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Bhagavan Das
Ecstatic Chant Concert and Workshop

Bhagavan Das is a Master Nada Yogi. This workshop has proven transformational to thousands of people around the world. Teacher, performer, counter-cultural icon, lover of God: Bhagavan Das is one of the last living cultural icons of the 60's. As Ram Das's mentor (author of Be Here Now) he ushered in the New Age spiritual movement and was the first widely known kirtan artist in America. His ground breaking album "Ah" (1971) produced by Jimi Hendrix's manager, Michael Jeffrey, was the first world music album from Reprise Records. Bhagavan Das has also toured with Allen Ginsburg, opened for the Grateful Dead and sung with Bob Dylan. In 2006 he released NOW, produced by Mike D of the Beastie Boys, bringing his message of love and transformation to yet another generation. Living as a sadhu (ascetic practitioner of yoga) in India for six years, Bhagavan Das studied the ancient science of Nada Yoga under the guidance and direction of his Guru, Neem Karoli Baba. Nada Yoga is the path of devotion to the inner sound current as a means to God Realization.

The Nada Yoga Temple of Sound Workshop is a profound and dynamic workshop based on the purification and refinement of the chakras (subtle energy centers of the body) through the vehicle of sound. Bij (seed) mantras are used as well as other specific devotional chants to the deities ruling the domain of each corresponding chakra. Guided visualization meditations are also used in correlation with these bij mantras and chants to enliven and clarify the specific energies that employ the workings of each chakra.

Concert: Friday, March 19 at 7:30 pm - $25 adv./$30 door
Workshop: Saturday, March 20 from 1-4 pm - $50 adv./$55 door

About Bhagavan Das: Bhagavan Das, or Baba as he is affectionately known by devotees and friends, is a bhakti yogi, a shakta tantra adept, and traveling teacher of Nada Yoga. As a young man he was the first Western initiate/devotee of the late Hindu saint Neem Karoli Baba, as well as the first American to meet Kalu Rinpoche of the Shangpa Kargyupas lineage. He has received Vajra Yogini initiation from His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa Rangjung Rigpe Dorje of the Karma Kagyu lineage and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the 11th Trungpa Tulku. During the almost seven years he spent as a wandering ascetic in India and Nepal he received numerous initiations and teachings from living saints and sages including A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada[2], Swami Chaitanya Prakashananda Tirtha, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Sri Anandamoyi Ma, and Tarthang Tulku of the Dudjom Rinpoche lineage.
In 1972 in California he married his pregnant girlfriend, Bhavani; subsequently their daughter, Soma, was born in New York.[3] In 1976 in Berkeley, California, he met Usha, who eventually became his common-law wife and bore him a son, Mikyo, and a daughter, Lalita.[4]

Bhagavan Das is perhaps most widely known for being the individual who guided renowned spiritual teacher Ram Dass, also known as Dr. Richard Alpert, throughout India, eventually introducing him to his guru. As a young man Bhagavan Das shot to fame in the west after being featured in Ram Dass' spiritual classic Remember Be Here Now. Now, at age 64, he travels widely throughout the world as an ecstatic performer of traditional and non-traditional Indian bhajans and kirtans, and is the author of an autobiography, It's Here Now (Are You?).