Second Sunday Circle

Second Sunday of the Month from 2:00 to 3:45

$30, no cost for Sol Members *registration is required for all

Bhakti Yoga:  The Path of Love & Devotion

Join us for Kirtan practice and a discussion about the experience of the mantras. Call and response chanting is an ancient practice of Bhakti Yoga, the Yoga of love and devotion. During Kirtan we explore and invoke various archetypal energies from the stories and teachings of the broader yogic tradition through the mantras themselves. Many people find that this practice is quite soothing and calming for our monkey minds and nervous systems.

Everyone has their unique experience of Kirtan and our spiritual or religious upbringing can also inform a sense of comfort or hesitation with these mantras. In this particular session of Second Sunday Circle, we invite you to use your own sacred body as a laboratory, to explore what happens for you with use of mantra.

We will also open the floor for discussion on how to participate in the practice respectfully, with honesty, humility, and curiosity.

The Second Sunday Circle is a monthly gathering devoted to exploring the many dimensions of spiritual perspective, path, and practice. Each session offers a fresh theme—drawn from the real questions, transitions, and inspirations shaping our lives and our world. Some months invite us into quiet reflection or guided meditation; others open space for conversation, ritual, writing, movement, or shared inquiry. All are designed to help us deepen awareness, cultivate resilience, and connect meaningfully with one another.

Rather than a lecture or a class, the Circle is an experiential and conversational space. Participants are encouraged to bring their curiosity, their lived experience, and their willingness to engage with ideas that touch the heart as well as the mind. Topics range widely—from grief and healing, to purpose and soul-work, to relational wellbeing, to solitude, creativity, and the art of being human. Each facilitator brings their own lens, offering teachings, practices, and reflections that support personal insight and collective wisdom.

Whether you’ve been part of the Sol Center community for years or are joining us for the first time, the Circle is a welcoming place to land. It’s an opportunity to slow down, listen deeply, and explore what it means to live with intention and compassion in changing times. All are invited to participate in whatever way feels right, quietly, actively, or somewhere in between.

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