SoHum Bhakti Day Fest at the Beginnings Octagon, June 1st

Press release from SoHum Bhakti Day Fest:

SoHum Bhakti Day Fest flyerKirtan is a part of Bhakti Yoga, the Yoga of Devotion. Kirtan is a heart-opening sacred musical experience with irresistibly sanctifying power. By singing these ancient Sanskrit prayers, we join a stream of consciousness & devotion that’s been flowing for centuries.
SoHum Bhakti Day Fest Features truly outstanding local and international musicians with decades of performance experience and they are here to share, come join Our Celebration.
SoHum Bhakti Day Fest lineupWelcome to the SoHum Bhakti Day Fest
Lineup:
12:15 – 12:30 pm Opening Ceremony
12:30 – 1:30 pm Seabury Gould & Colby Beers
1:30 – 2:00 pm Gopal & Friends
2:00 – 3:30 pm Eliam & Friends
3:30 – 4:30 pm Nico Irbina & Colby Beers
4:30 – 5:00 pm Leib & Friends
5:00 – 6:00 pm Meal Break
6:00 – 7:00 pm SkyWater Kirtan Band
7:00 – 8:00 pm Tony Khalife
8:00 – ? pm Closing Ceremony
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Javi Children’s Program 3:00
yoga with nari 2:00 – 3:00 / yoga with Johanna 4:00 – 5:00
Ayurveda Multi-Course Meal prepared by Traci Webb, Ayurvedic Living School www.ayurvedicliving.com
SoHum Bhakti Day Fest menuSnack served: 3 pm
Meal served: 5-6 pm
Spinach Paneer, Coconut Veggie Curry, Dhal Soup, Raita Probiotic Yogurt Condiment and Cilantro-Mint Chutney
Desserts: Kheer (Sweet Rice) & Halava (rice farina sweet)
Ice Water, Lemonade, Iced Coffee by Donation
Chai $2
Coconut Water $3
Yoga, Children’s Program
Venders/Booths and more…
Presale $25 Ticket / $15 Meal
At the Door $30 Ticket / $20 Meal
Sevites – Volunteer/Exchange Please!
Contact:
Ranjith Jim Box
(707) 223-3987
[email protected]
Musician Bios:
Seabury Gould
[email protected]
Seabury’s kirtans are easy to follow, traditional Hindu devotional chants in classic call & response patterns.
Multi-instrumentalist & storyteller Seabury is a life-long student of music. He spent 2 years in India studying classical Hindustani & Karnatic music.
Seabury studied Indian ragas with master teachers such as Ali Akbar Khan & GS Sachdev. He sings & plays guitar & bansuri bamboo flute. Seabury is a music teacher for both adults & children. His sadhana has included the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo & the Mother since 1974.
Colby Beers
[email protected]
Colby has been studying percussion for over 25 years and has been teaching for 20 years. He has a Bachelor and Master degree from the California Institute of the Arts, studying: North Indian Tabla, Frame Drum, Riq, Kanjira, Balinese Gamelan, West African Ewe Drumming, Snare Drum, Jazz Drumset, Marimba, Timpani, Kecak, & West African Dagomba Drumming.
Colby’s performance experience is extensive and broad. Performing with several LA-based ensembles such as Eighteen Squared, Burat Wangi, and Volta Drum Dance as well as playing with many Hindustani classical musicians. He currently performs locally with ensembles such as ATSIA Percussion Ensemble, Vernal Haze, Medicine Baul, Skywater Kirtan Band, and many others.
Currently, he offers affordable group lessons for all ages to the Humboldt region in a myriad of subjects for beginner, intermediate, and advanced players in subjects such as tabla, kanjira, riq, frame drum, snare drum, African drums, & Indian vocal percussion.
Nicolas Libertad (AKA. Nico Urbina)
Chilean Sitar Player, Disciple of Padmabhan Singh from Varanasi and Maruti Patil from Mumbai. He currently resides in Humboldt County where he teaches Sitar and other instruments.
Javier
(Children’s Program) 3 pm
https://www.yinyangtaiji.org/about
Javier grew up in San Antonio, Texas where he focused on Japanese Karate until he discovered traditional Chinese Martial Arts in his early 20s. He is a Disciple of Master Yang Jwing-Ming and has completed a 10-year program, living and training full-time with Dr. Yang at his retreat center. He uses his training, also including yoga, to find ways to live life creatively and skillfully. You can find him in Northern California where he continues to train and teach.
Nari, Standing Wave Yoga 2-3 pm @ Pavillion
[email protected]
Interested in tools to heal yourself, age gracefully and feel more of you? Standing Wave Yoga is a whole-being path of union with the Divine Self. The Hatha Yoga practice is intended to encourage opening in the body and bring balance by connecting mind and body through breath awareness while honoring the self exactly where it is in the moment.
Campgrounds in the area:
Dean Creek Resort
Benbow Campground & KOA
Nadelos Campground
Wailaki Campground
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5 months ago

You Hippies!

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
5 months ago

Isn’t this the same religious movements from 1960’s called Hare Krishna?

Farce
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Farce
5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Like with saltpeter in the food?

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
5 months ago
Reply to  Farce

Hey, do you remember about this:

https://kymkemp.com/2024/05/04/humboldt-county-provides-key-cannabis-data-on-cultivation-permits-watershed-capacities-and-tax-challenges/

If you remember, I sent emails to the state agencies John Ford said were not providing the Planning Department any detailed information, how the number of permitted commercial cannabis cultivation growers were degrading water quality in critical watershed habitats, rivers, creeks and streams in Humboldt County. Well I heard back from those agencies, sent them to Nichole Norris. And its what I thought, someone is lying, and its not the other state agencies. I doubt if Nichole will call him out on it, but she does have the information if she ever needs it…

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Farce
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Farce
5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Yes- I remember that you commented that you were going to contact the state agencies. It sounds like you have .. Thank you! I hope to see a follow up article by Nichole. She does some good work here. And i imagine she does not appreciate being lied to!

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

🤔🧐,

Yes, of course….

Child’s play…

The painfully obvious, Hare Krishna/John Ford connection…

Elementary…

Why didn’t I connect the telltale dots sooner…???

Now that you mention it, it totally sticks out like a sore thumb…!!!

It explains SOOO much…!!!

🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️😁🤣😂😅😆😉

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Permanently on Monitoring
5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

Are there still Rajneeshes?

Out in the street in Berkeley, necklaces made from Lifesavers with a pendant featuring his photo…

Like the guy in the t-shirt printed: “Fuck Yoga”…

You got your religion, I got none at all…

Farce
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Farce
5 months ago

Me too w/ the no religion…or a very small very personal religion. But I do like the kirtan. You can appreciate the chanting w/o diving deep into the belief structure. Music and singing, vibrations are real. Those mental abstractions about the meaning of it all… I am too busy for indulging in such thngs…

Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
5 months ago

Those guys went to a big ranch in Oregon during the mid or late 80’s. Hare Krishna follow Bhaki yoga, meditation, dance and chanting, alike in this festival. Eating meat is disallowed, as is dining in restaurants, due to the belief that food retains the consciousness of the cook—ingesting food prepared by an angry chef will make the eater angry. The people putting on this event are not saying where the money they are raising is going.

https://www.hinduamerican.org/blog/what-is-kirtan

Its too bad people in Southern Humboldt cannot celebrate the culture and consciousness of local indigenous native people instead…

Kym Kemp
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5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

There was a beautiful two day event celebrating the Wailaki’s this last weekend. https://kymkemp.com/2024/05/18/eel-river-wailaki-hosts-first-annual-big-time-event-celebrating-native-american-culture/ Love isn’t like a pie. You don’t get less if someone gets some. There is room for multiple cultures to celebrate.

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
5 months ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Hmmm…

Was Ed being facetious, or was that comment of his just a great big dose of coincidental irony…???

Is he just out of the loop…???

Interestingly…

There was even a brand spanking new drinking fountain there…

And people were having a great time…

But, don’t tell Ed.

That might upset him…

Just for the record, though, I didn’t witness anyone actually drinking from it…

Hopefully if he sees this, that will put his mind at ease…

Funny sometimes how new comments can mash up with old comments…

Like an old beer drinking friend of mine used to say…

“I don’t drink water…

Fish fuck in it…”

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Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
5 months ago
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It does not surprise me people with any common sense don’t drink from outdoor drinking fountains. Plus, when was that water ever tested by the health department, as required by DEH for each and every community event? See letter for testing requirements:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M3nVYSMKTwTlVBs45FeSK4YyfeXrAcns/view?usp=sharing

DEH has no records that testing is being conducted.

Then you need to ask the ratepayers of GSD, was it OK they paid over $18,900 to provide the Park one 3/4″ metered water connection for a single drinking fountain?

And how much was that new drinking fountain?

https://www.sohumpark.org/giving-tuesday/

The Real Guest
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The Real Guest
5 months ago
Reply to  Ed Voice

What does NOT surprise ME is that the news of a drinking fountain at the “Big Time” Community Park Event has upset YOU…

It also does not surprise me that the only one I have heard pissing and moaning about any costs involved is you…

Are you even a GSD ratepayer, or are you just sticking your nose into GSD ratepayer issues, where it has no legitimate business…???

As far as any “DEH testing records”, have you forgotten already that the event was just this last weekend…???

Tests take time Ed…

Chill out a little…

A per your link, they might not even be required or necessary…

And as far as how much the drinking fountain cost, or who actually paid for it…

…how much of that is, also, any legitimate concern of yours…???

The only thing about that, that would be any concern of yours, is how much you have elected to contribute…

Can we safely conclude that that would be, “none at all”…???

(See what I did there…???)

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Ed Voice
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Ed Voice
5 months ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Yes, in the last 23 years since the Park Board took over ownership, stewardship and operation of that 462 acre parcel, its the 1st time the Park Board has allowed any kind of celebration and ceremony by 1st nation native people and their own historic connection to the land and mother earth. So Thank you Park Board.

Farce
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Farce
5 months ago

Sounds delicious!