Help Madhuvani Share and Record Sound Healing Kirtan
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Dear Friends and Supporters,
My name is Madhuvani dasi (Monique Ross), Thankyou so much for taking the time to read this campaign, I am truly excited and so deeply grateful to everyone for any and all support as I attempt to start bringing this offering to life, your kindness and generosity is so much appreciated.
For the last decade, since I began my spiritual path of Bhakti Yoga (Krishna Consciousness), I have tried to dedicate the majority of my service to the practice and sharing of kirtan mantra meditation. It has been a musical and spiritual journey that I continue under the guidance of my spiritual teacher, Kadamba Kanana Swami. My deep desire is to help bring the transformative power of mantra meditation and sound healing to many different people far and wide, and through these created soundscapes, allow a sense of spaciousness and shelter for people to heal, and feel a deeper connection to the self and our divine source.
I believe that by using the vocal medium with a unique blend of traditional mantras and contemporary resonant soundscapes, a deep immersive experience can be had in both recordings and live performance. During the final year of my Guru's life in 2023, he encouraged and instructed me to share kirtan in this particular 'relatable' style and to share it with all my heart to as many people as possible. Having this final instruction from him, It is my deepest desire to honour his request to the best of my ability and continue to embrace his kirtan legacy fully for the rest of my life. And so with that, I am now reaching out to anyone and everyone, to please kindly help me in acquiring essential resources, so I can begin this journey of creating high quality recordings and also facilitate live programs! I am so excited for the possibilities! I have many ideas, and am looking forward to bringing it to fruition by your good wishes and blessings!
GoFundMe Campaign
The funds raised through this campaign will be used to acquire:
- High-quality sound and recording equipment/hardware (approx $1,900) for both recording and live performance
- A Mac laptop with portable Hard drive ($2,000 +) for recordings
- Computer sound engineering software ($300) for recordings
- and studio time (approx min $3000) for recordings
Totalling to approximately $7,000 with studio time or $4,200 without studio time.
I am profoundly grateful for every donation, no matter how small, and I hope that while you are here, you might also have a listen to the rough short demo recording I have attached as a YouTube link. I made it myself with one microphone and a friends laptop on her garage band, so the sound is humbly imperfect, the sanskrit may be incorrect, and it only features harmonies as the dominant sound effect, however I'm sharing it to give a small example of the mood I am trying to move towards and so you can start to imagine the bigger vision of what I would do if I were to acquire the proper resources and additional sound effects.
Kirtan is meant to be shared widely and so with your support (and mostly your blessings), I truly hope I can be of service to others in this capacity!
Thank you to everyone from the bottom of my heart for all your kindness, it means so much!
With deep gratitude,
Madhuvani dasi
Organiser
Monique Ross
Organiser
Tweed Heads West, NSW