The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant
Russill Paul
Language: English
Pages: 338
ISBN: B00LU74LCU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
For thousands of years Hindu spirituality has understood the profound effect that sound has on our well-being. From this tradition comes The Yoga of Sound, which draws on yoga's long history of applying sound to reduce stress, maintain health, and invoke spiritual awakenings. In lucid exercises presented both in the book and on accompanying downloadable audio tracks, Russill Paul shows how everyone can learn the art of mantra and how these practices can help to optimize the flow of energy within the body and enhance emotional well-being.
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prolonged exposure to the note F for specific periods of time actually killed certain plants. 12 You may be aware of ultrasound products that keep pests out of our homes by negatively affecting their nervous systems. And it is no secret that ultrasonic weaponry is actively being researched by the American military, which has recently developed the loudest sound in history ten thousand times louder than the sound of a space shuttle taking off to detect the presence of submarines in our
acceleration to find their way back to this primal level of speech because they originate at this deepest level. They are like guided mystical vehicles, pro gratnmed in their sonic nuance and meter to merge with Absolute Sound, the ultimate vibratory realm we've been referring to as Shabda Brahman. · These four levels of sacred speech Vaikari, Madhyama, Pasyanti, and are pivotal in using sacred sound as mantras and as a form ofyoga. Para There are also four vibratory strengths for using
mind linear, discursive thinking. Devotional chant and kirtan provide a simple method of sustaining right-brain activity for an extended period. Quite simply, variations in melody and rhythm stimulate the feminine brain of the practitioner. In India, this sort of devotional chanting often goes on all night. 111 B H AYA YOGA B H AVA AN D R I TUAL EVENINGS are the best time for devotional yoga practice. After a long day's work, we want comfort and relationship; we want to express our pain or
study further revealed that, at any given moment, various black holes are playing different styles of music and every few weeks, a stellar black hole switches musical styles, undergoing a distinct transition from one pattern of variability to another.2 As mentioned earlier, the tradition of Nada Yoga does not specialize in the mantra shastras of the other streams. For instance, it doesn't deal with rituals governing mantras or their pronunciation, mystical mean ings, or embodiment of energy.
travels from the base of our spine to the top of our head. As we learned in chapter eight, a subtle body coexists with our physical body, with its own nervous system con1posed of psychic nerve channels called nadis. We achieve good health when the strean1s of our energy hum along these channels at optitnal frequencies, particularly along the central susumna that travels up the spine. The purpose of the great yogic breath (Mahat Yoga Pranaya1na) is to release the n1ost primal form of the life