KIRTAN w/ Jaya Madhava Das (Govinda Sky) & Haridas Sahaja (aka Alex Flores)
A Donation-Based Community Event
Saturday, August 15th @ 7:30pm in the Loft at Revolution Community Yoga in Acton, MA
Pre-registration is FREE
A donation basket for the group will be available at the event – any size donation is greatly appreciated!
Join Jaya Madhava Das for an evening of Kirtan at Revolution Community Yoga!
Jaya Madhava Das (aka James Cennamo) has been involved with Kirtan since 1993. In 2006, he founded Govinda Sky, a transcendental music group that has played at various studios around New England. You can stream Govinda Sky’s music at https://open.spotify.com/artist/3m79Ep5wDe6x9mZMHDodfW?si=-UZzWAJXRX2UyfwBCNztxg.
Kirtan is a call-and-response form of chanting mainly composed of Sanskrit mantras. When chanting these mantras, we call out to the Divine. Mantra is a Sanskrit word composed of two sounds: “man” means mind, and “tra” means to cross over or protect. Kirtan means “to speak of” or “to mention”.
The world is sound. All that is manifest proceeds from sound and continues to pulsate as sound vibration.
There are no hard and fast rules for chanting! If you feel like chanting, go ahead. If not, enjoy the chanting. This is community chanting, an opportunity to be together in community and have fun.
Haridas Sahaja (aka Alex Flores) is a lover of the all things yoga — on and off the mat. They are a 500 RYT yoga instructor in the Greater Boston area who specializes in Hatha, Restorative, Yin, Pranayama, and Meditation practices. In addition, Haridas facilitates bhajan (devotional chanting) circles in Stow, MA, and separately supports the incredible work of Govinda Sky.
Formed in the bhakti path (path of love and devotion), Haridas brings a deep connection to the Divine and sees engaging with song as a means of cultivating and expressing that depth. In addition, Haridas is a trained musician and brings their enjoyment of voice and instrumentation to his song practices.