Prashanti Paz

Prashanti Paz is a mantra singer, meditation teacher and astrologer who lives in The Hague. Born in Argentinian Patagonia and raised partly in São Paulo, she trained in film and worked as a screenwriter before her path turned inward. A job on the set of Seven Years in Tibet in 1997 brought her into contact with Tibetan monks and lamas, and from 1999 she studied Buddhist texts, sadhana and mantra with teachers including Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche and Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche. Since 2016 she has also followed the non-dual teacher Mooji.

That same year she left screenwriting to give her time to sacred chant. Her albums Inner Light and Into the Heart gather mantras from Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh sources, and she has released many singles and contributed music to a documentary featuring Matthieu Ricard. On Insight Timer, where she has taught since 2017, she leads mantra courses built around a daily chanting habit. She studied humanistic astrology in Argentina and with a Tibetan astrologer in San Diego, and now gives online birth-chart readings that lean towards self-understanding rather than prediction, alongside mentoring sessions that draw on meditation and mantra. She also gives concerts, workshops and chanting circles on request.