For directions to the music event on Friday Nov 15th from 7.00pm, see here: Directions - Shambala room, near Derrylin, County Fermanagh

New-Style Meditation Classes in Ireland

"Kirtan" is a new kind of meditation experience in Ireland, but it's more than just meditation - it incorporates singing, music, rhythm, wisdom and relaxation. And, on some occasions, the tempo of the chant can build up to a dance! Imagine - meditation where you also get in your exercise... 

Kirtan is practised in groups where a lead singer sings a relatively simple mantra and then everyone else joins in the response. If an individual can't sing so well it doesn't matter - all voices together are carried by the group. And the group always sounds nice together.

Kirtan - What's that?

by Tim McEvitt


If you can imagine a football stadium where 50,000 fans are chanting a powerful melody in unison - the effect can feel like it can move a mountain. The chant, the emotion, the challenge and the human spirit are all intertwined in something big and beautiful. Similarly Kirtan raises the spirit. I visited ISKCON temples in India, Belgium, England and Hungary and took part in kirtans with many hundreds of people - the effect is so powerful that one feels strong, proud (in a good sense), confident, enthused, enlightened and happy all at once. 
Read About Kirtan 

 A history of the sacred practise
of kirtan - A father tells his son a story...

by Sri Prahlada Das

A wonderful story of the spiritual history of mantra chants, as told to a young boy in the late 1970's. Sri Prahlada Das (who was that young boy) is now the leading kirtan-yoga artist in Australia.  
Once upon a time...