Mantra Soundbath
May
5

Mantra Soundbath

Let's allow the edges of the body to soften in this mantra soundbath. Our theme will be the spiritual principle of oneness and unity as we listen and breathe alongside Sanskrit chants. Marla will lead with her voice, the harmonium and tanpura.
These chants will mean: You are whole. All is well. May all beings be peaceful. Salutations to the One/God.

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Sonic Bloom with Sandra and Marla
Apr
26

Sonic Bloom with Sandra and Marla

Sonic bloom is a farming concept that showed improved plant growth and healing with the use of music and nature sounds. In this unique workshop, Sandra Kurzdorfer and Marla Pelletier will use ancient sound tools to loosen energetic knots and invite you to vibrationally transform them. We will be using voice and breath work, conscious relaxation, a gong bath and ancient Sanskrit mantras to clear emotional and mental blocks and fortify your whole energy system.

Let’s create magic together.

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$40-60
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Inward Office clients get a discount. Here’s the link for that: https://buy.stripe.com/4gwcQ69qm4zP8qkeV2

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Embodied Sanskrit for the Chant Lover
Apr
25

Embodied Sanskrit for the Chant Lover

Sanskrit is an ancient language that was heard by the rsis and is codified to the cakras or energy centers of the body. With proper pronunciation our mantras vibrate the whole body and affect it on an energetic level. This is personal, intimate sound healing that we can create through our own vocal resonance. Learn to chant and unlock the power of the sounds with Sanskrit.

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Apr
17

Assisi Institute Service (Musical Support)

Marla will lead the musical portions of the Assisi Institute weekly service. 7pm start, 8/8:15pm ending. Community gathering after the service, for those who attend live in Rochester. Otherwise, catch the recording on FB on the Assisi Institute’s Page.

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Harmonium 101
Mar
22

Harmonium 101

Do you have a harmonium in your closet that you crave playing, but don’t know where to start? Curious about the difference between the words kirtan, chanting, mantra, japa, and nāda? Marla is a 500 hour RYT in Mantra and Nāda Yoga and has been teaching yoga since 2006. Chanting Sanskrit mantras have been a part of her family’s spiritual practice since birth.

Learn the basics of how to play the harmonium, finding your tonic note, and vocal exercises. You will take home a three tone Vedic style chant and a mantra practice you can use for a personal practice right away.

You’re required to bring your own harmonium and the app “itabla pro” is recommended, but not required. Alternatively, you could bring a battery operated keyboard.

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Embodied Sanskrit for the Chant Lover
Feb
28

Embodied Sanskrit for the Chant Lover

Sanskrit is an ancient language that was heard by the rsis. It is linked to the energy centers of the body, so with proper pronunciation our mantras vibrate the whole body. Learn to chant and unlock the power of the sounds with Sanskrit.

February topic: the cakras

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Śivaratri
Feb
26

Śivaratri

Experience Śivaratri, the night of Siva. We will learn the mantras, correct pronunciation to unlock the full potential, and take a deep dive into the energy of Siva. Within the sound is the meaning of the mantra. Full participation brings us into union with the energy.

This is an excellent time to bring up deep wounds for healing, and do shadow work. Bring something for grounding at the end. Suggestions are a crystal like obsidian or chocolate. We will end in meditation or a restorative pose for integration.

Mantra & integration from 6:30-8pm, with a vegetarian meal and mingling until 9pm.

Sign up: www.truyogaroc.com/events

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Kirtan @ Shakti Yoga
Feb
21

Kirtan @ Shakti Yoga

Join us in song. No experience necessary. We will have chant sheets and go through the pronunciation of the Sanskrit mantras so you can sing with ease and confidence. This is an experience for your personal pleasure and directed to deeply connect with yourself.

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Mantras for Peace
Feb
7

Mantras for Peace

Create deeper healing within your body by incorporating mantra music in the EE room. Marla will be accompanying your EE room experience with her voice and harmonium, an Indian organ-like instrument.

Mantra music is composed of Sanskrit sounds, a body-based energetic language that can heal the body & mind on many levels.

In Ayurveda, the medical science of India, mantras are a prescription to bring about mental stillness. They can restore balance in the emotional & mental body because the sounds direct and train the mind, and depending on the type of mantra, manifest clarity in certain areas of life.  

This is both for kirtan lovers and those who would like a live-music experience with their EE session.

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Embodied Sanskrit 101
Jan
24

Embodied Sanskrit 101

Sanskrit is an ancient language that was heard by the rsis and is codified to the cakras or energy centers of the body. With proper pronunciation our mantras vibrate the whole body and affect it on an energetic level. This is personal, intimate sound healing that we can create through our own vocal resonance. Learn to chant and unlock the power of the sounds with Sanskrit.

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Music @ Assisi Service
Jan
16

Music @ Assisi Service

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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Mantras for Peace
Jan
3

Mantras for Peace

Mantras for Peace at Inner Sage in the Energy Enhancement System Room with scalar waves and detoxification. Sanskrit chanting for beginners. Learn peace mantras that are from Ancient India.

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Kirtan @ Assisi
Dec
21

Kirtan @ Assisi

Join us in song. No experience necessary. We will have chant sheets and go through the pronunciation of the Sanskrit mantras so you can sing with ease and confidence. This is an experience for your personal pleasure and directed to deeply connect with yourself.

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Mantras for Peace
Dec
6

Mantras for Peace

Mantras for Peace at Inner Sage in the Energy Enhancement System Room with scalar waves and detoxification. Sanskrit chanting for beginners. Learn peace mantras that are from Ancient India.

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Embodied Sanskrit 101
Nov
22

Embodied Sanskrit 101

Sanskrit is an ancient language that was heard by the rsis. It is linked to the energy centers of the body, so with proper pronunciation our mantras vibrate the whole body. Learn to chant and unlock the power of the sounds with Sanskrit. The heart of sound method of teaching sanskrit

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Embodied Sanskrit Class
Nov
2

Embodied Sanskrit Class

Sanskrit is an ancient language that was heard by the rsis. It is linked to the energy centers of the body, so with proper pronunciation our mantras vibrate the whole body. Learn to chant and unlock the power of the sounds with Sanskrit. The heart of sound method of teaching sanskrit

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Mantras for Peace
Nov
1

Mantras for Peace

Mantras for Peace at Inner Sage in the Energy Enhancement System Room with scalar waves and detoxification. Sanskrit chanting for beginners. Learn peace mantras that are from Ancient India.

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Kirtan & Nada Yoga with Marla
Oct
5

Kirtan & Nada Yoga with Marla

Kirtan is an Indian musical art form that includes the listeners in the form of call-and-response singing. Your leader, Marla, a second generation Indian-American who lives in Rochester, NY, will lead you through listening and warm up exercises so that you are comfortable participating. This is not a performance, but a yoga experience where you come into greater connection with your own voice and how you express yourself in the world. This is an excellent workshop for someone who would like to deeply connect to their voice, loves to sing, loves mantras, chanting, or is a yogi. When we chant in Sanskrit we connect to what the yogis heard deep in the Himalayas and eventually wrote in the Vedas. We don’t just understand it on an intellectual level, but on the level of personal experience.

If you can include the website or IG that would be great: www.rochesterkirtan.com or @soundandsilenceyoga

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Kirtan @ Assisi
Sep
27

Kirtan @ Assisi

Join us in song. No experience necessary. We will have chant sheets and go through the pronunciation of the Sanskrit mantras so you can sing with ease and confidence. This is an experience for your personal pleasure and directed to deeply connect with yourself.

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Sep
19

Music @ Assisi Service

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

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