Call-and-response yoga chant, traditional instruments, melodies, Sanskrit mantras, and joy! Kirtan is today very popular with yoga practitioners, young and old, worldwide. It is the music of yoga. Everywhere, yoga studios are adding kirtan to their programs. In India, it is an ancient and important spiritual practice, the Yoga of Kirtan. On her first album, Raga Kirtan, Ullamaya Ma invites you to join her in kirtan, the chanting of traditional Sanskrit mantras and many names of the one God. The melodies are based on Indian ragas and they are played on traditional instruments. These studio recordings were based on live recordings to recreate the feeling of a live kirtan event. The vibrational energy of the Sanskrit sounds and the devotional mood inherent in raga-based melodies imbue the atmosphere with love and bhakti-rasa, spiritual nectar. Ullamaya Ma sings and plays harmonium and tanpura. The celebrated bansuri flutist, Steve Gorn, delights us with his exquisite ornamentations. Curtis Bahn plays dilruba, an exotic Indian string instrument. Ed Feldman on tabla. A chorus of kirtan singers from Ananda Ashram/ Yoga Society of New York provide enthusiastic response vocals. More info on Ullamaya Ma's website, http://www.ullamayama.com User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.