*This course requires registration in order to attend, including contributing members.

From Paramhansa Yogananda’s Cosmic Chants to Swami Kriyananda’s inspired compositions, every piece of Ananda Music is designed to uplift energy in the spine and awaken higher states of consciousness. In those elevated states, the heart and mind naturally find freedom from restlessness, sadness, and other limiting emotions.

Yogananda spoke of his chants as tools for attuning to divine consciousness, while Swami Kriyananda expanded this vision—creating songs that serve as antidotes for many emotional and spiritual challenges.

In this experiential workshop, you’ll learn to feel how Ananda Music moves and harmonizes energy within the spinal centers, awakening peace, courage, and joy. Through inward listening, we can sense how energy responds to melody and vibration, and how music becomes a living channel of divine transformation.

$45

Satyaki (Kraig) Brockschmidt joined Ananda in Seattle in 1996 and served there in many capacities until moving to the Portland Community in 2004 and then to Ananda Village in 2011.

From early on, Satyaki’s love of Ananda Music has had him singing in choirs and as a soloist. He also directed the Portland choir for several years. Since 1998, he has deeply explored Swami Kriyananda’s concept of “music antidotes” and how music affects consciousness.

Satyaki worked as a Program Manager and Content Developer for 22 years at Microsoft, during which time he wrote several books and gave many talks on some of Microsoft’s key technologies.

In addition to his technical works, he is author of The Harmonium Handbook and Solving Stress, both published by Crystal Clarity, along with a memoir of his early tech career, Mystic Microsoft: A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology.

Satyaki is currently working on new writings, primarily fiction and poetry.