Bestselling Western Chant Master
Krishna Das
Discover a powerful practice, Chanting of the Name, to help you remember your divine essence — and awaken the love that lives within you.
As the world slowly opens back up, are you feeling the pressure?
If so, you’re not alone.
This last year has forced us all to deal with our own suffering. With our “safe spaces” taken away, we couldn’t just busy ourselves to escape. We’ve been relying more than ever on our own minds to keep us company.
This powerful confluence of elements often feels like an intense, unique, of-the-moment experience. But the truth is, this kind of adversity is an essential part of the spiritual path. It’s how it’s always been.
In fact, those who have come before us have been dealing with these same life experiences over thousands of years...
As worldwide icon and chant artist Krishna Das has been reminding his many students, especially recently, it’s why a grounded, healing spiritual practice is so important. It helps you consciously deal with life’s inescapable issues and cultivate a worldview to help you deal with whatever the world brings to your door...
Join us for a new hour-long mini-workshop with Krishna Das as he shares how devotional chanting can help you move out of reaction mode — without getting your buttons pushed, which only creates more suffering...
As you’ll discover, you can lean on your practice to calm you and give you a graceful way to respond to whatever happens — so you don’t wind up adding to the fire by tossing on the kindling of your emotional reactions.
Krishna Das will also lead you through a powerful practice, Chanting of the Name, to help you find the Love that lives within us all.
You’ll see how it’s actually more possible to live an open-hearted life without fear — one that’s full of kindness, compassion, and inner strength... qualities that can’t be destroyed by outside forces.
In this free hour-long mini-workshop, you’ll discover:
- What you can learn about your true nature when you tap into compassion and the heart
- The many ways a spiritual practice can support you through life, changing the way you experience the world and yourself — and even softening your own judgmental voice over time
- How to soften the way you feel about what’s happening, because most of the time you can’t change the event itself; you’ll learn how to be more at ease in the moment, making you more at ease in the next moment, and the next...
- The wisdom of the great masters and saints who influenced Krishna Das’ life
- A guided practice, Chanting of the Name, to deepen into your Heart Space and discover why repetition is so important in your practice
When you join us, you’ll also hear details about how you can continue your work with Krishna Das in his new 6-week course, where you’ll learn how to become a pilgrim on the path of love...
... and how you can experience yourself and the world differently by engaging in weekly chant invocations, and by taking a deep dive into the dynamics of connecting with the enlightened masters who can change and guide your life.
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Join this FREE mini-workshop with Krishna Das and discover a powerful chanting practice, Chanting of the Name, to help you remember your divine essence — and awaken the love that lives within you.
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What People Have Said About Krishna Das...
“[Krishna Das’] heartsongs open the channels to God.”
Krishna Das is an example of someone whose heartsongs open the channels to God.
— Ram Dass, bestselling author and spiritual icon
“... chanting for hope when in sorrow, a sense of belonging when feeling adrift...”
I’ve met many people who regularly turn to Krishna Das’ chanting for hope when in sorrow, a sense of belonging when feeling adrift, and for the sheer joy of recalling the power of love. I’m just like that too.”
— Sharon Salzberg, world-renowned teacher and New York Times bestselling author
“... a voice that could move a mountain to dance.”
A fun, yet serious man with a voice that could move a mountain to dance.
— Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal
“I feel like I’m... home.”
The music begins and, five seconds later, I feel like I’m... home.
— Jesse Kornbluth, writer and editor of HeadButler.com
“Krishna Das put sacred Sanskrit mantras on the music map.”
Hailed as yoga’s rock star, Krishna Das put sacred Sanskrit mantras on the music map.
— Alan di Perna, music historian, author, and journalist
“A living treasury of traditional Kirtan.”
Krishna Das is immersed in the traditional Kirtan lineage. He became a Kirtan singer simply because of his devotion to his guru. Plus his voice is extraordinarily rich and full. I recommend potential students work with him, because he’s the real deal. A living treasury of traditional Kirtan.
— Lama Tsultrim Allione, the first Westerner to be ordained as a nun by HH Karmapa 16 and author of Women of Wisdom, Feeding Your Demons, and Wisdom Rising
“... his outside voice and his inside voice... they feed me delicious holy food.”
Krishna Das is everything I love about life, with a deep wisdom and humanity, the deepest sweetest heart, great humor, brilliant insight, and plainspoken goodness. His spirituality and voice are both muscular and tender. He is pure India and Long Island, malas and plaids. I love his outside voice and his inside voice; they are the same and they feed me delicious holy food.
— Anne Lamott, author, political activist, public speaker, and writing teacher
“... learning with Krishna Das is always a deep, heart-transforming experience.”
Working with and learning with Krishna Das is always a deep, heart-transforming experience. He is a treasure. His tender, loving, and all-too-human stories, his hard-won wisdom, his beautiful music and courageous devotion have continually invited me to open my own heart and live in a greater sense of mystery, grace, and love.
— Jack Kornfield, PhD, Buddhist practitioner, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and author of several bestselling books
“[Krishna Das is] the Chant Master of American Yoga.”
— The New York Times
“He’s a real guy with real wisdom to share...”
KD is the perfect mix of insightful and funny, deep and accessible, kind and grumpy. He’s a real guy with real wisdom to share and a beautiful warmth that shines through in his music and his message. If you’re looking for an alternative to woo-woo love-and-lighters in thin, white robes telling you everything is sunshine and lollipops, KD is your man.
— Pete Holmes, comedian, actor, writer, producer, and podcaster
“Any student who is called to work with Krishna Das is most fortunate...”
I’ve taught retreats with Krishna Das for years now; he is one of the most unfailingly generous and quietly talented colleagues and friends I know. He dips freely into a wellspring of steadily reliable spiritual and musical creativity that is rare in this world. Krishna Das also has the gift of being able to communicate that inspiration in his art so that we too can taste it and join him, singing our intense love of God and each other. Drawing on music from East and West, Krishna Das weaves stories from his lived experience of a path of growth in wisdom and understanding. Any student who is called to work with Krishna Das is most fortunate, for they will be learning from an accomplished artist and humble spiritual teacher willing to share the auspicious legacy of a lifetime of devotion.
— Trudy Goodman, Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage, and the founding teacher of InsightLA
“His kirtans... are haunting and hypnotic.”
His kirtans, chanted in the ancient Sanskrit language, are haunting and hypnotic.
— The Washington Post
About Krishna Das
Layering traditional kirtan with instantly accessible melodies and modern instrumentation, Krishna Das has been called yoga’s “rock star.” With a remarkably soulful voice that touches the deepest chord in even the most casual listener, Krishna Das — known to friends, family, and fans as simply KD — has taken call-and-response chanting out of yoga centers and into concert halls, becoming a worldwide icon and the bestselling Western chant artist of all time. His album Live Ananda (released January 2012) was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age album category.
KD spent the late ’60s traveling across the country as a student of Ram Dass. In August 1970, he finally made the journey to India, which led him to Ram Dass’ own beloved guru, Neem Karoli Baba, known to devotees as Maharaj-ji. Given the name Krishna Das, KD began to chant as part of following the path of Bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion.
He took solace in music, finding peace and strength in both his Bhakti yoga practice as well as in such heroes as Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Steely Dan, and Bruce Springsteen (whom he laughingly calls “the Bodhisattva of New Jersey”). KD also co-founded Triloka Records, a California-based label specializing in world music, releasing such artists as Jai Uttal, sarod virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan, and legendary jazz musician/composer Jackie McLean.
In 1994, KD started to lead chanting at Jivamukti Yoga Center, NYC, with an ever-growing audience of yoga students that has led him to chant with people all around the world. In February 2013, Krishna Das performed at the Grammy awards in Los Angeles, which was streamed online to millions of viewers. The award-winning film One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das, which has been shown in over 100 U.S. cities and in more than 10 countries, is available on DVD everywhere.
KD’s 16th album, Peace of My Heart, released in October 2018 on behalf of the Kirtan Wallah Foundation, offers nearly two hours of deeply moving, meditative, and artfully restrained new recordings born out of a request from a yoga teacher who works with children on the autism spectrum. Forgoing the ecstatic tempo changes so common to temple-style kirtan, these five new tracks move slowly and deliberately. The song-to-song steadiness is both striking and soothing, and as emotionally impactful as ever.
“The chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it,” KD promises. “That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff.’ You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.”
