Marilyn

 

Welcome

Shakti Creations is the new cyberspace home for my various ventures and passions. I'll start simply, just announcing the Kirtan I'm leading at The Inner Space yoga studio, but very shortly will be adding some of my recent videos, costume designs, art (like my prayer beads) and even my book! (Surprised?) 

Shakti Creations’ vision for the Inner Space Kirtan is to build a collaborative kirtan community, involving everyone in the local yoga community who longs for music infused with deeper meaning and for a community bound together by the shared experience of the divine that chanting creates. We encourage community members to harmonize and experiment with their voices, opening the channels, and your HEARTS, to allow the life force energy (the Shakti) to create the flow of bliss through everyone.

The 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. 

Astonishingly, as we chant, we get happy.

You may start out thinking chanting is about your happiness and your calming down; but after chanting regularly for a while, you begin to KNOW that everything you do effects everybody all the time, including the people you don’t even know yet. Kirtan is how we can extend loving kindness to the whole of the world . . . starting with ourselves in community.

Come and try if for yourself. We are gearing this simply for beginners, but all levels are welcome. No singing experience is necessary!

Just show up. CHANT TO BE HAPPY.

 

Header

 

Kirtan

Where:
The Inner Space downtown at Poor Richard's, 322 N. Tejon St. #224, in
Colorado Springs, Colorado

When:
October 5, November 2 (both Mondays) and starting on November 19 (Thursday)
we will move to every other Thursday,  6:30pm - 8 pm.

What:
 Collaborative Kirtan:  collective devotional singing in the manner of call-and-response chanting in India's devotional tradition.

ABOUT INNER SPACE KIRTAN 
A Kirtan is not what you hang on your window. Kirtan (pronounced phonetically “kear-tan' ” rather than “curtain”) is chanting. It’s bhakti yoga-–the easiest yoga of all--singing meditation. Chanting induces joy, clears the mind, opens the heart and transforms negative emotions into a sense of contentment. REALLY!

Who:
 Shakti Creations, aka Marilyn Sherbring, of Denver, CO will be leading 

WHAT INNER SPACE HAS TO SAY:
"Marilyn Sherbring has been singing all her life. Her easy-to-follow, deep, healing and powerfully resonant voice transmits the sacred vibrations of the chants throughout your entire being as you chant along."

WHAT MARILYN HAS TO SAY::
I grew up singing with my grandmother who had a Hammond B3 organ and a grand piano. They sat perpendicular to each other, and she played one with each hand. I sang along day after day and year after year as grandma taught me all the songs she knew from the 20s through the . . . well, throughout time. The years I spent in church choirs and as a cabaret singer in smokey bars developed my style of singing, grounded and basic, but ‘out-there’ and in tune with the sacredness of ALL music and ALL places. I’ve been practicing Bhakti yoga for years now in many chanting groups in Denver and Boulder and at the Neem Karoli Baba Ashram in Taos, where I received the calling to learn the Hanuman Chalisa (40 verses, yikes), and to lead others in chanting. To me, chanting is coming home.

Why:
 This is the bhakti yoga practice of chanting the various names of God as a way to open the heart and cultivate devotion to the divine in ourselves and others.  The format is call-and-response and is appropriate for singers and non-singers alike.

Cost:
 By donation

© 2010 Shakti Creations