Mirabai Ceiba - Music for Meditation
A Musical Journey between Worlds
Original songs and spiritual chants to celebrate the joy of life.
Mirabai Ceiba is a musical project created by Angelika Baumbach from Mexico / U.S. (vocal and
harp) and Markus Sieber from
Germany (vocal and guitar). They perform a compilation of original songs in Spanish and English as well as newly
arranged
chants from different traditions of the world and Kundalini Yoga Mantras.
The name Mirabai Ceiba expresses the influences of both India and Native Latin America. The Ceiba is the
sacred tree of
Latin America, where these trees are never cut but are allowed to grow very tall.
"We wish our music could be like that kind of tree, with roots deep in the Mother Earth and branches
extending
wide into Father Sky. Mirabai is for us the wandering, the devotion, the inspiration in all the different
aspects of
divinity."
Biography
Angelika Baumbach,
daughter of a Mexican mother and a German father, was born in 1977 in Tucson, Arizona and grew up in a little village near Mexico City. As a child, she was influenced by the music and singing of Mantras in the tradition of Kundalini Yoga and Sikh Dharma. When she was 15, she started singing with the Mexican world music group "Cielo y Tierra", which released an album in 1992 (Warner Bros. Music). Influenced by the music scene in Tepoztlan, a little Mexican town known for its musicians and artists, she learned how to play the harp and recorded and produced her first solo album. On a European tour she met the actor and musician Markus Sieber at the Fringe Music and Theater Festival in Edinburgh in 2001, and Mirabai Ceiba was born.
Sat Nam Fest Closing Ceremony with Mirabai Ceiba and Snatam Kaur
Markus Sieber
was born in 1974 and grew up in East Germany. After the union of Germany in 1990, he founded the rock
band Ponyboy Curtis and performed concerts in Germany, Poland and Russia. When the group split up, he studied
acting in
Berlin and St. Petersburg, leading him to several parts in German theater and movies. When he met Angelika, he
rediscovered
music in a new way.
The mixture between different cultures and the mutual sharing of a vision and a path opened up a new musical
dimension for
them. Since then Angelika and Markus have traveled together as Mirabai Ceiba giving concerts and workshops ("Sound
and
Self", "Song of the Earth") in Europe, USA and Latin America. They live with their daughter near
Mexico City.
CDs by Mirabai Ceiba |
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Sevati is Mirabai Ceiba’s stunning album which explores the relationship to the Unknown and the mystery of life and death presented in ancient Gurmukhi Mantras, touching Spanish and English songs, as well as ancient Native chants.
Mirabai Ceiba’s album Sacred Love Meditations is truly the music of lovers. Mirabai's sweet and loving voices interweave with a play of the masculine and feminine while their instruments follow suit. The deeply touching music is built around six meditations to take you to a place in your heart where you are able to give and to receive love.
Mirabai Ceiba's CD Between The Shores Of Our Souls is an album that whispers gently in your ear, a disc to spend some quiet time with either a loved one or alone with your own yearning heart. The dream it weaves will stay with you long after the last languid, hypnotic notes fade into the ether.
Awakened Earth will astonish you with its rich layers of beauty. Angelika's sweet, soaring voice glides in such simple and evocative harmony with Markus' gentle rich singing.
With A Hundred Blessings, Mirabai Ceiba offer wonderful music for healing each other, for a life of beauty, of reality, and of spiritual depth.
With Ocean, Mirabai Ceiba offer a perfect companion CD for yoga, relaxation, meditation and healing, with Gurmukhi-Mantras, English and Spanish.
With gentle melodies, sometimes soft and sometimes with dynamic rhythms, Mirabai Ceiba guide you into the dawn of a new day and inspire you from inside with their Mountain Sadhana.
Relaxing music with a touch of Latin America: Love, Life and the Divine in us – full of devotion and with the rhythms of the heart.
The Mantra "Sat Narayan..." brings inner peace, happiness and prosperity. Carried by the wonderful voices of Mirabai, it makes us realize the Infinity of the One Spirit.
Two meditations, each 31 Minutes, with the wonderful music of Mirabai Ceiba, with instructions for bringing healing to your entire lineage, from your ancestors to your future.
On Agua de Luna, Mirabai Ceiba combines ethereal moods, plangent, folkloric instrumentation and the Angelika‘s voice, weaving a sylvan breath through her harp strings.
The top-selling album Circle of Light by Guru Dass Singh and Gurudass Kaur is really a great mantra- and meditation CD.
This CD features two classical Kundalini Yoga Mantras: Adi Shakti and Gobinde Mukande, each sung in a length of 31 minutes which is considered an ideal meditation time for transformation and for experience deeper layers of the self.
On their top-selling Album Longing to Belong, Guru Dass Singh and Gurudass Kaur demonstrate once more their unique qualities as "Hit"-writers and composers of wonderful melodies.
Aquarian Teacher Textbook & Yoga Manual by KRI for the International Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training based on the teachings of Yogi Bhajan, German edition.