3 HOURS KIRTAN
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THE FUN REVOLUTION IN ISKCON
“3 hrs kirtan” programs, and festivals like “24 hours kirtan”, “the festival of the holy name”, “kirtan mela” are places where we can be ourselves. Ladies are also leaders in kirtan revolution: it is a great opportunity to come together as brothers and sisters. Young people love kirtans. They don’t go to seminars so much but they enjoy doing kirtan. And also, you can raise happy kids, simply by letting them do dramas, dance and chant.
KIRTAN IN UNIVERSITIES
For students, these kind of programs are simultaneously a meditational practice and also a big party! Kirtan music will become the soundtrack of their youth, it will help them in their daily struggles and life challenges. Kirtan can be the new reggae, where people can be drowned in the message of love, peace and the names of God. It is the one voice – one heart – one love experience where the magic of group meditation shines.
USEFUL TOOLS
ISKCON Kirtan Ministry
LEARN MELODIES AND HARMONIUM
KIRTAN IS THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE
Bring the community together, be inclusive: kirtan is a very participatory activity. Because everybody has a beautiful voice, invite all devotees to lead and feel the joy. And always speak to the newest person in the room: then everyone will have a wonderful experience.
LEARN MRIDANGA
THE FUN REVOLUTION IN ISKCON
“3 hrs kirtan” programs, and festivals like “24 hours kirtan”, “kirtan mela” are places where we can be ourselves. Ladies are also leaders in tkirtan revolution: it is the a great opportunity to come together as brothers and sisters. Young people love kirtans. They don’t go to seminars so much but they enjoy doing kirtan. And also, you can raise happy kids, simply by letting them do dramas, dance and chant.
KIRTAN IS THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE
Bring the community together, be inclusive: kirtan is a very participatory activity. Because everybody has a beautiful voice, invite all devotees to lead and feel the joy. And always speak to the newest person in the room: then everyone will have a wonderful experience.
KIRTAN IN UNIVERSITIES
For students, these kind of programs are simultaneously a meditational practice and also a big party! Kirtan music will become the soundtrack of their youth, it will help them in their daily struggles. Kirtan can be the new reggae, where people can be drowned in the message of love, peace and the names of God. It is the one voice – one heart – one love experience where the magic of group meditation shines.
USEFUL TOOLS
ISKCON Kirtan Ministry
LEARN MELODIES AND HARMONIUM
LEARN MRIDANGA
Kirtan is the Celebration of Life
BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER
People love kirtan. It’s just natural to come together in a community and to sing. So, people they really enjoy, devotees enjoy coming together and informally just chanting together. It’s very simple
Kirtan is a very participatory activity
BE INCLUSIVE
It is not just about the singer or the musicians. The leader of the kirtan can be inclusive with others, smile, interact with the others, sing a melody that fits well with the time and place.
Invite all devotees to lead and feel the joy
EVERYBODY HAS A BEAUTIFUL VOICE!
There are people who don’t even know that they have a beautiful voice and suddenly you invite them to sing and they realize that they love singing.
Then everyone will have a wonderful experience
SPEAK TO THE NEWEST PERSON IN THE ROOM
It’s those people that we want to feel included ino this. Say something for them, and even the senior Vaishnavas in the room will also begin to think of basic Krishna consciousness in another way.
“a place where we can be ourselves”
KIRTAN MELA: THE FUN REVOLUTION IN KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS
Festivals like “24 hours kirtan”, “the festival of the holy name”, “kirtan mela”, have begun to really attract young people, attract the youth. You can dance, it is interactive, it is very personal.
Is a great opportunity to come together as brothers and sisters
LADIES LEADERS IN KIRTAN REVOLUTION
So many women are wonderful singers. In kirtan nights in different people’s homes, at least 70 or 80% of those who come to chant are youth. Let’s keep going – chanting.
Dramas, dancing, chanting
HAPPY KIDS
Make spiritual life great fun. Share the Krishna consciousness process with kids. Let the children join you when you do your puja and of course, always invite them when you are doing kirtan.
“not many are coming to the workshops anymore, everyone just wants to do kirtan”.
YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE KIRTANS
Young people would prefer to do kirtan than go to workshops and seminars. So, since about 2009 there have been these kirtan festivals. Most young people just want to do kirtan.
“a meditational practice but also a big party!”
KIRTAN IN UNIVERSITIES
You can go to universities and present kirtan as a meditation practice but also as a big party. Everyone wants a party and… “kirtan party, there´s no party like a kirtan party!”
“this is helping with my anxiety, my depression, my relationships”
KIRTAN MUSIC: THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE YOUTH FOR ALL THEIR LIFE
if we can share beautiful-sounding, pleasant, heartwarming and also musically skilled kirtan with the young, specifically those in high school, college and university, they will listen to this for the rest of their life, they will love it.
where people can be drowned ino messages of love, peace and the names of god
KIRTAN CAN BE THE NEW REGGAE
People become interested in the music and then, gradually through the music. they may become interested in the lifestyle and then, even deeper than that, the philosophy.
The magic of a group meditation together
ONE VOICE – ONE HEART – ONE LOVE
It is very much about engaging everyone that’s there because there is a magic that begins to happen when everyone is in that one mood calling out to that one Radha and Krishna.
