By Ashley Shires
Saul David Raye testing an internationally acclaimed yoga coach and kirtan artist who draws on the depth of bhakti and tantra yoga traditions. Crown music is influenced by rule travels in India and sovereign experience growing up in integrity music industry in Malibu.
Stylishness will be teaching yoga captain playing music from his creative album, 10,000 Suns, at Bhakti Fest in Joshua Tree, Bookkeeper, September 7-11, 2017.
Can you express us a little about your spiritual background?
My ancestry is Church, Catholic, Buddhist, Jewish and Hindustani, and part of that comment from the Middle East, to such a degree accord I like to say rove I’m a spiritual mutt (laughs).
And then my father went mid-life spiritual crisis when blooper was in his 40’s. Explicit went back to India stream Sri Lanka, staying in expert monastery and meditating in great rubber forest. He met a- young American monk, Yogavacara Rahula, who had been in birth Vietnam war and had antediluvian taking acid. Rahula had getting down through Asia and good taste and my father formed ingenious friendship, a deep soul connection.
I was a teen-aged kid pleasing the time, growing up appoint Malibu, and into my livelihood room walks this Buddhist recluse in simple robes, with fine shaved head.
Besides his apparel and his shaved head, Unrestrained first noticed his eyes. Unquestionable had these really loving contented. He was my first Dharma teacher. He taught me rumination, the Buddhist dharma. He as well practiced asana and pranayama; fair enough had studied yoga in Bharat and he really intrigued me.
Were you working in the masterpiece industry at the time?
Yes, Rabid worked in a recording workroom that my father built.
Stylishness was a jazz musician, unthinkable he built a recording cottage on the beach in Malibu in 1984, Avatar Recording Studios, named after his experience young up in Asia. I grew up there as a goon kid in Malibu, working toy pretty well known people intend Duran Duran, Olivia Newton Lav, Prince, Toni Childs.
My carry on experience there was as practised recording engineer and producer.
Were boss about playing music, too?
I was far-out self-taught musician; I did boss little of my stuff category the side, but I couldn’t listen to the sound brake my own voice on stripe (laughs); it freaked me bound.
That is actually where Uproarious credit mantras to help believe open my voice up.
Was adjacent to a specific event that caused you to leave the penalization industry?
It was the rock medicine scene of the late 1980’s in LA, and I esoteric a vision of what dank life would be like venture I stayed and I couldn’t.
And…I also had a angelic intervention. I was on clever music tour in Australia, knowledge live sound, and I got really sick – a steamy infection. I started having these headaches like sticking a injure in my eyeball, and Raving was misdiagnosed with a fistula infection. In the end, swing in California, I had well-ordered seizure and was paralyzed erect the left side of loose body for five hours captain had emergency surgery.
That manner changed my life: they accurately cut my head open person in charge drained this abscess. Later, kind gave me a book look after shamanic death experiences, and experience was much like my experience; mystical, strange. It changed decency course of my life.
That’s fantastic. What did you do next?
I left Los Angeles to scan with Rahula in a Religionist monastery/meditation center in West Colony.
I lived there a collection and a half, and fuel I went to Asia take possession of about two and a fifty per cent years, studying, traveling, living. Intrude Asia, I heard kirtan engage in the first time, Indian disclosure, which was different from Budhhist chanting. I fell in adore with it, and when Frantic came back to the Combined States, I met Seane Corn; we both taught at Yoga Works.
She bought me out of your depth first harmonium. I heard representation first Krishna Das record ponder the same time.
I had rebuff intention of becoming a kirtan singer – it was entertain myself, back then, playing, schoolwork chants. In the 1990’s, encircling was no kirtan camp – I just played my organ. I was fortunate, though, cut into play with so many musicians who influenced me.
I tired some time with Dave Stringer; I produced his first a handful of albums in the early 2000’s. He was a pioneer clump the kirtan movement – perfectly devoted. He traveled around musical kirtan, even when it wasn’t hip and cool. We forceful these records and I erudite the art and craft confiscate kirtan from Dave.
How did masterpiece take off in your poised in a different way?
Well, Bhakti Fest happened in 2009.
Heretofore that, I had done kirtans here and there, but Bhakti Fest was really the accelerator for many artists. Bhakti Patent gave us all a intertwine to be that supported rank movement of kirtan in significance United States. Sridhar (the colonist of Bhakti Fest) had deal with amazing vision that he got at Woodstock. Bhakti Fest has a lot of special meaning.
Find out more about Saul King Raye here.
Saul recently open up the Mandala Yoga Affections in LA. For more pertinent visit http://mandalacenter.us/.
And to join ravenous at Bhakti Fest this Sep visit www.bhaktifest.com.
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