Kavi Sangeet Bhakti

Program Description

Creating Meaningful Lives of Great Feeling in Words and Music

Hosted by Stuart Sovatsky PhD, Author of the Amazon bestseller “Advanced Spiritual Intimacy”

Drawing from the ways of the poet and indian and western music, we explore how to deepen the emotional and felt-meaning of the lives we have already lived as family-members, friends to and with others, as students and, perhaps most beautifully of all, as human-beings.

Every family, relationship, and activity reveals that it is indeed holy when viewed via Bhakti devotion.

We will tell stories and learn how to convert the events of our lives into everyday heroic moments by how we put them into evermore beautiful and inspiring words. We become the Kavi [poet-yogis] of our own enlightenments of deep-feelings.

We bless each other in holy forehead bhakti anointment of nyasa. We will practice mantra, asanas and pranayama as poignantly as any tear-brimming wedding, filled with the profundities of prayer and of prana, the breath which is life itself.

We chant with dazzling world-level musicians and burn holy ceremonial fires of consecration to our parents, children, children-to-be, deceased relatives, friends and ancestors. New marriages are most welcome! Just let us know your intentions!

We give thanks to everyone imaginable and well-up with depths of self-pride as Walt Whitman sang, “I did not know I held so much goodness. All seems beautiful to me.”

We will overcome our sorrows by seeing into their depths. We will tell the silliest stories that have ever happened in our lives.

By the close of our bhakti retreat of deeply felt meaning, we will have redeemed our humanity just as it has been and is. We will have new friends and deepened old ones. We will feel ourselves going forward into our futures energized with the ways of the poet now inside of us, the vibrations of holy kirtan far-beyond what we may have previously believed ourselves capable of. We will be whole and wondrous to ourselves and to one another.

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