Gaura Vani was born into an American Hare Krishna family. At the age of six, he left the US to study sacred music in a gurukula or temple school in the timeless town of Vrindavan, India. He learned ancient prayers in Sanskrit and Bengali and to sing and play ethnic instruments like the harmonium and mridanga. It was here that a lifelong desire to make inspirational music was born.
Gaura Vani is now sharing this culture with his three adult children, who will perform with him at Yoga Mela 2024. He shares, “I am one of a group of children called gurukulis, or those raised in the village of the guru.
