New Year's Weekend with Girish! Kirtan and Live Music Yoga

Name: New Year's Weekend with Girish! Kirtan and Live Music Yoga
Start: 2026-01-02T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Yoga Mandali

Schedule

Fri, 02 Jan, 2026 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Yoga Mandali | Saratoga Springs, NY

Join us for a special weekend to start off 2026! Join one or both events!
Evening Kirtan
Friday January 2nd, 2026
6:30pm-8:30pm
$35 - Kirtan Only (Both Events for $60)

Girish, an accomplished musician of many genres, former monk infused in spiritual practice, loving wordsmith linking lyrics and rhythm in a blissful musical event, sings traditional Sanskrit mantras with a modern, funky, yet deeply devotional twist. Accompanied by his amazing band, Girish invites his audience to participate by singing along, call and response chanting, and dancing. Girish has been recommended by “The Guardian,” “O, The Oprah Magazine,” “Yoga Journal,” “Spirituality and Health Magazine,” and more. Girish's original music catalog of seven albums is popular in yoga studios and music festivals all over the world, and his book, “Music and Mantras” (Atria/Enliven/Simon and Schuster) continues his work to teach the art of meditation through music, to the world.

Live Music Yoga Class
Saturday January 3rd 2026
11:00am-12:15pm
$30 - Yoga Class Only (Both Events for $60)
Experience the magic of live music - powerful Sanskrit chants set to modern melodies - while you practice yoga with a Yoga Mandali teacher. Let go and let your yoga flow through the beats and rhythms of Girish's soul stirring tunes. Class ends with a Sanskrit lullaby during savasana followed by one call and response chant. This is a truly magical and incredible musical and yoga experience that allows you to go deeper into your practice and your body.

Girish is an internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author. He began his music career as a jazz drummer, spent five years as a monk in a Hindu monastery, returned to music as a session tabla player on more than a hundred world music albums, and for the past twelve years has written, recorded, and performed his own original music and taught Sanskrit mantras and chanting in music festivals and yoga studios all over the world. His seven albums have received critical acclaim from O, The Oprah Magazine, Yoga Journal, and The Guardian, among others. Girish's book, Music and Mantras, continues Girish's mission to share the art of meditation through music and mantra with the world.