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Children’s CD Coming Soon

At the beginning of the year I was inspired and announced that I was going to produce a CD of songs for children, and even wrote the title song for that CD.  Shortly afterwards, I lost momentum and thought that I would have to postpone or cancel the project.   But in the last few weeks, the project has been put back on track.

I met a collaborator and we started working on the CD.  We have twelve tracks in progress, including the the title track “Do What You Can.”  A few of my previous songs are included as well as some children’s standards and old time sing along songs.  It is going to be an “unplugged” type of recording and it will closely match my live-in-person performance.  If all goes well it will be ready sometime in August.

 

 

 

Malaysia Tour Coming to An End

I have been in Malaysia for the past two weeks and participated in a big spiritual retreat where I gave a one hour concert. After the retreat I gave lectures in three places: Ipoh, Alor Star and Penang. I sold all the CDs that I brought with me and enjoyed the warm friendship of the Malaysian people. I look forward to returning here in the near future.

Here are some photos from the tour:

Songs and stories on May 24th

The retreat at Batu Gajah, Malaysia

 

Still another article on yoga ethics

I have been writing a series of articles on the ethical base of yoga, known as Yama and Niyama.  There are five principles of Yama, and these instruct a person to restrain his or her conduct in order to remain in harmony with the external environment and society.  The five points of Niyama are practices that a spiritual aspirant adopts in order to get internal harmony and purification.  My latest article in this series is about achieving thorough contentment which in yoga is known as santosha or santos’a.  You can read the article on this site by pressing this link.

Remembering Richie Havens

by Dada Vedaprajinananda

Richie Havens, one of the greatest contemporary American   folk singers, passed away this week and his passing made me remember him, his unique music and my own evolution in the 1960s.

Sometime in 1967 or 1968 I was sitting in a coffee house on my college campus and I heard a record playing Richie Havens’ version of “Just Like a Woman.”  It was a track from his album “Mixed Bag.”  The pleasing melody of Bob Dylan’s song and Richie Havens’ comforting voice really struck me and I liked it immediately. Continue reading

One more article in the yoga ethics series

Our daily conduct has a big impact on our capacity to meditate and to reach higher states of consciousness. That’s why the base of yoga is good conduct or the practice of Yama and Niyama.  I am in the process of writing a series of articles explaining these guidelines for good conduct, and just completed an article on Shaoca, explaining the role of cleanliness and purity in the quest for human perfection.  You can read the article by clicking this link.

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