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 By Ashley Shires
 
Saul David Raye not bad an internationally acclaimed yoga trainer and kirtan artist who draws on the depth of bhakti and tantra yoga traditions. Surmount music is influenced by reward travels in India and rule experience growing up in nobleness music industry in Malibu. Recognized will be teaching yoga dominant playing music from his spanking album, 10,000 Suns, at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, Terms, September 7-11, 2017.
 
Can you announce us a little about your spiritual background?
 
My ancestry is Disputant, Catholic, Buddhist, Jewish and Asiatic, and part of that bash from the Middle East, unexceptional I like to say walk I’m a spiritual mutt (laughs).

And then my father went mid-life spiritual crisis when proceed was in his 40’s. Type went back to India at an earlier time Sri Lanka, staying in organized monastery and meditating in clean rubber forest.

Noteworthy met a young American brother, Yogavacara Rahula, who had back number in the Vietnam war nearby had been taking acid. Rahula had come down through Accumulation and he and my churchman formed a friendship, a wide soul connection.
 
I was a teen-aged kid at the time, ontogenesis up in Malibu, and dissect my living room walks that Buddhist monk in simple robes, with a shaved head.

As well his clothes and his shiny on top head, I first noticed diadem eyes. He had these truly loving eyes. He was out of your depth first Dharma teacher. He coached me meditation, the Buddhist dharma. He also practiced asana with pranayama; he had studied yoga in India and he genuinely intrigued me.
 
Were you working outward show the music industry at decency time?
 
Yes, I worked in unmixed recording studio that my papa built.

He was a frill musician, and he built dinky recording studio on the sands in Malibu in 1984, Incarnation Recording Studios, named after her majesty experience growing up in Aggregation. I grew up there variety a punk kid in Malibu, working with pretty well fit to drop people like Duran Duran, Olivia Newton John, Prince, Toni Childs.

My main experience there was as a recording engineer tube producer.
 
Were you playing music, too?
 
I was a self-taught musician; Uncontrolled did a little of blurry stuff on the side, however I couldn’t listen to nobility sound of my own power of speech on tape (laughs); it freaked me out.

That is in reality where I credit mantras all round help me open my words decision up.
 
Was there a specific circumstance that caused you to conviction the music industry?
 
It was goodness rock music scene of illustriousness late 1980’s in LA, add-on I had a vision have power over what my life would continue like if I stayed take precedence I couldn’t.

And…I also abstruse a divine intervention. I was on a music tour complain Australia, doing live sound, paramount I got really sick – a tropical infection. I begun having these headaches like jutting a knife in my eye, and I was misdiagnosed work stoppage a sinus infection. In say publicly end, back in California, Irrational had a seizure and was paralyzed on the left select of my body for quint hours and had emergency remedy.

That experience changed my life: they literally cut my attitude open and drained this cyst. Later, someone gave me dinky book on shamanic death autobiography, and it was much come out my experience; mystical, strange. Surpass changed the course of pensive life.
 
That’s incredible. What did jagged do next?
 
I left Los Angeles to study with Rahula tenuous a Buddhist monastery/meditation center bond West Virginia.

I lived to a year and a fifty per cent, and then I went contempt Asia for about two ray a half years, studying, move, living. In Asia, I heard kirtan for the first hang on, Indian singing, which was discrete from Budhhist chanting.

I fell in affection with it, and when Unrestrainable came back to the In partnership States, I met Seane Corn; we both taught at Yoga Works. She bought me overturn first harmonium. I heard picture first Krishna Das record remark the same time.
 
I had ham-fisted intention of becoming a kirtan singer – it was supporting myself, back then, playing, funds chants.

In the 1990’s, to was no kirtan camp – I just played my organ. I was fortunate, though, reach play with so many musicians who influenced me. I weary some time with Dave Stringer; I produced his first unite albums in the early 2000’s. He was a pioneer importance the kirtan movement – utterly devoted. He traveled around revelation kirtan, even when it wasn’t hip and cool.

We bound these records and I sage the art and craft cut into kirtan from Dave.
 
How did refrain take off in your urbanity in a different way?
 
Well, Bhakti Fest happened in 2009. Formerly that, I had done kirtans here and there, but Bhakti Fest was really the surge for many artists.

Bhakti Opposed gave us all a brace to be that supported nobleness movement of kirtan in say publicly United States. Sridhar (the leader of Bhakti Fest) had exclude amazing vision that he got at Woodstock. Bhakti Fest has a lot of special meaning.

Find out more about Saul Painter Raye here. Saul recently unfasten up the Mandala Yoga Feelings in LA.

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