Line Up
A Celebration of Yoga & Sacred Music
Padma Devi
Founder of Heart of Living Yoga
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Founder & President of Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation
“I give, You give, We all receive.”
Padma has been the inspiration of Heart Of Living Yoga and will be leading us all into heart space with a beautiful festival opening ceremony, as well as a special Puja celebration of Anandamayi Ma, sharing Satsangs, meditations, yoga classes and even some laughter yoga!
If you don’t yet know her, she has been practising and living yoga for over 50 years. She is an international yoga teacher who has trained many teachers and ministers and set up several yoga centres, sharing retreats, Satsangs, ceremonies, leading courses and workshops around the world. She is also a mother and grandmother, a professional kinesiologist and a healer who was also in the business world for many years. Living yoga in the heart, her service continues to blossom through the sharing of the Heart Practice, a direct path of meditation which brings us into communion with the Beloved.
In 2006 Rev. Padma went to Sri Lanka to visit an orphanage and ashram where her guru had lived for many years. It was during that visit to Sri Lanka, soon after the tsunami, that she discovered there were children who were worse off outside the orphanage. She asked 2 questions –how can we find them and how can we help? The answer to those questions, began the work of the charity “Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation”, whose projects now spread across 5 countries. You can find out more details and how to help HERE
Padma lives and breathes yoga and service to all, while sharing her joyful heart with everyone. She aims to live as an authentic human being, loving, serving and having fun. Her favourite saying is “Just Love” – she says it is the perfect description of Reality and the only instruction we ever need, all rolled into just two words.
Premanjali
Devotional Concert & Workshop
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Premanjali is the husband-and-wife duo of singer-songwriter Elise Kamala and drummer-producer Charlie Hari, creating devotional music rooted in their spiritual journey. Meaning “An Offering of Divine Love,” Premanjali blends Elise’s rich, angelic vocals on guitar and harmonium with Charlie’s intricate hang drum melodies and uplifting percussion. Their sound weaves ancient mantras with original English lyrics, offering a contemporary kirtan experience that is both heartfelt and transformative.
Based in Devon, UK, they share their music through concerts, retreats, and festivals at home and abroad. Premanjali have performed internationally alongside leading sacred music artists including Deva Premal & Miten, Mirabai Ceiba, and Brenda McMorrow. Formerly “Elise & Charlie,” they are now completing their second co-produced album under their new name, supported by a successful 2024 crowdfunding campaign.
Barry Elms
Kirtan Concert
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Coming soon…
Anne Malone
Mantra Concert & Oasis Sound Bath
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Oasis of Sound - A Journey into the Heart of Sound with Anne Malone.
As a musician and a student of yoga, Anne has a deep understanding of how music and movement flow and unfold with ease and grace, creating a wonderful world of Sacred Sound.
Anne’s love of yoga and meditation has added depth of devotion and physical awareness throughout her journey, and by combining her training in Sacred Sound: (Chris James/ SoundsWonderful), The Journey (Brandon Bays) and Shamanic Ceremony (Annie Spencer/Hart Lodge) with her Prana Flow training with Shiva Rea, she offers a unique yogic musical exploration and has been privileged to share musical journeys with Shiva Rea over many joyful years. Her passion for music has taken her on a journey of sound from the vibrant music of Dublin in Ireland to the exotic rhythms of Latin America, the eclectic sounds of USA and the rich folk traditions of Europe.
With a wealth of recorded music, a nomination for an NME Award and iTunes top 10 chart, Anne!s love of SoundScapes allows her to share her internal sound world, and is especially honoured to be a featured artist with YogiTunes.
Anne’s pioneering Sacred Sound Trainings have grown over past 10 years, and now partners with Yogacampus, The Life Centre, Shiva Rea PranaFlow, Mind Body Spirit, Ministry of Sound and numerous Retreat Centres and Corporate Companies sharing the magic of Sound Healing and Mantra.
www.oasisofsound.com
Eugene Butcher
Heart Held Dance & Acro Yoga
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Shakti prem is a Heart of Yoga Teacher and Heart Meditation facilitator sharing yoga for the last 6 years since her training in Rishikesh, India.
Shakti has been practicing yoga for over 20 years and now is an avid heart ambassador travelling around the world sharing heart yoga and meditation.
Shakti is also a psychotherapist who helps many people in her practice including yoga and meditation in the therapy room. Her teaching focuses on fun, laughter and practising mindful self compassion.
What Shakti loves about heart yoga is the way it brings us all to a place of calm, joyful serenity which is always in our hearts.
Narayani
Kirtan Concert & Workshop
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Narayani (Frances Narayani Baker) is a singer, facilitator, teacher and mother of two small children. She is known for her powerful devotional singing and for facilitating voicework that encourages our highest expression. Her work focuses on supporting people to bring freedom to their singing voices, irrespective of talent or skill, allowing it to become a tool of authentic expression.
Narayani’s journey began as a yoga teacher, teaching in London for many years. During this same time she discovered the practice of Kirtan and subsequently her voice. Until then she had always believed she could not sing. This discovery had such a profound and transformative effect on her that she began to lead Kirtan and voice workshops which took her to many countries around the world. After the birth of her first child 2018, Narayani’s focus turned more towards home. She currently leads Kirtan locally, offers one to one sessions online and in person in Alfriston, East Sussex.
www.francesnarayanibaker.com
Mat Baker
Kirtan Concert
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Mat is a guitarist, composer, singer / songwriter, percussionist and workshop facilitator. His primary instruments are flamenco guitar, bouzouki and percussion. He plays a unique and soulful blend of folk, flamenco, jazz and devotional music.
Mat’s workshops, ‘Rhythm into Stillness’, were born from his experience both as a musician and from his keen interest in natural health and meditation.
His musical journey has led him to work, perform and study with many diverse musicians and styles (sufi band, Bakk Lamp Fall - kora player, Jali Burama Mbye - kirtan, Bhavana - Ladysmith Black Mambazo - Glen Velez - and teachers of The Naked Voice and TaKeTiNa. His travels in Southern Africa, India, Morocco and Spain have also influenced his work and deepened his passion for rhythm.
Mat has been practicing meditation and healing arts for over 30 years. This has been a major inspiration for his workshops, which he hopes will help participants to become more embodied, spacious and present.
www.matbakermusic.com
Shakti Prem
Joyful Yoga & Heart Meditation
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Eugene is the founder of Partner Yoga Art, Heart Dance Meditation and several related arts. He's a movement artist and senior yoga teacher who began his journey in martial arts.
In 2015 DoYouYoga shared his video writing: ".. a means of creativity, of self-expression, and an art form itself a celebration of what a union of two human bodies, minds, and spirits in moving meditation can achieve."
In 2021 Eugene performed a choreography on Sky Arts Channel, the presenters described it as "The epitome of artistic beauty"
Hanuman
Healing Circles
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Hanuman is an Intuitive Healer, a Heart Minister, a Heart of Healing Tutor and Heart Meditation Facilitator and trustee for the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation. He loves to teach and serve with humour, integrity and love for the benefit of all.
Hanuman is part of the Heart Of Healing training team, guiding others in the gentle art of self-healing and in supporting the healing of others. He is also one of the Heart Festival organisers and enjoys creative engineering as well as being a non-conformist. Hanuman is a dedicated practitioner of the path of Jnana and Karma yoga.
Vishwam
Yoga & Heart Meditation
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Vishwam is one of the Heart Ministers, Trainers & Teachers at Heart Of Living Yoga, helping the wisdom of the heart to share itself around the world. Vishwam began formally teaching yoga in 2011 and has completed well over 500 hours of teacher training. He’s led classes across the UK, from Bournemouth to Shetland, as well as different areas in the USA — his country of birth.
Whether he’s offering an extra gentle class or a challenging asana practice, Vishwam’s approach is playful, poetic and deeply grounded in an awareness of yogic science.
Vishwam is also the founder of Flowing with Life, an ecological social enterprise dedicated to nourishing community, where he hosts groups bringing together heart meditation with creative writing as well as yoga classes, retreats and more.
Bhanu
Qi Gong, Sound Healing & Hatha Yoga
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Bhanu is an experienced sound healer helping many people find a deeper quality of life over the past 12 years. His presence is warm, joyful and gentle and his sound baths are magical beyond words. Bhanu has shared the sacred healing vibrations at festivals like Colourfest and Sundara as well at many retreats and other events. He has studied with both the British Academy of Sound Therapists (BAST) the Tama Do Academy. Bhanu has also been teaching Integral Yoga for 12 years and Qi Gong for 8. He offers regular classes and special events around the UK.
Haridas
Healing Heart Sound Journey
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Haridas’s sound creations uplift and transcend, soothing and deeply healing the listener on every level. His music can act to transport the listener into the silence between the breathing out and the breathing in, and as a vehicle to the Heart.
As well as having decades of experience in the music industry as a performer, producer and teacher, Haridas has a long and beautiful relationship with Heart Of Living Yoga and the lineage from which it flows, including playing for Padma's teacher, Swami Satchidananda, at his final week long visit to Gaunts House in 2002 and again at his posthumous 100th birth anniversary at Gaunts in 2014.
He has generously donated his six instrumental albums of healing music, used internationally by therapists and yoga teachers, to the Heart Of Living Yoga Foundation to raise funds for our charity. Haridas also provides the beautiful musical accompaniment for Padma’s meditation and relaxation albums. You can find these and more for download from the Heart Shop.