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Subway Bhaktis

About Me

About usRachel and I have been married for 14 years and we now live in Byron Bay, Australia with our 13 year old son. From the time we first met we have written music together; songs, soundtracks and other material.After living in New York from 2000-2004 and through Rachel’s experiences teaching yoga there, we discovered chanting and began to create our own chants and devotional songs. Sita Ram is the result of this collaboration. Music is a major part of the soul of our relationship and is one of the strongest aspects of our bond together. We hope you enjoy the fruits of our union!Rachel Zinman Rachel is a professional dancer, choreographer, award-winning musician and published poet. She was born into a musical family. Her father David Zinman is a Grammy award winning symphony conductor. Rachel has practiced yoga for 20 years and taught for 15. In Australia she trained in both the Iyengar and Astanga methods, teaching yoga at the Northern Rivers Conservatorium in New South Wales, where she was Head of Dance. She also co-created and produced a popular Australian Yoga Video series and a Kid's Yoga Video. Rachel met ISHTA yoga founder Alan Finger in New York City in 2000 and taught at his studio, Be Yoga for four years. While there she was the co-creator, coordinator and one of the facilitators and mentors in the Be Yoga Teacher Training Program and as part of that program began to learn and understand the power of mantra chanting. Rachel returned to Australia in September 2004 and is currently facilitating workshops, retreats and trainings in The ISHTA System in Sydney, Byron Bay, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Japan, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and New York. www.ishtasystem.comNyck Jeanes Nyck is a radio broadcaster on Bay FM radio in Byron Bay and Magazine editor and publisher of Be Magazine in Byron. He has also been a musician and songwriter all his life. Nyck has been an actor, café proprietor, writer, journalist, and poet too. As a musician Nyck wrote documentary soundtracks for ABC Australia and Channel 4 in Britain, and as a performer in duos, bands and theatre work through many years. Chanting came into Nyck ’s life through partner Rachel while they lived in New York. At home Nyck took some of the mantras and ideas Rachel brought home and together they created musical pieces which have resulted in this album. With Rachel he conducts Kirtans in Byron Bay, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Japan, Switzerland, Germany and New York.SSita Ram by Subway BhaktisAn uplifting, inspiring new CD of devotional songs and chantsProfile Edited by MPS MySpace Editor 2.0

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Member Since: 05/04/2007
Band Website: www.subwaybhaktis.com
Band Members: Rachel Zinman Nyck Jeanes Kamal Engels
Influences: Deva Premal and Miten, Durga Das, Jai Uttal, Bhagavan Das Wah, Krishna Das
Sounds Like: Its a unique CD, a mix of Jazz, Acoustic, Indian and World Music
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Subway Bhaktis CD launch in Europe

Hi there,We just returned from 3 days at the rainbow spirit festival in Baden- Baden. What an incredible event! We heard fantastic performances by Deva Premal nd Miten, Peter Makena, Krishna Das and P...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:04:00 GMT

GROOVIN on the WEB

We have finished for now in the STUDIO... but we had a great time... came up with some cool grooves and have time to think and plan the next steps. Meanwhile we have been putting the CD out there vi...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:05:00 GMT

Day 2 in the Studio

Today is my birthday and the best present ever was to go to the studio and keep working on the CD. Today we had a bit of a breakthrough with one of our chants.. WE are working on Om namo shivaya.. an...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:46:00 GMT

Subway Bhaktis CD " Sita Ram"

Today Nyck and I started recording our next album. Its amazing to take the chants we sing in Kirtan and then start to put click tracks to them and to try and figure out what to do with them. Luckily o...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:21:00 GMT