BlueGrass Kirtan
About Universal Chanting
Chanting is a universal practice and experience throughout the world’s great spiritual, religious and cultural traditions. Whatever your faith, chanting quiets the mind and opens the heart.  During chanting, negativity and stress fly off of you!

 

What Happens When You Combine Chanting and Bluegrass Music? BlueGrass Kirtan!

BlueGrass Kirtan is ancient sacred words in Sanskrit, Latin, and Tibetan chanted with old-time American Appalachian fiddle and banjo tunes.  It is chanting that will knock your socks off!
Enjoy hearing Jon, Mark, and others singing Listen, Listen, Listen by Paramahansa Yogananda.

"Listen, listen, listen to my heart’s song -- I will never forget you, I will never forsake you."

 *Live from the Heart track #6: Listen, Listen, Listen by Paramahansa Yogananda; Published by Self-Realization Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA. From the album Cosmic Chants. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

We are delighted to share our chanting CD recorded in the music room at a major university in Durham, North Carolina. The spirit of this music is exuberant, joyous, energetic, and reverent. As our group sings and plays music together, you will hear the best of our heart's song and you may feel like you are with us, perhaps singing or clapping along.

Live from the Heart  is sparkling with chants from the Hindu, Sufi, Christian, Buddhist, and Native American traditions.

Let the power of sound and vibration release you from your worldly concerns and physical discomforts. When we gather together to sing, we are helping each other to find our spiritual paths with this joyous exploration of the heart. Through our voices, we join a stream of consciousness, emotion and devotion that has been flowing for centuries, sharing the joy of making inspirational music together.

Cost $8.00  More info and to order

This CD, along with Jon Seskevich's Stress Management audiotapes, cd and video, are also available at the Duke University Medical Center Bookstore, located at 106 Facilities Center between Duke North Hospital and the Duke South Clinics in Durham NC, 919 684-2717.


Words of Praise for Live from the Heart:

"Hi Jon,
This CD is cool!!!!!!! Well done........Thank you.
Good luck and much love, 
jai" -- Jai Uttal

"You have captured some very beautiful sounds!" -- Amida Harvey
Everyone is invited to
A Triangle Tradition since 1994, the

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE


New Year’s Eve Celebration
6:00pm to 12:15 am
Friends Meetinghouse in Durham
404 Alexander St. Durham
$10 donation
Schedule
•6:00 pm Potluck supper
•7:00 pm Labyrinth opens for walking meditation
•7:30-8:30 Universal Worship
•8:30-9:30 Universal Chanting with Jon Seskevich
•9:30-10:00 Time to share snacks you bring
•10:00-12:00 Dances of Universal Peace
Come for all or any part of this alcohol free evening!
For more info contact:
Shirin Julie Purcell 919-475-5323, forjuls@aol.com

Latifa NoorCHANTING & MEDITATION WITH LATIFA NOOR
January 7th
2:00 – 5:00 PM
$35
Durham Friends Meeting
404 Alexander Avenue
Durham NC
EXPERIENCE THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF CHANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
For more information on Latifa's programs in Durham, please contact epritch@duke.edu
We will explore the practice of alternating chanting with silent meditation, tuning into the unique vibrations of each chant. Chanting is an accessible and heart-opening practice for both experienced meditators, and those who are new to meditation. This ancient meditation practice allows for inner-listening, thereby allowing freedom and creativity to develop in unexpected ways.
In addition to sharing chants from Hazrat Inayat Khan and the Sufi tradition, LatifaNoor will also guide us in chants from the Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Jewish and Christian traditions.
LatifaNoor Elizabeth Anderson is a cellist and vocalist who has performed throughout the United States, Australia, Italy, Germany, Finland, Israel, Japan and India.

In 2006 she created the CD Latifa Noor, a recording of original improvisations for cello, voice and tamboura. LatifaNoor has been a practitioner of Sufi meditation and chanting for 20 years, and in addition to being a guest leader of meditation groups in New York, has been leading a Sufi meditation circle in Dobbs Ferry, NY since 2008.

January 8th 4:00 PM Free Admission
Location TBD in Durham
CHANTING CONCERT AND KIRTAN
Latifa Noor, Jewelsong, Steven Smith,
Ananda Eric Pritchard & Jon Seskevich
Donations will be accepted to benefit Noorunissa Inyat Khan memorial fund. Program will include chants from many spiritual traditions & original compositions by Hidayat Inyat Khan, Bill Robinson and Steven Smith. More info to come.
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