Kirtan Leader Blog

In 2007 I was extremely fortunate to stumble across the lineage of Sri Kaleshwar. Before he left his body in 2012 I was able to experience his presence in person both in Laytonville, CA and during four programs held in Penukonda In...

THE REAL SECRET TO TAKING YOUR LIFE TO THE NEXT LEVEL

I remember when Abraham Hicks and the Power of Attraction arrived on the scene in the 1990’s. These teachings were later popularized in the movie The Secret. Looking back it’s ...

I have been collecting blog post ideas for several  years and am grateful I’m starting to have time to write and share them. Stay tuned!

How can we be in relationship with the practice of Kirtan?

I see six ways. If you identify o...

Click HERE, HERE and HERE to check out Kirtan Leader Institute teacher and percussionist Ken Matarazzo teaching our Level 1 and 2 students.

Ken teaches simple and fun elements of the Hand Dance Method (created by master hand drumm...

I’m always delighted when Issa Noor comes to Boulder to teach and play in our Kirtan Leader trainings. We have a great ongoing conversation going about music, life and what it means to be alive at this moment in time.

Check out th...

Holy smokes, my old friend and tabla wizard Jim Feist is just crushing it on this video. 

Jim is hilarious, and an incredible tabla-ist and tabla teacher. I am grateful for all I learned playing regularly with Jim from 2007-15.

I love working with my voice teacher. In private lessons we spend about 80-90% of our time in loops of practice, observing (listening, sensing, feeling, watching) and feedback. Frequently she demonstrates what she is trying to elic...

The great Indian Saint Shirdi Sai Baba always said, “Shradda and Saburi.” This was interpreted to mean, “faith and patience.” My guru, Swami Kaleshwar interpreted this as “practice and patience.” To me, this means that in order to ...

What is learning? Much of our culture commonly defines learning as what I call “information flinging”. The teacher flings information at the students. If they can fling it back learning is declared to have happened.

Somatics offer...