MYSTICAL POETRY & THE ROOTS OF SANITY

MYSTICAL POETRY & THE ROOTS OF SANITY
ADVENTURES IN JAPJI
WITH ARIANA REINES & PRITAM SIRI

Sunday, June 2, 2024
3:00PM – 7:00PM EDT

3:00pm-4:00pm EDT | Kundalini Yoga & Meditation with Pritam Siri
4:00pm-7:00pm EDT | Japji as Sacred Poetry with Ariana Reines

$55 In Advance, $65 Day Of

Late in the 16th century, Guru Nanak composed Japji, the foundational poem of the Kundalini Yoga traditions as well as Sikhism, following three days underwater in mystical transfigurement. This is the poem we recite each morning in sadhana, and the poem from which come most of the mantras we use in practice and in life. A poem of astonishing beauty, great wit, boundless wisdom, and unique music, it is worth exploring not only for what it can teach us about how divine illumination can move through poets and mystics, but for what can happen for cultures and peoples when they root their daily practices and cultural values in what such poems reveal.

This unique 2-part workshop will be led by award-winning poet & playwright Ariana Reines, & includes a kundalini set specially curated & taught by Pritam Siri.

ABOUT ARIANA
Ariana Reines is the author of four books of poetry, most recently A Sand Book (Tin House), winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tufts Award & longlisted for the National Book Award. Wave of Blood, an essay, is out this summer from Divided, and The Rose is forthcoming in April 2025 from Graywolf. Her play TELEPHONE won two Obies and was published by Wonder in 2015. She has created performances for the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Le Mouvement Biel/Bienne, Stuart Shave Modern Art, Performance Space New York, and many others, & has taught poetry as the Holloway Poet at UC Berkeley, Mary Routt Chair in Writing at Scripps College, and more. Since 2020 she has led Invisible College, a study space for poetry and ancient texts, infused with astrology and the healing arts.