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𝗞𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰: Music that knows it's way home. Enjoy this powerful heart-opening Kirtan at Dharti Mata Centre in Nanaimo with Special guest James Hamilton, Sitar. Stay for Chai and relax with friends. We offer call & response chanting from diverse devotional traditions. No experience needed. Bring your energy and enthusiasm: dance, sing, or just rest your heart a while. You are very welcome!
𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟳: 2:30 - 4:30
𝗗𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 2021 Brothers Rd, Nanaimo, BC, (S. Wellington).
🏳️🌈 All Welcome. No significant singing ability needed. The chants are easy to learn.
𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Donate at the door or send etransfer to: [email protected]
Suggested Donation $10-25. No one turned away for lack of funds. Your donations are an offering to support the spirit of Kirtan.
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗼 𝟮:𝟯𝟬-𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗽𝗺 Every Third Sunday.
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𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗦
Arie and Karen formed LOVE'S TRIANGLE in 2019 and we are ecstatic to be able to offer live kirtan.
🎸 Karen Allen: began her Om Chanti Kirtan offering in 2014 at Harmony Yoga in Duncan and has led and hosted kirtan events with several valley musicians including the Kirtanigans as well as presenting kirtan at the 39 Days of July Music Festival. She has studied kirtan and tantra with Gina Sala and has been a member of the Bhakti Breakfast Club and is a student with Musora. She plays guitar, autoharp, frame drum and Himalayan bowls.
🎹 Arie Vander Reyden: Long time Bhakti Yoga, Arie sings, chants dances, and plays harmonium, and drum in kirtan celebrations. He loves to present authentic, inspiring original songs and chants. Sharing, teaching, motivating and celebrating is his passion since he first discovered yoga. During the last 40 years he has done so on four continents in largely varying cultures.
⏳ Jennifer Shepherd: Jennifer adds much desired percussion and drum to our mix! Jennifer enjoys playing hand percussion in community circles, including Kirtan. She learned Guinean djembe rhythms with Catherine Veilleux and Dartagnan Camara and Japanese taiko with Oto-wa Taiko.
⭐James Hamilton: James Hamilton has spent over thirty- five years studying the music of South Asia including fourteen years while living in India.
He studied privately with renowned musicians and musicologists including Radhika Mohan Maitra and Ms Kalyani Roy.
He has completed an MA in Sitar from Rabindra Bharati University in Calcutta and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Queen's University of Belfast. His thesis,
“Sitar Music in Calcutta", was published by the University of Calgary Press and also in India.
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Love's Triangle offers authentic call and response chanting from diverse devotional traditions every second Sunday in Duncan and every third Sunday in Nanaimo. The chants are easy to learn. For many, the practice has a powerful heart-opening effect and it is best understood through direct experience. Bring your energy and enthusiasm, dance, sing, or just rest your heart a while. All is welcome. Attendance is by Drop-in. Kirtan is offered as part of the Bhakti (devotional) yoga tradition and most participants sit on pillows on the floor. There will be chairs available.
𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁: [email protected]
Learn more about Love's Triangle here: https://linktr.ee/LovesTriangle108
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🦚 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 (𝗞.𝗜.𝗦.𝗦.) for more kirtan and sound events on Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/kirtanisland
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Silent Motion Yoga, 2021 Brothers Rd, Nanaimo District, BC V9X 1R8, Canada,Nanaimo, British Columbia
