HEALING WITH MANTRAS: A Kirtan and Chanting Immersion AT KRIPALU
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Registration is open for our fall HEALING WITH MANTRAS kirtan retreat at @kripalucenter October 9 - 12, 2026. These dates fill up quickly (it's Indigenous People's Day /Columbus Day weekend!) so reserve your spots early!
In this program, we'll learn and practice healing mantras from the Tibetan Buddhist and Tibetan medical traditions and experience their effects on our minds, our chakras, our hearts, and the energy channels of the subtle body.
📿 In the mornings, we'll practice simple mantra recitation (speech-level spoken chants) and silent chanting (inner-voice chanting) to activate healing energies and quell inner and secret obstacles.
🎶 In the afternoons and select evenings, we'll practice kirtan (call-and-response chanting) and sing devotional mantras from the Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
This retreat is an opportunity to learn and practice deep rest and deep self-care.
You will:
- learn how to use your own voice and sound currents to heal your own body, voice, and mind. 💫
- immerse in the profound beauty of the Kripalu campus, nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, and enjoy trail hikes, boating, and guided outdoor activities at peak foliage season. And nature, as we know, is good medicine. 🌈
- Enjoy world-class food (based on Ayurvedic principles), Ayurvedic spa treatments, and a wide array of yoga/meditation/dance/art classes to choose from. 🔥
- enjoy the company of supportive and like-minded community who are committed to being of benefit to all beings
- Receive guidance and instruction for home practice.
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Unravel Your Core Patterns
In times of stress, emotional upheaval, trauma, and loss, our life force and vital essence energies can get depleted, leaving us feeling anxious, depressed, confused, numb, or cut off from our true selves. In Sowa Ripga, there is a branch of energy-healing called mantra-healing which uses specific Tibetan and Sanskrit mantras to initiate healing states, remove subtle-body blockages, and restore balance and energetic flow at physical, mental, and subtle levels. With mantra healing, we are using the vibrations of the mantra to affect the vibrations of our own physical, mental, and subtle body systems, with the aim of restoring balance, maintaining health, pacifying afflictions, and preventing future illnesses and imbalances.
In this supportive and nurturing weekend immersion, Lee Mirabai Harrington will teach a few public mantras from the Sowa Rigpa "mantra pharmacy," each of which can help pacify the mind, balance the chakras, clear obstacles and obscurations, cultivate states of inner stillness and peace—even amidst the chaos of life—and find true ground, presence, and support within one's own body.
This is a program of deep self-care, rejuvenation, joy, and relearning how to gently return to our true selves. We will practice simple methods that can activate profound states of healing and bliss that exist within us all. The practice of mantra-healing can help us transform negative emotions (such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD) and heal core wounds. Devotional chanting helps to open our hearts, awaken our own innate divine qualities, and reconnect with our own true and unstained selves—our own authentic natures. The more we chant, the better we are able to release, unburden, and let go. Chanting is also an excellent method for those who find meditation difficult.
Leave feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, revitalized, restored, and balanced, so that we are able to return to our daily lives and be of benefit to others.
NOTE: Guests are encouraged to bring their own malas. Malas can also be purchased on-site in the Kripalu shop.
In this program, we'll learn and practice healing mantras from the Tibetan Buddhist and Tibetan medical traditions and experience their effects on our minds, our chakras, our hearts, and the energy channels of the subtle body.
📿 In the mornings, we'll practice simple mantra recitation (speech-level spoken chants) and silent chanting (inner-voice chanting) to activate healing energies and quell inner and secret obstacles.
🎶 In the afternoons and select evenings, we'll practice kirtan (call-and-response chanting) and sing devotional mantras from the Buddhist and Hindu traditions.
This retreat is an opportunity to learn and practice deep rest and deep self-care.
You will:
- learn how to use your own voice and sound currents to heal your own body, voice, and mind. 💫
- immerse in the profound beauty of the Kripalu campus, nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, and enjoy trail hikes, boating, and guided outdoor activities at peak foliage season. And nature, as we know, is good medicine. 🌈
- Enjoy world-class food (based on Ayurvedic principles), Ayurvedic spa treatments, and a wide array of yoga/meditation/dance/art classes to choose from. 🔥
- enjoy the company of supportive and like-minded community who are committed to being of benefit to all beings
- Receive guidance and instruction for home practice.
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Unravel Your Core Patterns
In times of stress, emotional upheaval, trauma, and loss, our life force and vital essence energies can get depleted, leaving us feeling anxious, depressed, confused, numb, or cut off from our true selves. In Sowa Ripga, there is a branch of energy-healing called mantra-healing which uses specific Tibetan and Sanskrit mantras to initiate healing states, remove subtle-body blockages, and restore balance and energetic flow at physical, mental, and subtle levels. With mantra healing, we are using the vibrations of the mantra to affect the vibrations of our own physical, mental, and subtle body systems, with the aim of restoring balance, maintaining health, pacifying afflictions, and preventing future illnesses and imbalances.
In this supportive and nurturing weekend immersion, Lee Mirabai Harrington will teach a few public mantras from the Sowa Rigpa "mantra pharmacy," each of which can help pacify the mind, balance the chakras, clear obstacles and obscurations, cultivate states of inner stillness and peace—even amidst the chaos of life—and find true ground, presence, and support within one's own body.
This is a program of deep self-care, rejuvenation, joy, and relearning how to gently return to our true selves. We will practice simple methods that can activate profound states of healing and bliss that exist within us all. The practice of mantra-healing can help us transform negative emotions (such as anxiety, depression, and PTSD) and heal core wounds. Devotional chanting helps to open our hearts, awaken our own innate divine qualities, and reconnect with our own true and unstained selves—our own authentic natures. The more we chant, the better we are able to release, unburden, and let go. Chanting is also an excellent method for those who find meditation difficult.
Leave feeling relaxed, rejuvenated, revitalized, restored, and balanced, so that we are able to return to our daily lives and be of benefit to others.
NOTE: Guests are encouraged to bring their own malas. Malas can also be purchased on-site in the Kripalu shop.
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Where is it happening?
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, 57 Interlaken Rd,Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Host or PublisherLee Mirabai Harrington
