The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power of Music and Chant
The eye dominates the world, calculating and evaluating through the visual. Yet sound and music are the essential carrier waves of consciousness. For thousands of years, Hindu spirituality has understood the profound effect that sound has on human well-being. Largely unknown in the West, yet developing alongside the popular form of hatha yoga that has swept the world, the yoga of sound is a 3,500-year-old spiritual system for reducing stress and maintaining health.\ In this inspiring book and...
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For thousands of years Hindu spirituality has understood the profound effect that sound has on our well-being. From this tradition comes The Yoga of Sound, which draws on yoga’s long history of applying sound to reduce stress, maintain health, and invoke spiritual awakenings. In lucid exercises presented both in the book and on accompanying downloadable audio tracks, Russill Paul shows how everyone can learn the art of mantra and how these practices can help to optimize the flow of energy within the body and enhance emotional well-being.
AcknowledgmentsixForewordxiIntroductionxvPart 1Yoga: A way of harmony, balance, and ecstasyChapter 1Balancing Vision and Sound3Chapter 2Yoking Ourselves to the Cosmic15Chapter 3The Marriage of Body and Soul23Part 2Mantra: The soul of yogaChapter 4Mantra in an Interspiritual Age35Chapter 5The Sanskrit Mantra45Chapter 6Building Our Sonic Community51Part 3Tradition: The four major streams of sacred sound in HinduismChapter 7Shabda Yoga63Chapter 8Shakti Yoga81Chapter 9Bhava Yoga103Chapter 10Nada Yoga117Part 4Practice: The elements of Sound YogaChapter 11Preparation and Mantra Shastra139Chapter 12Posture149Chapter 13The Breath163Chapter 14Sound175Chapter 15Movement187Chapter 16Consciousness207Part 5Integration: Living the life of a sound yogiChapter 17Living the Yoga of Sound223Epilogue235Appendix 1Shabda Yoga: Vedic Mantras239Appendix 2Shakti Yoga: Tantric Mantras249Appendix 3Bhava Yoga: Bhakti Mantras259Appendix 4Nada Yoga: Tones, Practices, and Meditations265Programs and Resources273Endnotes279Index287Track Information for Yoga of Sound Audio Companion297About the Author301
