Retreats & workshops
Immersive song learning with translation, yoga, meditation, listening, and community.
Living contemplative song traditions
The song
is still alive.
Living Songs is a home for performance, teaching, retreat, translation, travel, and patient documentation—work carried through people and relationship.
Why Living Songs
A continuity,
now finding
its form.
Some songs are more than repertoire. They carry poetry, philosophy, memory, devotion, language, and ways of seeing.
Living Songs Foundation brings a shared public form to work already unfolding across performance, apprenticeship, university engagement, retreats, community singing, translation, children’s education, yoga, meditation, and archival stewardship.
The first chapter centers traditions connected to Kabir and other poet-saints of India, with particular attention to the Malwa folk tradition carried by Padma Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya Ji and his musical community.
Read our approachEnter the work
Ways the songs live
Each part of the foundation begins in direct practice: learning from artists, singing with people, translating carefully, and keeping a trustworthy record.
Performances & tours
Concerts, intimate gatherings, lecture-demonstrations, and journeys across the United States and beyond.
Education
University programs and work with children through Kabir’s poetry, song, conversation, yoga, and attention.
Translations
Kabir bhajans translated into English and being edited toward a book for listeners and learners.
Living archive
Recordings and photographs organized with artist, place, date, language, context, and permissions.
Ongoing free program
A bhajan
with Prahlad Ji
First and last Sunday of every month
7:30–8:30 am IST · Live on Zoom · Free and open to all
Song, meaning, and conversation
Prahlad Singh Tipaniya Ji shares a bhajan and speaks about its poetry and meaning. The gathering includes time for participants to listen, sing, and ask questions.
Upcoming
Tour schedule
Programs are now being developed with hosts and presenters.
Oct–Nov 2026
United States. Performances, workshops, residencies, and interdisciplinary university programs. Exact cities and dates will be published as they are confirmed.
Invitations open
Universities, arts presenters, contemplative communities, festivals, schools, and intimate listening spaces are welcome to begin a conversation.
From the living record
The work,
held in moments.
Performances, teaching circles, university gatherings, intimate singing, conversation, and the relationships around the music.
Tradition-bearers lead
The people are not background.
Living Songs is shaped by respect for the artists, teachers, families, and communities who carry these songs. Attribution, language, place, source, translation, permission, and the circumstances of transmission remain part of the record.
Our archival commitments