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Ganga Ma

Bhakti · Kirtan & Mantra

Kirtan and mantra singer based in the Netherlands, who teaches in Zutphen and Wichmond. Her work sits where bhakti meets non-duality: chanting as devotion and as a way into silence rather than as performance, which she describes as a dance between knowing and not knowing, devotion and surrender, sound and stillness. Alongside kirtan she teaches non-dual yoga meditation, and she has released two albums, Bliss of Being and Cave of the Heart.

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Ganga Ma

Kirtan and mantra singer based in the Netherlands, who teaches in Zutphen and Wichmond. Her work sits where bhakti meets non-duality: chanting as devotion and as a way into silence rather than as performance, which she describes as a dance between knowing and not knowing, devotion and surrender, sound and stillness. Alongside kirtan she teaches non-dual yoga meditation, and she has released two albums, Bliss of Being and Cave of the Heart.

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01NOV

Retreat Day "Stille Grond" in Wichmond

Wichmond, Netherlands · Day retreat

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