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SUZANNE STERLING
Kirtan & Workshop: The Sound of the Sacred
Date: Fri-Sat, April 11-12, 2008
Kirtan: $15 ($20 at the door)
Workshop & Kirtan: $60 ($70 after Apr 3)
One Workshop Session: $30 ($40 after Apr 3)
Both Workshop Sessions: $50 ($60 after Apr 3)
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Workshop: The Sound of the Sacred
Integrating Sound, Mantra & Singing into Your Yoga Practice
Fri, April 11, 6:30-9pm & Sat, April 12, 10am-12:30pm
You will learn about the history and science of sound, as well as using the power of sound as a tool to enhance your yoga and life. Explore ways to combine yoga asanas with sound, mantra, pranayama, and guided meditation, thus deepening your understanding of the interconnectedness of these various yogic practices.
We will focus on freeing the natural voice, developing awareness of the breath and body, clearing the emotional body, listening to our innate wisdom, allowing creativity to expand, and tapping into the sacred self and the connection with the Divine. This practice of sound healing strengthens health by regulating inner rhythms. It also helps to release repressed emotions and traumas, brings out an ability to express your self, heightens the senses and makes us receptive to subtler vibrations thus purifying the physical and subtle bodies.
The workshop will include:
- History and power of sound and mantra in spiritual traditions
- Physics of sound and sound healing
- Awakening and refining the subtle energy body through toning, chanting and singing
- Expressing the authentic and natural voice (pranayama and voice techniques for effortless singing)
- Simple and precise practice combining asana with sound and mantra
- Chanting and celebration
Kirtan: The Sound of the Sacred
Sat, April 12, 7:30pm
To sing in call and response fashion is universal. It brings people together in a unified experience, the aim of which is to achieve a state of ecstatic union within oneself and within the company of fellow seekers. Singing empties the mind and frees the heart. A natural extension of a yoga practice, ecstasy is both the process and the product. Sing along with complete abandon and meditation follows effortlessly, awakening subtle energies and shifts in perception.
Kirtan (from the Sanskrit word meaning "to sing") is a folk form of mantra chanting that arose from the Bhakti movement of 15th century India. The Bhaktis wrote ecstatic love poems to the divine, and went around singing all the time. Their message was simple: Cultivate joy.
Come join Suzanne and some of the best devotional musicians in Chicago for a night of participatory chant and intentional prayer. There is no prior experience necessary - just a deep soul desire to sing yourself Awake!!
"A musical priestess, Suzanne brilliantly weaves lyric, melody, sound and rhythm into a magical spell that entrances us to discover the sacred song within our own heart."
~ Seane Corn
Suzanne Sterling is an ecstatic vocalist and composer whose devotional music has been called a "groove-loving and seductive journey into Spirit." She has received critical acclaim both as a performer and as a recording artist and her music has been commissioned for film, theatre, and DVD - including "Gifting It", an award winning documentary film about Burning Man Festival. She also recently completed the music for the bestselling yoga DVD "Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Seane Corn" produced by Gaiam Inc.
She performs and facilitates retreats and workshops in the U.S. and abroad, and brings a special blend of music, kirtan and sacred ceremony to events as far reaching as yoga retreats, emerging culture conferences, and music festivals - most recently as featured artist at several Yoga Journal Conferences, Esalen Institute and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Suzanne is also a co-founder of The Yoga Groove Collective, which is dedicated to creating benefit classes and events that serve the yoga community and several other important causes.
Suzanne has performed and toured internationally with well-known electronic dance act Medicine Drum, innovative electronic dance act Alcyone (System Recordings NY) and acoustic trio Kali's Angels. She has enjoyed mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Burning Man, Reggae on the River and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama). At Earthdance 2005, Suzanne was a featured speaker and led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people. She is currently creating new albums and performing solo shows and kirtans across the country. www.suzannesterling.com |
