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"For yoga: Cheryl Chaffee (ERYT-500, YACEP) has been teaching yoga since 2005 and is one of the country’s top teachers/teacher trainers in Ashaya Yoga. Previously a Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher, she has studied intensively with Todd Norian, the founder of Ashaya Yoga, and is now a licensed Ashaya Yoga Teacher and Teacher Trainer. Cheryl has studied with Tantric Yoga philosophy scholars, Paul Muller Ortega, Douglas Brooks, and Bill Mahony. Cheryl loves the depth and intensity of Ashaya Yoga. She feels that the purpose of yoga is not to do the most difficult asanas, but is to go deeper into the understanding of the Self through the body, and connect to the Heart. Ashaya Yoga invites students to look at the places where yoga (and life) is challenging, and encourages everyone to connect to their own authenticity. Cheryl teaches authentically from her heart in order to help her students bring about their own transformation. For kirtan: Bhakti Bliss Kirtan has a unique style which transports you to a deep devotional place in your heart, while also inspiring you to get up and dance and express your joy and bliss for life! Kirtan is the joyful expression of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion, and it’s one of the easiest ways to open your heart and feel your love connection to all of everything! Cheryl Chaffee is the group's founder- she has been leading kirtan at yoga studios, churches, temples, community centers and sacred spaces around the world since 2009, including festivals such as the Rasa Lila Fest, the Tampa Indian Music Festival, Aqueous Festival, Wonderfruit, Lovelight Festivals, Shakti Rising Goddess Festival, Sangha Fest, and Zen Awakening Festival. Cheryl’s angelic voice and grounded energy is personal, inspiring, and transformative. Each band member brings their unique artistry to the group, creating a multi-dimensional sound experience. The combined vibrations lift you up and help you attune to your own inner resonance, as well as connect with the frequencies of the Divine. Audience participation is encouraged! Sing and dance your heart’s blissful freedom!

Bhakti Bliss

Bhakti Bliss Kirtan has a unique style which transports you to a deep devotional place in your heart, while also inspiring you to get up and dance and express your joy and bliss for life! Kirtan is the joyful expression of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion, and it’s one of the easiest ways to open your heart and feel your love connection to all of everything!

Cheryl Chaffee is the group’s founder- she has been leading kirtan at yoga studios, churches, temples, community centers and sacred spaces around the world since 2009, including festivals such as the Rasa Lila Fest, the Tampa Indian Music Festival, Aqueous Festival, Wonderfruit, Lovelight Festivals, Shakti Rising Goddess Festival, Sangha Fest, and Zen Awakening Festival. Cheryl’s angelic voice and grounded energy is personal, inspiring, and transformative.

Each band member brings their unique artistry to the group, creating a multi-dimensional sound experience. The combined vibrations lift you up and help you attune to your own inner resonance, as well as connect with the frequencies of the Divine. Audience participation is encouraged! Sing and dance your heart’s blissful freedom!

Bhakti Bliss Kirtan

Kirtan is a joyful practice of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion, that everyone can do. Together, we chant sacred mantras set to joyful music in a “call-and-response” style, no experience is necessary!

Bhakti Bliss Kirtan has a unique style which transports you to a deep devotional place in your heart, while also inspiring you to get up and dance and express your joy and bliss for life! Kirtan is one of the easiest ways to open your heart and feel your love connection to all of everything!

Learn to chant the Hanuman Chalisa

The Hanuman Chalisa is a 40 verse epic song sung to the Hindu god, Hanuman, when he forgets that he is a powerful being. By chanting this mantra, you’ll tap into your own excellence and power!

In the workshop, we’ll not only chant together, but we’ll tell stories about Hanuman and recognize how we too forget our strengths and powers, but they are always there at the core of our being.