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Sound Yoga Therapy vs. KÄ«rtan: Whatâs the Difference?
A lot of folks assume I'm a performing kÄ«rtan musician like so many others out there... however I'd like to be clear that while I love kÄ«rtan 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.Â
KÄ«rtan 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 ...
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 nÄda 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 worldâinto 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 ...
Sound Yoga Therapy: Interview with Anandra
Recently I had the pleasure of doing a video interview with Daniel Aaron from The Art of Vibrant Living, and we got into some wonderful topics.
Sound and Mantra Therapy Conversation Topics:
- Sound yoga therapy and nervous system self-regulation
- Sound and music as a path of self-expression vs. sound as self-inquiry
- Defining the interoceptive approach to sound yoga therapy, mantra therapy
- What's the most interesting, powerful, effective way of using sound or being with sound for transformation specifically?
- What defines "Sacred Sound"?
- What's the difference betwe ...
The more you know, the more you know you donât knowâŠ
The more you know, the more you know you donât knowâŠÂ
Is there any realm in which this is not true?
People.
The longer you know someone, the more you realize that you have no idea what is really going on for them deep inside. They hold multitudes of mysteries, complex trauma, perceptual, differences, patterns, and habits built on foundations that you can never understand fully, because you have not lived at yourself.
Mantra.
Are used to think that learning how to chant, more mantras, sing more songs, do more complex, and longer chance meant that I knew more, and h...
