Gina Salá
Gina Salā is a vocalist, composer, teacher and kirtan leader with a repertoire spanning 23 languages.
Born into a musical family, she spent her early childhood years chanting daily in Swami Sivananda Radha’s ashram. Swami NadaBrahmanananda, a great vocalist and sound yogi and disciple of Swami Sivananda Saraswati shared with Gina some of her first mantra and chants. Ms. Salā deepened her spiritual practices living in the Himalayas at Buddhist monastery in Nepal (Kopan), with H.W.L. Poonjaji ("Papaji") and through ongoing study with her esteemed sanskrit, kundalini tantra, and Indian classical voice teachers in India (including Dr. Vagesh Shastriji and Pt. Ritwik Sanyalji along with Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha and from around the world.
Gina’s warmth, humor, and wealth of musical experiences have led her from chanting in ashrams to programs at the United Nations singing as lead vocalist for Cirque du Soleil, and festivals internationally. With devotion to the magnificence in all, she offers international retreats in sound wellness, sanskrit mantra and chant, an annual “River of Sound” tour in India, workshops and a year-long Awakening Voice ™ sound school.