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In this beautifully filmed and illustrated DVD, Snatam Kaur takes children on a mountain adventure with Shanti the Yogi.  They will have a positive experience of yoga, mantras in motion, music and play.  As children enter Shanti`s world through the beautifully presented story-telling and illustration, they are also guided through yoga and movement by Snatam Kaur in a children`s yoga class setting.  The joy-filled music that the children sing with Snatam Kaur was made specifically to accompany the yoga, story, and mantras in motion on this DVD. 

Snatam Kaur spent years sharing her unique musical yoga story-telling with children around the world and has finally captured it on film for children to take home with them. 

This is a children`s yoga adventure that parents are sure to love too!

Deutsch:
Shanti der Yogi: Bergabendteuer!
Snatam Kaur nimmt dich mit auf ein Abenteuer in dem du mit Shanti der Yogi singst, spielst, und Yoga machst. Snatam Kaur`s erzaehlungen sind reich an schoenend Beschreibungen, Yoga und Bewegungen, und ihrer freuden-erfuellten Musik. Dieses Werk ist ein yogisches Abendteuer fuer Kinder das sicherlich auch Eltern erfreuen wird.

Español:
Shanti la Yogui: La Aventura de la Montaña!
Snatam Kaur te lleva en una aventura de yoga, canto y juegos junto con Shanti la yogui. Snatam Kaur cuenta un hermoso cuento, con ilustraciones bellísimas, una clase de yoga y movimiento y su música llena de alegría. ¡Esta es una aventura de Yoga que también a los padres les encantará!

Snatam Kaur was introduced to music and spiritual practice at an early age. Schooled in kirtan, meditation, and Gurmukhi, the Sanskrit-based language of Sikh scriptures from Northern India, the young Snatam Kaur began to develop the devotion and skills that have grown and blossomed into a compelling, profound talent.

Snatam Kaur's parents brought her up in the Sikh tradition as taught by Yogi Bhajan. From an early age, she practiced yoga and meditation daily and her mother taught her Gurmukhi. "My mother taught me the alphabet on my way to school every morning," recalls Snatam. Her Sikh community augmented these lessons with instruction in kirtan (devotional chanting). "Through these experiences, I learned the pronunciation," she says, "but also I learned the passion for what I was singing because these gatherings were so spiritual."

As a child, Snatam also had training in voice, violin, guitar, and percussion. She obtained a solid foundation in Western classical music while playing violin in an orchestra and giving solo performances. Her many opportunities to use and expand her musical talent in a spiritual setting emphasized for her the connection between her music and spirituality. "I learned about the importance of sound currents from Yogi Bhajan," she says, "but I also had the personal experience of how the energy of these sacred words can have a very real, positive effect."

Snatam further explored the power of sound in India. After high school, her love for the Indian musical tradition and for children took her to Miri Piri Academy, a boarding school for children in India. She spent time taking care of the young children, teaching physical education, and providing music for the children's morning and evening chanting. When she returned to the United States, she attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where she obtained a degree in biochemistry, taught yoga classes, and shared her chants with Western audiences. But India called her back. After touring and performing Kirtan in northern India, Snatam settled in Amritsar where she studied music with the accomplished ragi (Indian master of Sikh-style kirtan) Bhai Hari Singh. This was a great honor for her, and particularly meaningful because Singh was the same teacher who had taught her mother when she was just a little girl.

Snatam embraced everything that Singh taught her, from the technical aspects of the notes, to the ability to sing with presence and awareness. The lessons took place in Singh's home, where Snatam was welcomed by the entire family--daughters, sons, and grandchildren.

While in Amritsar, Snatam lived next door to the Golden Temple, considered the world's holiest Sikh temple. Sacred music resonates from inside the temple from about 2:30 in the morning to midnight every day-sounds created by world-class masters of Sikh kirtan. This enabled Snatam to continually soak in the essence of the Sound Current.

Upon returning to the US from India, Snatam began her career as a recording artist with a band called the Peace Family. She served as the band's lead singer and, with two skilled and accomplished musicians - Livtar Singh and GuruGanesha Singh, had her first opportunity to write songs. Two years later she began to develop her own sound and style and embarked on a very fruitful solo career.