Thinking Kirtan?

Shakti Creations is the cyberspace home for my various activities and passions, chief of which is leading chanting in the modern kirtan style of ancient Bhakti Yoga.

I lead The Shakti Creations Kirtan Band at the Inner Space Studio in Colorado Springs. It’s a collaborative style group-effort Kirtan, involving everyone in the local yoga community who longs for music infused with deeper meaning and for a community connected by the shared experience of the divine that Kirtan chanting generates. 


The Kirtan chants are mostly in Sanskrit and are usually repetitions of the names of the Divine done in a call and response format to Western melodies and harmonies, typically played by the leader on a little hand-pumped keyboard called a harmonium.

Our Band includes a hot guitarist, a gorgeous drummer, a teenage prodigy mandolin player and a backup singer who leads the responses with the voice of an angel, so everyone in the audience, all of whom are encouraged to bring their own instruments, is brought into the fullness of the blissful experience of life force energy--the Shakti--created by Kirtan chanting.

Astonishingly, as we chant, we get happy.


Kirtan is how we can extend loving kindness to the whole of the world . . . starting with ourselves in Kirtan community in Colorado Springs.


Come and try if for yourself. We gear our Kirtans simply so they’re suitable for beginners, but all levels are welcome. No singing experience is necessary!


There is no way to know what happens in Kirtan without trying it. So, just show up. CHANT TO BE HAPPY.