Date: Thursday, August 31st, 2023
Time: 2:00 - 4:00pm OR 6:00 - 8:00pm
Investment: $55 +hst
Location: Vicki Tree Studio - 3626 Line 5 N Horseshoe Valley
Instructor: Brenda McMorrow
Book: Click link below and go to EVENTS
Description:
No experience needed. Chairs will be set up for comfort, or you can sit on a bolster.
Sanskrit Mantra is a beautiful tool for focusing our intentions and for transformation to occur with more ease in our lives. The stress-reducing effect of Mantra recitation and Kirtan (call and response mantra singing) is profound.
During our time together Brenda will share a brief history of Mantra and Kirtan (call and response devotional chanting) and guide you through the learning and experiencing of 4 powerful mantras that can be used in your life to help cultivate more inner awareness and peace.
We will chant to:
- Lakshmi (Abundance)
- Shiva (Transformation and Change)
- Ganesha (Remover of Obstacles)
- Gayatri Mantra (Illumination)
During this special 2 hour workshop on the beautiful Forest Plank, we will experience this directly, and learn how to incorporate this healing and calming practice into our daily lives. Listening to mantra music; developing a daily mantra meditation practice; or simply silently reciting mantra as we go about our day - these are all ways that we can utilize these ancient “sound formulas” and the unique power they have to lead the mind to a place of more stillness, resulting in increased well-being and clarity.
We are living in challenging times. As our world seems to be going through upheaval at an increased level, our inner world may also feel more tumultuous. This workshop is an opportunity to experience tools that help us immensely during sensitive times, both inner and outer.
No experience necessary! This workshop is wonderful for those new to the practice of mantra and is also a nourishing way to connect back to this practice for experienced chanters! Open to all who are interested in singing, meditation, yoga, sound healing and anyone wanting to try something that helps to open the heart and free the mind!
About Brenda McMorrow:
Brenda McMorrow is a singer/songwriter, chant artist, and workshop/retreat facilitator whose greatest calling is to share experiences that support the opening of both the mind and the heart.
Brenda is known for her unique and warmly embracing style of music, in which she blends elements of acoustic folk, world rhythms, ancient Indian chants, and Spanish Medicine songs, with a sweetly introspective singer-songwriter’s sensibility. Yoga Journal describes Brenda as having “a knack for expressing the deepest realizations in the sparsest lyrics”. As spiritual teacher Ram Dass has said: “Brenda has a gift”, and with 5 celebrated albums and numerous singles, her music has been touching people’s hearts across the planet.
In addition to being a recording and world touring musician, Brenda McMorrow has degrees in both English Literature and Education; is a Registered Yoga Teacher and Enlightenment Intensive Facilitator (“Who Am I” Dyad Self Inquiry); and is a student and practitioner of Advaita Vedanta (Non-Duality) and Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of Love and Devotion). Brenda's mission is to help bring more peace, understanding and well-being to the world by supporting individuals in realizing their True Nature.
