Kirtan: Call & Response Mantra Meditation
with Casey & Mallika & Friends
Sunday, February 1st from 2:00 to 3:30
$20
Kirtan is a form of call and response devotional singing. In the yoga tradition, it is a practice to channel emotion, calm the mind, and ignite the spirit. Casey & Mallika bring years of dedication to yoga, music, and community building to their sharing of kirtan. Beginners welcome, no singing or vocal talent necessary.
Casey Shaw is a multi-faceted artist, yoga lover, and soul collaborator. As a lifelong mantra lover and harmonium aficionado for over 12 years, Casey finds music incredibly therapeutic and healing. She delights in sharing call and response mantras Kirtan style; and intimate and soothing dance of deep listening, devotion and self-expression within community. Passionate about collaborations for weaving music and traditional yoga with aligned teachers, artists, and space holders, Casey offers a wide array of deep dive opportunities for nourishing community experiences including trauma sensitive yoga, Change Your Life Coaching, Women’s gatherings Kirtans, and mantra/harmonium lessons.
Mallika Rao is nearly native of Tucson and originally from Mumbai, India. Currently she works as a physical therapist, previously as a public school agriculture teacher. She loves playing tabla for kirtan, participating in improvisational dance and theatre, and backpacking the Arizona trail section by section. In offering kirtan, Mallika delights in the power of prayer and meditation, a gate that invites us to leave the egoic world of the mundane and profane, to enter humbly as a servant of the sacred and divine.
