation cushion/pillow and show up early! Chair seating available. Please call ahead to reserve a chair, if needed. Yoga mats not required.

Sign Up Online or call PranaShanti at 613-761-9642 (YOGA) to reserve your space.

Let's celebrate this special time together in peace and understanding!

PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street
Ottawa, ON
K1Y 2V7
613-761-9642 (YOGA), http://www.pranashanti.com/

Kirtan with Bhava ~ Friday, December 17th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM at PranaShanti

Kirtan with Bhava

Friday, December 17th

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

BHAVA is Sanskrit for devotional state of mind; the mood of ecstasy and self-surrender that comes through the loving divine embrace!

Friends, family and all folks are welcome to come sing with us as we celebrate the Winter Solstice. There's room to dance and clap your hands! Snacks and tea for all.

Bhava is:
•Naomi Guzman Poole (voice)
•Elissar Hanna (voice & harmonium)
•Jeremy Sills (voice, crystal bowls & gong)
•Guy Tardif (voice)
•Stephane Laurence-Pressault (darbouka)

Cost:  A suggested donation of $11.00. No chanting or singing experience needed - just an openness to beautiful sounds. All ages welcome.

Location:
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street
Ottawa, ON
K1Y 2V7
613-761-9642 (YOGA), http://www.pranashanti.com/

Heart Sounds with Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga

Sunday November 7th, 2010
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Guided by Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga

Location: Bioenergetics Institute 36 Simcoe Street (Off of Lees Ave.)
RSVP : Anamda info@clubyoga.ca
613-228-9235

Donation: $8 – $15

The NEW MOON is with us this weekend, a magical time of new beginnings! We invite you to join us for "HEART SOUNDS NEW MOON" artistic jamming. Tune into the moment to express your creative self through movement, art, voice & instruments. In this place of meditation our hearts will whisper in our ears new beginnings, ideas, intentions and goals.

Jeremy Sills will guide the experience bringing his healing music, crystal bowls, drumming and harmonic overtoning to the evening. Anamda & Satkiana will use voice, harmonium, singing bowls and a special healing ceremony to support the evening.

Crystal Bowl and Planet Gong Concert with David Hickey Date: Sat 10/30/2010 at 8PM

Crystal Bowl and Planet Gong Concert
with David Hickey
Saturday, October 30, 2010

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Join David Hickey for an incredible evening. Crystal Journey, an improvised sound journey with Paiste Planetary Gongs, Crystal Bowls, Santoor and Vibraphone.

Two sets of incredible music that allows the listener to be fully immersed with their spirit.

A few words from David:
Based in Mount Hope, Ontario, I perform with Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls, 15-20 of them. Each produces a pure note or tone, the purest there is. You have to hear them to believe it. I play them in combination with a Vibraphone, Santoor and 8-18 Paiste Planet, Symphonic and Sound Creation Gongs. Every gong features a strong fundamental note tuned to represent a natural harmonic series based on the orbital properties of the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other planets. It's like having a full orchestra.

I have been touring Canada coast to coast for the past seven years and have performed over 700 shows, having released 7 CDs to date. I have played the Bowls and Gongs accompanied by various musicians as well as with the Winnipeg Chamber Orchestra in June of 2006.

Crystal Journey has dedicated its intention for the music to help raise awareness to our environment and such social causes as Tibet and Burma, raising funds for these and various other charities. Crystal Journey also works with cancer support groups such as Well Spring Calgary. As 2010 unfolds, I am looking forward to taking my music to ever increasing numbers creating conscious awareness across Canada and the Globe with a message of peace. By year's end, Crystal Journey will have performed over 150 concerts.

The intent of the performance is to create soothing, meditative and healing music. Each one of my performances is completely improvised, and unique. The music attracts a full range of listeners. My concerts are in two sets, each lasting an hour in length.

My musical inspirations are, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, John Lennon, George Harrison, Bob Marley, Miles Davis, and Frederick Chopin to name a few.

Cost:  $25.00 per person. Register early to ensure your space.

Location:
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street (near Parkdale Market)
Ottawa, ON, K1Y 2V7
613-761-9642 (YOGA), http://www.pranashanti.com/

Heart Sounds with Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga

Artistic Jamming to uplift the sacred within

Sunday October 24th, 2010
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Guided by Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga

Location: Bioenergetics Institute 36 Simcoe Street (Off of Lees Ave.)
RSVP : Anamda info@clubyoga.ca
613-228-9235

Donation: $8 – $15

We will be celebrating the harvest full moon, Aries/Libra this Sunday at Heart Sounds.

Have you noticed how all the squirrels have been scampering about as they store their harvest for the winter? Lets JAM together to release those sound vibrations that will help us stay warm and have all the necessities for the winter season. It is a time to begin that inward heart journey of reflection, to reflect on our accomplishments during this radiant year and to take time to rest and regenerate.

Jeremy Sills will guide the experience bringing his healing music, crystal bowls, drumming and harmonic overtoning to the evening. Anamda & Satkiana will use voice, harmonium, singing bowls and a special healing ceremony to support the evening.

www.clubyoga.ca
www.jeremysills.com

Divine Sound Weekend with Brenda McMorrow - Concert, Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 PM, Chant Workshop, Sunday, October 17th at 1:30 PM

Saturday, October 16th at 7:00 PM

Kirtan Concert with Brenda McMorrow and

Special Guest Errol Starr Francis

Kirtan – a practice of Bhakti Yoga (the Yoga of Devotion) - is a call and response form of singing which is expanding throughout North America as westerners discover its uplifting, healing and joyous effects.

Kirtan is easy to learn and participate in. The lead singer sings simple and beautiful melodies and the crowd responds either by memory or by using lyric sheets provided. Brenda explains, “Singing together– chanting the Divine names – encourages our hearts to open and the beauty of our true beings to shine!”

Canadian Devotional Chant artist, Brenda McMorrow, began her musical career in the early 1990’s as a singer/songwriter. She co-founded the London, Ontario folk/rock band Julia Propeller – a campus radio and CBC favourite – which opened for and shared festival rosters with acts like Ani Difranco and Bruce Cockburn.

Brenda’s rich musical exploration led her from folk to bluegrass to jazz and now - as meditation, yoga and expanding consciousness have become integral parts of her life – her true heart offering is to share her unique blend of original melodies, world beats and sacred Indian devotional chants.

To learn more about Brenda and her music visit Brenda McMorrow's Website.

Join Brenda and PranaShanti for this uplifting evening, tea and treats served after the concert!

Cost: $20 per person in advance; $25 per person day of the event.

Sunday, October 17th, 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM

"True Being Through Chanting”

A Chant Workshop with Brenda McMorrow

Join devotional chant artist Brenda McMorrow in this special workshop where we will explore the sacred sounds of ancient mantra and the joyous singing of kirtan (a practice of devotional or Bhakti Yoga). A special focus will be put on how this powerful practice serves to remind, awaken and enliven the truth of Who We Are!

Open to people interested in singing, meditation, yoga, sound healing and anyone wanting to try something heart-opening and new! No experience necessary!

To learn more about Brenda and her music visit Brenda McMorrow's Website.

Cost: $30 per person in advance; $35 per person day of the event.

Event Location and Contact Information:
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 2V7
613-761-9642 (YOGA), http://www.pranashanti.com/

Fall Equinox Full Harvest Moon Toning

Thursday September 23rd, 2010
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Guided by Jeremy Sills

Space for 33 Voices RSVP

Location: 383 Ravenhill Avenue in Westboro
RSVP: jeremy@jeremysills.com
Fee: Suggested Donation $11.00

Music Celebration with Lea Longo - Saturday, Sept. 18th, 7:00 PM at PranaShanti Yoga Centre

Music Celebration with Lea Longo

Saturday, September 18th at 7:00 PM

PranaShanti Yoga Centre

Awaken the fullness of your heart with this dynamic duo who passionately live their lives to the love of Kirtan and living that joy with others! Join Canadian Kirtan Chant Artist Lea with Rad for an amazing, heartfelt musical evening of call-response chanting of devotional mantras, a journey to invoke divine presence.

In celebration of their new CD, Peace Chants, Lea and Rad will embark you on a meditative path with Lea’s captivating vocals accompanied by Rad ‘s infectious guitar effects. Performing and sharing devotional Sanskrit and Gurmukhi Mantras, Lea’s voice has been described as “spiritually rewarding, soothing and mystifying".

This is an event not to miss!

About Lea and Rad:
Lea (Nam Jiwan Kaur) is a Kirtan chant artist, kundalini teacher and an award winning singer/songwriter with music featured in Numerous TV shows and movies as Cheaper by the Dozen, Dawson’s Creek, Party Of five, Summerland and more. Lea and Rad travel throughout Eastern Canada and US sharing the Bhakti Yoga & devotional song mantras.

Cost: $20.00 per person in advance. $25.00 per person day of.

Listen to Lea's music at http://www.lealongo.com/. 

Please join us for another great kirtan event in Ottawa!

Be well,
Devinder Kaur

PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 2V7
613-761-9642 (YOGA), http://www.pranashanti.com/

Thunder Full Moon Symphony of Sound ~ Johannes Welsch & Jeremy Sills

Saturday July 24th 2010 Dunrobin Sonic Gym

Doors Open @ 7pm

Register by phone 613.832.086 or email dunrobinsonicgym@gmail.com

Solar Eclipse Cancer New Moon Toning

many voices make light work

Sunday July 11th, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Guided by Jeremy Sills

Space for 33 Voices RSVP

Location: 383 Ravenhill Avenue in Westboro with A/C
RSVP: jeremy@sacredsound.ca
Fee: Suggested Donation $11.00

BLISSFUL KIRTAN ~ SUN 11 JULY

BLISSFUL KIRTAN

“He is the One God; the Creator, the Initiator, the Designer. To Him belong the most beautiful names. Glorifying Him is everything in the heavens and the earth. He is the Almighty, Most Wise.” [Qur'an 59:24]

Whether you conceive of the Divine with a form – be it male or female – or in a formless aspect, let us praise the One who dwells within as our very Self.

Come and nourish your Soul with the sacred manna of the many divine names!

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SUNDAY 11 JULY 2010

6 - 8:30 p.m.

SANTOSHA YOGA WESTBORO

346 Richmond Road, 2nd Floor

Ottawa (near Churchill Avenue)

http://www.santoshayoga.com/

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*** FREE ACTIVITY ***

Donations gratefully received to benefit community

service projects in South Africa

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BLISSFUL KIRTAN SCHEDULE (6:30 - 8 p.m.)

Sunday, JULY 25: Adi Shakti Yoga, Orleans (Guru Purnima: full moon gathering dedicated to all embodied and ascended masters/teachers/guides from every spiritual path)

Sunday, AUGUST 8: Santosha Yoga, Westboro

Sunday, AUGUST 29: Adi Shakti Yoga, Orleans

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 12: Santosha Yoga, Westboro

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 26: Windhorse Yoga, Westboro (tentative)

*** MARK THIS DATE ON YOUR CALENDARS ! ***

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 (6-10 p.m.)

ONE HEART-ONE LOVE Benefit Sankirtan

Location: The Chamber, Ben Franklin Place

home of the Centrepointe Theatre in Ottawa's west end

[special evening of multifaith devotional chanting and fundraising activities, in support of Sai Nilayam ashram's global volunteer service initiatives in South Africa]

FURTHER DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED

Kirtan with Bhava at PranaShanti - Friday July 9th, 7:00 PM

With a shared love of Devotional Yoga (Bhakti Yoga), Elissar, Naomi, Tanya, Guy, Arif and Stephane first came together in May 2010 to see what they could form with this love. Singing traditional chants together on Spring evenings and afternoons lit a warm and inviting flame, which grew into an evening of Kirtan at PranaShanti Yoga Centre.

Come join us for an evening of Kirtan with traditional Hindu and Sufi call and response.

BHAVA means sheer ecstasy, a condition caused when the heart is seized by the divine embrace. Bhava are students of Yoga, Ayurveda, Sufism, Shamanism, and of all of Life's Mysterious Instruments, whether musical or mystical!

Bhava will carry beautiful ancient songs, through their voices, sitar, harmonium and darbouka. Printed lyrics provided so everyone can follow along and join in with the melodies. All ages and muscial abilities are welcome!

The Bhava group members are:

• Arif Jinha: Sitar
• Stephane Laurence-Pressault: Darbouka
• Naomi Guzman-Poole: Shaker and Voice
• Tanya Nash: Voice
• Elissar Hanna: Voice and harmonium
• Guy Tardif: Voice

Cost: $15.00 per person. No chanting or singing experience needed - just an openness to beautiful sounds.

Date and Time:  Friday, July 9th, 7:00 PM

Location:

PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON
613-761-9642, http://www.pranashanti.com/

BLISSFUL KIRTAN Sun 27 June

BLISSFUL KIRTAN

Celebrate Unity in Diversity

Join us for another inspiring interfaith gathering, in loving remembrance of the One with many different names - Great Manitou, ParaBrahma, Jagadambe, Elohim, Allah, Ahura Mazda, etc. Devotional chanting is an easy practice centred in the Heart. Let the music, sacred chants and voices calm your mind and free it from the worries and anxieties of mundane affairs. Focus your thoughts on the Divinity that dwells within you as YOU, and experience your true nature. Realize the unifying principle inherent in every one and every thing in this phenomenal world.

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SUNDAY 27 JUNE 2010

6:30 - 8 p.m.

Windhorse Yoga studio

1338 1/2 Wellington St. W.

Ottawa (Westboro area)

http://www.windhorse-yoga.ca/

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*** FREE ACTIVITY ***

Voluntary donations to benefit Ottawa Riverkeeper

(http://ottawariverkeeper.ca)

Strawberry Full Moon Toning Eclipse Grand Cross

Friday June 25th, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Guided by Jeremy Sills

Space for 33 Voices RSVP
many voices make light work

Location: 383 Ravenhill Avenue in Westboro
RSVP: jeremy@sacredsound.ca
Fee: Suggested Donation $11.00

Double Gong New Moon Meditation - Sunday, June 13th, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Join Devinder Kaur and Guru Inder Kaur for a Double Gong experience.
Two Gongs played at the same time in harmony & rhythm!

"A new moon teaches gradualness and deliberation and how one gives birth to oneself slowly."  By Rumi

Every New Moon, we have the opportunity to manifest a new beginning and when we come together with such an intention our efforts are enhanced. This class will include a Meditation for Prosperity and a Double Gong relaxation/meditation - all in the energy of the New Moon.

What to bring: Yoga mat, blanket/shawl & show up early! Complimentary homemade organic cookies and a warming cup of Yogi Tea served after class.

No previous yoga or meditation experience necessary. Everyone welcome!

Cost: Use your PranaShanti Class Card or Drop In Fee ($7 for first visit, $14 regular).

Be well,
 
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON
http://www.pranashanti.com/
613-761-9642 (YOGA)

Heart Sounds with Club Yoga
Artistic Jamming to uplift the sacred within

Sunday June 13th, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Guided by Anamda & Satkiana

Location: Bioenergetics Institute 36 Simcoe Street
RSVP : Anamda info@clubyoga.ca
613-228-9235 Donation: $8 - $15

Dear Kirtaners,
Let your HEART bloom with the June flowers & RELEASE, RELAX & REGENERATE through the creative flow of "Heart Sounds" this Sunday, June 13th from 6:30- 8:00 p.m.

Anamda & Satkiana are guiding this Kirtan with healing sounds, crystal bowls, harmonium, healing Fire & Art. Together we will explore personal movement, creativity and our sacred center. You are welcome to bring an instrument and/or object to play during the art jamming. A selection of art supplies & acoustic instruments will be available to share.

Afterwards, we look forward to sharing this special evening's experience with you over some spiced Tea and yummy Ayurvedic snacks.

RSVP: Anamda - info@clubyoga.ca or 613-228-9235

June 13th Blissful Kirtan CANCELLED

Namaste

DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT THE June 13th Blissful Kirtan HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO WELCOMING YOU TO OUR NEXT SACRED CHANTING CIRCLE AT THE Windhorse Yoga studio ON Sunday, June 27th at 6:30 p.m.

PLEASE VERIFY THIS SITE FOR FURTHER DETAILS, TO APPEAR IN DUE COURSE.

Blessings of Peace, Joy, Love & Light to everyone!

Mirabai Ceiba In Concert - Sat. June 5th at 7:30 PM at PranaShanti Yoga Centre

This is a night you will not want to miss!

Mirabai Ceiba will be presenting songs from their new release “A Hundred Blessings.” Their artistry flows through this album on a wind of rich creativity, musical depth and sacred spirit. With a beautiful blend of mantras and songs, this album includes the prayers and mantras of Guru Nanak and Yogi Bhajan blended with the poetry of Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh and Mirabai Ceiba’s own gentle poems.

Mirabai Ceiba is a musical project created by Angelika Baumbach from Mexico (vocal and harp) and Markus Sieber from Germany (vocal and guitar). They perform a compilation of original songs in Spanish and English as well as chants from different traditions of the world and Gurmukhi Mantras. Their albums include “Flores”, “Mountain Sadhana”, “Ocean”, and their latest "A Hundred Blessings".

Snatam Kaur: "Mirabai Ceiba's latest release "Ocean" is a testament to the pure devotion they embody as musicians, chanting to God from their hearts..."

Deva Premal and Miten: "Mirabai Ceiba have created a beautiful, natural, warm album that we have found to be both inspirational and uplifting ... we look forward to seeing them in concert."

Cost: $25 per person in advance, $30 per person day of the event. Children under 12 free admittance.

To listen to Angelika and Markus' beautiful music please visit Mirabai Ceiba Website.

For a peek at what you will experience please watch Angelika and Markus in concert at Mirabai Ceiba Concert at Cardiff by the Sea, California.

Looking forward to seeing you for an evening of heavenly chants and songs!

Be well,

Devinder Kaur
PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON (near the Parkdale Market)
http://www.pranashanti.com/
613-761-9642 (YOGA)

BLISSFUL KIRTAN ~ SUN 23 MAY

BLISSFUL KIRTAN

Honour your Self! Celebrate your Self!

Since Sri Buddha Purnima will be celebrated on the Full Moon day this month (May 27th), we will pause to honour a great Soul whose life and teachings have been an inspiration and beacon of Divine Light for many weary pilgrims on the path to Self-realization.

Join us to praise the Divine,

in gratitude and surrender.

All voices & instruments are welcome! Song sheets and some percussion instruments are provided. Bring your own to enhance the sacred vibrations. No previous experience is required.

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SUNDAY May 23, 2010
6:30 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.
Santosha Yoga Westboro
346 Richmond Road, 2nd Floor
Ottawa (near Churchill Avenue)
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*** FREE ACTIVITY ***

Beautiful framed sacred images of deities and small

Buddha statues will be offered in exchange for

donations to benefit the Sai Nilayam Spiritual

Organization’s humanitarian service initiatives

in South Africa.

BUDDHAM SHARANAM GACCHAMI

Mirabai Ceiba - In Concert, Saturday, June 5th, 7:30 PM

Mirabai Ceiba In Concert!

This is a night you will not want to miss!

Mirabai Ceiba will be presenting songs from their new release “A Hundred Blessings.” Their artistry flows through this album on a wind of rich creativity, musical depth and sacred spirit. With a beautiful blend of mantras and songs, this album includes the prayers and mantras of Guru Nanak and Yogi Bhajan blended with the poetry of Rumi, Thich Nhat Hanh and Mirabai Ceiba’s own gentle poems.


Mirabai Ceiba is a musical project created by Angelika Baumbach from Mexico (vocal and harp) and Markus Sieber from Germany (vocal and guitar). They perform a compilation of original songs in Spanish and English as well as chants from different traditions of the world and Gurmukhi Mantras. Their albums include “Flores”, “Mountain Sadhana”, “Ocean”, and their latest "A Hundred Blessings".

Snatam Kaur: "Mirabai Ceiba's latest release "Ocean" is a testament to the pure devotion they embody as musicians, chanting to God from their hearts..."

Deva Premal and Miten: "Mirabai Ceiba have created a beautiful, natural, warm album that we have found to be both inspirational and uplifting ... we look forward to seeing them in concert."

Cost: $25 per person in advance, $30 per person day of the event. Children under 12 free admittance.


To listen to Angelika and Markus' beautiful music please visit the Mirabai Ceiba Website.


PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON
613-761-9642 (YOGA)
www.pranashanti.com
FREE Parking

Kirtan with Divya - Saturday, May 15th, 7:30 PM

Join Divya Prabha for a wonderful evening of Kirtan. Kirtan is a practice of Bhakti Yoga (the Yoga of Devotion) - is a call and response form of singing which is expanding throughout North America as westerners discover it’s uplifting, healing and joyous effects.

Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.

Divya was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1971 she underwent a life-altering spiritual awakening which caused her to leave her job at a local university and take up intensive study of Yoga and Yoga philosophy.

She has composed a wealth of chants that are sung around the world, and has made 5 CD's of Sanskrit chanting and one CD of original songs about the spiritual path.

Divya travels the world giving courses and concerts and satsangs, and resides with her husband, artist Michael Fernandes, at her home Shining Bay Retreat, a summer Yoga facility overlooking a quiet ocean cove in East Dover. When not traveling, she leads satsang and offers programs at her Retreat and elsewhere in Nova Scotia.

Cost: $15.00 per person.

Visit http://www.divya.net/ to listen to this most amazing music! 

PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, ON
http://www.pranashanti.com/
613-761-9642 (YOGA)

Mothers' Day Heart Sounds with Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga

Mothers' Day Heart Sounds with Jeremy Sills & Club Yoga
Artistic Jamming to uplift the sacred within

Sunday May 9th, 2010
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Guided by Jeremy Sills

Location: Bioenergetics Institute 36 Simcoe Street
RSVP : Anamda info@clubyoga.ca
613-228-9235
Donation: $8 - $15

Connecting to mother earth and our birth mother, through the water element, and tone, we sing appreciation from and to the womb of creation, the heartbeat of seven generations...... JAI MA !

Come experience Bhakti Yoga with a creative, intuitive approach, to invite the intuitive flow of voice, breath, music to co-create the oneness, silence in between the notes and sounds!

Jeremy Sills will be bringing his healing music, crystal bowls, drumming and harmonic overtoning to each evening, and ClubYoga's Anamda will contribute to the meditation with her voice, harmonium and singing bowls. The vibration of sound and color will bring us into perfect harmony as a group and allow individuals to express their own authentic voice from the heart, to restore the sound connection within our own consciousness.

We will co-create together with voice, instruments, art and movement to create a sacred space in the flow of the moment. Anyone is welcome to join with instruments, voice, dance, or art to create a space for healing and celebration! Bring your pastels, paints, watercolours and sketchbooks!

For more information about "Heart Sounds Kirtan" please contact Anamda at 613-228-9235 or email info@clubyoga.ca

Kirtan, Chant and Yoga at the Ottawa Sound Healing Conference

It all began with an OM...

Creation, as the story goes, was vibrated into being through sound. Every atom in our being continues to vibrate, singing the song of our karmas and dharmas. When in resonating with nature, our cells harmonize with the primal sounds of creation. The ancient mystics taught these sounds as mantras and prayers, and brought forth the movements and dances that opened our bodies to these vibrations, so that we can always return to our essential nature. From teacher to disciple, these movement and sound practices were shared, coming to form the practices we know as yoga and meditation. As these sounds where shared in community, music came to be, and the Love that was experienced came through as Kirtan.

The Ottawa Sound Healing Conference invites you to move and sound your heart open. For the Yogi in all of us, this weekend will feature the sonic practices of India.

Enter the Secret Chamber of the Heart through Sacred Sound and Kundalini yoga. Join mysticsJeremy Sills and Tanya Nash as they co-create a soundscape that will help your body mind and heart connect to this place far beyond and deep within. Together we will sit back and lay down, bathing in the healing frequencies of crystal and tibetan singing bowls, readying our bodies for a gentle kundalini yoga practice to root our heart in our body, and our body in the earth.

Kirtan recording artists, The Bhakti Connection, will share their divine bliss through songs of devotion from India and beyond. An established group since 2007, the collective strives to explore in depth both the traditional and more modernized world of Chanting and Devotional music – the result a blissful fusion of sound, voice, intricate and/or simple musical adaptations that are inspiring to the ear and heart; as well as alluring arrangements to unite the body, mind and spirit. Check out their myspace page to taste the sweet nectar of their divine harmonies which dance upon worldly instrumentation.

Goddess Vocal Circle - Invoking the Goddess through Sounds. The many aspects of the Goddess sing the song of the sacred Feminine within us all – an expression of life’s divine play of bountiful love and wild energy. In this sonic meditation, the creative energy of the group will tell the story of the Goddess, enchanting you into feeling your radiance and creative flow.

The circle begins with an opportunity to open the voice, releasing the tensions of the body and mind in a safe sacred space of sisterhood. In this state of openness, we invoke the Goddess energy with ancient sanskrit chants, then let our voices tell our stories and that of our archetypal sisters, carrying us through our journeys into unity and peace.

All lovers of the divine feminine, male and female, are welcome to hold space in silence or share their voice (no singing or musical experience necessary).

These amazing experiences are offered along side sound healing concerts and participatory workshops using contemporary sonic arts and other ancient sound traditions, including performances and workshops by David Hickey, Michael Moon, Barclay McMillan, Ann Marie Boudreau and many more.

Advanced tickets are available by contacting Tanya at sonicmystikama@gmail.com or Maike atsonicspiritottawa@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the Ottawa Sound Healing Conference website at: www.ottawasoundhealingconference.com

BLISSFUL KIRTAN ~ Sun 25 Apr

BLISSFUL KIRTAN

Honour your Self! Celebrate your Self!

Come sing your Heart open! Experience the inner peace and joy that are your true nature. Express your love, reverence and devotion for the Divine, whatever name or form you may wish to adopt to call on the One that is in All and Everything. All spiritual traditions are honoured in the sacred chanting circle. Realize the unity that lies beyond the diversity of the phenomenal world. We all smile in the same language! True masters proclaim that there is only one universal religion... the Religion of LOVE! Let us all endeavour to live it... in every moment.

No previous kirtan experience is necessary to participate. All voices and instruments are welcome to join other kindred Souls in creating healing sound vibrations.

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SUNDAY 25 April 2010

6:30 - 8 p.m.

Windhorse Yoga Studio

1338 1/2 Wellington Street W.

Ottawa (Westboro area)

http://www.windhorse-yoga.ca/

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* * * FREE ACTIVITY * * *

Loving donations to benefit Ottawa Riverkeeper

(http://ottawariverkeeper.ca)

FUTURE BLISSFUL KIRTANS:

Sunday, May 9: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, June 13: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, June 27: Windhorse Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, July 11: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, July 25: Adi Shakti Yoga (Orleans)

Sunday, August 29: Adi Shakti Yoga (Orleans)

http://www.santoshayoga.com/

http://www.windhorse-yoga.ca/

http://www.adishaktiyogacentre.com/

elemental awakening - classical kundalini yoga experiential workshop

Description:

Ritual, bandhas, breath, movement and sounds from classical kundalini yoga of the tantric tradition are interwoven to experience the five elements and embody the Goddess Shakti within. Taught in an intimate setting, please email Tanya to reserve your space at embodyyoga@gmail.com Suggested donation $11-$33.

Presenter

This experiential workshop will be taught by Tanya Madhavi Nash. For Tanya, Yoga is a life of Sadhana – living each moment with conscious awareness. The movements, breath, mantras and stillness on the yoga mat are the practices that cultivate this awareness; bringing harmony to life off the mat. Tanya shares these teachings around the world through her work as a teacher, healer and volunteer in Canada, the United States, Europe and India.

Current Schedule

Saturday, April 17th

12:00pm - 2:00pm

60 McLeod, Ottawa, Ontario

Registration

Taught in an intimate setting, please email Tanya at embodyyoga@gmail.com to save your space. A suggested offering of $11-$33 is welcome.

PranaShanti - Live Music in Yoga Classes with Girish - April 23rd and 24th

Girish is a cutting edge Sanskrit chant and kirtan singer, will be performing live at PranaShanti Yoga Centre in Ottawa, April 23-25, 2010, to celebrate his new release Diamonds in the Sun.

Girish will be performing solo in Maria Figueroa’s class on Friday April 23 at 7:30pm, and in Jennifer Stackhouse’s class on Saturday April 24 at 1pm. Live music and yoga classes are a magical experience with Girish singing powerful Sanskrit chants set to his original modern melodies, allowing for a deeper yoga experience.

Saturday, April 24 at 7:30pm, Girish will be performing with his talented and eclectic band for an evening of inspired kirtan. You’ll find yourself singing, dancing, moving and grooving as you join the band in ecstatic chant.

Sunday, April 25 at 3pm, Girish will be offering a three hour chant workshop for those who would like a more intimate experience with Sanskrit chants, hymns, and Bhakti Yoga.

Live Music in Yoga Classes - It's a magical experience!

• Friday April 23, 7:30pm, Yoga with Maria Figueroa, Live Music with Girish
• Saturday April 24, 1pm, Yoga with Jennifer Stackhouse, Live Music with Girish

PranaShanti Yoga Centre
52 Armstrong Street
Ottawa, ON, K1Y 2V7
www.pranashanti.com
613-761-9642 (YOGA)

Ottawa Sound Healing Conference - EARLY BIRD TICKETS until THURSDAY APRIL 15th!

A very special gathering of sonic co-creation and community. For tickets and more information, please contact Tanya at sonicmystikama@gmail.com.

workshops, leading edge speakers, sound journeys, concerts, kirtan,

sound yoga, soulful musicians, african drumming, dancing,

music therapy, meditation and a variety of vendors and instruments

featuring:
David Hickey of Crystal Journey, Jeremy Sills, The Bhakti Connection, Melinda Urban, Theda Phoenix, Pamela Holm, Dan Mauro, Gary Baker, Ann-Marie Boudreau and many more!!!

Pure Art Foundation Presents an Earth Day Celebration with David Hickey

Pure Art Foundation is proud to announce a benefit concert with special guest, David Hickey. Experience the uniquely pure and powerful acoustic instrumentation of Crystal Journey on Earth Day, Thursday, April 22, 2010 at the Colisée Kirkland (Cineplex) at 7:30 pm.
The cost of the ticket is $20 and all proceeds will go the Pure Art Foundation CAST (Construct a Structure Today) program, providing shelter for the homeless of Peru. Read more

You can purchase your tickets on line

If you prefer to speak with a Pure Art member, or need more info, please call our toll free number 1-866-567-HEAL(4325) Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

Experience the healing power of music that connects humanity on a quest to alleviate poverty and make our planet a better place.

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS

Visit Crystal Journey's Website

Directions to the Colisee Kirkland (Cineplex)

~ The 5 elements in sound & movement ~ with Jeremy Sills

Workshop 2010: Crystal Bowls with Jeremy Sills (guest) Location: Elgin Street Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Cost: $20 per person (plus GST) ~ The 5 elements in sound & movement ~ Crystal & Tibetan Singing Bowls, Drum, and Voice Beginning in stillness, in silence, introducing the bowls, and inviting the impulse of slow slow slow, breath.....as chimes, and drumming, and melody, we begin to call the soul into carnation....ether, air, fire, water, and earth.....to invite the whole Self into the present moment...giving voice to each element....moving deeper and deeper into the body....sounding the frequencies of the chakras....we then begin to sound our way around the room, with subtle, and gross movements, on the floor, on all fours, standing, swaying, dancing to the Muse, and freeing the creative artist within each of us...

Chakra Crystal Bowl Meditations with Jeremy Sills

III ~ The Solar Plexus Chakra Crystal Bowl Meditation with Jeremy Sills April 15th Thursday 7:00 – 9:00pm Pre-registration required $20.00 – seating 15 Location: Serendipity Books & Gifts 1337B Wellington St. West

VIII ~ The 8th Chakra Crystal Bowl Meditation with Jeremy Sills April 19th Monday 7:00 – 9:00pm Pre-registration required $20.00 – seating 15 Location: Serendipity Books & Gifts 1337B Wellington St. West

Aries New Moon Toning

Aries New Moon Toning
many voices make light work

Tuesday April 13th, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Guided by Jeremy Sills

Space for 33 Voices RSVP

Location: 383 Ravenhill Avenue in Westboro
RSVP: jeremy@sacredsound.ca
Fee: Suggested Donation $11.00

next FULL MOON Toning - Tuesday April 27th 2010

COMING SUNDAY APRIL 11: SACRED SOUND AND CRYSTAL BOWLS WITH JEREMY SILLS

To launch our Spring Healing Series, the mystical voice and musical talents of Jeremy will integrate with crystal bowls to provide an experience in healing music and sound. Following the service, a 2 hour introductory workshop in sound healing will be held to show how the application of sound and music works within the framework of health and well being. It is an opportunity to discover how sound and music directly affect us, on every level, and to begin to consciously select what we allow into our lives in the form of sound and music.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW

Date: Sunday April 11th 2010 10:30am Service ~ 12:30pm Workshop
Location: 312 Parkdale Avenue North (Parkdale & Spencer) OttawaON
Unity Ottawa Centre: 613-723-5852 E-mail: officeunityottawa@yahoo.ca

For more information about our courses, programs and activities, visit our website at http://www.unityottawa.org/

In gratitude and service,

UnityChurch of Ottawa

BLISSFUL KIRTAN ~ SUN 11 APR

BLISSFUL KIRTAN

Honour your Self! Celebrate your Self!

You are cordially invited to join us in the inner exploration of the creative power of sound and vibration. Every vowel and every consonant in the sacred chants, as well as the tone and rhythm of the music has its effect upon the mind and body. As they become "refined" by this simple practice, the Self reaches a higher state of perfection and is led to a subtler, divine world of sound and "be"ing where a type of ecstasy can be experienced, a Bliss of happiness and inner peace, which is the Soul's true nature and everyone's birthright.

All voices and instruments are welcome, and no previous kirtan experience is necessary to participate. HARI OM!

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SUNDAY 11 APRIL 2010

6:30 - 8 p.m.

Santosha Yoga Westboro

346 Richmond Road, 2nd Floor

Ottawa (near Churchill Ave.)

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*** FREE ACTIVITY ***

Charitable donations gratefully received to

benefit a non-profit organization

Future BLISSFUL KIRTANS
(time: 6:30 - 8 p.m., unless otherwise specified)

Sunday, April 25: Windhorse Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, May 9: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, June 13: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, June 27: Windhorse Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, July 11: Santosha Yoga (Westboro)

Sunday, July 25: Adi Shakti Yoga (Orleans)

Sunday, August 29: Adi Shakti Yoga (Orleans)

http://www.windhorse-yoga.com/

http://www.santoshayoga.com/

http://www.adishaktiyogacentre.com/