Nada Brahma: Sound Healing through Chant
Silvia Nakkach

In the Vedic tradition, Nada Brahma refers to the sacred current of one’s divine essence. Nada (vibration) is the primordial roaring, the resounding flow that heralds the beginning of the evolutionary process from which energy and matter radiate. Brahma is the creative power that animates one’s divine consciousness with the power to move the heart. Nada Brahma experienced by a calm mind leads to bliss and the healing silence of compassion and peace.

Explore Eastern and Western contemplative practices of chanting for spiritual transformation and healing. Ancient sound healing will be introduced through Nada Yoga, a meditative modality of chanting that reflects the union of the body and spirit through subtle vibration. Learn yogic chants from the traditions of Shabda Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, including sacred seed-syllables, invocations, and powerful mantras, accompanied by subtle body movements and gestures (mudras) that deliver explicit spiritual information. Explore Bhava Yoga—the power of raga and rasa through a precise use of melody to convey distinct moods and emotional states—and experience the sharing of Gregorian chants, Hildegaard Von Bingen musical divinations, and the Sufi music healing practice of Sama, or spiritual listening. In addition to the sacred music repertoire, a cache of vocal meditation exercises, Sanskrit mantras, and medicinal melodies (which can be used as part of sound healing), a yoga session, and chanting circles, are provided.

“Just as the perception of subtle psychic centers of the body
(chakras) lead up to transcendental space, through the magnetic
experience of sacred chanting we liberate a sense of
boundless radiance and openness, nurturing the intense
yearning of the heart to unite with the divine.”
— Silvia Nakkac

Yoga From The Source: Personalizing Your Practice
Mark Whitwell

Yoga provides the direct intimacy and route of absorption to nurture one’s relationship with Source and all its appearances. The practice of asana, or hatha yoga, refers to a “yoking,” or union of opposites. The ancients perceived that the breath is the most critical function of a living organism; yoga poses allow one to participate in and enhance the breath. It is the careful selection of asana movements that ensures breath is strengthened without struggle.

Sri T. Krishnamacharya gave precise instructions for building an authentic and efficient yoga practice for each person, taking into account such individual differences as age, health, body type, and cultural background.

In this workshop participants will study in great detail the technology of asana, pranayama, bandha, meditation, and life as a seamless process. The workshop is ideally suited for beginners as well as advanced students and teachers who seek to incorporate the principles of powerful yoga and adapt them into their individual lifestyle needs.