Meet Give Peace a Chant’s front woman, Sandra Leigh –
Singer / songwriter – recording artist & producer
Founder & creator of Sandyā Music Productions and Give Peace a Chant.
Sandra Leigh (pronounced lee),
specializes in subtle energy sound healing, mantra music & meditation.
Sandra is a long time teacher, kirtan artist and mentor.
She has been producing and presenting conscious music events in Vancouver BC, since 2001.
Sandra has toured her unique project, Give Peace a Chant, both locally and abroad.
She’s led all kinds of creative passion projects,
including many incarnations of Give Peace a Chant kirtan,
a community based, live mantra music event in Vancouver.
In 2015, she started her own record label, Sandyā Records, co-producing & releasing
4 beautiful ‘Give Peace a Chant‘ mantra music CDs,
Available at most digital outlets,
Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Amazon and YogiTunes,
you can preview Give Peace a Chant CDs (and more) here.
Sandyā Music & Sandyā Records was established in 2015 to provide space and a new independent sound
within the unique genre of spiritual world and mantra music.
Sandra Leigh also wrote, hosted and co-produced the community television series,
‘Yoga Moves for Every Body’,
a yoga exercise program that aired on ShawTV – Vancouver, Channel 4,
as well as Calgary’s Shaw TV’s Multicultural Channel, until Shaw TV closed permanently in 2018.
The series features original soundtrack by Give Peace a Chant
is now available on YouTube as Yoga Moves Online.
Sharing over 30 years of experience, Sandra currently teaches yoga for a living,
and presents kirtan in Vancouver’s West End / downtown peninsula area.
For more about events and inquiries,
please contact:
givepeaceachantvanvouver (@) gmail (.) com
Thanks for dropping by!
Give Peace a Chant (GPaC) community kirtan began in late September, 2001, when a couple of yoga teacher / musician friends were inspired to start a weekly musical community kirtan event. They called it ‘Give Peace a Chant.’
They would share uplifting and ongoing kirtan community events, singing and celebrating with some of Vancouver’s finest musicians.
Heaps of gratitude for so many beautiful memories!
A special note of thanks to Rob Scharein, who created GPaC’s songbooks, our first website, beautiful slide presentations, archives of many years of live mantra music audio recordings, videos and photos. Thank you for your all your service, Rob!
Throughout the years, GPaC hosted many amazing local guest artists and were blessed with many helpers including and in no particular order, First Nation Chants with Aline LaFlamme & friends, Joseph Pepe Danza, Navaro Franco, Amir Peter O’Loughlin, Greg Valou, Jerry Desvoignes, Stefan Cihelka, Anand David, Wade Imre Morrisette, Tina Pashumati James, Prashant Michael John, Raghunath Ritch, Lyle Povah, Holly Burke, Robyn Carrigan, Meshē, Chantal Jolly, Sparrow, Nathan Aswell, Patrick Pennefather & Sheinagh Anderson, Troy Taylor (presented Bharatanatyam), Neeraja Aptikar, Dhyan Nirmal, Kirtan Vancouver, ISKCON Friends, Chaitanya Chandra, The Bhakti Bros., Jeffrey Armstrong, Satyananda Yoga, Maggie Reagh, Vince Gowmon, Zamir Dhanji, Heidi Groschler, Lorne Mallin, Maalaa, Rueben Prensky & Zoey Wren (Anaya Hawk), Melinda Michael, Kim Fischer, Steve Elliot, Wendi Lacusta, Harminder Gill, Valéry Bruneau, Geneviéve Layton-Cartier, Jessica Amrita, Sarah Webster, Harreson Sito, Nenad Jankovich, Yoga in Daily Life, Jambhavan, Wendy DeMos, Kate Schendel, Laura O’Reilly, and many more (my apologies, if we have unintentionally forgotten anyone). There were many other amazing musicians, response singers, volunteers, sound people, set up helpers, transportation providers, Modo Car Co-op, and friends who offered delicious snacks (Prasād) for after the kirtan.
International guest artists included The late, great Shyamdas, Karnamrita Dasi, Mayapuris, Gauravani, Radhanath Swami, Jai Uttal, Shantala – The Music of Heather and Benjy Werthheimer, Dave Stringer, SriKala, Jaya Lakshmi, and Women of Bhakti.
Sandra Leigh Photos:
Banyen Books Kirtan (2004)
Sandra Leigh in India,
Kusum Sarovar (2008)
Kirtan Vancouver (2010)
Holly, Sparrow, Sandra and
visiting kirtan artist, Gauravani
at Kirtan Vancouver Festival (2010)
Sandra Leigh at the Goshala in Braj (2011)
Special Guest, Shyamdas ji
at Banyen Books (2011)
Kirtan Vancouver (2012)
GPaC (L to R) w/ Sparrow, Greg Valou,
Ananda Murti Das, Yogindra Das,
Sandra Leigh, Holly Burke
Festival of India in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
w/ Karnamrita Dasi (2013)
Diwalifest at the Roundhouse
with Give Peace a Chant (2014)
A message from Sandra Leigh, Fall 2024:
Jai Shri Krishna! I’m currently living and teaching in the West End, Vancouver, BC, studying / practicing at home, and attending regular Satsang sessions, mostly online. I’m at your service, providing one to one mentoring in sacred music production. I’m also available to share more about chanting, sound healing and mantra meditation at your request.
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I humbly bow to my guru, Shri Milan Goswami and all Pushtimargiya Aacharyas (Shuddhadvait Pratham Peeth) propounded by Vallabhacharya (1479-1531 CE), the founding philosopher and guru of the Vallabhā sampradāya (“tradition of Vallabh”) or Puśtimārg (“The path of grace”).
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We honour that our events take place on traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish (Sḵwxwú7mesh), and Musqueam (Xwméthkwyiem) Nations.
May All Beings Be Peaceful.