Workshops

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Kirtan Community Class

Seva is an essential component of a living yoga. Hold a kirtan event and take donations for your favorite charity. Invite others to bring their own instruments and lead a chant themselves. Have a donation basket for the chant leader.

Kirtan Chant Event

Kirtan is a traditional Indian call-and-response, participatory singing practice. In my style, we integrate listening exercises, mantra repetition, song, and silence to understand the energy behind the sound. Studios may showcase this class as an expansion of the definition of yoga, highlighting bhakti, the devotional nature of chanting. Thematically kirtans can be focused on one energy like Siva, Ganesha, Krsna, Devi or peace mantras.

Sanskrit Workshop

Learn the alphabet, correct mouth positions to pronounce with precision and magnify and intensify your chanting practice. Learn the mantra purusha practice to bring the Sanskrit sounds into your own body with a somatic exercise. Sanskrit is a body based language. Participants may also enjoy learning how to correctly pronounce the cakras. Include this workshop as your studio’s Sanskrit requirement for a Yoga Alliance TTC.

Nada Yoga Workshop

Experience your voice, creating sound, and listening in a whole new way. Our voice is a way that we create in the world. It’s a way that we express and experience our own identity. Nada is the sound current that lives inside of us as a part of the universal sound current of life or of the divine. When we link listening, the universal sound current, and our own voice, we have a deep experience of harmony. And when that all stops, we have a unique experience of silence. This is something you must experience to understand.

Mantra Yoga workshop

Entrain the body and mind for peace through practice. The gentle and consistent repetition of the mantra can release old mental patterns. We teach Sanskrit mantras that you can use for a daily chanting practice called Japa. This is a great workshop for those who want to learn proper Sanskrit pronunciation, learn a skill to train the mind, and even include the proper tones to include an instrument in your mantra yoga practice.

Mantra & Nada Yoga Teacher Training

Studios: do you currently have a yoga teacher training program at your studio? Would you like Sanskrit to be a part of your program. Differentiate your program from others with an authentic perspective. Teach your teachers to respect the Indian culture through a deep dive into Sanskrit with the online 101 course and have Marla teach a workshop for your group.

Musicians: Interested in Indian music? Take the online Nada 101 and have Marla teach an in-person module where we can go through scales on your harmonium, learn an Indian song, or the recitation of an ancient Vedic mantra.

Yoga Teachers: 200 and 500 hour Nada and Mantra Yoga teacher training is available virtually with a local study group. Learn new skills in the online course and get feedback from Marla to complete your contact hours. Learn harmonium, raga-based kirtan, Sanskirt, empathetic listening & nada successfully from a traditional perspective.

Why Sanskrit?

Introduction to Marla, Chant Leader

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