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Rainbow Festival part 6

for deva and myself, our concert is always a highlight...
here are some pix of the evening as it unfolded...
the baden baden kurhaus holds about 1300 people, and still we couldn’t get you all in...

it was a love fest!

down in the dressing rooms we were tuning up..!

...preparing to meet you all again...
krishna das joined us for the beautiful mantra mere guru dev.
even though he told everyone he couldn’t sing it!!
he preferred to sing the blues with us, so we played a few rounds of ‘you gotta move’ before he and deva took us to the stars with the mantra.
(if any of you have a photo we’d love to include it here).

thank you purnima!!

baden baden from the meditation hall

Rainbow Festival part 5

here’s my old ashram music pal milarepa.
he was there with his ‘one sky band’ to share osho’s music and meditations... if you want to experience osho meditations accompanied with live music, i recommend you check www.oneskymusic.com for more info on mila and his work

osho’s golden thread ran through the whole festival..
here is the humaniversity stand, with veeresh on the banner, and nataraj in the chair...! we actually had the pleasure to meet up with my soccer compatriot (he's an arsenal man!), michael barnett (formerly swami somendra), but he moves way to fast to be photographed.

friends at the osho cologne buddhafield stand enjoying life...

and our sweetheart, ajara, on duty in the shop...

swami sri vast stopped by to say hello with a kind invitation for deva and i to visit his ashram in pondicherry - hopefully we'll be able to accept in the near future, schedule permitting

Rainbow Festival part 4

on sunday, we were invited to an incredible raw-food banquet at the house of mariam and teresa, the festival organisers...
here’s teresa on the left, next to her is our friend gaby burt, assistant of brandon bays, then deva, krishna das, rhea powers, spiritual teacher and author, dr.rick linchitz, and brandon...

...it was great to catch up with some old friends ... there were some great stories to be told...

..and some serious mantric business to discuss...

(...or were they chanting...?)

..anyway, whatever it was, they seemed happy about the outcome...

healthy raw food that tastes great! - make that REALLY great.

..fit for buddhas!...

and singers...here’s peter makena and pari from the alexis zorba center in corfu, greece

watching from the garden...

Rainbow Festival part 3

the singing was exquisite...

i wish i could explain in words how much it means to me to be able to share this life with you all.
when i look at this picture my heart fills with gratitude!
thank you my dear brothers and sisters..we will always be singing for you...

to play music for you is the greatest gift...and to be able to share it with my beloved deva at the same time...

and of course, our beloved manose...

...is just amazing!

at our workshop taketina goddess cornelia flatischler joined us on percussion.
here she is next to deva.
we met her and her husband reinhard, in australia a few months ago, and participated in their workshop.
we want to recommend their work to you all...it’s truly amazing and inspirational.
we both plan to go deeper into their work.
it’s satsang through rhythm.

as usual, the workshop was a lot of fun! (hi christine!)

Rainbow Festival part 2

the weather was just gorgeous – beautiful european summer days...

here’s the congress hall and the river that through the town...

inside, we were in full celebration...!

..enjoying satsang on monday morning - it was my favourite of all our events this year...

such a deep and blissful space...and I so enjoyed rediscovering my old song ‘rhythm of the heart’ (deva’s idea) and ‘in the light of love (om shree dhanvantre), maniko’s beautiful composition...

Rainbow Festival part 1

hi friends – well, the rainbow spirit festival was everything it promised to be.
some great music, enlightened teachings, great food, sunshine, and most of all – you! - the people who came to share your love, bliss and wisdom with us so-called ‘teachers’!
thank you so much!
we took many pictures, so here goes...

here’s manose at his bansuri workshop

...with his very dedicated students!...

potential hari prasad chaurasia pundits?

manose began playing when he was a child...