Welcome Central Pennsylvania Yogis!
The Kirtan Event theme is: Love, Love, Love, God, God, God!
- Meet new friends in the Yoga Community.
- Awaken your inner spiritual voice.
- Bask in poetic spiritual chants.
- Connect together in community with the divine.
- Enjoy a light refreshments after the Kirtan.
"The Sama Veda contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. In India, music, painting, and the drama are considered divine arts...Hindu music is subjective, spiritual, and individualistic art, aimed not at symphonic brillance, but at personal harmony with the Over-soul.
Sankirtans or musical gatherings are an effective form of yoga or spiritual discipline, necessitating intense concentration, absorption in the seed thought and sound. Because man himself is an expression of the Creative Word, sound exercises on him a potent and immediate effect. Great religious music of East and West bestows joy on man because it causes a temporary vibratory awakening of one of his occult spinal centers. In those blissful moments a dim memory comes to him of his divine again." Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi
Pranava Kirtan was founded in 2009 by a fun loving group of Self Realization Fellowship devotees and Yogi friends who share a deep desire to sing ecstatically to God. We are dedicated to developing sweet spiritual awareness and meaningful fellowship through our events in our growing regional yoga community.
The Pranava Kirtan Band play various traditional and modern instruments including Guitars, Cello, Vocals, Tablas, Percussion and harmonium.
We are all here to learn, heal, laugh and hold sacred space to open hearts with all our voices!
Wynne Paris blends an eastern Heart and a western Head for a great mix” - Krishna Das
Wynne Paris is a world beat artist/producer and musician who has spent the last decade devoted to an emerging genre of spiritual music: Yoga music and Kirtan. Wynne’s artistic sound is derived from 20 years of musical adventures and spiritual experiences.
The practice of yoga also introduced Wynne to the celebrated chanter, Krishna Das. Now a long-time collaborator with yoga’s most famous musician, Wynne has performed with Krishna Das at such venues as the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York; the Jivamukti Yoga Center in New York – the largest yoga center in the U.S.; and Yogaville, the Satchidanda Ashram in Virginia. Wynne played guitar, sarod, and saz (a stringed instrument in the lute family) on the groundbreaking Krishna Das CD, “Pilgrim Heart,” one of the genre’s defining albums, which also featured Sting. Wynne also played sarod on the Krishna Das CD “All One,” and composed the music for the Krishna Das single, Prayer to Rudra on the CD “Planet Yoga."
As a yoga musician, Wynne has performed his music on such diverse stages as those at Constitution Hall, the Smithsonian music series at the National Zoo and the Millenium celebration in Washington DC; CB’s Gallery (CBGB’s) in New York, the Health and Harmony Festival in northern California, and Karmapalooza in Florida; as well as at museums, holistic resorts, bookstores, raves, churchs, temples, and private gatherings. Wynne has also performed with the Indian Saint Ammachi, and sang at a Washingtonian event that featured H.H. The Dalai Lama. He has recorded with many of the best-known New Age musicians, including, Shahin and Sephir, Sophia, Bhagavan Das, Girish, and Kim Waters of Rasa. And in 1996, one of the songs he cowrote with Maura Moynihan, “Prayer for the Pure Land”, won first place (out of 1900 entries) in the SAW National Songwriting Contest.
