BETH ANN SCHROEDER aka SANGITA, Advanced Yoga Teacher, is a professionally trained classical singer, who re-discovered her voice through the practice of devotional music and chanting after a 10 year departure from performing. In 2005, she began studying yoga and mantra recitation with her teacher, Raji Thron. The healing effects of chanting changed her life, and the way she would use her voice as an instrument, going forward.

Since her first introduction to chanting, Beth Ann has been studying all forms of mantra practice, from the Vedic, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh traditions. She attended her first  “Kirtan College”, with David

Newman in 2012, and since that time has been leading kirtans on her own, in NJ, New York City, and most recently, at Kripalu Yoga Center in the Berkshires, where she currently lives.  In addition to leading kirtan, Beth Ann has had the honor to  offer response and harmonies alongside David Newman, Brenda McMorrow,  and many other  kirtan musicians at Kripalu Yoga Center, Integral Yoga Institute in New York City and other venues throughout the East Coast.  Beth Ann has also begun to share her knowledge on the principles of bhakti yoga in workshops and yoga teacher trainings,  as part of her life commitment of spreading the teachings and practices of bhakti  to all.

Beth Ann wishes to extend deep gratitude to her teachers, Raji Thron and David Newman, for helping to transform her life, heal her heart, and guide her on the path towards healing others through the sacred sounds of chanting.  She dedicates all of her kirtans to these kind mentors, to her mother,  the source of her every breath,  and to Neem Karoli Baba…the guru deep within her heart.