Portland Bhakti Center

BHAKTI FAMILY:

Excited for this 3-day/3-night bhakti immersive retreat just an hour outside of Portland!

Be sure to register today! We’re limiting attendance to 50 people.

Come enjoy kirtan, prasadam, workshops, guest speakers, more kirtan, a special address by Srimati Syamarani Dasi, campfires, yoga, hiking, a little more kirtan and community!

rupasanatana.org/fest

Hari! Hari!

Excited to start hosting MANTRA MONDAYS every Monday eve at 7 starting on the 20th!

We’ll start with a short 15 minute discussion on Bhagavad-Gita and other sacred Vedic texts, followed by an hour-or-so of kirtan (meditational call-and-response chanting with instruments) and then enjoy a vegan potluck 🙏

This is not just for Krishna folks. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate!

Bring an instrument! Bring a friend! Bring some food! (I just ask that if you bring a food offering, please make sure it’s vegan, so everyone can eat it, and sattvic - no onions or garlic - and can feed 20ish people).

Blackthorn Mercantile is located at:

3954 N. Williams Ave.

Please enter through the side gate or come early and peruse the store while they’re open for some thoughtful holiday gifts, incense, home goods, etc.

In service,
Govardhana das 🙏

WEEKLY KIRTAN UPDATE!

Hare Krishna y’all 🙏
Just wanted to give a quick update on the kirtans starting in November.

I’ve decided to switch venues. The ballroom I was planning on renting doesn’t have any accessibility for disabled people or older folks with bad knees (and I’m quickly becoming one of ‘em). Super steep stairs (say that 3x quickly) and no elevator.

I believe kirtan should be accessible to everyone!

So we’ll be holding weekly kirtan in the auditorium space Blackthorn Mercantile on N. Williams. This is my wife’s shop and it’s a great space.

I’ll be visiting my gurumata’s ashram in Miami mid-November, so it may have to wait until the 3rd week or so in November, or we can potentially bust out a kirtan before I leave. Keep ya posted 🙏

Excited to do this thing!
Hari Hari!!

ys, Govardhana

Justin King (Govardhana dasa) strategizing with his spiritual teacher Hridayananda dasa Goswami on ideas for Portland Bhakti Center 🙏

Stay tuned….