As the year turns, we welcome you to a celebration of new beginnings with Som Ras – a mindful, joyful, week-long retreat at Woods at Sasan. With musical evenings and art in the garden, nature immersions and Wellbeing Pathways, evening story-telling sessions and moon gazing excursions, and relaxed meals and pool-side get-togethers, we explore the […]
If you wish to learn some songs of Kabir and more about his spiritual quest and vision, do come to the beautiful Deer Park Institute in Bir, Himachal Pradesh.
After 5 days of intense work, contemplation and singing, Suno Saadho workshop participants will present some of the songs they've learnt, and I'll be singing some others that I've learnt over the years. 7 pm, Sunday 13 March, at Deer Park Institute in Bir.
The Sufi Within A 3-part series examining the path of the mystic, through songs and stories from Bhakti and Sufi poets from India and elsewhere. Mystic poets such as Kabir, Bulleshah, Meera, point us to a reality beyond the ordinary one, but which can be experienced within the contours and dimensions of the human form. […]
Ishq Mastana | Drunk on Love by Vipul Rikhi Sunday, 10 April, 7 PM Mustard Café, Assagao, Goa An introduction to the enigmatic, iconoclastic 15th c. Bhakti-Sufi poet, Kabir, through storytelling, commentary, poetry & songs. The songs are in dialects of Hindi and the entire narration will be in English. Call or WhatsApp Mustard on […]
Songs of Kabir and other Mystic Poets by Vipul Rikhi Saturday, 16 April, 8 pm Saraya, Sangolda, Goa Free entry. https://saraya.in/ Vipul Rikhi sings folk songs of Kabir and other Bhakti & Sufi poets from South Asia, such as Gorakhnath, Bulleshah, Shah Latif, Meera and others. In his performances, he likes to bring equal emphasis […]
Songs & Stories from the Sufis Tuesday, 3 May, 6.30 pm onwards Mustard Cafe, Assagao, Goa
A satsang is a gathering in the spirit of truth. We come together to share in this spirit through the words, poetry, songs and insights of the mystic poets, who lived and experienced this truth in their own bodies. As they encourage us to do. Saturday, 14 May, 7.30 p.m. Satori, Arambol, Goa
Songs of the Mystics @ Co Veda Courtyard Thursday, 19 May, 6.30 PM New Public School, Sector 18 Chandigarh
Shoonya shikhar, or the peak of emptiness, is the point of fullness from which all things emerge and where there is no sense of lack or a self that lacks. Happy to be high in the mountains to invoke Kabir's shoonya shikhar, the source of all fullness and fulfilment, where the cosmic sound resonates ceaselessly. […]
Suno Saadho! An immersive listening and singing workshop led by Vipul Rikhi around the songs, poetry and ideas of Kabir and other Bhakti/Sufi poets 1-5 June 2022, Buddha Pada Institute, Kalimpong This workshop is a deep-dive into the world and music of mystic poets such as Kabir, Gorakh, Meera and others, exploring their core ideas through songs, […]
At the end of another beautiful, intimate, intense 5-day workshop on the songs and poetry of the mystics, the participants and I will share some of this beauty. At Buddha Pada in Kalimpong. Sunday, 5 June, 4 PM.
