kirtan
sing, chant, celebrate
2nd Sundays 6PM-8PM
Join us on the second Sunday of each month to sing, chant and celebrate life and love! Satsang is keeping good, like-minded company, and kirtan is just one form of Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion. Practicing call-and-response singing and chanting age-old mantras helps open our hearts and connect us to source, the One who orchestrates All. Together you can sing, dance or just listen to the deep well carved out by joining your voices together with millions of others in this heart-opening practice.
Many special musicians share their musical talents including Lisa Mae leading with her heart and harmonium, Molly Padulo on her 100-year-old violin, the divine Lolo Woods with her otherworldly voice and harmonium, Tasha Danner with her angel-sweet voice and harmonium, Monicka Koneski keeping the beat on djembe, Diana Hulet lending responses and deep, rich harmonies, as well as many special and top-secret guests.
Families with children are always welcome to join in. Sing, listen, and dive in deep! By the way, can we interest you in homemade cookies, too? Because if the love isn’t enough, there is always baked goods… These evenings are held by donation to our Soul Project- needy peeps in our community and beyond, receiving every dollar and drop of your groovy love and soul. Sweet!
kirtan events
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Kirtan with Sita
Saturday June 27th from 7:30-9:30pm
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Please join us in welcoming this beautiful kirtan wallah as she sings sweetly from the heart. Sita has been chanting for many many years and brings her delightfully deep voice to the hallowed walls of The Bhaktishop this summer, all for you! Visit her website, www.sitschants.com, to hear clips of her music and read more about her. We are excited to welcome her to our kirtan family!
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Love Serve and Remember: A Ram Dass Satsang and Benefit
Friday, July 10th 7:30-9:30, by donation
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Please join The Bhaktishop family and some special friends and guests for an evening of deep listening and honoring Ram Dass and his lifelong dedication to teaching and sharing many forms of yoga. We will gather and listen to a remarkable set of vinyl recordings of a live radio program from 1969 featuring phone calls, stories of the Ramayana, and Ram Dass at his unscripted best. We will sit together in meditation, and share some kirtan singing as well. Treats will definitely be offered! Please come share this special event with us. All proceeds go to the Love Serve and Remember Foundation, helping to continue the teachings of Ram Dass.
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Summer Love Kirtan with Lolo Woods
Friday July 24th from 8-10pm, $12
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Sing your hearts out, call on the warrior within, and celebrate community spirit with our dear Lolo Woods. Her stories, amazing voice, and chant-happy soul helps remind us all to expand into freedom!. Chant and be HAPPY!
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Sean Johnson and The Wild Lotus Band RETURN!!
CD Release Party Friday September 18th, 8-10pm
$15
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Join us and stay tuned for the release of the band’s new CD! We are excited to host our spicy New Orleans kirtan friends in our funky pink castle of chanting love. Come one and all!
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David Newman (Durga Das)
Monday October 5th, 7:30-9:30pm
$15
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Join us as we welcome for the first time the wonderful David Newman, also known as Durga Das, to The Bhaktishop! David will be joined by devotional singer and percussionist Mira, and their CD’s include Lotus Feet, Into the Bliss (CD/DVD), Leap of Grace and Soul Freedom. The newest CD, LovePeaceChant, is wonderful! We would love to chant with you and your family (kids are always free) on this sweet evening, so please save the date. Check out David here or at www.davidnewmanmusic.com.
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Join us for Yoga at the Bhaktishop!
at the corner of
SE Division St
Portland OR 97202
call (503)244-0108
or email us
weloveyou@thebhaktishop.com
New Donation Flow Class!
Beginning June 2nd, we bring you another totally donation based vinyasa class! Tuesdays from 7-8pm, join The Bhaktishop family for an hour of sweet flowing vinyasa yoga at the Opening Flow 1 level, for as much $ as you’d care to donate. Awesome!
Independence Day Yoga with Lisa Mae and Diana
Saturday, July 4th, 9am and 11am
Yes, we are closed for the1pm class, for BBQ's and other fun in the sun on July 4th, but if you are in town and want to enjoy your practice before the frisbee and picnics and stuff, get in here for the regularly scheduled 9am and 11am classes on Saturday for a liberation celebration with Lisa Mae and Diana!!
Sunset yoga in Piccolo Park
Get your yoga on with us outdoors! Join Monicka and Tally at their regular class times (7-8pm on Monday July 6th and August 3rd, and Wednesday July 22nd and August 19th) for some beautiful yoga fun in the sunset hours of lovely Piccolo Park (SE 27th Ave just off Division). Bring a mat or a towel and meet us at the Eastern side of the park for a blissful hour of pure yoga joy!
Guru Purnima Practice 7/7, 4am
That’s right, people, we start at 4am as the sun comes up over our beautiful lives. Celebrate all teachers, gurus, and gifts everywhere through yoga. Held open-practice style, you can come in anytime from 4-6am, throw down your own practice in offering to your teachers, and bring something for the altar. By donation.
Love Serve Remember: A Ram Dass Benefit and Satsang
Friday July 10th, 7:30-9:30pm, by donation
We will gather and listen to a remarkable set of vinyl recordings of a live radio program from 1969 featuring phone calls, stories of the Ramayana, and Ram Dass at his unscripted best. We will sit together in meditation, and share some kirtan singing as well. Treats will definitely be offered! Please come share this special event with us. All proceeds go to the Love Serve and Remember Foundation, helping to continue the teachings of Ram Dass.
Yoga For Cyclists with Tasha
Saturday July 18th, 3-5pm
Learn some focused yoga sequences specific to biking and have some fun while you stretch out your stiff legs, hips and backs from riding. Also learn breath techniques to keep you focused on the trail or road… All levels of yogis and riders welcome!
Summer Love Kirtan with Lolo Woods
Friday July 24th, 8-10pm
Sing your hearts out, call on the warrior within, and celebrate community spirit with our dear Lolo Woods. Her stories, amazing voice, and chant-happy soul helps remind us all to expand into freedom!. Chant and be HAPPY!
Flight School! Arm Balancing with Heidi
Sunday July 26th, 4-6pm
Ready to find out the secrets to flight? Struggling with hand and arm balances, or ready to get “off the wall” in handstand? Check out this uplifting workshop with Heidi, understanding your own flying up powers hidden within uddiyana bandha, your breath, and the lightness of your spirit. Be FREE!
Moving From Within: A dance class series for Everyone! With Monicka
Saturday June 6, August 8, and Sept. 12 from 3-5pm $15
An experiential journey into the depths of your creative moving self. Turn your attention to the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and spirit, and begin to open the doors of your expressive souls by utilizing such inspirational tools as sequencing, improvisation, composition, asana, writing, drawing, sound, contact, etc. This is a class for anyone!
The Om Cycle: Awakening Radiance with Diana
A New Moon Practice Each Month, , 6-7:30am
Monday June 22nd, Tuesday July 21st and Thursday August 20th.
Join Diana in a series of practices organized around the new moons of 2009. Use your practice as a way of creating a ritual around the truth that all things begin, continue, and end in an unending cycle of change and transformation, like the Om cycle itself. Cultivate sacredness, radiance and appreciation for your own totally human cycle through song and movement in the body temple! All levels welcome, class cards or drop-in.
Hi-Five! $5 classes on the 5th
In our never-ending quest to keep it cheap, we bring you this—starting with the upcoming Cinco de Mayo, and continuing until it rains money from the sky, we will be serving you up $5 yoga classes all day on the 5th of every month! Mark the hi-fives on your calendar, and come on in!
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