Kirtan - Eastern Music Event

Venue: OneHourForMe Holistic Centre,
Ashbourne, County Meath
15mins from Blanchardstown, 30mins from Dublin city centre,
20mins from Swords, 30mins from Navan
Images of venue: here
www.OneHourForMe.ie

Date: 7.00pm - 9.30pm Friday Sept 21st

Cost: €12 online (€15 at the door)

Tickets for kirtan concert

One ticket€12.00 EUR Two tickets€24.00 EUR Three tickets€36.00 EUR

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Join us at OneHourForMe for a spiritual uplift on Friday evening September 21st 2012 - an evening of peace, harmony and happiness. 

 “The chants with Tim last night were breath-taking. I felt something deep inside. Thank you very much” Veronica

The kirtan concert with Tim McEvitt - manager of Lake Isle Retreats and former monk - is sure to quench the thirst of your soul and help you delve deeper on the inward journey. 

"Kirtan" means you'll be singing along in the 'call-and-response' fashion used in the traditional temple music of India. Kirtan has become extremely popular in yoga, meditation and holistic centres in America in recent years and it's only a matter of time before it takes off in Ireland as well.  It is a meditation experience, but it's more than meditation in that it incorporates singing, music, rhythm, wisdom and relaxation. And, on some occasions, the tempo of the chant can build up to a dance! So then it becomes meditation with fun and exercise. 

Kirtan with Tim is a relaxed affair. Simultaneously kirtan is a sadhana, or spiritual practice that hundreds of thousands of people around the globe do in order to help improve themselves. Tim says: “For myself, I think it’s good to try to improve myself. Then I’m in a better position to help others. We help others by our presence, association and good example, and not necessarily by chasing them with our offers of help as we see it”

On Sept 21st in Ashbourne we'd be delighted to welcome you to a special event where you can sing, relax, chill out and meditate. The chants and mantras in the Sanskrit language only have a few words, and song sheets are provided. Don't worry if you've never attended a kirtan before. Most of the other attendees won't have either!

Sri Prahlada is a kirtan chant master in Australia. You can read about what he says about kirtan here:

Read about: Sri Prahlada on Kirtan

Click on image for a better view... 

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Quotes about Kirtan 
- Eastern mantra chant music

“. . . Through that one-pointedness (of chanting), one can merge in the Divine Being and experience the bliss of one's true self. By letting the mind expand in the sound of divine chanting, each one of us can enjoy the peace born of one's inherent divinity.”

- Mother Amma 

“We should keep chanting all the time, or as much as possible. Once you do that you realise the benefit. The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world”

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- George Harrison (of the Beatles) 

“One can realise God through kirtan alone”

-      Swami Sivananda, spiritual teacher and founder of a modern yoga school 

“Kirtan will be the yoga of the 21^st century

-      Swami Satyananda Sarasvati, spiritual teacher and founder of a modern yoga school

Information

(1) You do NOT necessarily need a PayPal account to pay with PayPal. Just click on the option "Don't have PayPal account?" if this is so.

(2) We'll record the name of the ticket holder. It's helpful if you send an email to lakeisle@gmail.com with the names of the other tickets holders if you're buying more than one ticket (but we'll manage without it)

(3) Email inquiries to lakeisle@gmail.com

About Tim McEvitt 

Tim (pictured here in 1995) lived as a monk for 8 years in an ISKCON temple arising at 4.00am each day for morning kirtan chants. He travelled to India twice to learn and explore, and he trained under Sivarama Swami for 10 years trying to understand something about the deep essence of kirtan. He's studied the 18,000 verse Bhagavata Purana - an important Sanskrit literature - under dozens of teachers, gurus and swamis. Tim says: "The moments of greatest inner happiness in my life have been in kirtans in Ireland, England, Germany, Hungary and India, and I like to try to share that experience with others".