ABOUT ANANDA LILA
INVITATION
Let's sing from the heart, ground, center, connect and share! Create a sacred space for moving into silence, transformation and freedom. To open voices and hearts in unity. Sharing participatory chanting of sacred songs and mantras from different traditions. To quiet the mind, allowing each of us to journey into the self. To discover kirtan chanting as a vey simple and joyful way to meditate and celebrate.
As your musical hosts Ananda Lila Kirtan will offer:
• Kirtan Chanting
* Chaktra Alignment
• Soundscape Integration
• Mantra Music Meditation
• Songs for Peace and Unity
* Movement Embodiment Journey
• Candlelight Atmosphere of Peace
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ANANDA LILA BIO
Ananda Lila Kirtan is a world music ensemble, blending chanting and music with ritual and meditation for transformation and freedom. As a family of musicians, Ananda Lila loves to weave ancient chants from different traditions with newly birthed sacred songs. Ananda Lila features eclectic organic sound blending accordion, harp, world music rhythms, transcendent voices and ambient gong and soundscapes, creating a fusion of East & West, with Eastern European and Middle Eastern grooves meeting ambient and folk flavors.
As lovers of music and universal oneness, Ananda Lila Kirtan is inspired by the wisdom of many traditions including: ecstatic passion of the Sufis, dream space of shamanism, meditative practice of the Buddha, remembrance of divine from the Gita, and dancing moving meditation from Osho. Offering healing grounding soundscape for opening hearts and voices. To be timeless, primal or ancient, yet fresh and contemporary. To join together with the intension of moving into silence, transformation and freedom. To meditate and celebrate!!
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With a grateful heart, Ananda Lila Kirtan has been sharing kirtan and sacred sound experiences in the Midwest since 2010 at places such as: Kirtan Festival Milwaukee, Midwest Yoga and Kirtan Fest, The Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple, Yoga Now Chicago, Yogaview, The Theosophical Society, Vedanta Center of Chicago, Himalayan Yoga and Meditation Center, Ahimsa Yoga, Unity Church, Flower of Life Yoga, Oneness Festival, Kriya Vedanta Home of Harmony.
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Members included: Shanti Wendy Warnimont: Vocals, Accordion; Paula Battaglio: Harp, Percussion; Muriel Reymond: Vocals, Percussion. Special Guests: Dave Gordon: keyboard; Shri Steep: Vocals; Marie Ferraro: Vocals; Mitch Gregory: Guitar, Bass: Puranpreet Kuar: Djembe Drum; Carolyn Koebel, Sven Oscar Hansen: World percussion.
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ABOUT SHANTI
SHANTI BIO
(WENDY) WARNIMONT
Shanti is a sacred sound space holder in the creative vibrational healing arts since 1990. As a lover of mantra, meditation, sacred music and ecstatic chant from many traditions, Shanti’s passion is to be an open channel for catalyzing loving awareness. Catalyzing energies through the body and voice, to create a deep connection to self and source. Her joy is inspiring people to open their hearts through sharing experiences with mantra music and meditation, kirtan music celebrations, sacred sound circles, embodied voice workshops, dynamic dance circles, shamanic dreaming sessions, and silent sitting retreats.
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• MANTRA + KIRTAN
• MEDITATION JOURNEYS
• MOVEMENT MEDICINE
• SHAMANIC JOURNEY CIRCLES
• LAUGHTER AND PLAY CIRCLES
• INTEGRATIVE RETREATS
BACKGROUND
Shanti’s teachers and influences include: Nada Yoga of Sound study with Russill Paul, mantra and kirtan study with Jai Uttal, Deva Premal and Miten, Bhagavan Das, Sivananda and Himalayan Yoga teachers, as well as many other kirtan wallas. Hindustani music and vocal study with Rajiv Kumar Malik Rajnain. Yoga and Vedantic studies with Sivananda Yoga teachers, Vivekananda Vedanta Society teachers. Meditation study with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Osho, TM, Ten Directions Zen. Shamanic apprenticeship with Sandra Ingerman, Alberto Villoldo, Hawaiin shaman Serg King. Dance study with Gabriel Roth and 5Rhythms practice, as well as with Life Force Shamanic Arts and many ecstatic dance facilitators. Sufi practices with Adnan Sarhan and dervishes of Konya.
STAY IN TOUCH:
@wwarnimont​
https://www.facebook.com/p/Wendy-Warnimont-100066245468206/​
https://www.facebook.com/anandalilalove/
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