Do you enjoy listening to mantra recitation? Are you drawn to chanting yourself? Are you worried where to begin?

Would you like to deepen your yoga and meditation practice with a regular chanting practice? Have you struggled to make this part of your routine? Or do you have a regular practice and are looking for the connection of chanting in community?

If this sounds like you, I invite you to join me on a monthly chanting practice. I will introduce you to a chant every month. We will explore the meaning of the mantra, how to pronounce the words, how to chant using a japa mala (chanting beads), listen to the rich wisdom traditions linked to the chant, the stories that bring the mantra to life and to end the session with all of us chanting together.

To me chanting these sacred verses is an intimate practice. We offer the mantra our praņa (life energy), our awareness, our attention, breathing life into this tradition.

In turn the mantra offers us the praņa of all those who have chanted before us and all those who are chanting with us and those who come after us.

A sacred exchange of praņa across time and space.

Over time, I hope you are able to build a relationship with the mantra and are able to incorporate chanting in your regular practice.

Where: Ganger Farm Sports Park, Ganger Farm Way, Ampfield, Romsey, SO51 0EE.

Day: Friday 19th September 25

Time: 18:30 to 20:00

Investment: £20

Friday October 17th, 18:30 to 20:00

Friday November 21st, 18:30 to 20:00

Gaṇeśa our beloved elephant headed lord of removing obstacles. celebrates his birthday on Wednesday the 27th of August. For this glorious 10 day celebration, I will share my personal practice online and invite you to join me.

Gaṇeśa is believed to be the remover of obstacles. But sometimes he could be the obstacle in our path encouraging us to forge a new path. I have always imagined Gaṇeśa, as this little baby elephant nudging me to find the right path. The path that, in my heart I know is the right one. Especially when the annoying voice in my head is making me doubt myself..

How are things with you at the moment? Are you feeling stuck, or would you just appreciate a little clarity, a little nudge in the right direction? Is something holding you back on forging your own path? Or are things moving along smoothly, and you just want to celebrate Gaṇeśa’s wise playful energy.

If this feels like you, then join me for this special sādhana. I will recite a 10 min hymn to Gaṇeśa. To end the session we repeat Gaṇeśa’s mantra Oṃ gaṃ gaṇapataye namaḥ 108 times. This is my personal practice and it would be a privilege to share it with you.

To top things off Gaṇeśa LOVES sweets! Chanting to him is not complete wiithout a sweet treat! So offer a little sweet to him, join the chanting session. At the end of the session, have the sweet treat (prasād) as his special gift to you. Do you need another reason to practice?

Make a date with yourself and Gaṇeśa for 10 days from the 27th of August to the 5th of September, from 6:30 am to 7am, I hope you will join me, and the joy of Gaṇeśa and his love of sweets fills your life with all the sweetness you need.