Preserve
Translation, recording, documentation, oral memory, and careful archival work keep source, context, credit, and relationship together.
Living contemplative song traditions
Songs born
from silence.
We create spaces where living contemplative song traditions can remain fully themselves—preserving not only songs, but the wisdom, relationships, and ways of being they carry.
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Why Living Songs
We do not
preserve songs
alone.
We preserve transmission: wisdom, presence, oral memory, language, lineage, cultural context, and the relationships through which a song remains alive.
The work grows from sustained learning and real encounters—with Prahlad Singh Tipaniya Ji and the Malwa folk tradition; through solo performance; in concerts, classrooms, workshops, retreats, and gatherings in India and abroad; with adults and children; through translation, yoga, meditation, and attentive documentation.
Every tradition determines its own boundaries. Living Songs exists to listen, support, and create the conditions for authentic encounter.
Three responsibilities
How the work is held
Preservation is inseparable from public encounter and continued participation. Each responsibility is visible in work already underway.
Present
Concerts, workshops, retreats, university collaborations, and conversations invite audiences into the music without flattening its meaning.
Participate
Singing, learning, practice, community, and sustained relationships allow traditions to be lived rather than merely observed.
The work so far
One practice, many forms
Each strand begins in direct learning and is presented in the context of the people and traditions that made it possible.
Music
View performances →Performing with Prahlad Ji and solo
Ensemble tours, solo journeys, notable concerts, intimate gatherings, and listening spaces across India and the United States.
Learning
View education →Universities, workshops, and children
Concerts with context, participatory singing, conversation, interdisciplinary university programs, and age-sensitive work with young people.
Practice
View gatherings →Retreats, yoga, and meditation
Naad Brahma retreats and workshops where bhajan, translation, breath, attention, silence, and community deepen one another.
Language
View translation work →Translation and documentation
English translations, song notes, contextual research, and an evolving record of performances, teaching, travel, and transmission.
Media record
Stories waiting to be placed
These spaces are reserved for selected, accurately captioned photographs and films once the media transfer and identification are complete.
Living Songs: the work in practice
Future home for an opening film joining performance, teaching, retreat, translation, and community.
People and relationships
Tradition-bearers, participants, hosts, and the wider circle carrying the work.
No image or recording will be published without verified people, place, date or context, credit, and permission status.
“A bridge never asks either shore to become the other. It simply makes relationship possible.”Founder’s Handbook · The Bridge