Snatam Kaur
Songwriter, Singer and Author
- Expertise : Author, Singer, Writer
- Languages : english
- Website : https://www.snatamkaur.com/
SNATAM KAUR is an American songwriter, singer, and author. She was raised in Sikh and kundalini yoga tradition. She is also a peace activist performing kirtan, which is Indian devotional music around the world. Snatam is blessed with an amazing skill of transform traditional Sikh chants of India into a contemporary sound that not only appeals to the modern ears but awakens an ancient yearning in the soul.
Snatam studied the essence of Naad Yoga which is a form of yoga focusing on sacred sound for over thirty years. According to her, this practice gives her essential experience of peace and healing. Here the music is accessible to people of all walks of life. She leads workshops, concerts, retreats and offers recorded CDs and online courses through which she helps people in learning Naad Yoga and Kundalini Yoga and meditation.
Snatam has dedicated her life to providing people with the tools to create a peaceful and healthy lifestyle. Her work is focused on helping people in need of giving the daily experience of inner peace. Moreover, her book Original Light is considered to be the best compassionate and supportive guide to creating a personal daily spiritual practice. Through her amazing work, she strives to share the power to Sikh sacred mantras to the world.
Snatam says that all that she is doing now is making her feel that she is the love and feeling that vibration of compassion. When she was two years old, Snatam moved to California with her family. At the age of six, Snatam visited India with her family, where her mother learned kirtan. Since childhood, Snatam has been a spiritual girl who used to practised kirtan with her mother in Sikh temples and at Sikh religious ceremonies. She gained an education at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley where she used to play violin in the school orchestra and began songwriting. Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead was her coach.
While in high school, she has also been active in social and environmental causes. When she was in her senior year, she served as president of a social action club known as “Students for Justice”. Togher with members of her club, she conducted a campus recycling program and environmental awareness programs. After completing her high school education, Snatam went to Mills College in Oakland, California where she studied biochemistry. After receiving her bachelor degree, she went to India to learn kirtan under her mother’s teacher, Bhai Hari Singh. In 1997, Snatam started a career as a food technologist with Peace Cereals in Eugene, Oregon.
Snatam got married to Sopurkh Singh in January 2006 and is living in the United States with her husband and daughter named Jap Preet Kaur. She is known as a much-beloved devotional singer and Grammy-nominated recording artist.
EVENTS by Snatam Kaur
- Auditori Forum Barcelona, Spain
- Kundalini Yoga & Sacred Sound Workshop Zürich, Switzerland
- Samsung Hall Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
- Aula Magna Lisboa, Portugal
- Theater Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Istropolis Bratislava Iii, Slovakia
- Prague Congress Centre Prague, Czechia
- Kundalini Yoga & Sacred Sound Workshop Prague, Czechia
BOOKS by Snatam Kaur
- The Original Light
- The Meditation Summit: Volume 1: Deepen and Expand Your Meditation Practice with the World’s Leading Teachers
- Meditation of the Soul: Jap Ji Daily Practice and Learning Tool
- Original Light: The Morning Practice of Kundalini Yoga
- Divine Birth
- Live in Concert
- To Heaven and Beyond
- Liberation’s Door
BLOGS by Snatam Kaur
- Tuning in to Wisdom with Aad Guray Nameh
- Rakhay Rakhanahaar for Protection
- A Meditation to Bring Equilibrium
- New Moon and New Online School
- Har Har Har Har Gobinday Mantra to Elevate to Prosperity Consciousness
- Gobinday Mukanday Mantra
- The Power of Chanting “Ong”
- Waah Yantee — Creativity
- Sat Naaraa-in: Peace Mantra
To know more about her blogs, please go through this link.
