Becoming Prayer
A 3-Day Immersive Journey into the Heart of Bhakti Yoga
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Turn Your Life into Prayer—Through Devotion, Singing, and Sacred Offering
This workshop is an invitation into the essence of devotion—where life itself becomes prayer and each gesture, word, and breath is a sacred offering. Rooted in the timeless path of Bhakti Yoga, you’ll explore heart-opening practices that lead you beyond thought and into the presence of Love.
Through puja (“ritual offering”), kirtan and bhajan (“devotional song”), japa (“mantra repetition”), and the powerful poetry of written and spoken prayer, you’ll soften the mind and awaken the natural longing of the Heart.
In this immersive workshop, you’ll explore how to honor your emotions, desires, and passions as sacred energies, recognizing them not as obstacles but as potent fuel for devotion and union with the Divine. Through the Heart-centered practices of Bhakti Yoga, you’ll awaken spiritual longing and learn to transmute emotional pain into prayerful presence. Devotion becomes a powerful form of emotional alchemy, where even your most personal experiences are transformed into spiritual nectar, nourishing your soul and deepening your connection to the sacred within.
This workshop is rooted in reverence for the living traditions that carry these devotional practices. You’ll learn to approach Bhakti with humility, honoring the masters and lineages that have preserved these sacred forms of prayer, song, and sacred ritual. Guided by the spirit of ishvara pranidhana—surrender to the Divine—you’ll allow devotion to arise through faith, longing, and direct experience.
This Workshop Is for You If You Feel Called To:
- Deepen your relationship with the Divine through devotion, prayer, and poetry.
- Explore mantra and ritual as powerful paths of spiritual deepening.
- Open your heart through kirtan, bhajan, and japa, and experience the power of devotional singing.
- Discover Bhakti Yoga as a living, embodied path that transcends religion and dogma.
- Seek healing and transformation through heart-opening practices and rituals.
- Cultivate a life of reverence and recognize the Divine in all things, through personal and collective devotion.
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Content
- Kirtan and Bhajan—Devotional Singing
Raise your voice in kirtan and bhajan, where singing becomes a practice of union. Your voice is the gateway to the Heart, the fastest way to discover the living pulse of devotion within yourself. Drawing upon the kirtan traditions of Bengal and Northern India, you’ll experience how sacred names and simple mantras open the door to an inner world of bliss and pure Love.
- Prema—The Path of Divine Love
Open to Prema, the Love that flows without condition or limit. Bhakti invites you into a relationship with the Divine so intimate it dissolves all distance, softens your heart, and heals your soul.
- Prayer to Tara
Receive the blessings of the Goddess of Compassion through prayerful invocation, mantra, and sacred ritual.
- Radha-Krishna Devotion (Gaudiya Vaishnava Tradition)Immerse yourself in the nectar of love and longing through the devotional lens of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, a tradition of Bhakti Yoga centered on the divine Love of Radha and Krishna. The Heart-touching practices and philosophy of this lineage will help you explore the intimate quality of your relationship with the Divine, unique for each of us, and show you how to turn every aspect of your life into an act of devotion.
- Mystical Prayers from Diverse Traditions
Experience the soul-stirring power of mystical prayers drawn from various spiritual lineages. From Sufism to Buddhist chants and prayers, you’ll honor the devotional wisdom that flows through the world’s most sacred traditions.
- Japa and Mala—The Mantra of Remembrance
The “repetition of mantra,” or japa, quiets your mind and tunes your heart to the subtle presence of the Divine. It’s a simple and potent way to bring love into every breath. As a form of meditation, japa is easily accessible to beginners and can lead to profound states of interiorized consciousness.
“After all, the purpose of The Prayer is not to stand and bow all day long. The purpose is to continuously possess that fragrant state which appears to you in prayer. Asleep or awake, writing or reading, in every state, never be empty of remembrance. Be rather one of those moving constantly within prayer.”
“When devotion rises in the Heart, the soul becomes intoxicated with bliss...”
Workshop Leader(s)
Paige Fletcher
Naveen Radha Dasi
Paige has been a teacher with Hridaya since 2017, drawn to the spiritual path by a deep longing for truth after years of living with addiction, depression, and anxiety. Her recovery from opioid and alcohol dependence became a gateway to spirituality—an invitation to profound healing and an inner call toward absolute freedom...
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Naveen has been drawn to spiritual exploration since an early age, immersing herself in Tibetan Buddhism, Bhakti Yoga, Tantra, and other mystical traditions before arriving at Hridaya. She completed the Hridaya Teacher Training Course in 2017. With a love for music and the arts, she found a natural home in kirtan and devotional song...
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