This week's podcast is a special edition for Valentine's Day.  It has some surprises--when you devote something to Divine Love you can never be sure what's going to show up!  Enjoy the offering.  Namaste. THIS WEEK’S SET SONG ARTIST CD SONGB

This week I thought I'd feature chants from the rich world of  Sikh kirtan music.  It was hard to pick just a few songs for the set, especially when listening to to the beauty of the chants sung by Snatam Kaur.  She has such an amazing voice--rich & pu

I love putting the podcast together, for me it's a magical process.  It's always a surprise to see the songs that have decided to show up for the weekly set.  This week Shiva seemed to want a little lovin', as four chants in the podcast have his name. 

This morning I was feeling very "February in Oregon" as I was taking a shower--when I decided I had had enough.  It was time to turn my mood around, and so my morning shower was transformed into a gratitude shower.  I gave thanks for my wonderful life a

When I was younger I was employed as a singer in a church choir located in center city Philadelphia.  Every Sunday the choir would gather in the vestibule of the church and sing the hymn "Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow" before we entered and pr

Welcome to the New Year, dearest New World Kirtan listeners.  January in Oregon is windy & rainy--there are lots of dark and stormy nights.  Probably like you, I'm trying to be in tune with the season--to find what treasures it holds for me.  May you a

The New World Kirtan podcast is one year old, and it has been downloaded over 73 thousand times!  That number just knocks my socks off.  This podcast started as an audio journal, and a way for our chanting group to download songs from our Sunday Satsang

In the podcast this week I mention a book that I loved reading in the last week, and one I would recommend to any animal lover.  It's called "Guardians Of Being"  with original words by Eckhart Tolle and illustrations by Patrick McDonnell, the creator o

Last week our beloved black Lab Sid left us, and it was both a terrible & beautiful experience. His last gift to our family was his death and the healing it brought us on many levels. And so this week's podcast is for Sid, but it's not at all sad. Sid

The chants in this week's podcast are some of my favorites from the new kirtan CDs I've listened to over the last several weeks.  It's a podcast of thanksgiving for the magical things kirtan has brought to my life in the past year.  If you're reading th