Vedic astrologer & Musician

September - October, 2025
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15 spots only, this program fills each year - repeat students welcome
By analyzing planetary positions at the time of birth, Jyotish can reveal information about ancestral karma, family patterns, and inherited tendencies that may impact your path. This knowledge can provide a sense of connection to your roots, helping you to understand and navigate familial dynamics more effectively. By recognizing ancestral blessings and challenges, you can work towards healing generational wounds, making conscious choices, and harnessing strengths to fulfill life's purpose with greater clarity and insight.
With Allison Dennis and Prem Sadasivananda in Western NC
Give yourself a little time to truly listen—to yourself, to the sounds of the natural world, and to the healing resonance of mantra, song, and breath. Come as you are, and leave refreshed and renewed.
All music can affect the emotions, but there are particular rāgas, songs, that may be of immediate and profound benefit to your manas, your emotional and instinctual mind.
We use the rāga, a scale, that is associated with the position of the moon when you were born to align emotions and create a sense of inner peace you can ride through the rest of your day.
This Nāda Yoga (Yoga of Sound) program can help you work through unprocessed emotions and complicated feelings by way of listening and resonating with rāga music, Classical Indian music.
Nāda Nakṣatra Upāsana,is a practice that links Vedic Astrology and Indian Music. It arises from the Temples of Tamil Nadu in South India.
Nāda = Sound
Nakṣatra = Constellation
Upāsana = Practice
Each of the 27 nakṣatras or lunar constellations are aligned with an Indian rāga, a scale or a song that creates a specific emotional response in the listener. You can work the song or scale that is best suited for you based on your natal birth chart.
The Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan used this upāya, as did Rukmini Devi from Kalakshetra School in Madras, Tamil Nadu.
Sarod maestro K. Sridhar has been sharing this technique with Allison since 2010. He descends from 14 generations of temple musicians and 20 generations of Jyotiși's . His mother was a famous Brahmin singer in the temples and Sridhar's lineage is the Brīhadīśvara Temple of Thanjur, connected to Mannargudi Raja Gopala Śastri and Tyagaraja, the Father of Carnatic Music. Sridhar learned directly from the Senior Dagar Brothers, Ali Akbar Khan, and Ravi Shankar.
K. Sridhar, one of the world’s finest exponents of the Sarod
Allison is a scholar, advisor, and teacher with 25 years experience in Vedic (Indian) wisdom systems. She's dedicated half of her life to practices from ancient India that prove to be easy technologies for calming the mind and living with more grace. Her innovative program "Nāda Nakṣatra Upāsana" teaches a practice she's been excavating for the past decade that links Vedic Astrology with South Indian rāga music, practices learned from her primary mentor K. Sridhar. Allison is also a decades long student of Patāñjali Yoga and Sanskrit, and has served as a TA for her Jyotișa teacher Steven Highburger since 2020.