Ashley O’Hara

Kirtan Returns for Summer Solstice!

Photographs by: Handerson Gomes

 

Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, who practices psychotherapy in a private practice setting. Her Yoga journey started in 2006 at BYS Yoga in the South Side, where she practiced and taught Yoga for many years. Yoga has been a part for her life for almost 20 years and she has been teaching Yoga for 10 of those years, completing a 200hr training with Yoga Works, a 500hr training with Raghunath Cappo, and ongoing training with Chrissy Carter.

Ashley discovered Bhakti Yoga and Kirtan in 2015 when she met her teacher Raghunath at a workshop. Meeting Raghunath and traveling to India with him for Pilgrimmage plunged her even deeper into spiritual life and these experiences on pilgrimage have left lasting impressions on her heart. A Kirtan enthusiast ever since, Ashley loves sharing the practice of Kirtan and chanting with others. She believes in the power of Kirtan to connect our minds and hearts with the Divine, as there is no difference in chanting the mantras and the Divine energy Itself. She belongs to the Pittsburgh Kirtan Center in Lawrenceville, where they have a Kirtan program every Thursday evening.

*Kirtan Summer Series at Sneha!