A three-month course in yoga and meditation, particularly age-old Indian practice of Kirtan, may help boost memory and fight Alzheimer’s disease, American scientists have said. A team of US ...

A study published in the April edition of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease confirmed that yoga and a form of meditation known as Kirtan Kriya improved brain functioning by increasing connectivity, ...

Some might say that only in Santa Fe would you find a group of people engaging in a call-and-response chant designed to raise group consciousness and channel it toward peaceful coexistence. But ...

Kirtan Kriya, a meditation chant exercise a part of kundalini Yoga has proven to be beneficial in cutting down stress. Six months after researchers showed how a specific yoga involving daily ...

WHO HE IS: The New Orleans native owns Wild Lotus Yoga studios in New Orleans and is part of the Wild Lotus Band, playing a musical style called kirtan. Sean Johnson performs with the Wild Lotus Band ...

Kirtan literally means chanting the divine names. Kirtan is sung in a group comprising devotees, with a lead singer. The fixed tunes, repetition of words and phrases lend a kind of tonal mesmerism. In ...