The Sound Approach I was Looking for 27+ Years Didn’t Exist
Honestly, I developed the Heart of Sound training because it was what I was looking for my whole life, but never found. I studied music since I was 10 and went to India seeking “enlightenment” when I was 19...
After my father died when I was 29, I realized how short life can be, and I dove back into my deepest love: MANTRA
I spent my 30’s largely in India, studying intensely. I found teachers who held pieces of the Sanskrit, mantra, and nāda yoga puzzle, but no one who embodied the whole-being, embodied mystic approach that made my heart sing.
I spent over a decade of my life and got myself into tens of thousands of dollars of debt, passionately trying to penetrate into a direct experience of the Divine!
At the urging of my teachers and mentors, and with their hearty blessings and support, I created the Heart of Sound, to bring together the essential aspects of the sound yoga practice that had become profoundly therapeutic and devotional for me:
- Mantra (with tuned Sanskrit sounds!)
- Nāda Yoga (the yogic approach to sound for meditation & self-healing)
- Empathetic Listening (daily life practice of attuning heart, mind, word & deed)
- Tantrik Philosophy (a radically life-enriching, all-embracing view that helps us redesign life experience beyond hierarchy & patriarchal suffering)
So I started teaching from my appointed role as a bridge between the East and West, helping the global chant community identify blind spots of cultural appropriation and bring in greater reverence for tradition… while simultaneously trying to avoid the dogmatic approach that has turned my generation of Indians off of “tradition.”
It’s all centered around one thing: EMPOWERMENT
Empathetic listening is a superpower and here’s how you do it. When someone says or does something that you really don’t agree with or rubs you the wrong way, that’s your cue. Listen beneath the surface of their words or actions to put yourself in their shoes.
What are they feeling? What’s alive in them?
And what are they needing?
What kind of beautiful, universal yearning may they be having?
Even if you can totally disagree with their strategy, totally disagree with their “come from” that doesn’t matter.
What matters is that you are exercising the superpower of listening… it’s like turning on your listening ears to go below the surface to what is alive in them.
Cultivate listening to what is alive in you, and practice expressing it authentically in community.
Non-violent communication is the yoga of sound playing out in our daily lives & relationships.
🧐 Empathetic listening and compassionate communication training are embedded within our: Sound Healing Yoga Training Online
The world’s first and most comprehensive 200-300-500HR sound therapy course focused entirely on the transformative power of nāda yoga and Sanskrit mantra.
I teach the sound and mantra skills so that you can penetrate to the heart of sound yourself, and unleash the cascade of benefits that a resonant sound body brings:
Top 9 Typical Self-growth Outcomes from Heart of Sound 200HR TT:
- “Mind-blowing” higher level of self-acceptance
- Easy, consistent, full-body direct experience of the Divine (by any name/no name)
- Loving the sound of their own voice
- Empowerment to STOP negative patterns
- Ability to ask for what they need in life
- Integrity between heart-mind-word-deed
- Less reactivity, more creative generative flow
- Consistent clarity on their deepest values and purpose
- Core relationships harmonized in previously unimaginable ways
Yes, you learn to chant Sanskrit mantra properly. To play harmonium. To lead chant sessions, kīrtan, nāda yoga, etc.
But the real gold of the Heart of Sound is the integrity. The profound inner coherence. The radical life-shift into your authentic voice. Your musical Self, shining!
Transformation Stories: Sound Healing Yoga, Mantra Therapy, Nāda Yoga and Sanskrit Mantra Teacher Trainees Speak!
Incredible personal and professional transformation stories from a few of the Heart of Sound trainees -- from 2014 to now -- speak about their experiences about training with Anandra in India, Hawai'i, Australia, Germany, and online. Over 500 people from 65 countries have taken this training. They learned sound therapy through traditional Indian sound yoga techniques like Sanskrit mantra, vocal toning, learning nada yoga, how to play harmonium, lead kirtan chants, nonviolent communication, and much more.
Get FREE access to A DOZEN mini sound training resources from Heart of Sound
Designed to help you orient your practice to the heart of sound:
Discover the best sound yoga therapy, mantra meditation, and nada yoga here:
- Dive deep with the world's first and only online sound and mantra 200HR & 500HR Teacher Training
- More free sound baths and chant experiences of all different types are available at HeartofSound on YouTube / Sound Bath Playlist
- Get to know Anandra through her IG reels and media appearances.
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