Welcome to this 40-day chanting discipline (beginning Monday, 10/12/26), dedicated to our friend dear friend Irv’s healing journey, and to our individual health, safety and security.

Each day, for 40 days, we will chant a round on our malas. You can decide how many days you’d like to do. No pressure.

For the next 5’ish weeks, please join me for a live/Zoom chanting session each Monday (4:30pm PT), Wednesday (8:30am PT), and Friday (4:30pm PT).

The chant that I’ve chosen is associated with the Goddess Saraswati – the divine mother who can hold and nurture us through periods of vulnerability related to health, and raise our vibration to meet whatever comes into our lives.

Here is what this chant looks like phonetically: om-I’m-sar-ah-swat-tee-yay-nah-mah

As was shared with me in a multi-week course taught by the late Thomas Ashley-Farrand on chanting, we can consider these Hindu gods and goddesses to be anthropomorphized beings (big word meaning to assign human qualities to non-human beings).

Collectively, they symbolize the many attributes (energies+vibrations) that we all possess, some taking dominant roles, while others lie dormant.

For me? It’s all about the vibration. More science, than fiction. When we chant, we are igniting or activating a specific vibration internally, and when chanting aloud, externally as well. 

The words that make up the chants are from the Sanskrit language. More than a communication language, these syllables are frequencies — said to contain allof the vibrations in the Universe.

Saraswati (and her Sanskrit seed syllable of EIM (I’m)) is said to be a vibration that can awaken within us, the essence of creation+creativity, protection, nurturing, learning and right speech.

Access the AUDIO BELOW, as I chant a full mala.

I’ll send out a reminder for each Zoom session with the Zoom link (which btw, will always be the same).

Love, Cassie