BAUL SANNIDHI | Retreat with Maa Parvathy Baul | Denmark
August 3-4, 2024
in Moen Island, from 1:30 p.m on the 3/08 to 5 p.m on the 04/08
During the workshop, you will be introduced to the basics of Baul singing and movement as well as to its philosophy through stories and poetry of the Baul masters. This is a rare opportunity in Europe to experience the ancient methods of the Baul practice in our own bodies.
Movement here is not only an artistic practice, but a kriya, and the song is an invocation to the Divine. Both of them merged together open the doors of spiritual world.
Venue :
Moen Retreat Center
https://gracetours.com/moen-retreat-center/
The workshop is open to all without distinction.
Contributions are as always intended to support the Baul tradition and the activities of Adhyatmika Vishwa Vidya Satra Sanatan Siddhashram Foundation in Bengal, India.
The total amount includes the contribution for the teaching (donated to charitable purposes) and covers your stay and catering at Moen Retreat Center.
Detailed description of the event :
The Baul tradition is about using the medium of art to experience inner transformation.
The practice is about working with the body and voice, and how that can connect you to your soul, how it can become a prayer.
The purpose of Baul is not to become a singer. In Baul, singing is a tool for spiritual realisation.
Baul gaan (songs) are synonymous with gyan (wisdom). They are wisdom wrapped in melody.
When a Baul is singing or dancing, more than a performance, it is generating energy. The more you sing and dance, the more energy comes inside. So it's a complete flow of shakti (energy) in the body.
Once this flow is pure and perfected, then you will have the experience of Ananda (inner joy).
For a beginner, this Joy remains for some time. But when a Baul performer is singing and dancing more and more, and for many years, then he will have a continuous experience of Ananda - whether he is dancing or not dancing, he will have the dance inside.
Through Baul music, we try to touch that state where there is no effort required (sahaj).
It looks like a lot of effort, a lot of movement, lot of music, voice going high and going down.
But the inside is very still, there is no movement.
Through music, we are actually in a meditation. We can call it a dynamic meditation. We can say also it is a meditation in motion.
Baul is about going beyond music, dance and poetry, through all movement to achieve an inner stillness.
Singing a Baul song is like lighting a fire. On a cold night, we sit around it and receive its warmth and light; we receive the wisdom of the Baul song.
If we understand the language, we can immerse with the language, with the mind. But if we don’t, then we immerse with our soul, with our body, to the sound.
What will we do in the Workshop?
In the workshop, Parvathy Maa will teach a Baul song and speak about its deeper yogic meaning.
With Parvathy Maa’s guidance, you will practise body movements that correlate with the song, so that you get a first-hand experience of Baul in and through your own body.
There will also be space for Parvathy Maa to answer questions.
The nearness (sannidhyam) to sincere spiritual practitioners enriches us with purification of heart, attraction to the divine, enthusiasm, joy and courage to approach life’s challenges.
As the workshop is an intimate gathering with only few participants, it is a rare opportunity for those who desire more immersion into experiencing the Baul tradition, teachings, and association with Parvathy Baul in an approachable or more so - sweet and loving relationship.
The event is organized by Sanatan Baul Association Europe, for any registration or information request as well as payment facility plan, please contact us through
and we will get back to you.
For more information about Maa Parvathy Baul and the Baul tradition, please visit www.parvathybaul.com
