The Songbook

Afra Ama Kilia Kitango

by Traditional

A short African call-and-response chant built on a repeating minor progression.

• chant
• participatory
• singing circle

All I Have To Do

by Helen Knight

An expansive heart-opening song rooted in horizon, land, and earth.

• singing circle
• earth
• healing
• sacred

All Is Love

by Dub Sutra

A minimal circular refrain affirming that all is love.

• chant
• singing circle
• participatory

Andelele

by Aquario

A chant to spirits and ancestors carried on the wind.

• chant
• earth
• singing circle
• participatory

Angels Sing

by Uria Tsur

A gentle rainbow song, angels singing in my soul.

• rainbow
• chant
• singing circle
• sacred

Baba Hanuman

by Krishna Das

Krishna Das's beloved Hanuman kirtan — Namo namo, Anjani Nandanaya — with the full chart's Dm turn in the chorus.

• kirtan
• chant
• devotional
• singing circle

Carry Me River

by Derk de Geus

Let the flow of the river carry you home.

• sacred
• water
• surrender
• original

Gayatri Mantra

by Traditional, Derk de Geus

The ancient Gayatri mantra paired with an English invocation.

• mantra
• prayer
• sacred
• devotional

Hallelujah (I'm on my way)

by Sam Garrett, Molly Mendoza

Slightly adapted version

• chant

Het is een hele mooie dag

by Jeroen / Pitavasa Das

Een opgewekt meezinglied over er mogen zijn en de schoonheid van de dag.

• dutch
• gratitude
• singing circle
• participatory

Ho’oponopono

by Traditional Hawaiian, Derk de Geus

A musical setting of the four healing phrases associated with Ho’oponopono.

• forgiveness
• healing
• original

I Know The Way

by Derk de Geus

A concise call-and-response affirmation that love is the way.

• original
• chant
• love

I'm On My Way

by Sam Garrett & Mollie Mendoza

An uplifting communal refrain of hallelujahs and forward movement.

• singing circle
• sacred
• participatory

Ide Were Were

by Traditional

A traditional Yorùbá chant to Oshún, orisha of love and freshwater — sung while preparing and adorning the self.

• chant
• yoruba
• orisha
• oshun
• afro-cuban

Into the Light (Elke dag een beetje meer)

by Derk de Geus

A gentle bilingual circle song — every day a little more, dissolving into the heart of love and into radiant light.

• singing circle
• dutch
• devotional
• participatory
• original

Lokah Samastah

by Traditional, Marlies van Kampen, Derk de Geus

A Sanskrit peace mantra answered by a Dutch prayer for freedom and happiness.

• mantra
• peace
• dutch
• singing circle

Lokah Samastah Sukino Bavantu

by Krishna Das

A prayer that all beings everywhere may be happy and free.

• mantra
• prayer
• peace
• devotional

Mitakuye Oyasin

by Traditional

A Lakota-rooted chant honoring kinship with all relations and Pachamama.

• chant
• earth
• sacred
• participatory

Narayana Om

by Traditional

A simple devotional chant invoking Narayana.

• mantra
• chant
• devotional

Open the Door

by Derk de Geus

A spacious invitation to open the heart, soul, and home to love.

• original
• devotional
• singing circle

Take Me Away

by Unknown

A sweet song full of devotion to the mother

The Garden of My Life

by Derk de Geus

Plant the seeds in the garden of your life

• singing circle
• mantra
• contemporary
• participatory

Wakan Tanka

by Nick Barbachano

A Lakota-inspired medicine song of gratitude, prayer, and healing plants.

• medicine song
• chant
• sacred
• participatory

Walk With The Spirit

by Derk de Geus

I'm not alone, in this world - I walk with the spirit by my side

• sacred
• spirit
• walking
• original

Why We Dance

by Inge Vanderplaetsen & Derk de Geus

An invitation to move through life's challenges by dancing — body as medicine, movement as prayer.

• dance
• ecstatic
• original
• ceremony
• embodiment