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Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu Peace Mantra
May all the beings in all the worlds be happy!
Now that we’ve taken some time to get cozy with the sound of the simple practice and settle into our intention, we’ll take the next few days to learn the main mantra for our medium (and extended) variations of the practice.*
If you're new to mantra, just listen a few times and try to form the sounds in your mouth.
Lokāḥ Samastāḥ Sukhino Bhavantu
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Top 30 Sound Yoga Therapy Professional Offerings
This year marks a milestone: 10 years since the first cohort of Heart of Sound teacher trainees gathered to immerse themselves in the transformative practice of nāda yoga and mantra-based healing.
Since then, hundreds of graduates have carried the essence of this lineage-rooted, heart-centered training into the world—into yoga studios, trauma recovery centers, hospitals, cancer wards, classrooms, and homes.
And in this tenth year, our current trainees are showing us just how far the ripple has reached.
As part of their final practicum, each student designs and deliv...
Sound Healing Trauma With Voice and Mantra of Christine Mason’s Journey
Christine Mason paints a picture of resilience through sound, voice, and mantra
Christine is the founder of Rosebud Woman. She has a deep interest in women's wellness and the liberation of all people. She hosts a weekly podcast, The Rose Woman, and writes weekly letters on love power and womanhood to more than 30,000 people. As a yogi, bhakta, tantrika and mystic Christian, Christine draws on ancient wisdom, while working with current modalities including neuroscience informed collective trauma healing. She's authored seven books, and is the co-founder of Sundari, an...
Sound Yoga Therapy vs. Kīrtan: What’s the Difference?
A lot of folks assume I'm a performing kīrtan musician like so many others out there... however I'd like to be clear that while I love kīrtan and enjoy singing with people very much, my true and deepest love (and the thing I'm most experienced with) is being a sound yoga therapist leading a chant experience.
Kīrtan vs. Sound Yoga Therapy: 4 differences
There are many differences between performing kīrtan musicians and sound yoga therapists leading a chant experience here are four main distinctions.
What a Sound Yoga Therapist does:
- Prioritizes the participant's ...
Kīrtan Chanting and the Brain: Mirror Neurons and Direct Sensory Experience
Kīrtan is a call-and-response musical form that's unique!
I have been musing about this lately, and recently wrote a short piece about this I thought I'd share on my blog. :)
With call and response mantra chanting, participants in the chant experience get to enjoy both:
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Listening to a leader sing or chant a mantra (and often accompanied by wonderfully skilled musicians in the kīrtan band!)
This activates the mirror neurons or what I connect to the "guru principle", giving the participant a sense of aspirational elation when observing someone do something that's...
10 Years of Heart of Sound: Raising the Bar for Sound Yoga Therapy Worldwide
This year marks a milestone: 10 years since the first cohort of Heart of Sound teacher trainees gathered to immerse themselves in the transformative practice of nāda yoga and mantra-based healing in Rishikesh, India!
Since then, hundreds of graduates have carried the essence of this lineage-rooted, heart-centered training into the world—into yoga studios, trauma recovery centers, refugee camps, hospitals, cancer wards, classrooms, and homes.
And in this tenth year, we want to give a shoutout to the diversity and ingenuity of our trainees! It's inspiring and humbling ...
Shakti Mantra FAQ: What is Iccha Shakti? Are Goddess mantras only for women?
What are Shakti Mantras?
- Śakti Mantras are Sanskrit mantra sound vibrations that stimulate an inner experience of energy
- Shakti mantras tend to have a predominant I sound (sounds like eeee in the word glee, the English word for very very happy!)
- That vowel sound is considered the primal shakti mantra, because when we make that sound in our bodies, we naturally feel what is called "icchā śakti"
What is Iccha Shakti?
- Icchā Śakti is a term that describes the power to create.
- It's a trembling sensation, full of lively vibration that is the impulse to act, to ma...
My Story of Assimilation: What it taught me about Nāda Yoga, Mantra Shakti, Tantra, and Patriarchy
A bit of my story...
After almost assimilating to be a “good Indian girl” studying these traditions since I was 19, I woke up *just in time* to realize that there are 5,000+ years of baked in patriarchal systems of oppression in nearly every aspect of yoga culture. (Not to mention my own American culture!)
I had been baking inside the whole assimilation enchilada for 2 decades:
- wearing full saree every day for years, as comfortable as putting on sweats.
- Studying Hindustanī classical vocal music in New Delhi with my beloved music Guruji.
- Speaking Hindi and servin ...
Mantras for Cancer, Terminal Diseases, Hospice, Dying (Families)
When you're facing a serious illness, such as a cancer diagnosis, you need a vehicle that's big enough to hold ALL. THE. FEELINGS. that arise and swirl and add stress to an already difficult time. Mantra can do that. And hopefully your treatments work wonderfully and you enjoy a long healthy life ahead!
But if the treatments don't work, and there's nothing left to do but prepare for departure... mantra therapy will still help. In my experience, sound healing is what the dying (and their families) wish for most.
Throughout my 25+ year career in the sound wellness fiel...
Chanting for Peace in the Middle East: Can Sound Healing Help?
I attended a memorial for the victims of the October 7 Hamas attack last night, and it was REALLY good to be with community and feel the ripples of pain and prayers and hope for peace.
It’s easy to become numb and overwhelmed by the staggering numbers and each human being’s story is so… human. Shutting down is an evolutionary efficiency mechanism to enable us to survive, and I forgive myself that luxury sometimes.*
Right now I have friends, students, and friends of friends who died at Nova, who have fled Gaza, Northern Israel, and Lebanon, who are hopefully not getti...
