Krishna Das and Deva Premal April 12 in Chicago!

This is a a special multi-city tour sponsored by Nettwerk Music Group, Nutone Music.

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Krishna Das will be touring in spring 2010 with Deva Premal & Miten. Together they are creating an extraordinary series of concerts across the US, highlighting the newfound popularity of kirtan and mantra chanting. These musicians, who have enjoyed a worldwide grass-roots success the past decade, are each celebrating the release of new albums with their first co-headlined tour.

Krishna Das' album, "Heart as wide as the world," is available at Amazon.com.

Buy Tickets:

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, at Yoga Now online. Online ticket prices include a processing fee. 

You can save a $5 ticket fee when you buy your ticket onsite at Yoga Now Gold Coast.

Krishna Das Tomorrow in Chicago! April 11

Some tickets are still available at Yoga Now's website.

It's a happy convergence of events: Easter, Passover and Hanuman's Birthday! Krishna Das was recently written up in the New York Times and also on Huffington Post. Also, you can learn more about the event on Yoga Now's events FaceBook page.

Here's a map.

The Irish American Heritage Center is located at 4626 n. Knox, near both the Edens and kennedy Expressways. From Lake Shore Drive, Head straight west toward Cicero Avenue. Via public transit, take the Blue Line toward O'Hare and exit at the Montrose stop,

From there:
1. Head east on W Montrose Ave toward N Kilbourn Ave 0.1 mi
2. Turn left at N Kilbourn Ave 0.1 mi
3. Turn left at W Sunnyside Ave 0.1 mi
4. Turn right at N Knox Av

Krishna Das in Chicago April 11

For one evening only.


Location: Irish American Heritage Center
4626 N. Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60630
Cost: $25 prepay/ $30 at the door
Children under 12 are free

Tickets are available at Yoga Now.
You can visit KD's website and learn more.

From KD's website
Sharing his heart through music and chanting is the basis of Krishna Das' own spiritual work;his way of serving the Divine within himself and others.

In the winter of 1968, Krishna Das met Ram Dass, who had just returned from his first trip to India. After living and traveling with Ram Dass in the U.S., and hearing Ram Dass' many stories about Maharaj-ji, Krishna Das traveled to India, where he was blessed to meet and stay with this extraordinary guru.

While living in India for almost three years, Krishna Das' heart was especially drawn to the practice of Bhakti Yoga—the yoga of devotion. Fanning the flames of his inner longing, Maharaj-ji led him deeper and deeper into the practice of kirtan—chanting the Names of God. As an appointed pujari (priest) for the Durga temple in Maharaj-ji's ashram in the foothills of the Himalayas, Krishna Das immersed himself in the worship of the Divine Goddess.

If you are wondering what Kirtan with KD looks, sounds and feels like, take a peek at this video.

How to get to Krishna Das at NU's Millar Chapel

Kirtan with Krishna Das
Alice S. Millar Chapel is a 600-seat early music venue located at Sheridan Road and Chicago Ave., at the main South entrance to the Northwestern University campus in Evanston.

Millar Chapel
1870 Sheridan Rd., Evanston, IL.
Sunday, July 27, 7 PM,
$25 advance / $30 door
312-280-9642

There is abundant parking at $1 per hour one block away at Church St. Self Park. Enter from Church or Clark east of Chicago Ave.

Getting there:
the North line Metra to Davis street.
The purple line to Foster.

Heart of Devotion workshop with Krishna Das
Yoga Now Gold Coast
742 N. LaSalle, Suite 20
Chicago, IL
(312) 280-9642
$45 advance/ $50 door

Getting there:
the brown line to Chicago Avenue
the red line to Chicago Ave.

WEB info:
Email info@yoganowchicago.com
Web www.yoganowchicago.com

Krishna Das on the power of chant

“These names. the very fact that they don’t really mean anything specific in the conceptual mind level is actually where the power of the chant comes from.

“These chants comes from a place in your own being that is your true nature. It’s a place that is deeper than your thinking mind.

“Chanting is a mystical yogic practice. And the mystical part of it is that we are chanting these names.

“What Ram Dass and I do more than anything is - what we share with people is our faith.

“There is that place within us that can survive, grow and flourish no matter what comes at us. This is what chanting is about.

“When we chant together, we get a couple of hours of feeling some other quality, some other possibility that you can do anything that you want to do. This is devotional. There are no rules.

“We are tricking ourselves to fall in love with ourselves by thinking that we are loving something outside of ourselves. That’s because psychologically we do not know how to be good to ourselves. We do not know how to love ourselves, it looks like it is outside our selves. But it only looks that way.

These are sound syllables that will help the mind calm down and pull you out of any anxieties or worries or business in your day and in your daily life.

It helps you understand that the script is not written. That the ending is not necessarily a sad ending. That the happiness is within us.