Spirit Soul And Friends - Kirtan

Spirit Soul And Friends™ are the Award Recipients of the 2018 Producers' Choice Honors Counter Culture Award for Outstanding Spiritual Artists and Outstanding Spiritual Music And Recorded Works for documentary musical feature film Kirtan Peace Vibrations "Spirit Soul And Friends" are the Award Recipients of:

· 2018 Producers' Choice Honors (Counter Culture Award for Outstanding Spiritual Art

ists)

· 2018 Las Vegas F.A.M.E Awards (Outstanding Spiritual Music And Recorded Works for their documentary musical feature film, "Kirtan Peace Vibrations")

· 2017 Global Music Awards Bronze Medal-Music Video Category for their documentary musical feature film, "Kirtan Peace Vibrations With Spirit Soul and Friends”

· 2017 Global Music Awards Bronze Medal-World Music Category for the beautiful mantra, "Om Hari Om" from the soundtrack from the film, "Kirtan Peace Vibrations"

· 2010 Los Angeles Music Awards for World Music Artists of the Year and Showcase Artists of the Year.

· 2009 Producer's Choice Award for the music video, "A Song of Peace" (Nityananda Chaitanya) which was featured at the Los Angeles Music Awards Night Gala Event

· 2008 Los Angeles Music Awards Producer's Choice Award for the music video, "Loving Thoughts"

"Spirit Soul And Friends" provides a family-friendly interactive program designed for any private, corporate or public event. This multi-talented versatile ensemble brings forth their common goal of taking music and dance to a higher level with inspiring original compositions, peaceful transcendental mantras and uplifting Kirtan accompanied by graceful Yoga Dancers. Audiences at every event are invited to joyously interact with songs and sounds of peace filled with messages of love and harmony. "Spirit Soul And Friends" has over 17 years of experience in sharing the spiritual activity of Kirtan throughout the counties within Southern California and Las Vegas, Nevada to help spread peace, harmony, spiritual nourishment and LOVE to every community. You are invited to come and experience Kirtan and partake in the activity of utilizing music, peaceful mantras, yoga and dance to help create a more peaceful society. You will be hearing and singing beautiful mantras and transcendental sounds that create peace and harmony by their spiritual potency wherever you go! "KIRTAN IS A JOYOUS CELEBRATION...A LIVING, MOVING MEDITATION"

Come and engage in the spiritual activity of Kirtan, a nondenominational practice that has been passed down since time immemorial and a constant in all paths and religions. It is a great activity for families and communities at large. We can sing mantras using all kinds of instruments and genres of music. Oftentimes, people will get up and move to the beautiful transcendental sounds or groove to a rock out Kirtan. There are no hard and fast rules to singing Holy Names! We invite you to come share our goal of utilizing music, peaceful mantras, yoga and dance to help create a more peaceful society. MEMBERS OF SPIRIT SOUL AND FRIENDS:

Patita Pavana: Community Entertainment Project Coordinator/Vocalist, Electric Acoustic Guitar, Harmonium, Ukelele, Keyboard, Djembe, Hand Percussion

Harinama: Project Coordinator; Vocalist, Keyboard, Guitar, Djembe, Hand Percussion

Dee Kiana Laborte: Vocalist, Congas, Djembe, Doumbek, Hand Percussion, Guitar

Madana Mohana: Vocalist, Djembe, Yoga Asanas, Cartels

Madhavaya: Vocalist, Cajun, Guitar (Las Vegas Kirtan/Mantra Meditation)

Jyoti Jennings-Roth, Bhakti & Ivy: Vocals, Guitar, Harmonium, Yoga Asana Demonstration (HiDesert Yoga & Kirtan-Joshua Tree)

Elijah Bustos: Vocalist, Electric Acoustic Guitar, Ukelele, Bass, Djembe, Drums

Sankirtan: Emcee / Leader for interactive audience participation

Janaki Jennings: Vocals, Electric guitar, guitar, mandolin, bass guitar

Jhulana Jennings: Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar, Yoga Dance, Yoga Asanas, Ballet

Ted Takeuchi - Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter

Mahamantra: Project Coordinator

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Spiritual Artists Of The Year / Best Spiritual Works "Kirtan Peace Vibrations" Documentary Musical Feature Film ~ Las Vegas Producers' Choice Awards; Las Vegas Music Awards

World Music Of The Year: "Om Hari Om" ~ Global Music Awards

Showcase Artists Of The Year ~ Los Angeles Music Awards

World Music Artists Of The Year ~ Los Angeles Music Awards. Los Angeles Music Awards Producer's Choice - "World Music Artists Of The Year”

Los Angeles Music Awards Producer's Choice - Music Video (Featured at Main Event) "A Song of Peace/Nityananda Chaitanya"

Los Angeles Music Awards Producer's Choice - Music Video / "Loving Thoughts"

Music Ambassadors for the Supercut's Rock The Cut program

Music Team/Music Directors for the Art Miles Mural Project

Official Hosts of The Moon Stage for the San Diego Earth Fair/Balboa Park

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VENUES:

Las Vegas Producers' Choice Awards - Hard Rock Cafe
Los Angeles Music Awards Gala Event - Paramount Pictures Studios
Los Angeles Music Awards Showcase Series - Whiskey A Go Go
Los Angeles Music Awards Gala Event - Avalon Theatre (Producer's Choice Award/Presentation of "A Song of Peace" - Nityananda Chaitanya Music Video)
Los Angeles Music Awards Showcase Series - Life at Wilshire
Orange County Fair
San Diego Earth Fair
SOKA International Cultural Festival
San Diego Veg Fest
Green Festival – Los Angeles
Mom Expo & Health Fair
Dharma and Yoga Fest, Norwalk
Tustin Tiller Days
Cal State Long Beach - Children’s' Day
Irvine Global Festival - International Cultural Festival
One Earth, One Dream - Festival of the Arts - Endangered Planet Foundation
Art Miles Mural Project - Muralthon
Art Miles Mural Project - Chatsworth University event/Mission Viejo
Across The Street - Mueller College of the Healing Arts
Green Festival - Laguna Beach, CA
Montage-Laguna Resort, Laguna Beach
"Passport to the World" - Valencia Elementary School
Beyond Hot Yoga - Kirtan event
Ocean Beach Kite Festival, San Diego
Oceanside Festival of the Arts
Thousand Oaks Street Fair
Anaheim Fall Festival, Anaheim CA
Laguna Nursery, Laguna CA
Lotus Festival - Echo Park - City of Los Angeles Parks and Recreaton
Holistic Healing and Wellness Festival - Ventura, CA

MONTHLY KIRTAN VENUES THROUGHOUT THE YEARS:
Au Lac Vegetarian Cuisine - Fountain Valley, CA
Common Ground Spiritual Center - Tustin, CA
Unitarian Universalist Church – San Diego, CA
Unitarian Universalist Church – Costa Mesa, CA
Unitarian Universalist Church - Ventura, CA
The WAV (Working Artists of Ventura/Arts & Performance Center) - Ventura, CA
My Om Yoga Home - Huntington Beach, CA
Yoga Sanctuary and Wellness Center - Tustin, CA
A Place Of Peace (Starting in February, 2017) - Ventura, CA
RiseYogaHB (Starting in February 2017) - Huntington Beach, CA
Las Vegas Unity Spiritual Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
Ventura Wellness Center, Ventura, CA

MESSAGE OF PEACE:

It’s time to appreciate and celebrate the beauty of finding the same spiritual truths and recommended spiritual activities in all scriptures of the world as living proof that God exists…And that He cares so much about all souls He creates everywhere to deliver the same foundational spiritual truths which

Transcend national and language boundaries

Transcend racial and ethnic boundaries

Transcend all temporary bodily identities

Transcend time


Oftentimes in modern society, there is a tendency to look to an organization or politician to establish world peace. Too few of us consider that peace starts with each separate individual as Spinoza did when he said, “Peace is not an absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence and justice.”

And E.F. Schumacher who wrote: “We can say today that man is far too clever to be able to survive without wisdom. No one is really working for peace unless he is primarily working for the restoration of wisdom.”

You are pure spirit soul; you are not the material body. You are part and parcel of God.

~ PEACEFUL INDIVIDUALS CREATE A PEACEFUL SOCIETY~


SPECIAL FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

In Hawaii, we have something called "Aloha Spirit" which is the foundation to World Peace. "Aloha" is a word we use not only in parting, but also in greeting and to express love. It is appropriate in all these situations. The word "ALOHA" is made up of three Hawaiian root words: a - lo - and ha. "A" means that which enables one to see. "Lo" means of the earth, and "Ha" means the life force. When I say "Aloha" to you, I am saying "I can see the life force within your earthly form." And when you say "Aloha" to me, you are saying, "I can see the life force in your earthly form." This is a gift that Hawaii can give to the World. ALOHA & NAMASTE!