Gaura Vani was interviewed for the popular website, RockOm.net recently. Here’s an excerpt from the article and a soundbite from the interview. This week’s RockOm Featured Tracks of the Week are by the much heralded Gaura Vani & As Kindred Spirits. Their songs, “Surrender” and “Sleeping Soul (Jiv Jago)” are but tiny glimpses into the [...]

We had an amazing kirtan at Eddie Stern’s Ashtanga Yoga and Sri Ganesha Temple with the Mayapuris and Lokanath Maharaja. The music went late into the night… Listen to the entire Kirtan! To listen, click on the links below then press play. To download, Right Click on the word “Download” and select “Save As…” from [...]

It’s always wonderful to be back in LA. The beautiful deities of Radha Krishna at the New Dwarka temple are called Rukmini Dvarkadisha, and I grew up with Them. In fact, in that very temple, my mother offered me to Krishna when I was a baby. We got together on a Wednesday night with a [...]

Our show at The Shala was an intimate gathering of about fifty people, but all fifty of them had a smile plastered on their faces throughout the entire show. When our enthusiastic friend and fan, Dennis, stood up and began dancing, his energy was infectious. Suddenly, everyone was dancing, and I thought for a minute [...]

In Alachua, FL, which is just outside of Gainesville, there’s an elementary school called the Bhaktivedanta Academy, which holds a fundraiser event every year. This year, they invited us to perform for their Gitanjali concert. It was special for me because I got to play with a lot of friends who were in the area: [...]

We know Nahdi from the Bhakti Immersion Retreat with Sharon Gannon, and she invited us to play some soothing instrumental music during one of her yoga classes at Jivamukti Yoga in NYC.  Before the performance, Nahdi was kind enough to run some of us up to the Jivamukti Cafe for a tasty lunch, while the [...]

EDITORS NOTE: Sunday June 7th CBS will premiere “Faith, Culture and Music” which features As Kindred Spirits. Click here to find you local show time. CBS contacted us to find out if they would include a segment about our band in their upcoming show on religious music. We invited them to follow us around on [...]

We went out with our friend Jeff and his two grandchildren to get some sorbet (yum). Later, he invited us to his beautiful, modern Manhattan apartment in Soho for a intimate kirtan with close friends. His apartment featured a built-in stage, so it was the perfect place for a mellow late-night kirtan facing a huge [...]

Sunday nights in NYC are usually reserved for the weekly evening service at Radha Govinda Mandir in Brooklyn. This night, however, was special because His Holiness Radhanath Swami was visiting. Radhanath Swami is Gaura, Acyuta, Janaki and Ananta’s guru (spiritual teacher). He shared some Rama lila with everyone, and then lead a heartfelt and sincere [...]

We had the wonderful opportunity to do kirtan at the Old Westbury Gardens with Sharon Gannon, Julie Kirkpatrick and our dear friend and Gita teacher Joshua Greene. It was the second annual Bhakti Retreat for Jivamukti and it was a blast. The Asana class was intense and fun. Sharon’s iPod mix was mostly Krishna songs [...]

East West Yoga/Books/Living is a group of beautiful conscious spaces in Manhattan on 5th Ave – bookstore, yoga studio, ayurveda, and now also a gallery of the work of Alex and Alyson Grey. Our friend Michael Ferranti, who’s the Ayurvedic doctor on staff there, hosted a fundraiser for the victims of the Mumbai massacre. There [...]