Chanting to the Divine Mother with Shanta and Indira Bulkin *
Saturday 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM & 2:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday 10:30 AM -12:30 PM
Suggested Donation/Tuition: $30 per session or $80 for all three sessions (no one will be turned away for lack of funds)
In this workshop, students will understand how Sanskrit is a tool for meditation. Through chanting and pronouncing the Sanskrit alphabet, it is possible to experience inner alignment. Selected verses to the Devi, the divine feminine aspect of nature will be taught through a devotional and philosophical lens regarding daily life.
Saturday afternoon will include an introduction to Sanskrit Metrics, or chandas, the science of prosody, and a continuation of chanting to the Divine Mother, the creative, nurturing and dynamic force of the universe.
On Sunday, Mother's Day, further investigation into Metrics with an emphasis on chanting verses to the Divine Mother, who manifests, sustains, and transforms the universe, and who embodies qualities like love and compassion.
Shanta Bulkin met his teacher, Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati (Shri Ramamurti), in 1972 at Ananda Ashram. That fateful summer, the Guru's first words to him were: "If you want to stay here you must study Sanskrit!” Shanta did just that. Fifty-some-odd years later, he still feels that promoting the Sanskrit language is his dharma.
Indira (Ann) Bulkin met Shri Brahmananda Sarasvati in the summer of 1971. The following spring, she became a full-time student at the Yoga Society of San Francisco. During that time, the Guru held Sanskrit classes for many hours a day, seven days a week. In the early 1980s, he named her the head of the Sanskrit Department at the YSSF.
