Name: Kirtan with Ann Arbor Kirtan
Start: 2026-06-19T19:00:00-04:00
Location: The Prana Yoga Studio

One of the oldest sacred music traditions of the world, kirtan call-and-response chanting comes to us from India. Kirtan involves satsang, a Sanskrit term meaning where people gather together as a community to remember, to turn inward and to help each other find our own inner path. Kirtan is called yogic chanting and yoga means union. Kirtan uses a combination of sound, vibration, melody, harmony, and Sanskrit mantras to lead us into meditation: a state of unity and inner connection with ourselves, our community and more expanded states of consciousness. The chanting is quieting, meditative, and at the same time moving and exhilarating. Although the language of kirtan is Sanskrit, the true language of kirtan is universal, because it is a language of the heart. Kirtan is part mantra and nada yoga (yoga of vibratory frequency and sound) and bhakti yoga (yoga of devotion and the heart).