{"id":4216,"date":"2020-03-18T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T20:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2020-03-26T16:26:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T16:26:06","slug":"kirtan-with-joan-not-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/fr\/kirtan-with-joan-not-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"kirtan with joan &#8211; NOT CANCELLED"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4216\" class=\"elementor elementor-4216\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23cfa99 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"23cfa99\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ee673ff\" data-id=\"ee673ff\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9007c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"d9007c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4216-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joan_chant_Oct_2015.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joan_chant_Oct_2015.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joan_chant_Oct_2015.mp3\">https:\/\/www.pathlessyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Joan_chant_Oct_2015.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1892e61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1892e61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today when I got in the car, out of the blue, a voice memo of a kirtan from October 2015, recorded five months before Joan&#8217;s death, started playing. I don\u2019t know how or why, but there it was coming through my car speakers.<\/p><p>Although she hadn\u2019t been able to teach formally for almost a year, due to her weakened physical condition, Joan jumped at whatever opportunities presented to share the teachings. Whether it was a visiting nurse or the technician installing a bar on the bathtub, no one escaped without a little satsang. But when a student stopped by while friends were visiting, that was cause for celebration and our daily chanting practice transformed into kirtan! Despite her advanced lung cancer, which often made breathing arduous, Joan managed to belt out chants with gusto!\u00a0<\/p><p>On the recording, in addition to the chants, you will hear traffic noises and sirens outside of our Montr\u00e9al home, chit-chat, papers shuffling, Joan mentioning her nausea and her pain, a pill alarm and a consultation of the medication spreadsheet. It was time for Advil. I deliberately chose not to edit out these \u201cinterruptions\u201d to the chanting in an attempt to convey the seamlessness of crisis and ordinariness. Every day was devoted to the \u201cdaily business,\u201d as Joan called it, whether it entailed protecting a bedsore or translating a Sanskrit text. Life carried on. Life still carries on. It takes different forms &#8211; quarantines and kirtans, food foraging and phone comforting, panic and practice &#8211; it\u2019s all part of this extraordinary magic show of embodied existence! As you\u2019ll hear Joan say,<\/p><p>&#8220;Everything is unfolding perfectly\u2026&#8221;<\/p><p>The four-year anniversary of Joan\u2019s transition is Saturday. For those of us who loved her dearly, that little hole left in the heart by her passing will perhaps never be completely filled.<\/p><p>May chanting along with us bring some cheer to your day.<\/p><p>Love,<br \/>Kathleen<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today when I got in the car, out of the blue, a voice memo of a kirtan from October 2015, recorded five months before Joan&#8217;s death, started playing. I don\u2019t know how or why, but there it was coming through my car speakers. 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