Girish is an internationally touring world music artist, teacher, and author. He began his music career as a jazz drummer, spent five years as a monk in a Hindu monastery, returned to music as a session tabla player on more than a hundred world music albums, and for the past twelve years has written, recorded, and performed his own original music and taught Sanskrit mantras and chanting in music festivals and yoga studios all over the world. His six albums have received critical acclaim from O, The Oprah Magazine, Yoga Journal<\/i>, and The Guardian<\/i>, among others. Girish’s book, Music and Mantras<\/i>, continues Girish’s mission to share the art of meditation through music and mantra with the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Celebrated yogi-musician Girish opens new possibilities for transforming your life through song, combining the ancient art of singing mantra with twenty-first century neuroscience research.<\/p>\n
For as long as he can remember, Girish has created rhythm to accompany life. His first experience of music as sacred art came in college, playing with jazz bands. \u201cDuring improvisational sessions,\u201d he recalls, \u201cthere were these unexplainable moments of synchronicity and intuition that felt like magic.\u201d This led Girish to an unexpected journey\u2014a seeming detour to live as a monk in an ashram for five years that inadvertently nourished his musical artistry. Here, he studied Sanskrit as a means to understand the deeper meanings of ancient chants, which sparked a life-changing event that led him back to music\u2014and to combine music with Sanskrit chants. Now he shares what he\u2019s learned to help people of all ages, backgrounds, and traditions to transform body, brain, and life through mantra and music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_cat":[41],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n