PRACTICE // MEDITATION + MUSIC
by Cheyanne SweetOn the Road
with Deva Premal and Miten
Professional Travelers Share their Secrets
M
antra artists Deva Premal and Miten
have been traveling the world for
more than 27 years living life on
and off the stage. As professional travelers,
they’ve had to develop some routines and rituals
to maintain their health and vitality. Between
mantra repetitions, they took a break to share
some of their secrets with us.What are some practices that you do to main-
tain your own health and sense of balance
while on the road?
It’s obvious - we chant mantras - day in, day
out! We have been traveling for 27 years now,
without a home base—so we don’t waste time
looking over our shoulders wishing we were
home. For us, home is wherever we find our-
selves. This feeling of being fluid and going with
a cosmic flow of healing mantric energy is the
way we maintain our health.
Up until Miten’s heart surgery [March 20,
2018], we’d only missed three concerts through
illness in our 27 years together. As you might
have heard, Miten just underwent open heart
surgery due to a blocked artery. The doctors
couldn’t understand why that happened with
Miten’s vegetarian diet and healthy body. But
it is hereditary and many in his family had the
same thing. So that made us miss our Gayatri
Festival in Costa Rica. But Manose stepped in
and oversaw the festival while Miten had heart
surgery. Miten is healing amazingly well and
we’re all hoping he will join us on stage during
our Soul of Mantra - Live! Tour.What are some of your daily wellness rituals?
The basic go-to is shaking our bodies first thing
in the morning. Sometimes it is difficult to
maintain in certain hotel rooms, but we’re pretty
disciplined.
Shaking is a great meditation. Feeling your
feet safely on the earth, relaxing your knees ...al-
lowing the shaking to happen...loosening your
arms, your shoulders...your hands and wrists...
extending the belly with deep breaths...relaxing
the jaw (we hold much tension in the jaw)...
opening the mouth...and relaxing the neck...
relaxing the throat/fifth chakra...letting the head
drop...so the whole body becomes fluid energy...
for around 15 minutes - we have special music
to accompany this practice.