What are you favorite Savasana songs or CDs?
[QUOTE=TattooLady;65460]What are you favorite Savasana songs or CDs?[/QUOTE]
Shavasana…
Shava - Corpse
The Dead not hear. Shavasana is best in total silence. Maybe you can focus on the hum of the fan or the blast of the ac vent.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays
[QUOTE=bjoy;65467]After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays[/QUOTE]
Silence is the true friend that never betrays. ~Confucius
Amen
Because I teach in a city and it is never silent during class time…possibly not even quiet…I do like to use music.
At the end of an evening class…Free Your Mind by Tom Oliver.
After a very chest/heart opening class…Iam Ready by Tracy Chapman
otherwise Nataraja…music for yoga and other joys…Jai Uttal
Hanuman Bab(dubfarm remix) Krishna Das
a few of my favs.
[QUOTE=yogacambodia;65469]Because I teach in a city and it is never silent during class time…possibly not even quiet…I do like to use music.
At the end of an evening class…Free Your Mind by Tom Oliver.
After a very chest/heart opening class…Iam Ready by Tracy Chapman
otherwise Nataraja…music for yoga and other joys…Jai Uttal
Hanuman Bab(dubfarm remix) Krishna Das
a few of my favs.[/QUOTE]
I appreciate that.
Studio dependant
My Hot yoga or heated vinyasa classes enjoy silence throughout save the singing bowl I use to close class.
My industrial gym classes compete with workout music and clashing weights in the main gym and so I use music throughout by Jai Uttal and Wade Imre Morrisette and close with Steven Halpern Canon in D Major from Crystal Suite Album.
Lately I’m loving anything by Garth Stevenson and Be Here Now by Ray LaMontagne. The blog site www.dailydownwarddog.com has a yoga music section that I explore periodically for ideas.
Hope there is unanimity that music or sound of any kind does not help in deeper savasana. Hence, the best way to aid it could be initially to play some classical music that slides into instrumental music that slowly dies out letting the silence set in.
In deep savasana, care should be taken of not falling asleep. When we remain fully conscious and fully immobile in act, thought and emotions, savasana is achieved.
Since the consciousness gets anchored in the fragile astral body, savasana should be wound up slowly by playing the music in the reverse order.
[QUOTE=Suhas Tambe;65492]Hope there is unanimity that music or sound of any kind does not help in deeper savasana. [/QUOTE]
No, I can’t say I would think there WOULD be unanimity in that opinion. From my limited experience, music is included in many classes - especially during savasana.
Please expand upon what this opinion is based upon.
First, my emphasis is on “DEEPER” savasana. The following quotes made me say so.
“Shavasana is best in total silence”
“Silence is the true friend that never betrays”
“My Hot yoga or heated vinyasa classes enjoy silence…”
But, if we say “near unanimity” or drop it altogether, it won’t affect my suggestion of moving slowly from music to silence and back to music. Isn’t it?