Mantra & Kirtan Yoga, Interview with Trevor Arthur & Om Asatoma Peace Mantra

Click on image above to watch a recent IG LIVE interview with Trevor Arthur, a Kirtan Yoga Teacher, explaining what mantra and Kirtan Yoga are and their benefits.  Trevor will be guiding a Mantra & Kirtan Yoga Workshop during our upcoming yoga retreat, Inner Peace, Outer Harmony, near Temecula, CA on December 3-6, 2022.  (Find details about the retreat and Trevor's bio here.)

OM ASATOMA MANTRA OF PEACE
​Here's a mantra we've been chanting in our weekly yoga classes and at our Fall 2021 Yoga Retreat, Breath of Perspective, called Om Asatoma. I chant it to remember my true nature, as it evokes peace, clarity and alignment with your Truth and pure consciousness.  

From Sanksrit, it translates as:
From ignorance, lead me to truth;
From darkness, lead me to light;
From death, lead me to immortality
Om peace, peace, peace

Om Asatoma Mantra (In Sanskrit):
asato mā sadgamaya
tamasomā jyotir gamaya
mrityormāamritam gamaya
Oṁ śhānti śhānti śhāntiḥ

Here's a link to a Spotify recording of the chant by Deva Premal that you can chant along with at home.  Experience the potency of the mantra and what you're evoking from within you when you chant daily 108 times for 40 days or more.  While chanting, focus on cultivating the bhavanam, or feeling tone, of what you're amplifying in your life through the mantra. 

Feel free to comment below with your favorite mantras or your experience with mantra and Kirtan Yoga!