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Cultivating Musical Resilience: Sound Yoga Practices for Uncomfortable Feelings
With existential stressors continuing to pile up, our personal lives and relationships are feeling the strain too.
This Yoga of Sound experience gets right to the grit of our daily tension points!
Enjoy this melodic, heart-opening immersion into sound and mantra that is specially designed to lubricate the pathway towards harmonious, best-case scenarios in your life.
Can we listen in to the discomfort, make space for it, and embrace a nuanced, curious, empathetic, both/and approach that opens into a wide range of creative solutions?
Or are we stuck with a limited...
Free Mantra Chant Leader Training
Anyone else feeling the need to amp up the peace channel?
Mantras for Peace chant events are an amazing way to bring community together and focus our hearts and voices on peace.
Calling all mantra lovers and aspiring CHANT LEADERS!
We'd love to support YOU to lead a chant circle in your area. And our free Host Your Own Chant Event mini-training has a full kit to support you to offer a peace mantra chant event in your community (in person or online):
- a free online training
- pronunciation videos
- harmonium 101 videos
- Mp3 files of mantra
- Sample chant event plan /...
Learn How to Pronounce Sacred Sanskrit Sounds for Mantra Meditation - A Sneak Peek into our Best-Selling Online Course!
Do you LOVE mantra, but feel unsure if you're pronouncing the Sanskrit correctly? Have you been waiting for a course that's juicy, embodied, fun, and easy?
It was HARD to keep this sneak peek (below) to under 12 minutes, since there are so many great learning resources we've put into place for our sound yoga trainees.
Learning Sacred Sanskrit Sounds will forever elevate your experience of mantra!
This One of a Kind Sanskrit Pronunciation Course Includes:
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20+ hours of video teaching with Anandra, a mix of live classroom teacher training footage and...
Calming Trauma with Mantra Sound Bath: Nurturing Resilience after Calamity
Join Anandra and our special guest, Cameron, for a super relaxing and awesome sound-based yoga session with Bansuri Flute! We live-streamed this experience all the way from the beautiful island of Kaua'i.
Don't worry if you're new to this. Beginners are totally welcome! You can either rest and receive the soothing vibes or join in and chant along if you feel like it. We really hope you have a fantastic time during this 20-30 minute guided mantra meditation experience!
We crafted the theme for this month's FREE online event as a Mantra Sound Bath...
Sound Bath with Mantra, Raga and Nada Yoga! Now Online.
A friend of mine attended a live chant event I led last week, and gushed about how it felt like a sound bath to just listen to me singing, the bansuri flute playing, and hear the group singing along with the rāgas and mantras.
Normally, I try to get people to DO THE PRACTICE with us, because I figure it's like food... you get more out of it when you chew it and swallow it yourself vs. watching someone else eat. That's why I have (stubbornly) stuck to empowering people looking to really train in mantra and nada yoga with skills, techniques, and practices.
While I...
Cultivating a Musical Response to Divisiveness and Existential Fear
Cultivating a musical response to the symphony of dissonant notes screaming for attention in our world right now is not a distant, poetic idea. It’s a tangible, practical skill. Uncomfortable, yes. Difficult, yes. Full of the mess of aliveness, yes. A swift and tidy spiritual bypass would be much easier. But leaning in to listen deeply, to feel what’s truly alive in us, can also make this moment resonant with hope and possibility.
Have you been tempted to write off someone in your life who has (or hasn’t) adopted a particular conspiracy narrative...
The Sound Body: Remembering Wholeness through Nāda Yoga
Musings on the practical transformation I've experienced through my sound-based yoga practice... written while gazing out at the Himālayan range during a 2017 pilgrimage.
Ordinarily our awareness is limited to the sensations within the body. However, when we consciously enter sound, our awareness expands into the space within and surrounding our physical body. This vibratory sphere becomes our “sound body,” if you will, and gives us a visceral sense of transcendence. The dimensional quality is multi-directional; we can go within, to the point of...
Mantras for Peace: A Wisdom Gathering Online
The Mantras for Peace project is one of our main service projects at the Heart of Sound.*
This year, we've gathered 20 inspiring talks from global thought leaders dedicated to a vibrant future through both ancient and innovative subtle activism practices. Their words will melt your heart. Their visions will inspire you. Their practices will empower you.
If you want a straight shot of inspiration, hope, goodness, peace, connection and practical, powerful strategies for loving the world into wholeness through sound, don’t miss Mantras for Peace: A Wisdom...
