Monday Evening Zoom Meditation Sangha
Mondays, 7 PM to about 8:15 PM EST
Join an established Zoom sangha of beautiful meditators from across the US. We sit together for 40 minutes, then have an inspirational reading a participant has brought and a lively discussion. You’re free to do any form of silent meditation.
This is a free offering, but monetary gifts are welcome at Venmo or PayPal.
Wednesday Evening Zoom Chanting
Wednesdays, 7 PM to about 8:15 PM EST
Join ongoing weekly sessions of Sanskrit call and response chanting in the tradition of Kripalu. The chants are different each week, some very ancient, some newer. ZoomChant members receive a weekly informational email with the week’s chants and an interesting article. This is a good one to invite your friends to.
This is a free offering, but monetary gifts are welcome at Venmo or PayPal.
Upcoming Programs-Zoom and Live
LIVE: IN-PERSON and ON ZOOM on 11/6/2022: Speaking from the Heart—and Being Heard!
Join me on Sunday, November 6th, from 2-4pm at The Yoga Space in Keene, NH in-person or virtually on Zoom.
Whether your public speaking is on stage, teaching, or offering a toast, this workshop is for you.
Recorded Fall 2021: Gateways to Meditation: Exploring Six Concentration Practices
Six 75-minute sessions for beginners. Experienced practitioners welcome.
Learn and practice major concentration practices to see which one (or ones) resonate with your personality.
Purchase the full series for the best experience or you can purchase single sessions.
One-on-One Sessions with Bhavani
With Bhavani’s background in vocal study and performance, as well as her achieving the Distinguished Toastmaster level in the Toastmaster’s organization and having taught public speaking for years, she is available for individual:
-voice lessons
-vocal performance coaching
-speech basics, and
-speech presentation coaching
Bhavani also does individual meditation and chanting sessions.
Workshops to Sponsor—Zoom and Live
Create a workshop for your friends or business colleagues—live or on Zoom. Below are some of the possible topics, but Bhavani will work with you to present exactly what your group is wanting.
-Meditation Workshops
-Kirtans and Concerts
-Sounding, Singing, and Chanting
-Public Speaking
-Tools for Conscious, Stress-free Living
-Workshops Especially for Yoga Teachers
Bio
Singer, Songwriter, Kirtan Wallah, Inspirational Teacher, Professional-level Kripalu Yoga Teacher, and Distinguished Toastmaster
Bhavani credits as the beginning of her pull toward a career in teaching the moment as a six-year-old when she taught the Brownie scout next to her how to make a carnation from a Kleenex tissue. Her path was further clarified when her eighth grade English teacher asked her to teach sentence diagramming—a lost art—to the class. Since that time whenever Bhavani learned something she enjoyed, she ended up sharing it with others.
That sharing included classic voice and vocal pedagogy, guitar and macrame in her traveling years, junior high mathematics for the city of Baltimore, and third grade math on television for the state of MD. Always she was known for taking subjects that seemed complicated to others and explaining them in clear, understandable language.
Along the way, she was also called upon to use other skills as she did work in theater and opera companies, became a classical deejay on a prominent NYC radio station, did voiceover work, and led choirs. There again she took that experience and shared it in programs teaching public speaking, voice projection, and freeing the voice for speaking or singing.
But behind all that she learned and all that she shared in her teaching, Bhavani maintained a study and experience of the spiritual. In the beginning it was through her singing for many Christian denominations, then moving into Eastern contemplative practices, and finally ending up at Kripalu in 1988. There she immersed herself in yoga, including deep practice in meditation, pranayama, and the Sanskrit chanting she’d first discovered through Ram Das in 1970.
Bhavani counts as her spiritual teachers Kenneth G. Mills, Yogi Amrit Desai, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein, Sylvia Boorstein, Ruth Denison, Namadeva Acharya (Thomas Ashley-Farrand), and Russill Paul.
As she’d always done, Bhavani didn’t keep the practices she learned to herself, but once again shared her knowledge in user-friendly ways, leading at Kripalu and around the world workshops and programs particularly on various types of meditation, but also yogic tools to relieve stress, and the joys of sounding—especially chanting.
The Soothing Series
Be Here Now
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
Mohana Madana
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
Ave Maria
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
Sri Ram Jai Ram
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
A Blessing
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
Music in English
Music in Sanskrit
Meditation Made Possible Volume 1: Meditation on the Breath
Bhavani Lorraine Nelson
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Getting Ready 4:320:00/4:32
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Ending OM 2:050:00/2:05
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Timed Silence 8:020:00/8:02
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Silence with Chime 11:570:00/11:57
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A Note on Sleepiness 2:300:00/2:30
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Rejoice in Waking Up 2:130:00/2:13
Meditation Made Possible Volume 2: The Body Scan and Walking Meditation
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Note from Bhavani
I hope to see you soon wherever and whenever. Please sign my Guestbook before you go—and remember that you can email me any time with questions and/or rejoicings about your practice.
Many good wishes coming your way. Peace and blessings.
Ongoing Support
If you are in a positive position financially and are moved to do so, you may send a gift to further my work using Venmo or PayPal. Thanks so much!