Kirtan
Sacred Songs for the Soul
Kirtan with Darren is a sanctuary for the soul. Come gather with community that feels like family — a safe space that feels like home. Here, your whole being is welcome. This is a place to feel seen, heard, and loved.
Come to express the joyful magic within your heart, play, connect with your creativity, and experience the ecstatic nature of your essential essence.
Get into the Bhav
‘The Bhav’ translates to “the mood of devotion.” In the bhav, we merge with the frequency of Love — the Love that we are, that’s within us, and all around us. The experience can range from celebratory dancing to meditative bliss. This is the state invoked by Kirtan. When we do this as a group, the collective energy is profoundly heart-opening and healing, elevating our vibration and connecting us deeper to the divine.
Why Kirtan?
Kirtan is call-and-response singing of devotional music, stemming from Bhakti Yoga (the yoga of Love and Devotion). As we sing easily-learnable melodies and mantras in English, Sanskrit, and other sacred languages, we connect with Spirit and with each other.
The frequencies of the music open healing doorways to our innate internal states of joy, peace, and love. The mantras, many of which are names of God, are known as “revealing sounds.” They reveal our true nature — that of pure consciousness, ultimate truth, and bliss.
View a list of venues where Darren has led kirtan or other heart-centered workshops in the past.
“I usually talk too much, but here I am, at a loss for words! I knew today was going to be very special, and lead me to where I needed to be. And although it was obvious from peoples’ comments that everyone else understood kirtan, none of that mattered. What mattered was that we were all together and there was so much love and healing generated. I didn’t know the words, the languages, you name it, I didn’t know it, but my center did, so I just went with it and sang and allowed myself to ‘be.’”
— Angela S., Santa Barbara, CA
Connect More with Darren
Hooked on Darren’s Kirtan Concerts? Explore Darren’s other offerings to deepen your spiritual journey.
His Bhakti Retreat experiences include heart-centered activities like kirtan, cacao ceremony, devotional songwriting and poetry, and japa meditation practice. Through the experience you’ll dive even deeper into the bhav and connect with the joy of a soulful community that will last a lifetime.
Interested in a personal heart-opening song journey to manifest your soul’s deepest desires? Contact Darren for a special invitation to join him on a 1:1 4-week guided song journey. Over 4 weeks and with Darren as your guide, you’ll create the song of your soul; an original song that will raise your frequency by opening your voice, creating resonance and abundance in your life.
