I first met sacred music artist Ambika more than 20 years ago in a dive bar in New York City’s East Village. She was standing in front of her band at the mic, singing in a hypnotic Siouxsie Sioux kind of way, clad in black PVC clothing, driving the audience wild. Finding Devotion in India [...]
Professional Travelers and Mantra Artists Deva Premal and Miten Share their Secrets Mantra artists Deva Premal and Miten have been traveling the world for more than 27 years living life on and off the stage. As professional travelers, they’ve had to develop some routines and rituals to maintain their health and vitality. Between mantra repetitions, [...]
Infinite Energy by DTO (Buddha Music Group) will inspire you to boogie, breathe, and awaken your yearning to travel the world. Yet with this album, you won’t have to leave your home or yoga class, because the soundscape is a fusion of world languages and electronic dance beats with classical piano, cello, violin, sax, flutes, [...]
Ram Dass helps people to Be Here Now Ram Dass is a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words “Be Here Now” ever since the seminal book was published in 1971. His spirit has been a guiding light for three generations. Ram Dass' words have carried millions on their spiritual journeys. [...]
This is the movie that the kirtan and sacred communities have been waiting to see. The title of this feature-length documentary is both evocative and accurate. It describes the relationship between sacred sound and song and what it actually cultivates in our lives—the all-encompassing state of silence and eternal bliss. Filmmaker Georgia Wyss traveled the [...]
Hold onto your seats. Because this memoir by Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass, is a “Pow Pow Pow Pow Experience.” It will grab you, spin you, and pull you up and down until it lands you into your center of gravity. Anne Clendening is a yoga teacher and creative nonfiction writer living [...]
In celebration of Earth Day, Boulder-based White Swan Records has curated an inspirational scared music sacred music playlist for their Spotify channel, featuring some of the greatest artists in the devotional music world. Its 19 songs offer affirmative expressions about our interconnectedness with nature and Mother Earth and the practice of nonviolence and humane [...]
Universal Mother by Martina Hoffmann Visionary artist Martina Hoffmann describes her paintings and sculptures as “subtle reflections on the nature of women in a realistic style that marries the fantastic to the sacred.” Her art creates a visual language that reflects universal consciousness. “My work is an attempt to portray consciousness and love [...]
Lives Well Lived Filmmaker Sky Bergman and her inspirational Grandmother What is a life well lived? It is worth paying attention when the answers to this question are given by spirited, content, senior citizens. In the documentary film Lives Well Lived, Celebrating the Secrets, Wit & Wisdom of Age, first-time director Sky Bergman [...]
Hang around any ashram or yoga studio for 10 minutes and you’ll meet someone whose quest was sparked by Autobiography of a Yogi, the stranger-than-fiction account of how the Indian lad Mukunda became Paramahansa Yogananda — meeting possibly immortal Himalayan adepts, witnessing feats of superconsciousness, and attaining the light of Self-realization. The Life of Yogananda [...]