Musical Offerings
Explore our events tab for upcoming events, whether it includes live music, devotional music, exploratory improvisations, or more. Below are our specific offerings around music:
Monthly Song Circle
Location: Wheat Ridge
Reach out to us for time and location (not at Kriya House), for an evening of practice, sharing melodies from various traditions in a welcoming and spiritual setting.
Kirtan
Dive into the practice of devotional chanting. Below is our living document of songs within the kriya house set list.
Music Lessons
Learn the fundamentals of music through an instrument of choice: piano, ukulele, guitar, bass, harmonium, or voice! Learn harmony and rhythm to enrich your musical experience.
Kirtan Practice and the Monthly Song Circle
Kriya House leads Kirtan for celebratory events at Temple of Peace. We have a group of kriyabans taking part of the merry music making. Although the Kirtan practices hosted at Kriya House are open to all, celebratory Kirtan at Temple of Peace may be limited to initiates. Initiations take place every two months and can be found on their website. To join our Kriya House Kirtan, please reach out personally to join our Whatsapp group where time and location are disclosed.
One Sunday night a month, I join Kelli at her house in Wheat Ridge for a more inclusive song circle. Kelli is a devotee of Baba Hari Dass, a yoga teacher, barista, and former art teacher. The evening opens with an invitation to share, flowing into song-circling with opportunities to lead and learn each other’s songs.
Bhakti, Yoga, and Chanting
Bhakti devotional chanting is one of the most direct expressions of yoga because it unites attention, emotion, breath, and intention into a single movement toward the sacred. The word “yoga” means union or yoking, and bhakti is a path that accomplishes this through love and surrender rather than analysis or austerity. When practitioners chant the divine name, whether in kirtan, japa, or communal call and response, the mind becomes focused, the breath settles into rhythm, and the heart softens. Scattered thoughts begin to quiet, egoic tension loosens, and awareness gathers into presence. The body participates through vibration, the mind through concentration, and the heart through devotion. In this way, bhakti chanting is not separate from yoga but a living form, a practice where sound becomes the bridge between the individual and the infinite.
I thought chanting was weird at first, but now I love it so much I do it all the time. I rest my mind on the Most High with the tools of mantra, chanting, allowing Yogananda’s cosmic chants to live rent-free in my mind, and enjoying the devotional songs that flow through me spontaneously. The flute Krishna plays is my body, mind, and soul!
Emmy
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