Kirtan & Sacred Sound Practices
Heidi Champney
In the COVID era, singing in a group indoors is considered high-risk activity. Because of this, I am not currently offering either Sacred Sound or Kirtan at Open Sky Studio. I do offer a modified version of Sacred Sound Practice outdoors year-round. I may also offer outdoor Kirtan in the warmer months. For more information, please contact me at [email protected].
SACRED SOUND PRACTICES
These simple, delightful Sacred Sound Practices cultivate the listening ear, the sensing body, and a free, flexible, and expressive voice.
Through these practices, we access the power of the singing voice and find an oasis of inner calm amidst the chaos of a shifting world. We engage with the sound current to energize prayerful intention for healing and wellbeing for ourselves, our loved ones, our adversaries, our communities, and our world.
Each session includes three types of practice: vocal attunement (a guided meditation using the voice), chanting (chants are from many countries and peoples, and all are taught), and sound immersion (bathing in the uplifting sounds of crystal bowl, didjeridoo, tamboura, bells, rattles, and voice). No experience necessary, all voices warmly welcomed! Your singing voice is your birthright!
“For anyone who babbled as a baby, sang as a child, imitated bark, growl, meow or caw and for everyone who speaks, these practices are likely to fill you with gladness and a sense of joy, kind of like bathing in a waterfall.” –Deborah Felmeth
“An amazingly healing experience, both in my ability to project a strong singing vibration and in my own ability to heal my body and mind from trauma. It opened up new doors for me, my voice - and the healing vibration of our world.” –Callie Pegues
KIRTAN
If you haven’t experienced Kirtan yet, come check it out. Kirtan is a meditation in the form of ecstatic chant. Like any meditation, the purpose is to let go of the chattering mind and enter into simple presence in the moment. The intention is to sing from our hearts as an offering to the Holy as embodied by the Hindu gods and goddesses with their colorful stories. The lyrics of praise are in Sanskrit, and the call- and-response format makes participation easily accessible. The sacred vibrations carry us to a state of bliss.
Come ready to participate! Singing, clapping, dancing, meditating, doing yoga, lying down and taking it in, are all wonderful ways of participating. Kirtan is traditionally offered on a donation basis. There is an age-old practice in India called dakshina. It is a practice of making an offering for spiritual guidance received. Energetically, when you give an offering, it opens the door to receiving in equal measure. People contribute at whatever level fits their budget, with the understanding that the spirit or intention of generosity is what opens that door.
802.453.2916 [email protected]
Heidi Champney
In the COVID era, singing in a group indoors is considered high-risk activity. Because of this, I am not currently offering either Sacred Sound or Kirtan at Open Sky Studio. I do offer a modified version of Sacred Sound Practice outdoors year-round. I may also offer outdoor Kirtan in the warmer months. For more information, please contact me at [email protected].
SACRED SOUND PRACTICES
These simple, delightful Sacred Sound Practices cultivate the listening ear, the sensing body, and a free, flexible, and expressive voice.
Through these practices, we access the power of the singing voice and find an oasis of inner calm amidst the chaos of a shifting world. We engage with the sound current to energize prayerful intention for healing and wellbeing for ourselves, our loved ones, our adversaries, our communities, and our world.
Each session includes three types of practice: vocal attunement (a guided meditation using the voice), chanting (chants are from many countries and peoples, and all are taught), and sound immersion (bathing in the uplifting sounds of crystal bowl, didjeridoo, tamboura, bells, rattles, and voice). No experience necessary, all voices warmly welcomed! Your singing voice is your birthright!
“For anyone who babbled as a baby, sang as a child, imitated bark, growl, meow or caw and for everyone who speaks, these practices are likely to fill you with gladness and a sense of joy, kind of like bathing in a waterfall.” –Deborah Felmeth
“An amazingly healing experience, both in my ability to project a strong singing vibration and in my own ability to heal my body and mind from trauma. It opened up new doors for me, my voice - and the healing vibration of our world.” –Callie Pegues
KIRTAN
If you haven’t experienced Kirtan yet, come check it out. Kirtan is a meditation in the form of ecstatic chant. Like any meditation, the purpose is to let go of the chattering mind and enter into simple presence in the moment. The intention is to sing from our hearts as an offering to the Holy as embodied by the Hindu gods and goddesses with their colorful stories. The lyrics of praise are in Sanskrit, and the call- and-response format makes participation easily accessible. The sacred vibrations carry us to a state of bliss.
Come ready to participate! Singing, clapping, dancing, meditating, doing yoga, lying down and taking it in, are all wonderful ways of participating. Kirtan is traditionally offered on a donation basis. There is an age-old practice in India called dakshina. It is a practice of making an offering for spiritual guidance received. Energetically, when you give an offering, it opens the door to receiving in equal measure. People contribute at whatever level fits their budget, with the understanding that the spirit or intention of generosity is what opens that door.
802.453.2916 [email protected]