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AYKANNA'S MEDICINE JOURNEYS....

We are AYKANNA, myself, Pauline Sukhdev Drossart and my beloved Akahdahamh Jackson. We are here to share our stories with you, our journeys as we have committed ourselves to sharing this music which nurtures us at a cellular level....we have been blessed with travelling all over the world for the last two years playing music. A mix of Mantra and Conscious RnB/Hip Hop.....
So many stories to tell....

  • The Blessing of this Life


    This life journey never fails to surprise me. What wonder we can live in when we stay open to the flow of guidance. Awakening is a process. It can take a lifetime for some, a moment for others and a work in progress for most. Over the last few weeks we have been travelling from PA to VA, NY to NJ to end up spending 10 days in Boulder, Colorado. We were blessed to share a concert at The Yoga Journal Conference with Saul David Raye and Kia Miller as well as accompanying Kia  in her yoga classes.

    We had planned to be in Boulder a whole week leading up to a concert and workshop we were teaching. Once there we began to think to ourselves , “why are we here for a whole week for just this one workshop and concert, we have so much to do! How can we afford to just chill in Boulder for a whole week???”

     

    The mountains speak and we surrendered the controlled ideas and relaxed into the land and the knowing that there is a Divine plan at work which we most of the time  have no idea what it is until it shows up! A few days in with our dear friend and producer in Boulder,  her father begun to make his transition after spending a year in Hospice. We ended up chanting and praying at his bedside for two days whilst he found the courage to let go of this earthly coat and go back on his Soul Journey. Along with his daughter, a powerful kundalini yoga teacher with a heart of gold, it seemed we were there as ushers for him and a comfort to our friend who needed to be held during this time. It was a magical time, as magical as a birth,  when the body chooses their last exhale. 

     

    It showed me so much about our attachments to life and  to people. Yet, as my husband would say,  all we are really attached to is this breath. It showed the utter divine plan that is always in order and if we trust, the guidance and the grace is present.  We were clear that we became a big part of this father and daughter’s life, playing guitar, chanting at his bedside….Wahe Guru……Mother…..  Akah would hold sacred rhythms with the rattle and sing native songs, holding a vibration of peace and love whilst children uttered words of forgiveness over the phone so that he could feel like he was complete and release his Earth coat. What a gift.  One of the elements that taught me so much was to see how his daughter handled everything that she was faced with. With so much grace and courage, allowing her emotions to flow. We experienced the full spectrum of life within a week. Tears, laughter, grief, sadness, joy and so much more that I have no words for right now. Only the experience is left imprinted in my heart.  

     

    Akah looked at me the next morning and simply said ” Aykanna grew up”. It was a mesmorizing and blessed experience which has left with a renewed and deepened appreciation for this breath, this life, our friendships and the call to keep sharing our gifts. Keep sharing yours, it always makes a difference even when it goes quietly unnoticed.

       

    IN Divine Love,   

     Sat Nam,

    Sukhdev

    Tagged: life death yoga mantra aykanna kundalini Kundalini yoga

    Posted on October 10, 2011 with 13 notes

  • Wanderlust Festival Experience

    It’s late Sunday night, Lake Tahoe, Wanderlust Festival just ended. Some 5000 people rolled through this 2nd year festival and experienced yoga, music and nature set in a backdrop of a gorgeous mountain resort in Tahoe. Some of the greatest teachers from the US were present delivering this ancient technology each with their own twist on it. Music from Kirtan to Michael Franti to the Wailers was blaring from noon to midnight.  Up on top of the mountain, it was pool party time  with Dj’s and all sorts of fun happenings. There was something here for everyone.  

    What touched me the most were the tears I would see roll down people’s faces in yoga classes as hearts were breathed open, stress relieved and maybe a new light had made itself through the cracks of someone’s controlled existence.

    My experience? As Aykanna, Akah and I  set a strong intention before we came.

    An intention to fully show up, be engaged, present and ready to share this healing music as a tool to uplift consciousness. We also proclaimed that whatever we had to give was enough. We were enough amongst the super stardom status that is being created in this new wave of yoga and music business that cannot be escaped as I once heard someone say “wherever they are a lot of people, there is big business”. It can be easy for any of us, doing what we love or not, to get into the mode of just DOING, going through the motions. I experienced the power of intention in a new way,  when one  truly lives from intention, life responds accordingly. The whole Omniverse cooperates and is at one’s service.

    YOU GET WHAT YOU PROJECT.  

    We had a successful festival, met incredible people, shared Aykanna’s vision and now its time to go rest and nestle in the hot springs for a day and night!  

    We were blessed once again to play with our family Kia Miller’s and Tommy Rosen’s yoga classes. On the mountain top we laughed, we chanted, we cried, we gave thanks and we shared all that we had to give. It’s good to be alive. Fully. 

    With love, In service,   

     Sat Nam,

    Sukhdev


    Tagged: yoga music meditation Kundalini yoga festivals wanderlust

    Posted on August 9, 2011 with 2 notes

  • Check out our Ojai Retreat with Kia Miller and Tommy Rosen

    Check out our Ojai Retreat with Kia Miller and Tommy Rosen

    Tagged: Kundalini yoga mantra world music yoga

    Posted on August 6, 2011 with 2 notes

  • Honoring the Divine Feminine. MOTHER ~ New album is out.

    Tagged: Mantra yoga Kundalini yoga

    Posted on August 6, 2011 with 1 note

    Source: aykanna.bandcamp.com

  • 3 Days Ago We Launched Aykanna’s Kickstarter Campaign and….

    …..fully stepped into being responsible for the gift the Creator gave us to give. 

    Its been a life long journey for Pauline Sukhdev and Akahdahmah to discover their true gift within. Through the trials and victories experienced on the path of life we have learned that when you develop and offer your talents with love to uplift others you will also be healed, blessed and experience miracles at the same time. 

    To be what we came to Earth to Be for us is a journey of liberation from the world created by the profit driven corporate information complex. This journey of liberation moves us beyond what we know about ourselves. When we become conscious of our  responsibility to Be our purpose, we bring value to our life as family members thriving  on Earth together.

    To experience all the provisions your Truth provides requires the knowledge of your Sacred Self.

    To walk this path requires commitment to discovering and refining the gifts and talents within to share with the world.

      We are deep in the final production phases of our 2nd CD. This CD is an offering to our Mother Earth, Mothers on Earth and the Divine Feminine Principle in us all. Being an  available channel for this CD to manifest was a test of releasing the need to have our preferences fulfilled so the passion of the creative process could express fully through every vessel required to bring this type of art work to life.

    As we were opening ourselves to let go and truly trust in our purpose by sending out this kickstarter video to you, in that moment at the studio a blue jay brought a acorn to our door window, looked at us in the eyes and flew away.

    At that very moment we where finishing the final edits on our kick starter campaign and realized it was time to let go of any fear and doubt and Be our Truth in the world.

    Give thanks to all of you who offer what you can to support a Creative process that is a benefit to humanity.

    May you all be blessed and experience miracles.

    One Love

    Akahdahmah

    Tagged: mantra kickstarter Kundalini yoga meditation consci consciousness yoga

    Posted on May 24, 2011 with 8 notes

  • Aykanna Live in Costa Rica ~ Freestyle

      I have to tell you about this….a freestyle that happened whilst we played a concert in Costa Rica with Kia Miller and Tommy Rosen Yoga retreat. Akahdahmah Jackson is truly a gift, this took us both by surprise…check it out, you’ll be inspired. To be on the new AYKANNA album coming out MAY 30th….

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    Tagged: aykanna consciousness inspirational kundalini yoga mantra world music wisdom

    Posted on March 24, 2011 with 2 notes

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