Your personal practice is the key to integrating the experiences and insights you receive in ceremony. Recitation of mantra and prayer can be a powerful and effective way to reconnect to your authentic state of centered ease, peace and trust at any time.
Our facilitators have lovingly curated this list from their own personal practices to share with you. Many of these mantras and prayers have been recited by countless seekers for thousands of years and hold within them the cumulative power of all that has come before.
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Consecration of the Space
From the Santo Daime tradition, this prayer is used to consecrate and bless a space where prayers and rituals are happening and it is recited at the beginning of our ceremonial works.
Smudging & Cleansing Songs
From the Brazilian Umbandaime tradition these hinarios (sacred hymns): Defuma, Defumador & Defuma esta Casa are prayers used in combination with smudging (the smoke from burning sage and sacred herbs) to cleanse the body, objects and sacred spaces. These are the hymns that we sing during the invocation at the beginning of our ceremonies. Click here for translations.
Medicine Buddha Mantra
From the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, working with this mantra is a powerful practice for healing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual illness.
Gayatri Mantra
From the Hindu tradition, this powerful mantra is chanted to transform consciousness by dispelling darkness and illuminating truth. This ancient prayer has been chanted continuously by seekers all over the planet, so no matter what time you chant, you will be joining in the chorus of others who are chanting too.
Surya Vandanam
This practice is from Manidweepa Ashram in India, under the guidance and instructions of Her Holiness, Amma Sri Karunamayi. Surya Vandanam is a collection of mantras, worshipping and honoring the sun and all forms of God, especially in the early morning time. These mantras bring a great deal of strength, energy and revitalizes the whole system.