Sound Yoga - Meaning & Making of the Wellness Brand
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yoga is
an ancient Indian metaphysical system. It is both a philosophical system, a
medicine, and- as the name suggests- a form of yoga.
The system's theoretical and practical aspects are based on the premise that
the entire cosmos and all that exists in the cosmos, including human beings,
consists of sound vibrations, called Sound. This concept holds that it is the
sound energy in motion rather than of matter and particles which form the
building blocks of the cosmos.
Sound yoga is also a way
to approach with reverence and respond to sound. Sound and music is in this
context, something more than just the sensory properties and sources of sensuous
pleasure, sound and music is considered also to play the role as a potential
medium to achieve a deeper unity with both the outer and the inner cosmos.
Sound yoga's use of sound
vibrations and resonances are also used to pursue palliative effects on various
problematic psychological and spiritual conditions. It is also employed to
raise the level of awareness of the postulated energy centres called chakra.
The Sound yoga system
divides music into two categories: internal music, anahata, and external music, ahata. While the external music
is conveyed to consciousness via sensory organs in the form of the ears, in
which mechanical energy is converted to electrochemical energy and then
transformed in the brain to sensations of sound, it is the anahata
chakra, which is considered responsible for the
reception of the internal music, but not in the way of a normal sensory organ.
The anahata concept refers
to one's own personal sound vibrations, which is thought to be so closely
associated with one's self and the self that a person can not share their
anahata with another human being. In other words, this inner sound is sacred
and once reached will open the practitioner's chakras, which ultimately will
unite the body to the divine/cosmos.
With continued sounds, a
focused mind and controlled breath, the individual can, according to Sound
yoga, "listen in on" their own anahata, their own "inner
sound", which can take up to nine different forms. Such a process of inner
awareness and sensitivity leads to increased self re-collect and finally to
awakening.
To concentrate on this
inner sound as a support for meditation is very helpful to tame the mind, and
when it has been clearly recognized, used for self-recollect in outer life as
well. Eventually, it can be experienced as penetrating all matter and indeed
vibrates eternally throughout the Creation.
In Sound Yoga, one of the
main breathing sounds is ahaṃ, where each part of the word (a ha ṃ) is focused
on and spoken individually. The echoes produced by each of these spoken letters
is a time where the yogi should immerse himself and rest. Now, because of imbalances
within the human body, Nāda yoga begins by removing the ailments and impurities
by "awakening the fire in the body (jāṭhara)" (Timalsina 212) with
the use of a sound resembling that of a bee. It is important to note that when
the yogin is forming sounds, his/her mind should not wander off to other
entities.
One group to incorporate
yoga, Sound Yoga specifically, and the practice of sound into the spiritual
transformation is the Josmanĩ. The Josmanĩ are identified as a Sant tradition,
and they are a blend of Śrī Vaiṣṇava Bhakti tradition with the Nāth Yoga
tradition. Yoga is used in "personal and social transformation"
(Timalsina 202). The Josmani's spiritual quest interlinks the practice of
Kuṇḍali and SoundYoga.[1]
In the West, detailed
indications and advices have been given by Edward Salim Michael in
his book : the Law of attention, Sound Yoga and the way of inner
vigilance. Ajahn Sumedho, from
the Thai Forest Tradition teaches
also the practice of this inner sound.
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