Launch Your Home Chant Practice with Healing & Ceremony Songs!
Learn to chant and play the harmonium in a fun and practical way. Plus, receive real-time guidance from expert instructors Mike Cohen, Dawnia Dresser & Michele Heaphy within a safe and supportive Kirtan community!
What's Included
This beginner-friendly program is designed for ultimate newbies, harmonium explorers, and anyone seeking an accessible, entry level immersion into Western Kirtan. Class participants are provided with everything they need to launch their home chant practice, including:
- PDF lyric + melody sheets for 7 Healing & Ceremony Songs in Sanskrit, Spanish, English, and Mashups (English + Mantra)
- Guidance on using appropriate fingers as you play chant chords
- Three pre-recorded instructional videos per week, taught by Mike Cohen
- Voice training with KLI instructor Dawnia Dresser
- Private Facebook Group of current participants + course alumni
- BONUS: Optional weekly community support Zoom calls with KLI Instructors Mike Cohen, Dawnia Dresser, & Michele Heaphy where you can get all of your question answered! Zoom sessions held Tuesday's from 6-7pm MT (Colorado time), 5pm PT, 7pm CT and 8pm ET
As a Result of This Training, You Will...
⭐️ Learn 7 beautiful Healing & Ceremony Songs to chant for yourself or others
⭐️ Connect your voice to your heart and deepen your personal path of devotion and healing
⭐️ Get comfortable playing basic harmonium chords while chanting songs/mantras
⭐️ Connect with a vibrant community of kindred spirits
⭐️ Understand foundational concepts behind Healing & Ceremony Songs
⭐️ Develop an intellectual + energetic understanding of beloved mantras, deities, elements and more
⭐️ Be inspired by stories from Mike's 20+ years experience with the practice of sharing Healing & Ceremony Songs
⭐️ Engage in a tried-and-true structure for launching your daily practice
⭐️ Access support and guidance from KLI instructors Mike Cohen, Dawnia Dresser & Michele Heaphy
Learn 7 Exquisite Healing & Ceremony Songs for:
Mother Nature, Divine Feminine, Compassion, The 5 Elements (Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Sky), Light/Love, Gratitude, Peace, Unity & Ancestors.
These are songs you may hear or share in: Breathwork Ceremony, Cacao Ceremony, Sound Healing, Song Circles, Rites of Passage, Rituals of Freedom or Binding, Blessings, Weddings, Funerals, Births, Deaths, and Other Ceremonies.
Learn the Art of Sacred Song through our Proven and Super User-Friendly Method
You will emerge with the confidence and skill to step into your own home chant practice and perhaps even gift your community with the blessing of a sacred healing or ceremony song.
The course consists of 7 PRE-RECORDED online learning modules and 8 BONUS LIVESTREAM instructional calls with KLI instructors Mike Cohen, Dawnia Dresser and Michele Heaphy.
The course is organized as HYBRID CLASS. At the beginning of the week you are granted access to the chant sheet and three teaching videos for a new song. At the end of the week we hold live-streamed BONUS group video calls (on Zoom) to review the content you've been working on all week and answer any/all of your questions.
Can't make a livestream call? No problem. All calls will be recorded and shared in the online class platform (within 24 hours) along with the song sheets, teaching videos and written modules.
You can do this course in a structured way, or on your own time frame. Course content is available 24/7 for a 12 month period.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What if I can't make it to the live sessions?
Do I have to learn to read or understand Sargam (Indian Classical Music) or Western Music?
Where can I get a good harmonium?
What are the prerequisites for Level 1?
What if I have extensive musical or Kirtan training already?
Terms, Conditions, & Refund Policy
Meet Your Instructor:
Mike Cohen, MA is founder of Kirtan Leader Institute. Since 2010 he has trained and apprenticed thousands of aspiring and emerging Kirtan Leaders across the globe, from total beginners to dozens he has guided to create/release Kirtan albums, play at festivals, and tour nationally.
A life-long musician with two decades experience developing and coaching leaders, Mike has created a curriculum that supports total newbies in quickly and easily learning to play chants from their favorite Kirtan artists without needing to understand or learn Western or Indian music (Sargam). Training for advanced students expands beyond Musicianship into important domains such as chant writing, Psycho-Spiritual Leadership, Community Building, Entrepreneurship, Shadow work and minimizing Spiritual Bypassing. He shares insights and practices from discourses such as Somatics, the Enneagram of Personality, Integral Theory, Ontology, Integral Unfolding, the Dattatreya lineage of Sri Kaleshwar, and more.
Mike has released four critically-acclaimed full length Kirtan albums. For well over a decade, Mike has toured North America, offering accessible and potent Kirtan events in yoga studios, healing centers and at yoga/chant festivals. In 2015 he was honored to open for the legendary Krishna Das at Bhakti Fest. Mike lives in Boulder, CO where he regularly shares high energy Kirtan events with his band, Mike Cohen & The Shakti Groove.
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