Kirtan! 7pm by donation. All are welcome! Organized and Produced by Kabir, accompanied by Aparna Khanolkar, Bowie Jaffee and Kristen Spalding (you never know what kind of musical masters will show up, always special guest appearances are made.

My 1st Ecstatic Kirtan was with Dave Stringer @ The Unitarian Church here in SB. It was there that I experienced the magic of Kirtan. An expression of Joy and Love and a Devotion to that love and joy so deep, I had not yet experienced, not quite like this…..The first time I experienced kirtan was with Krishna Das. It was this sweet lullaby experience tender, gentle, healing, beautiful. But it was Dave who inspired me to host Kirtans, our first Kirtan was a blessed night who knows how many years ago, Daniela was there and we were dancing and singing with wild abandon, letting it lift us higher and higher….I love that wild abandon but am skeptical of anyone who thinks they can “guide” you there….how can we be guided to wild abandon? Wild abandon cannot be produced, or reproduced. And sure we can try, there have been times during any dance where I want that, want it so bad I can taste it, but it just does not come. Connection…..missed. And then there are those times that it happens and what a miracle, magic does exist, somehow, somewhere. Is it the music? The people? The place? The ways the stars are lining up with the planets? That Venus trines my moon? That at that exact moment some divine portal at 7:11pm that evening opened? Who Knows? Who cares! What I do know for sure? In order to experience this wondrous element of converging sensations, I have to show up. Open to the possibilities, surrendered to the fact that I don’t know, that it’s actually more fun not to know, and let it take me…I encourage this experience for all and believe it’s possible, even you even you jaded cynical know it alls, trust me, from someone who likes to know everything and actually believes she does, it’s more fun to know nothing! Life is my Guru.