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Aloha
and Namaste.
 
Fall in Oregon is so sweet. It’s been very mild and gentle. So many apples!  Anandaji and I just completed our second ‘Altar of Love Immersion’ in Arcata, California this past weekend. The first was October 14-16 in our hometown of Eugene. Both were amazing!  An outpouring of love and devotion and transcendental, healing connection in the community.
We recently decided to create these special immersions where we can share all of our practices in one weekend: kirtan, sacred music, Bhakti Yoga, Kundalini yoga, Partner yoga, Kirtronica (ecstatic yoga trance dance) and cacao ceremony.                                                                                    You can read more about them here: http://jayalakshmi.net/altar-of-love-weekend-immersions/
The next city in line for the Altar of Love Immersion is Sebastopol, California, November 4-5-6 at the Odd Fellows Hall. Friday,?8-11pm Kirtan and Sacred Music - Saturday, 11:00pm-1:30pm Partner Yoga Workshop - 4:00pm-6:30pm: Bhakti Yoga Workshop?9:00pm-12:00pm Kirtronica (Yoga Trance Dance)  - Sunday, 11:00am-1:30pm: Kundalini Yoga and Meditation 4:00pm-6:30pm: Cacao Ceremony
We’re so excited for our 11-11-11 tour with Shimshai In numerology, 11-11-11 represents the soul’s ascension and our transition into the heart age.    We will be in Nevada City/Grass Valley for this most auspicious day;  11-10 in Santa Cruz, 11-12 in Berkeley.
You can also go to my website for more info on upcoming events: http://jayalakshmi.net/events-calendar/
Last June we came out with our two LIVE at the Altar of Love albums  - one has my new songs on it, and the other has Anandaji’s songs, all with our awesome band including Ankush Vimawala on tabla, Vince McLellan on flute, Vicki Estrada and Luna Marcus support vocals. You can listen to them on our bandcamp sites:   http://store.jayalakshmi.net/ http://anandayogiji.bandcamp.com/
It is such an exciting time to be alive and witness the transformation of consciousness happening. We are lifting each other up and so many of us are manifesting our divine natures – nothing holding us back now!  And there is so much work to do!’Until samsara is empty’ as the Boddhisatva/Buddha Tara vowed -  to help all sentient beings cross the ocean of existence to their Buddhahood.
Sending love and blessings to everyone.  Hope to meet you at the Altar of Love!
 

Wow the whole summer is gone and fall is here! So many amazing festivals and so much great connection with awesome people.

One of the highlights was at Bhakti Fest this year – we had a late night set after Jai Uttal on Friday, and during our set it started lightening and thundering (very rare for Joshua Tree desert!) we played until 3am, finishing up with a ‘Jai Ma’ kirtronica dance and right when we were finished it started pouring! And, I mean pouring, rivers of water. Everyone took cover under the awnings and a spontaneous high energy kirtan started with ChitAnand, who had to miss their set on the stage due to the weather. Most auspicious event!

Ananda and I have birthed the ‘Altar of Love’ Weekend Immersions because we are so inspired to share all of our practices which include kirtan and singing prayers, partner yoga, kirtronica dance, kundalini yoga and meditation, and cacao ceremony! We thought, how can we do it all? So we have started booking weekends at our venues instead of just one night.

Find out more about the Weekend Immersions, including info on each practice and a list of all Upcoming Immersion Events.

We are going to be doing a dozen or so of these in the coming year, in addition to some other special events and festivals which will be posted here on the homepage. I hope to see you and/or meet you at our immersions, it will be such a special space to connect in.

Infinite Love and Blessings

I’m ecstatic to announce that my new live album ‘Live at the Altar of Love’ has been released today, June 1st.

Download my new live album Live at the Altar of Love at my bandcamp store.

Anandaji’s new album (same title: ‘Live at the Altar of Love’) was also recorded at the same time, and is also available at his bandcamp store.

This has been a very special spiritual, creative collaboration inspired by the grace of our connection that enabled us to deeply share and support one another to manifest these live recordings of our music this last winter.

One of the songs we created together, the ‘Divine Lover’s Maha Mantra’ expresses exquisite emotional facets of a newly realized spiritual love and union, that opens the heart to even greater expanses of cosmic love for all.

We are having a special Album Release Celebration at our house tonight. We decided that we would not print this album to CDs to help cut down on plastic use, which thankfully seems to be a growing trend. Downloads are in! Soon we’ll have download cards available.

Our upcoming schedule:
We’re off to Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa, CA next week to work the Coconut Bliss booth, headline with Lost at Last Tribe at Harmony Hall Night of Bliss on Saturday June 11th as well as play kirtan at the Oasis stage that same morning at 10:30am. (By the way our warm up show at Harbin Hot Springs last weekend totally rocked!)

Then it’s to Esalen June 13-17 for the Yoga Festival to channel soundscapes and prayers for an amazing group of transforming yogis, guided by Saul David Raye, Sianna Sherman and Janet Stone.

Next is the Summer Solstice Kundalini Gathering in Espanol, New Mexico June 17-26 – we’ll be deep into the practice in so many ways, including serving Coconut Bliss at night and playing music at the Yogi Tea Cafe (and probably a lot of other places too)

More coming up. Stay tuned. We are all in this together. So much love coming through, more than we ever dreamed of! Limitless, bottomless, endless love and compassion. May our hearts keep expanding as they are designed to do!

Namaste

Today, April 1st we are celebrating my daughter Tandava’s 17th birthday and the fact that spring has finally arrived! The flowers are blooming, the air is warming. Thank god for all the sweet Oregon rain we had recently, for now we are about to be immersed in lushness and vibrant life blossoming all around. There is so much blossoming in my world I don’t know where to start to share, but perhaps I’ll just keep it simple; what’s happening is an extreme flow of grace – in love, music, yoga, family, and a deepening realization of blissful self. I am radiating with rivers of gratitude for this life, whatever it may be.

We’ve transformed my home into a temple/yoga studio/concert venue since Ananda moved in last November, and it really is perfect. I’ve been a bit shy about advertising but I’m getting used to it and I’ve included some of our upcoming super special events below.

Big news: members of Lost at Last are reuniting for a Saturday night show at Harmony Fest’s ‘Night of Bliss’ on June 11, sandwiched between Krishna Das and Shimshai. We are very excited! I’ve been working on my ‘kirtronica’ music for sometime now and I’m ready to break it out more, especially since Anandaji is running the beats on Ableton Live and I can focus more on singing. I’ll be sharing some of it at the Harmony set as Om and I create a blended set list of new material and classics.

Re: my new album – I was in the studio working on the new album with Ben Leinbach last fall but I was running short of funds and time so the studio album is now on hold – but the good news is that we managed to create a very nice live album through a series of recent house concerts that has a lot of my new songs on it. It will be done very soon, by the time we make it to the spring Bhakti Fest in two weeks (April 15).

Yoga: I have been turned on to Kundalini yoga and meditation and I’m finding that it is so powerfully shifting things in my life, on so many levels. Diving deeper into yogic sciences and practices has continued to expand my understanding and manifesting of divine potential, the ‘optimal blueprint’ or god seed that every living being contains. Combining the deep foundation of anusara yoga with kundalini kriya, I have to say, seems to be an extremely potent and perfect choice of practice for these changing times in which we are being called to rise up into our full loving consciousness and divine purpose – add in the Maha Mantra and wow, it’s like the super highway at light speed! What a blessing to have all these profound teachings available to us.

May all beings be at peace and always feel the beautiful, infinite love of god in their hearts. Hope to see you soon. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare!