Ragani
// musician & producerRAGANI is an award-winning kirtan recording artist and sacred chant vocalist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her albums “Best Of Both Worlds” (2003), “Turn The World To Love [India Only]” (2006), and “Ancient Spirit” (2006) are available from Amazon, iTunes, and Music Design. Ragani’s music is focused on sacred chants called kirtan, with the intention of sending vibrations of love into the universe, and encouraging listeners to Turn the World to Love®. Ragani also arranges India Sacred Retreat Tours traveling to northern India, the abode of the mystics and the majestic Himalayas.
Website: www.raganiworld.com
Photo: Dale Buegel
Interview:
It is no secret that vibrations can profoundly affect our being, and music is one aspect of those vibrations. Music and sound are like electricity—they can be directed in many ways and used for beneficial or harmful purposes. Certainly, music can transport us to places of spirit, to places in the heart. With this interest, when we allow ourselves to be affected by music, to feel the energy of a particular piece of music, we are on a subtle level allowing that energy to become a part of us, to be felt within us. In sacred traditions around the world, sound vibrations and music have been used as powerful tools for transformation of consciousness, as a means to re-connect to spirit, and the truest of these practices transcends time and culture. If one has had the experience of spirit in music, there is no doubt as to its power. Many times the participants of our live events report the feeling of becoming a part of something much greater than themselves, of expanded consciousness, of feeling connected in spirit as One. I do not assume all music, or sound, to have a profound spiritual significance. But I do know that it is possible for music to offer a doorway to the heart, to higher consciousness.
“Music and sound are like electricity… music can transport us to places of spirit, to places in the heart.”
– Ragani, musician and producer
