Ahhh, music and the nad… The silence between the notes. Thank-you for your music selections. Armine Van Burren, etc. in your last reply. It’s interesting how the flow of this thread has changed from DVD choices to music selections.
One of the things that I find most fascinating about yogic practices and observation is the manifestation and perception of my world. For instance the first general forum thread of a new member last night, or today, is about music choices. The last one that I wrote last evening was about music choices. I just smile and shake my head in awe. I’ll have to steer him to this sequence of threads. You asked what year I graduated from High School. It was a long time ago. Age is funny… I don’t really see much importance as some of my best friends are in there 60’s and well beyond, and some are in there 20’s and younger. I grew up in VT and love the mountains and the beach…Nature…Graduated high school in 1974. College in 1979…and I’ve been enamored with studying ever since.
I have to comment about some of the replies I read that advised to get rid of the IPOD. I would add that if the IPOD is keeping one from being happy, or taking up too big a part of there life, then perhaps it would be good advice. Keep in mind the magnetic waves may be harmful to one’s health but with the right work on the auric field maybe not so bad. It was a play on words that I heard one time, Tune into your I… ITUNES!My advice is music is great, IPOD’s are a great way to organize, store and listen. As a yoga and fitness instructor it is environmentally better, less waste from CD’s, more economical. My point is that if you keep balance in your life, and listen to your IPOD, but still find time to be social, or work, or hike and get outside, or do service to people in need, and to do your yoga practices, I am of the opinion that music works… much like mantra, or chanting, or prayer, or ancient healing techniques from Hawaii for pain management, mumbling under ones breath. In Daniel Odier’s translation of the sacred texts at the Origins of Tantra the Yoga SpandaKarika
# 136 of the Vijnanbhairava Tantra says: At the moment where your attention awakens through sensory organs, enter the spatiality of your own heart.
Doesn't music have an effect on the sensory organs?
With music I understand what you mean when you say you would like to yell. I feel that bubbling on the inside.... The connection to the element of water, to movement...the fire in belly burns and I want to create and yes, move into my throat charkra and into the mid-brain. Sound gets the inner drum beating and causes vibrations, movement on the inside and in that awareness my body always wants to follow suit.
#111 Wander or dance to exhaustion in utter spontaneity. Then, suddenly drop to the ground and in this fall be total. There absolute essence is revealed.
As if we need permission! This IS yoga...
But always remember the space between the notes, what is in your heart... the nad, that quiet contemplative point when the mind is not judging but rather being, and dancing on the inside, doing "your" yoga. There is lots of advice on the market. Find what makes you happy, serve and find joy, smiling for your inner lover.
You know there are 4 sounds to Aum... 1) A 2) U 3) M 4) shhhhh!
#67 When you senses shiver and your mind becomes still, enter the energy of the breath, and when you feel pins and needles, know supreme joy.
Find balance now and then, :-) and I hope you get your DVD's for xmas.
It was highly recommended by a friend.
