We are thrilled to extend an invitation to our next Sadhana Satsang, where the renowned Kirtan artist Nina Rao will lead us in a heartfelt chanting of the Gayatri Mantra
Following our inspiring first two sessions, which introduced the Gayatri Mantra’s history and pronunciation, we are eager to come together once more for a morning dedicated to this sacred chant. Nina Rao, a cherished member of Krishna Das’s band and a dedicated board member of LSRF, will guide us through the chant of 108 repetitions (or as many as time allows), enriching our spiritual practice and community connection.
Preparation for Newcomers: If you missed our initial gatherings, don’t worry! You can get ready for our next session by:

1. Learning the Vedic Pronunciation: Familiarize yourself with the mantra’s pronunciation through THIS GUIDE.

2. Exploring the Foundations: Review the core teachings with THIS SUMMARY.

3. Practice the Gayatri: Listen and chant with Nina from our second session recording

Come with an open heart and a readiness to engage in this collective practice. Here’s what you can look forward to:
Deepened Spiritual Connection: Tap into the transformative power of shared chanting.
Strengthened Community Bonds: Meet and connect with fellow practitioners on a shared spiritual journey.
Enhanced Personal Growth: Deepen your practice and understanding through communal intention.

In the meantime, enjoy the beautiful recitations of the Gayatri Mantra by Nina’s teacher, Shantala, available HERE.
We eagerly anticipate your presence and the collective energy we will generate together. Everyone is welcome.  We look forward to seeing you there!

To register, sign up for the Ram Dass Fellowship, and check “General Fellowship” under the Fellowship Group Options.  You will be added to the mailing list and will receive links prior to the event.

If you would like to print out a word sheet for Gayatri Mantra, please go Nina’s Vedic Chants page.

Newburgh Yoga Shaka, 5 Liberty St WH, Newburgh, NY 12550

Join us in the practice of chanting the divine Names and Hindu and Buddhist mantras along with musical accompaniment. Together as satsang (or in good company), we help each other quiet the mind and open the heart through call-and-response singing. This is a practice of Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of Devotion. Yoga is the path of practice leading us to realize our true Nature. No experience required, open to All.

REGISTER HERE

Souk Studio 12 West 27th Street

'Chanting cleans the mirror of my heart to develop the clarity to slowly (but surely I’m told) find the Love and along the way, try to step out of my own reactionary behavior and see and be with all as it is. Maybe it will take at least another 108 lifetimes, but all I know is I have this moment - now.' - Nina Rao

Join us for this very special evening of moving from the mind into our hearts. 10% off for ALL-IN Members *Cancellations can be made up to 12 hours before a workshop - no refunds after!

REGISTER HERE

Anubhuti Retreats
Plot No: 260-A, Lane No. 11, Nirmal Block-B
Visthapit Area, Rishikesh, 249204
Landmark: Red Fort International Public School
7:00 – 8:30 PM IST

Join us for kirtan with Nina on the sacred land of Rishikesh by the Ganga to preserve the wildlife in our very own Land of the Tiger. All tickets proceeds will go directly to NGOs working on the wilderness areas of India.

Ticket Price  ₹2100
DETAILS + REGISTRATION 

Lifeyoga Delhi
16/48,
Diplomatic Enclave, Malcha Marg,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 110021

A free community event
We’re collaborating with Nina Rao — part musician and chantress, part wildlife conservationist — for a community event that is intended to bring hearts and voices together. Join us for a two-hour kirtan as we collectively tune into Nina's voice and her harmonium.
Nina runs an organisation, Saving Wild Tigers and leads the charge with conservation work for tigers throughout India. While this is a free community event, we’re eager to lend to Nina’s efforts; if you’d like to pitch in as well, you’re welcome to donate to this cause. Every little bit counts.

REGISTER HERE

Donate at either of the following links:
India: CWS: https://cwsindia.org/donate-for-wildlife/
India: Tiger Watch: https://tigerwatch.net/donate/
USA and PayPal Users: https://www.savingwildtigers.org/take-action

Ram Dass’ SoulPod Satsang Sadhana Gayatri Mantra Recitation With Nina Rao
Join us for a special Sadhana Satsang with Nina Rao, renowned Kirtan artist and cherished member of Krishna Das’s band. Nina, also a board member of LSRF, invites you to a transformative session of chanting the Gayatri mantra via Zoom.

Chanting mantras together, even virtually, offers a profound opportunity to connect deeply with ourselves and one another. Whether you’re new to chanting or have practiced for years, this session promises to enrich your experience and strengthen our community in a meaningful way. Nina will begin with a brief pronunciation guidance before we join in collective chanting. On July 10, Nina offered a class with some background on the Gayatri Mantra and a detailed pronunciation guide - please review that recording HERE before this next class. If you would like to print out a word sheet for Gayatri Mantra, please go Nina’s Vedic Chants page.

Benefits of Chanting Together:
Spiritual Connection: Experience the sacred power of sound within a supportive group.
Community Building: Form bonds with like-hearted individuals on a shared spiritual journey.
Personal Growth: Deepen your practice and understanding through collective energy and intention.

No prior experience is necessary—just bring your openness and eagerness to participate. Let’s unite in devotion and community. We eagerly anticipate chanting with you and sharing in this beautiful practice together. Everyone is welcome. Participation is free.

Thursday, September 12
9 am EDT | 6:00 am | 2 pm GST
Online Free
Register for Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc-uhqT0iGNWdKeC7RztjrpcBf6hE-dQD?mc_cid=f1a667134a#/registration

Bringing Chanting Into the Practice of Living
Heart Practice of Chanting: Immerse yourself in a one-day chanting retreat and devotional practice led by Krishna Das and Nina Rao.
Explore the spiritual path with group chanting of Hanuman Chalisas with Nina Rao. Guided by Krishna Das in the afternoon and evening, we revel in call-and-response chanting, stories about Das's beloved guru, Sri Neem Karoli Baba, and discussions about life, with plenty of opportunities for questions and answers.
REGISTER HERE

Voices Together Weekend is right before this event (Aug 30- Sep2) , we hope to see you there!
DETAILS HERE

Nina Rao will be chanting along with other locals during this celebration in the temple of the trees. Rain date August 25th if it rains- festival at Mama’s Kiva in Stone Ridge.

By donation, all proceeds to Rail Trail Cafe. Sing in the cathedral of the trees with a rainbow of chant leaders with cafe serving wood-fired pizzas, salads, and beverages. Bring a blanket or folding chair.

By donation.

The Rail Trail Cafe Rosendale/New Paltz
Sun September 11, 2022 | 11am-7pm ET

https://www.railtrailcaferosendale.com/art-and-music

AyurPrana Listening Room
312 Haywood Rd
Asheville, NC 28806

Join us for this very special evening of chanting with NINA RAO and Band!
Doors: 6:00pm - Start: 7:00pm

•Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 day of event.
•All ages are welcome.
•Doors open at 6 pm.

REGISTER HERE

hat began as a simple conversation among kindred spirits has blossomed into a
transformative festival. Last September, nearly a thousand souls came together in Woodstock, drawn to numerous events that celebrated our shared journey toward awakening.

This year, Awakening will grace us once more with even richer offerings, including a performance by the world-renowned Krishna Das ~ you will be treated to a short Rhythmic Sound Journey  with Arjun, next Nina will lead kirtan and then everyone joins together for kirtan with Krishna Das.

The pinnacle of  the second-annual Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening is an afternoon at Bearsville Park on Saturday, August 10, from noon to 6:00pm.
There you will find:
·     The Sound Garden Kirtan performers from across the Hudson Valley & beyond will be gathering in spirit, sound &dance.   Master-musician Krishna Das will conclude the afternoon with us.
·     Movement by the Stream will integrate creek sounds with the flow of guided meditation in movement.  We offer, among other modalities, Sufi dance, Qi Gong, various yoga modalities, forms of cleansing, trance, and voice empowerment.
·     Awakening Talks will take place throughout the afternoon, where “Awakening” in its many guises will be explored.  Including earth consciousness, community activism, history, conscious growing and eating, philosophy, and the promise ofWoodstock past and future.
·     The Healing Garden Market with 40 or more vendors offering their services at the forefront of wellness….
Click the ticket link for more details!

Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening
Bearsville Theater , Bearsville Park
291 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY, 12498
Adv. GA Tickets:  $30   Day of Show: $35.
Subsidized Tickets:  *$15 (click ticket link for more information)
12pm – 6pm.  Gates: 12pm

About the organizers: The Woodstock Center for Awakening (WOCA), a 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to
exploring awakening in all its forms. It serves as a crossroads where individuals and groups can
come together to discover, learn + thrive within a vibrant community. Our primary goals are to:
❖ Enhance our sense of connectivity through inclusive community-building activities.
❖ Awaken ourselves to socio-cultural, ecological and spiritual awareness.
❖ Share Woodstock’s wealth of awakening and healing arts with the world.

REGISTER HERE

Ram Dass’ SoulPod Satsang Sadhana Gayatri Mantra Recitation With Nina Rao
Join us for a special Sadhana Satsang with Nina Rao, renowned Kirtan artist and cherished member of Krishna Das’s band. Nina, also a board member of LSRF, invites you to a transformative session of chanting the Gayatri mantra via Zoom.

Chanting mantras together, even virtually, offers a profound opportunity to connect deeply with ourselves and one another. Whether you’re new to chanting or have practiced for years, this session promises to enrich your experience and strengthen our community in a meaningful way. Nina will begin with a brief pronunciation guidance before we join in collective chanting. On July 10, Nina offered a class with some background on the Gayatri Mantra and a detailed pronunciation guide - please review that recording HERE before this next class. If you would like to print out a word sheet for Gayatri Mantra, please go Nina’s Vedic Chants page.

Benefits of Chanting Together:
Spiritual Connection: Experience the sacred power of sound within a supportive group.
Community Building: Form bonds with like-hearted individuals on a shared spiritual journey.
Personal Growth: Deepen your practice and understanding through collective energy and intention.

No prior experience is necessary—just bring your openness and eagerness to participate. Let’s unite in devotion and community. We eagerly anticipate chanting with you and sharing in this beautiful practice together. Everyone is welcome. Participation is free.

Wednesday, August 8
9 am EDT | 6:00 am | 2 pm GST
Online Free
Register for Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuc-uhqT0iGNWdKeC7RztjrpcBf6hE-dQD

Friday June 21 @ 7pm
Buddha Jams
192 GLEN STREET
GLEN COVE, NY 11542

Kirtan with Nina Rao opening Buddha Jams Long Island Yoga Festival (June 21-23)
Yoga Festival Includes Rodney Yee + Colleen Saidman, Alan Finger & Sarah Platt-Finger and many others

Music only pass $35 
REGISTER HERE

Join Nina Rao and many more friends on the 23rd of April, where I’ll be singing as part of Go Dharmic’s 108 Chalisas for World Peace this Hanuman Janmotsav. This is a beautiful way of celebrating the birth of Shri Rama’s most devoted servant and serving as Hanumanji did. Let's spread love and peace together!
This event is organised by Go Dharmic, an international movement for compassion in action. Their founding ethos is to “Love All. Feed All. Serve All.” and through over 10,000 volunteers globally, they’ve distributed millions of meals, planted thousands of trees, and served at hundreds of schools and disaster locations.
You can register to watch the event for free, but I encourage you to donate and sponsor a Chalisa. All donations will go towards social action campaigns and help create a more loving world as Hanumanji did.
The event will be live-streamed on the 23rd of April starting from 11:00am BST/ 6:00am ET/ 3am PT/ 3:30pm IST for approximately 12 hours, with an anticipated conclusion by 11 PM BST (London time)/ 11:00pm BST/ 6:00pm ET/ 3pm PT/ 3:30am (+1day) IST
If there are any other details or assistance you need, please feel free to reach out to me. Sign-up, donate, and share! Your support is greatly appreciated.

REGISTER HERE

Watch "The Last Ecstatic Days" with Nina Rao & Aditi Sethi

Post-screening discussion with Nina Rao & Aditi Sethi moderated by producer, Prerana Thakurdesai
Dr. Aditi Sethi is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, musician and executive director of Center for Conscious Living & Dying. Featured in The Last Ecstatic Days,  Aditi is an emerging and important voice for shifting our culture’s understanding and approach to dying, death, and bereavement care. 
About the film

Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death. Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace. A sensory immersion into leaving the body, “The Last Ecstatic Days” reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath. To support the film's impact campaign, please visit: https://givebutter.com/thelastecstaticdays

REGISTER HERE $10

Light on Lotus Yoga
12513 Venice Blvd (just west of Alana’s Coffee)
Los Angeles, CA 90066
8pm-9:30pm

$32 including fees via PayPal
Payment will be made to Rare Earth Explorations.

Space is limited, please pre-register!

 Yoga on State
2697 State St
Carlsbad, CA 92008

We're thrilled to have the opportunity to host one of our favorite kirtan wallahs, Nina Rao, whose grace, elegance and pure devotion shine brightly in her chanting. Come join us!

$30
REGISTER HERE

Padma Studio
56 Bolinas Road
Fairfax, CA 94930

Join us in community and devotion for Kirtan with Nina Rao
$30 | info@padmastudiofairfax.com

REGISTER HERE

SOLD GOLD YOGI
20 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Bushwick @solidgoldyogi
Join sisters, Shamina (yoga teacher) and her sister, Nina (musician) for a slow flow and restorative yoga class with live music and chanting.

Shamina will lead the asana and breath practice. Nina will provide the sound backdrop for the movement practice through gentle chanting of mantra with harmonium accompaniment during the practice. All practitioners will be invited to chant in call-and-response as a group to end the evening. All levels are welcome. No experience is necessary.

Limited space, sign up soon!
REGISTER HERE

Yoga Sole
254 Windsor Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Windsor Terrace @yogasole 
Join sisters, Shamina (yoga teacher) and her sister, Nina (musician) for a slow flow and restorative yoga class with live music and chanting.

Shamina will lead the asana and breath practice. Nina will provide the sound backdrop for the movement practice through gentle chanting of mantra with harmonium accompaniment during the practice. All practitioners will be invited to chant in call-and-response as a group to end the evening. All levels are welcome. No experience is necessary.

Limited space, sign up soon!
https://www.wellnessliving.com/rs/catalog-view.html?k_business=11886&id_sale=3&k_id=633160

SOUK Yoga Studio
12 West 27th Street 2nd Floor,
New York, NY 10001

Join us for this intimate evening of sacred music to honor and conserve the sacred groves of wild India, home of the majestic tiger and elephants and a diversity of flora and fauna.

"Sacred Music for Sacred Forests” with chanting and music by Krishna Das, Nina Rao, Devadas and more.. rhythm sound journey with Arjun Bruggeman, and more sacred music. Elizabeth Novogratz, founder of Species Unite podcast and non-profit, as special guest will chat with Nina about the issue of co-existence of humans with wildlife as a larger issue of building awareness of global interconnectedness within and without, and how it affects climate change.

In 2023, founder of Saving Wild Tigers, Nina Rao, traveled to national parks and wildlife preserves in India and supported via donations these NGOs: Tiger Watch in Ranthambhore, Gharial Ecology Project in Chambal, Center for Wildlife Studies in Karnataka, and Voices for Asian Elephants in Odisha. All funds raised by SWT are donated directly to the field with no admin costs.

In view of the climate crisis we are living through, we believe it’s important to turn our mind and energies with great intention to preserving the bio-diverse wilderness areas that exist in the world and continue the process of ‘re-wilding’ tracts of land (and water) so that we might continue to have the support of Nature for the well-being of human-Kind and all Beings. This requires a strong effort on our part to co-exist with wildlife and wild places… even if only to appreciate the pure Beauty of nature but also for the well-being of the Mother Earth that supports us and future generations.

This in-person evening is hosted by Saving Wild Tigers, with support from Kirtan Wallah Foundation.

Your donation goes directly toward the protection of India's forest, for research and programs that support the co-existence of humans with wildlife. It is amazing and immensely hopeful that India, the most densely populated country in the world, continues to have viable shelter for wildlife and a wild tiger and wild elephant population that can still improve, despite ongoing habitat destruction and poaching. It is imperative that along with managing climate change, simply preserving the existing wilderness and bio-diversity and rewilding more land is part of the answer to saving our planet and pure Beauty.

Every ticket purchased enter you into a raffle for some wildlife-motif gifts to take home. Drawing will take place at the event!
FOREST FUNGI $54
FOREST FERN $108
FOREST PROTECTOR $250
FOREST TRACKER $540
FOREST GUARD $1008 (tax deductible portion of this donation is $908)

Gift Draw Ticket $40 : every gift-draw ticket purchased in addition to your admission ticket enters you into a raffle for special wildlife-motif gifts to take home - handmade by the people of India who live around the wildlife preserves. Drawing will take place at the event!

Saving Wild Tigers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
More Information about our work: Visit SavingWildTigers.org
Questions about this event: Email sarina@krishnadas.com

REGISTER HERE

Solid Gold Yogi 
20 Wyckoff Ave 
Brooklyn, NY 11237
(right off the Jefferson L train stop)

Kirtan is call-and-response chanting of Sanskrit mantras. Each repetition of the mantra is a way to gather our awareness and concentration and to be fully present in the moment. This is a heart practice, bringing us into contact with our own true nature. It is a beautiful and powerful way to be in community. No experience required and all are welcome.

$25, please register in advance
REGISTER HERE

Join us in the practice of chanting the divine Names and Hindu and Buddhist mantras along with musical accompaniment. Together as satsang (or in good company), we help each other quiet the mind and open the heart through call-and-response singing. This is a practice of Bhakti Yoga or the Yoga of Devotion. Yoga is the path of practice leading us to realize our true Nature. No experience required, open to All.
A community & family event. $25 investment

REGISTER HERE

Tibet House
22 West 15 Street
New York, NY
8am-7pm ET
In-person and virtual (see details below)

This offering is free but if you wish to support Tibet House who is offering this beautiful sacred space for the event, please bring cash to put in the box or donate here: https://thus.org/donate-to-tibet-house-us/

Re-join our tradition of chanting together in-person every year on the first calendar day! We’ve been doing this for over 21 years with a break in 2021 & 2022 when we chanted virtually from our homes. You can watch the livestream on my YouTube channel (NinaRaoChant). Hopefully there will not be a resurgence of COVID that makes it not possible to be together indoors. Please stay tuned here for updates and be on my email list (https://ninaraochant.squarespace.com/contact).

It is a free event and we invite you bring any vegan/vegetarian prasada or flowers (easy to share) to offer at the altar, such as fruits, nuts which will be distributed through the course of the day. There will be some pillows for floor seating and chairs as well.

Words sheets can downloaded from my website lyrics section (http://www.ninaraochant.com/hanumanchalisa) and you may print them at home if you wish.