Jai Uttal's devotional storytelling

posted by Daniel on August 4th, 2013

I'm so honored to have helped Jai film his delightful telling of the Ramayana. Jai blogged about it recently, so I'll share his post here:

"Hey Everybody,

"Well, this has been coming for a long time - I've finally filmed my telling of the Ramayana, the great epic story of Ram, Sita and Hanuman. Many of you have heard me do this at Kirtan Camps and workshops around the world. It's always a deep experience of remembrance and devotion for me, and I love seeing an audience of adult yogis and yoginis transformed into a group of sweet little kids. These stories are an essential part of the Bhakti Yoga practice and have the power to reawaken a childlike wonder in us all, as well as a deep and ancient well of Bhakti. The Ramayana is particularly close to my heart, as my guru always loved hearing it sung, and encouraged us to explore its unfathomable depths...

"We filmed the entire Ramayana in four consecutive one-hour sections, each with some kirtan. There was a really sweet studio audience packed into the small, hot and sweaty little studio. We all felt the energy get stronger and stronger through the day, as if Hanuman Himself had joined us and was listening to his primordial tale.. I hope this feeling comes across to you all when you're watching and please, please sing along and feel like you're right there with us.

"Part 1 and Part 2 have just been released today, you can watch them now with a Bhakti Breakfast Club membership. Parts 3 and 4 will be added next month. Visit www.BhaktiBreakfastClub.com/jai to sign up. With a membership, you can watch all the other courses in the Bhakti Breakfast Club too, including harmonium lessons with Daniel Tucker, who teaches the harmonium classes at my kirtan camps, and upcoming tabla lessons with Daniel Paul they're filming next month. If you're a harmoniumer, you can learn lots of the songs from my "Kirtan!" album, and other live kirtans. And if y'all like the Ramayana courses, maybe we'll film some more Bhakti story courses for you in the future!

"Here's a little clip - check it out!!

Lotsa love,
Jai."