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