sandhya music


 
Sandra Leigh – founder of Sandhya Music,
is a teacher & presenter,
 kirtan artist & events coordinator
  based in Vancouver, BC.
She’s led all kinds of passion projects,
including Give Peace a Chant Community Kirtan
a community based, live mantra music event.


Fast Forward, as Sandhya Music, she’s also co-produced
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.


Sandra Leigh is a long time yoga aspirant and seeker,
teacher, practitioner,
presenter & events co-ordinator,
and as a budding music producer,
launched her independent project,
Sandhya Music & Sandhya Records in 2015.

Sandhya Music gives a life long passion for healing through creative expressions,
mantra, music and meditation, as well as one’s own unique path and spiritual longings.

Sandhya Records is an independent opportunity to unite
eastern with western musical and artistic forces
within this unique genre of spiritual world and western mantra music.

Sandra Leigh also wrote, hosted and co-produced
the community television series,
‘Yoga Moves for Every Body’,
an exercise show that aired on ShawTV – Vancouver, Channel 4,
as well as Calgary’s ShawTV Multicultural Channel until ShawTV closed 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 blessings and yoga experiences,
she’s currently teaches in Vancouver, downtown peninsula area.
For more about events and inquiries,
please contact us directly at:
sandraleigh108 (@) 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.
GPaC’s fund raising efforts have included vegetarian food donations to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

           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:

Winter Solstice, Sandra Leigh & Itamar Erez (2001)
Kirtan in Kitsilano w/ Sandra Leigh & Friends (2003)
Sandra Leigh & David Anand Embry (2003)

Banyen Books Kirtan (2004)

GPaC Kirtan Picnic, Jericho Park (2005)

        Sandra Leigh in India,
     Kusum Sarovar (2008)

Sandra Leigh in Braj, India (2009)

Kirtan Vancouver (2010)

Kirtan Vancouver Festival in Stanley Park, Holly Burke, Sandra Leigh & Tiffany Sparrow (2010)

Holly, Sparrow, Sandra and
visiting kirtan artist, Gauravani
at Kirtan Vancouver Festival (2010)

Outdoor Kirtan & Crystal Bowls, Kits Beach Vancouver, Sandra Leigh & Tiffany Sparrow (2010)
11-11-11 Remembering Peace Through Music, Give Peace a Chant presented a full day sound and mantra festival at St. Paul’s Labyrinth, Vancouver (2011)
Bhaki Yoga ‘Celebration of Light’  Give Peace a Chant ~ Open Door Yoga in Kitsilano

Sandra Leigh at the Goshala in Braj (2011)


Special Guest, Shyamdas ji
at Banyen Books (2011)

Give Peace a Chant w/ Sandra Leigh at Kirtan Vancouver’s outdoor bhakti festival held in Stanley Park (2012)

Kirtan Vancouver (2012) 
GPaC (L to R) w/ Sparrow, Greg Valou,
Ananda Murti Das, Yogindra Das,
Sandra Leigh, Holly Burke

Christiane & Sandra Leigh, Chant Night in Snowdonia, North Wales, UK (2013)
Festival of India ~ Stanley Park (2013)
Festival of India ~ Give Peace a Chant singers! (2013)
Whistler Celebration with Tina Pashumati James’ Student’s YTT Graduation, Nenad, Ingrid, Sandra, Kim, Greg (2013)

Festival of India in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
w/ Karnamrita Dasi (2013)

Diwalifest at the Roundhouse
with Give Peace a Chant (2014)

Summer Solstice Kirtan ~ Open Door Yoga, Commercial Drive (2015)
Offering kirtan and recording ‘Kirtan Lila’ in Glasgow, Scotland (2015)
Yoga by the Sea Kirtan ~ Robert’s Creek ~ Dhyan Nirmal & Sandra Leigh (2015)
Holi Kirtan ~ Open Door Commercial with ISKCON Vancouver friends (2015)
Sound Healing Workshop with Sandra Leigh (2016)
Sandra Leigh in Braj, India (2016)
Sandra Leigh & Sarah Webster, Friday Kirtan in the West End, Vancouver (2017)
Sandra Leigh in Kota, India (2019).

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.