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Prabhu Music News, August 2008

Prabhu Music News, August 2008
deva premal & miten
News From Prabhu Music - Home of the Music of Deva Premal & Miten

Hi Friends,
Deva and Miten have just completed their annual summer holiday retreats in Corfu, and will soon be embarking on the next leg of their 2008 World Tour, which has already taken them to 3 continents and 14 countries!

Next stops are the USA & Canada, and a first ever tour of South America, with visits to Brazil, Argentina and Chile. In December, they will again be joined by Rafia for a Tantra-Mantra retreat at Maya Tulum, Mexico - there are only a few places still available. See their Events schedule for full details and visit their Photo Blog for the latest pictures and news from the road.

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In love & light, The Prabhu Music Team

World Tour 2008: USA & CANADA
Aug 29 -
Sept 1
Ecstatic Chant Retreat:
Rhinebeck, NY
deva in ljubljana
Sept 6 Mind, Body, Soul Expo:
Cleveland, OH
Sept 14 Concert, Unity On The Bay:
Miami, FL
Sept 17 Concert, Lakewood Theater:
Dallas, TX
Sept 19 Concert, Grace Cathedral:
San Francisco, CA
Sept 21 Voice Workshop, Rudra Mandir:
Berkeley, CA
Sept 24 Concert, St Andrews Wesley Church:
Vancouver, Canada
Sept 26-27 Yoga Journal Conference:
Estes Park, CO
Oct 1-5 AGNT Awakened World Conference:
Palm Desert, CA
Oct 11 Omega Yoga Conference:
New York, NY
Message from Miten
miten, deva and manoseHi everyone – with all this travelling happening, I thought it would be a good time to say again just how much Deva and I – and now Manose – enjoy it all. It may look crazy, and even stressful from the outside, but I can assure you it feels perfectly easy and right.

It’s the center-of-the-cyclone experience: while on the periphery everything is whirling around, in the centre the three of us just hang out in the stillness and celebrate the ride.

I can’t say how long it will last of course, but right now, our love of travel, and of sharing the music and meeting you all again and again is more than enough to keep us going.

Deva, Rafia and I just left Corfu, Greece, after completing The Way Of The White Clouds, our first ever holiday group devoted entirely to Osho and his teachings. I think it’s safe to say we all came away inspired and nourished, although our attempts as group leaders to shed some light on who Osho actually is/was, fell fantastically short!

altar in corfuAnyway, his meditations and our joy of being together, coupled with the music, documentary movies and the beautiful Corfu environment, more than made up for any deficiency the group leaders may have suffered! (It’s just so hard to put Osho in a frame – there are so many layers and dimensions to him, and all are relevant, all tiny pieces of the puzzle.)

To illustrate this, take a look at these clips from his later years:
Osho: I Wonder If This Could Be Love? and Osho: Selling Bliss.

And while I’m at it, just a few words on the Tantra-Mantra gathering: amazing, deep, rich and full of love!! (You get the picture!)

Now we are about to leave Europe for America and beyond. We look forward to meeting new friends in Chile, Brasil, and Argentina on the way...but first stop America and the Omega Ecstatic Chant weekend.

deva premal & mitenDeva and I want to thank you all so much for coming out to sing with us. Keep it up - the spirit of community will see us all through!

And finally, I want to thank Steve Miller Band guitarist Greg Douglass for his kind words on Dakshina: “I took back every tragically hip, snotty thing I’ve said about yoga and meditation music after hearing this. The best singer on the planet, with wonderful musicianship. I start every day with this CD.” –– Go Greg!!

With love, Miten

Highlights From The Road
miten, deva and rafia deva in isarel
Miten, Deva and Rafia in Corfu Deva gets high in Israel
manose in budapest sweden
Our audience at the No-Mind Festival in Sweden
cologne
Manose plots European conquest from Budapest dressing room Maneesh de Moor and Roshan join us for the Cologne concert, along with a few friends!
Thanks to Jalal for the photos.
Links of Note
++The Special Yoga Centre based in London. These people do great work for children with special needs, such as Cerebral Palsy, ADD, ADHD, Autism, Downs Syndrome and Aspergers. Check out their video at YouTube.

++The Yoga of Kirtan by Steve Rosen - Deva's favourite read right now. If you’re curious about the lives and ‘work’ of kirtan wallahs, this book will give you numerous insights.

We Are The World: Meditation & Celebration
++ From Albert Einstein:
Osho Zen Tarot
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us 'the universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest-- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening the circle of understanding and compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

++ From Osho:
"When thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?... Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate. When you cry and weep, when you are miserable, you are alone. When you celebrate, the whole existence participates with you. Only in celebration do we meet the ultimate, the eternal. Only in celebration do we go beyond the circle of birth and death."

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