Through her encouragement and guidance I began to share Kirtan, Bhakti practice, chanting and sound yoga and began to offer these practices to others to support them in finding their own voice and path of creative expression.  This work is tremendously rewarding.  It is a joy to witness people as they step into their voice and I do my best to make my work accessible to all.

 

I am grateful as this path fuels my own own healing and has allowed me to cultivate a Bhakti yoga community here in Portland, Oregon and online.  In 2021, with the support of the wider yoga & music community I was able mix and master my 1st album "The Beloved Lives Inside." with Grammy award winner and multi-instrumentalist Hans Christian.   It has been five years since that release and am incredibly touched by the feedback I receive from people who reach out to let me know the music brings them joy. 

Now, as we move through these incredibly challenging times I am called once again take a leap of faith and finish the new recordings I have so that I can share them with wider world.

I have been working on 6-7 new tracks, for the past few years in between teaching, offering Kirtans and hosting retreats.   I do all the work up to this point myself, recording, editing, plus tracking and paying the instrumentalists who play on the songs. 

As I move into the mixing and mastering process of this new album  I am asking for your support in order to enlist the help of the professional that can take this music to the next level.  

By donating you can make this possible!  I am offering various incentives and would love it if one of those appeals to you and helps you to give more. There are fun options like a digital songbook, learn a song with me sessions or even a dinner-party kirtan for you and friends.

 

Anything you can offer is appreciated and will go towards these songs being  professionally mixed and mastered in the best way by someone who understands the world of Bhakti music and is also is giving me a great deal for their time and expertise.  

These are my words... In this time of Automation I will continue to write and create songs from my own heart and mind and ask that the gifts and guidance from my teachers and Guru come through so that what I offer will be of service to all beings.  It is by the grace of my Guru Sri Baba Neem Karoli that I continue on this path of devotion. 

Jai Gurudev!  Jai Hanuman! Jai Ma! Om Namah Shivaya!

Tracks in the words for the new album : 

~ "This is Love" - Om Namo Narayanaya

~ "Shivoham" - The Atma Shatakam, a 6 sloka song to Shiva with my English verses added 

~ "Radha Madhava" - My version of the much-loved bhajan to Radha / Krishna

~ "Sri Krishna" - The Pancha Tattva and Maha Mantra sung to Krishna

~ "Ya Devi" - A shortened version of the Devi Stuti

~ "She Knows" - A new original song to Ma Durga

~ "Guru Kripa Hanuman Chalisa" - a re-mixed and mastered version of my new Hanuman Chalisa

I will continue to post updates about the progress of these tracks and would love to hear your comments and learn more about how this practice shows up in your life!

Thank you all for your presence and support on this path.

I'll end this with lyrics of the title track "This is Love", always a reminder for me that each day, each breath is an opportunity for me to deepen in my practice and offer Love to all beings through my words, deeds and actions.

Breathing in the day… breathing out the night

 

Navigate my way… through the dark and the LIGHT

 

Each day a step, a breath, a chance, an opportunity to find…

 

Connection through the HEART to the ONE letting go of Mind.

 

This… This is LOVE.  This… Life is LOVE.

 

OM Namo Narayanaya Om Namo Narayanaya

 

And I know when I’m alone I am the closest I get to true…

 

Present moment awareness, my soul shining through… and reminding me that

 

This… This is LOVE.  This… Life is LOVE.

 

Sleeping and Waking and praying and making love.. Digging and diving and yearning and thriving and…

Growing and knowing and watching and showing and … wandering and weeping and learning and seeking and…this... this is love.  This... life is love.

Om Namo Narayanaya