Concert with context
Contemplative songs presented with translation and orientation while allowing the music to retain depth and mystery.
Education
Questions carried
through song.
Kabir opens conversations about truth, attention, difference, courage, belonging, and how we live. Education begins in singing and expands through translation, dialogue, movement, and reflection.
University collaborations
Performance becomes inquiry
The work has entered university classrooms, concert halls, and community spaces through programs associated with Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Texas.
Lecture-demonstration
A poem encountered as text, oral memory, musical form, practice, philosophy, and community inheritance.
Residency and collaboration
Class visits, workshops, performance, and conversation across South Asian studies, religion, music, literature, philosophy, and contemplative studies.
Media placeholders · universities
Learning across disciplines
Institution names will be attached only to the exact events, dates, programs, and media that can be verified.
Performance and conversation
Reserved for a defining university program with complete institutional context.
Seminar or teaching circle
Reserved for an intimate learning setting.
Students, faculty, and artists
A relationship-centered group record.
Text, sound, and oral tradition
Reserved for a contextual teaching excerpt.
Work with children
Kabir with curiosity
Children can meet difficult ideas through melody, rhythm, image, play, movement, and honest questions.
Bhajan singing
Accessible phrases learned through listening, repetition, rhythm, and collective voice.
Conversation with the poem
Age-sensitive exploration of images and questions, with room for children’s own interpretations.
Yoga and attention
Movement, breath, stillness, and listening connect body, attention, and sound.
India and abroad
Past work includes teaching yoga and Kabir songs to children in Poland, alongside song and conversation with young people elsewhere.
Work with children · recent record
Young voices, treated with care
A recent bhajan-learning session brought melody, rhythm, harmonium, tambura, listening, and collective voice into one room. Program details and photographer credits are being completed for the archive.
Published with permission. Program context and photographer credits will be added as the archival record is completed.