Carrie Grossman

Carrie Grossman (Dayashila), MA, is a devotional singer, composer, and lifelong student of the mystical traditions. For over 20 years she has studied the art of sacred sound, guiding people into the sublime realms of the heart through her concerts, workshops, and retreats.

She first traveled to India at 21, where she was introduced to kirtan, the call-and-response chanting of mantras. The practice inspired her to sing, but shyness and self-doubt meant ten years passed before the music within her emerged. During a difficult life period, worn out by a prolonged, mysterious illness, she learned to play the tamboura, an Indian drone instrument, and spent hours each evening surrendering into its sound. Her grief began to flow, then turned into song, and she writes that as she freed her voice, her illness began to heal. She later bought a used harmonium and taught herself to play it.

Her albums include Soma-Bandhu: Friend of the Moon (2010), The Ram Sessions (2016), Pranam (2017), and Homeward (2019). She began as a scholar, earning degrees in Religious Studies from Brown University (BA) and Naropa University (MA), but longed to experience the teachings directly. That led her to study with some of the world's great masters and to train and certify in yoga, mind-body medicine, and the healing arts.

Also a prolific writer, Carrie is the former editor of Common Ground magazine. She is deeply influenced by her longtime spiritual teacher Amma, and by the many guides and mentors she has had along the way. She also shares meditations, music, and courses as a teacher on Insight Timer, and offers retreats in Japan, taught in English with Japanese translation.