Cultivate a personal chanting practice with simple, easy steps.
Kirtan and devotional chant are a wonderful way to enrich your life with the yoga of sound, soothe your nervous system and bring joy and bliss into every day! Beginning is simple when you approach the practice by connecting with the sound current and relaxing into your authentic voice!
Free your expression with your Voice!
Your voice & a harmonium are all you need! Not sure how to find a harmonium? Get in touch with Kavita for reputable places to buy one. Then, with this simple-to-follow course in your toolbag learn how to make a steady tone on the instrument, relax into singing along and most importantly find where your voice is the most comfortable to begin creating and learning simple chants for Kirtan.
Where other courses simply have you copy songs, Kavita encourages us to find a home hand position where can begin to play and chant on our own from a place of "least effort', step by step.
Course consists of Part One & Part Two & will cover:
- History of the Harmonium - where it comes from and the culture around it
- Parts of the Harmonium, what are they and how do they work
- Etiquette and cultural customs around the practice of chanting with harmonium
- How to create and maintain a steady tone, the "drone" with your purmping hand
- Proper ergonomics for playing
- Listen, listen, listen to connect with the drone
- Singing into the tone and finding your home note (SA)
- A basic introduction to Indian Sargam
- Different hand positions for different voices
- Morning practice
- OM
- Two simple chants to Ganesha using different patterns
- A simple chant to Durga Ma
- Om Shanti Chant
- Lokah Samastah Sukinoh Bhavantu chant
AND More tips for how to play and sink into your own practice with harmonium & voice.
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1Introduction to Harmonium & Chanting "Finding Voice" with Kavita Kat Macmillan