Sangeet Bhakti Sadhana
With Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D, Partha Bose, Indranil Mallick, Zorg Ztocouc, Susanne Goldenstein and Jen and Conrad
April 11 - 14, 2019
The Heart Path of Enlightenment through Sacred Music
Hosted by Stuart Sovatsky PhD, Author of the Amazon bestseller “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy”
Program Description
Special Note: There will be private sessions at “Bhakti Cave,” 12223 NE 236th Terrace, Salt Springs, FL 32134. These private sessions are free and the are not officially part of the Amrit Yoga Institute or the campus and the location is not owned or insured by AYI. If you choose to attend these beautiful events during your free time, transportation will be provided by Stuart Sovatsky’s team (10 minute walk, 2 minute drive) and coordinated on site.
Sangeet Bhakti Yoga is the music of human feelings—from the most despairing longings to the most sublime ecstasies, whereby we become equal to the expanse of life itself, we attain Yoga, or Union.
Whether through soaring and swooning voices and bhakti-animated asana-dances or impassioned instrumental playing and listening, we feel ever more empathically the full-spectrum of life, ever-stretching into that expansive Embrace that is Bhakti Bhava Enlightenment.
Our second Sangeet Bhakti Sadhana Retreat will be a community-building journey from early-morning asana classes to mid-morning and afternoon community sessions on Tantric Kirtan, Births-Memorials Lineage Puja with Gurudev Amritji, Native American and Indic Fire Ceremonies, Didj and Electronica-Rock-Kirtanica, Infinite-Admiration Puja and How to Meditate on Indian Classical Music.
Thursday and Friday evenings will climax with Sangeet Bhakti-Tantra Sadhana Meditation-Concerts with anahatanad kirtanist, Stuart Sovatsky and didj-digital music master Zorg Ztocouc and other special guests while Saturday evening will feature our third Sangeet Sadhana with world-class sitarist, Partha Bose and tablaist, Indranil Mallick, with 96 years of combined sangeet-tantra sadhana experience. Please check the Amrit Institute webpage for regular updates.
Stuart Sovatsky, Retreat Producer, began sacred chanting in 1960 in Hebraic nigune with Cantor Max Rubin of the Krakow Conservatory and in 1976 in anahata-nad via nabho mudra [tongue-quivery-vocalizing mudra] initiation with Swami Kripalvanand. He was first to bring chanting into schools and juvenile lockups in 1976, was secretly flow to Slovenia to chant over the dying chairman of Unaligned Nations of the World, J. Drnovsec and was the first American to chant with South African shamans in 2012. A bestselling author with scholarly articles on suicidal thinking, kundalini maturation and Indic influences in psychology, with over 30000 counseling hours transforming troubled relationships and spiritual crises, he co-convened a 40-country World Family Conference in India where he chanted benedictions for S S Ravi Shankar and L Santem representing the Dalai Lama and at conferences throughout Europe, Russia and India. He has four CD’s and over 100 performances with senior Ali Akbar Khan percussionists with his 20-year San Francisco band, Axis Mundi.
Lead Teachers
Scholar-in-Residence Stuart (Piyush) Sovatsky brings a heart-centered wealth of knowledge through his own personal experience of our lineage as well as a lifetime of experience as a leading psychologist, bestselling author, researcher and lecturer. Degreed in Religion from Princeton University with contracted publications with Columbia University Press and SUNY Press, Stuart has created events with The Office of the Dalai Lama, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, BKS Iyengar and Robert Thurman. Widely respected for 45 years of clinical experience with “spiritual emergence” and as a pioneer of “incarceration yoga” recognized by Ram Dass Prison Ashram, he is an Acharya (spiritual leader) on tantric and bhakti yogas, kirtanica and is called around the globe to lead others in his depth of wisdom, including private audiences with the Chair of Unaligned Nations of the World and with post-apartheid South African Healers. He is an expert on the history of the Lakulish-Kripalvanand-Desai Shaktipat Lineage…
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Indranil Mallick, a promising Tabla player of rare skill, has already established himself both as a soloist and accompanist. Born to a family of genuine music connoisseurs, he received his initial training in Tabla when he was only five from his uncle, Sri Montu Mallick. Later he was trained by Prof. Dhabol Bandyapadhaya.From 1985 he was under the guidance of Sri Uttam Chakraborty, senior disciple of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri.Now he is under the guidance of Pt. Swapan Chaudhuri . Indranil belongs to Luckhnow Gharana style of Tabla. Among his numerous awards and distinctions in Tabla performance he stood first in the Yuva Utsav organized by the state Government of West Bengal. In 1997 he stood first in the prestigious Dover Lane Music Competition and earned "The Best Talent Of The Year; for 1996-97, trophy awarded by the H.M.V Music Corporation. Indranil holds a; Sangeet Visarad;, Bachelor of Arts Degree in…
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