Testimonials

“As a leader, I found Marla to be warm and welcoming and very knowledgeable. The chanting sessions made me feel peaceful and uplifted at the same time. I felt a sense of oneness with everyone there.” - Participant in July 2023

✨Sarah L. yoga instructor, therapist, Reiki master teacher 

As a yoga instructor and healer, I truly feel that sound, and mantra are two of the most powerful ways to burn karma, become fully present in the here and now, and step into our soul’s expression.

Dare to connect with your deepest self, heal old wounds and help heal the collective? Then attend a kirtan chanting session with Marla. It’s equivalent to years of therapy or sessions of energy healing.

Britt Dolan, Owner of Bee Grateful Wellness

The kirtan event at Bee Grateful Wellness and Movement Studio on Maha Sivaratri was truly divine. The event was well planned, flawlessly executed and imbued with spiritual beauty. Marla and Megan’s transformative presence and the sacred atmosphere they created made it an unforgettable experience, perfectly aligned with the essence of Maha Sivaratri. Highly recommend for anyone seeking a soulful journey.

Participant

My experience.

I had the wonderful opportunity to chant under Marla's guidance and found the experience to be very soul satisfying. Marla guided the experience by bringing us into the chanting world. She described the instruments she was using and explained the chanting process so that I was very comfortable in following her lead. She is a true guide, giving us space to open up to have our own experiences.

I have had the opportunity to chant in a variety of groups in many different settings with a wide variety of chant leaders. My chanting journey has taken me to indigenous tribes and to India where I had the experience of chanting with several Indian groups. Although the chanting that I have participated in has been very powerful, my experience with Marla was a much more personal and powerful experience. The group she led was small and she took the extra time to introduce us to chanting and to make sure that we were comfortable. Her chanting for me was a unique experience that combined a variety of energetic paths ranging from feelings of deep relaxation to feelings of exhilaration and devotion. Her measured pace gave me a sense of balance and led to my smoothly flowing into the experience.

Chanting with Marla was a most memorable experience and I am looking forward to my next opportunity!

  • The power of sound, the power of music, the power of vowels, and the power of speech are the great creative forces of the universe: as custodians of these, human being possess tremendous spiritual power. For centuries, mystical scriptures and teachers of the East have taught mantra as a means for harnessing this power. - Thomas Ashley-Farrand

  • Chanting with you was joyful.

    S.S., Kirtan participant

  • “There are two aspects of individual harmony: the harmony between body and soul, and the harmony between individuals. All the tragedy in the world, in the individual and in the multitude, comes from lack of harmony. And harmony is the best given by producing harmony in one's own life. ”

    ― Hazrat Inayat Khan

  • Sounds are vibrations. They give rise to definite forms. Each sound produces a form in the indivisible world, and combinations of sound create complicated shapes. Repetition of a Mantra has a mysterious power of bringing about the manifestation of the Divinity, just as the splitting of an atom manifests the tremendous forces latent in it.
    - Swami Sivananda