naren
简介
Naren K. Schreiner is a musician and teacher of India’s sacred music tradition. Born in Southern California to musical parents, he was exposed to nearly all forms of music throughout his youth. Naren began his own spiritual search when he was 14, exploring different paths and teachers. Two years later he chose to take initiation into the Kriya Yoga lineage of Paramahansa Yogananda. In 1996 he renounced a promising career and became a monk in the Self-Realization Fellowship ashram (monastery) of his Satguru, Paramahansa Yogananda. For the next 14 years, Naren lived as a brahmachari (monastic yogi), studying religion, practicing yoga and living the pure, disciplined life of a monk. Throughout those years, devotional chanting was an important part of his sadhana (daily spiritual practice). “I spent countless hours alone meditating, chanting and reading about the devotional science of chanting that my Guru taught. I would listen to whatever recordings of sacred and classical Indian music I could find. I had no teachers of Indian music or kirtan, but with my Guru’s written words and his inner guidance, I experienced for myself the yoga of music.” Naren was fortunate to spend a few years with a monk from India who was a gifted devotional singer and a classically trained vocalist of the dhrupad genre. He spent quality time with Naren and taught him the basic swarsadhana that Indian vocalists practice. Naren was then given a tanpura (the stringed instrument essential to Indian music) and began to delve deep into the world of India’s raga and sacred sound. In 2010 Naren, with the supportive guidance of his spiritual counselors, chose to leave the ashram and expand his lifework. During a pilgrimage to India that year, he had the privilege to refine his musicianship at the ITC-Sangeet Research Academy in India, where he studied under Pt. Ajoy Chakrabarty, concentrating on the foundations of “bhavsangeet”— music that is classically-based, yet emphasizes “bhav” or mood.
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| 国籍 | 加拿大 |
| 地区 | 欧美 |
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| Alias | naren |
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| Name | naren |
| 原始名称 | Naren |
| 名称 | naren |
| 精选上位词 | 歌手 |