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“Bless me Ma…”

Join Baba Rampuri, Peter Pannke, and a small group of up to a dozen participants, for an experience of a lifetime, celebrating Diwali, the great Festival of the Mother Goddess, in India, at one of Her most auspicious and ancient temples. You will learn the tradition and perform the sacred rites in the most traditional setting that you can’t even imagine. Before the celebrations begin, you will be comfortably settled in the lush gardens of an old Portuguese house in Goa with swimming pool. Baba will conduct daily workshops on the Mother Goddess and Sacred Speech, while Peter will help you find Her voice within you, with workshops on singing and breathing, all around Baba Ji’s dhuni, the Sacred Fire.

Diwali is one of India’s most dramatic and colourful festivals, celebrated as Lakshmi Ganesh Puja, Lakshmi Puja, Saraswati Puja, and even Kali Puja. For most, it is an occasion of praying for abundance to the Goddess of Prosperity. For creative people, it is a moment when we pray to Her to speak through us. In the Temple to the Goddess Mookambika in Kollur, there is an extraordinary expression of the spirit of Diwali, families come from far and wide to seek Her blessings, musicians and dancers come to perform for Her. Peter Pannke will be one of those pilgrim singers who will perform Dhrupad for Her – we will have the rare privilege to witness this act of devotion. Other creative people bring their pens, brushes, or any creative instruments to be blessed by Her at this time.

Baba Rampuri will meet with everyone individually for private conferences and Peter will offer a private singing lesson to anyone who wishes.

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Mother Goddess India Retreat
October 18-26, 2014
Goa & Karnataka, India

Nine days includes all meals, activities, lodging, travel to Karnataka, private meetings with Baba, singing lessons with Peter.

$2701 (double occupancy) before August 10, 2014.
$3201 after August 10, 2014.

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Baba Rampuri

Baba Rampuri is the author of “Autobiography of a Sadhu – a Journey in Mystic India,” (Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont) and a Shri Mahant within the order of Naga Babas for the last 44 years. As a storyteller in an Oral Tradition, he gives talks, teachings, and satsang about Consciousness & Speech, Sanatan Dharma, Hinduism, Traditional Indian culture and practice, & post-colonial analysis. His focus is on the relationship of consciousness with our speech, or what he calls, “The Matrix of Sacred Speech,” who is personified as Mother Goddess. He explores the potential of our speech in tradition as well as the modern context.

Peter Pannke

Peter Pannke is a singer and storyteller who has played a major role in the musical dialogue between Europe and the Orient for the last 40 years. After studying Sinology, Indology, Comparative Religions and Musicology he travelled for several decades to Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Ethiopia, Mali and Morocco before settling down in Berlin as a broadcaster, producer, composer, festival director and author. Having learned the ancient North-Indian vocal art of Dhrupad with the Mallik and Dagar families he has toured the world performing. His books include “Saints and Singers – Sufi Music in the Indus Valley,” “Singers Die Twice – A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad,” & “Dreamtalker – Songs, Poems, Essays.”

In 2009 he received the Rabindranath Tagore Award.

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