Krishna Das – Enter Into Your Heart Space Through Devotional Chanting
Bring chanting into your daily spiritual practice to calm your mind, relax your body — and awaken to your essence of unconditional love.
In an 8-week online course, Krishna Das, Western chant master whose music is known for lifting the heart to new levels of love, will take you on an incredible journey to explore the opportunity within the great crisis we face.
Using his own powerful life stories, lessons from his Guru and teachers, timeless spiritual philosophies, mantras, and chanting practices…
… Krishna Das will share how to gather strength so that no matter what happens in the outside world, you’ll be able to access that place of peace and inner connection within.
This allows you to engage with the world in a way that creates less suffering for yourself and others.
And as you’ll discover, everything you think of yourself, your life, and your world can transform — all by changing what you believe within yourself.
Difficult situations become less painful as you are no longer victimized by your own knee-jerk reactions.
The Power of Devotional Chanting
Devotional chanting, practiced in a wide range of wisdom traditions, has been used for centuries as a way to train people to find a deeper presence in their own hearts.
Chanting helps you stay focused… using the mantra as the object of awareness.
It coaches you to exercise your letting-go muscle — and develop the fortitude to release negative thoughts and emotions, the stories you believe about yourself, and anything else that takes you away… as each moment comes and goes.
What you think of yourself, your life, your work, your community, and our world can change — not by altering external circumstances you can’t control, but by transforming your thought patterns.
And when you do that, big and small challenges become less painful because you’re not as emotionally invested in them.
Even during unexpected, massive global crisis, you CAN find your inner peace — with the help of a spiritual practice.
What you’ll Learn In Enter Into Your Heart Space Through Devotional Chanting
In this online course with worldwide icon Krishna Das, you’ll discover:
- Powerful guided practices, including chanting, awareness of breath, repetition of the name with breath (japa), the Loving-Kindness (metta) meditation, and many heart-opening chants
- How to release your thoughts — and let go of the stories you believe about yourself and your life
- Respite from your overactive mind and anxiety around the global pandemic — and a much-needed reset
- How cultivating your spiritual practice can help you move through times of crisis
- Practices to help you let go of negative emotions, calm your monkey mind, and release yourself from everything else that takes you away from where you are right now
- How families, teachers, and cultures affect the way you think about yourself — and keep you caught in a worldview that doesn’t include Real Love and Real Happiness
- The power of getting accustomed to just being here, sitting with yourself
- Krishna Das’ experience in India that saved him — and showed him it was OK for him to be alive, and that maybe everything was going to be OK
- His Guru’s teachings on how to find God by serving others
- The 4 Immeasurable Qualities: Equanimity, Loving-Kindness, Compassion, and Sympathetic Joy
- How your spiritual practices can empower you to return again to the space within yourself where true love and joy live
What You’ll Discover in These 6 Pre-Recorded Sessions
- Module 1: Meeting the Spiritual Path
- Module 2: A Life-Changing Meeting With Ram Dass
- Module 3: Going to India & the Power of Devotion
- Module 4: Refuge & Shelter in the Heart
- Module 5: Kindness, Compassion & Grace
- Module 6: Pujas, Prayers & Practice
About Krishna Das
Layering traditional kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, Krishna Das — known to friends, family, and fans as simply KD — has taken call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the bestselling Western chant artist of all time. His album Live Ananda (released January 2012) was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age album category.
KD spent the late ’60s traveling across the country as a student of Ram Dass. In August 1970, he finally made the journey to India, which led him to Ram Dass’ own beloved guru, Neem Karoli Baba, known to devotees as Maharaj-ji. Given the name Krishna Das, KD began to chant as part of following the path of Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion.
He took solace in music, finding peace and strength in both his Bhakti yoga practice as well as in such heroes as Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, and Bruce Springsteen (whom he laughingly calls “the Bodhisattva of New Jersey”). KD also co-founded Triloka Records, a California-based label specializing in world music, releasing such artists as Jai Uttal, sarod virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan, and legendary jazz musician/composer Jackie McLean.
In 1994, KD started to lead chanting at Jivamukti Yoga Center, NYC, with an ever-growing audience of yoga students that has led him to chant with people all around the world. In February 2013, Krishna Das performed at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles, which was streamed online to millions of viewers. The award-winning film One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das, which has been shown in over 100 U.S. cities and in more than 10 countries, is available on DVD everywhere.
KD’s 16th album, Peace of My Heart, released in October 2018 on behalf of the Kirtan Wallah Foundation, offers nearly two hours of deeply moving, meditative, and artfully restrained new recordings born out of a request from a yoga teacher who works with children on the autism spectrum. Forgoing the ecstatic tempo changes so common to temple-style kirtan, these five new tracks move slowly and deliberately. The song-to-song steadiness is both striking and soothing, and as emotionally impactful as ever.
“The chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it,” KD promises. “That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff.’ You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.”
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