Education

Questions carried
through song.

Kabir’s poetry opens conversations about truth, attention, difference, courage, language, and how we live. Programs meet learners through singing, translation, dialogue, yoga, and reflection.

Universities

Performance becomes inquiry

University engagements can join concert, poetry, translation, oral tradition, religious studies, South Asian studies, ethnomusicology, philosophy, and contemplative practice.

Concert with context

Kabir and contemplative songs presented with concise translation and orientation for new listeners.

Lecture-demonstration

How a poem lives differently as text, oral memory, musical form, practice, and community inheritance.

Residency

Multiple encounters—class visits, workshops, performance, and conversation—allow deeper engagement than a single event.

The work has entered university classrooms, concert halls, and community spaces, including programs associated with Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Texas. Detailed event records continue to be matched with the archive.

Children and schools

Kabir with curiosity

Children can meet difficult ideas through melody, rhythm, image, play, and honest questions.

Bhajan singing

Children learn accessible song phrases through listening, repetition, rhythm, and collective voice.

Talking with Kabir

Age-appropriate conversations explore the poem’s images and invite children’s own interpretations.

Yoga and attention

Movement, breath, stillness, and listening help children experience the relationship between body, attention, and sound.

Across cultures

Past work includes teaching yoga and Kabir songs to children in Poland, alongside ongoing song and conversation sessions with children elsewhere.

Documentation in preparation

Young voices, treated with care

Videos exist of children singing bhajans and discussing Kabir. Because children are involved, publication requires especially clear guardian and institutional permission.

Selected education media will appear here only after the children, location, program context, and permission status are documented. Until then, the material remains in the private working archive.

Discuss an education program