ABOUT ME

​I’ve been on a spiritual journey for as long as I can remember.   Everything from fundamentalist Christianity to Buddhism to Evolutionary Spirituality to Yoga/Kirtan. It’s all been so instrumental and vitally important in making who I am today. I am most grateful for all of it.

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My journey with Kirtan began during Yoga Teacher Training in South India in 2009.  There was something about chanting the names of the Divine on a daily basis that stirred something deep inside me. Having grown up in a strongly religious environment in the South, I was very familiar with devotional practices.  However, nothing had ever touched me the way that Kirtan did. I witnessed its power to open the heart and to transcend both culture and religion.  In India I sat with Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, and people with no religious affiliation, all singing these sacred Sanskrit mantras with such joy and devotion.

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In 2011 I began studying at Mike Cohen’s Kirtan Leader Institute.  Under Mike’s guidance and support I have been leading Kirtan both locally and back in my home state of Mississippi.  Leading Kirtan in Mississippi was actually where I was at last able to appreciate the integration of my lifelong spiritual practice.  I finally understood that I had never left my devotion. It had simply changed forms.

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My sacred intention for kirtan is that it will calm our minds, open our hearts, and propel us into a life of karma yoga (selfless service).