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July 5–7, 2013 Friday–Sunday 2 nights

SpiritFest: Chant, Dance, Drum

Creative Expression > Drumming, Dance and Movement, Singing and Chanting
Presenter(s)
Dan Leven, Girish, and Aimee Gelinas
Dan Leven

Dan Leven, RSMT, is a senior faculty member at Kripalu and the founder/director of the Leven Institute for Expressive Movement (LIFE Movement). He trains practitioners and teachers to become registered Somatic Movement Therapists through his…
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Girish

Girish is a singer, songwriter, session tabla player, and producer whose life journey has been marked by a series of profound transformations. He has gone from aspiring jazz drummer, to renunciate Hindu monk, to first-call…
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Aimee Gelinas

Aimee Gelinas, MEd, is a musician and educator who teaches traditional world music, drum, and song throughout western Massachusetts and beyond. She founded Tamarack Hollow, an educational organization in Windsor, Massachusetts, offering nature and world…
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Program Details

For everyone.

Through the ages, across all spiritual traditions, the vehicles of chanting, dancing, and drumming have carried people’s bodies and minds toward their essence, toward their spirit and soul. In this workshop, you return home to the meeting place of body and soul through

  • Blissful Sanskrit chanting with Girish
  • Joyful Shake Your Soul dance classes with Dan Leven, accompanied by live music
  • Powerful drumming and Afro-Caribbean chanting with Aimee Gelinas.

Join three incredible masters of the spiritual arts to create a festival of spirit, a joyful community, a soulful celebration, and a heartfelt retreat. Dan, Girish, and Aimee invite you to be part of this collective of creativity. Experience the joy and bliss of spirit expressed through the voice as chant, through the body as dance, and in the rhythmic drumbeat of your heart.