Get started with your harmonium: You just got your harmonium and you are not sure where to start? Here is a basic introduction to some of the functionality of your harmonium and how to create a basic drone so you can start chanting straight away :)
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Easy Harmonium Jai Ma Mantra: A good one to start your harmonium journey with! An absolutely beautiful mantra with very simple harmonium. Calling to Ma, the Devine mother, the goddess that is awareness itself, and the ground of being in which every possibility exists. This is an adaptation of Nicky Slade’s beautiful Jai Ma mantra.
Tiny & Vast 2: A follow on from Tiny & Vast, sharing a short and sweet poem that speaks to the relationship between the individual and the universal.
Inherent Significance: The idea that our significance is inherent to our existence, and that when we look for our signifance from outside of ourselves, jobs, validation, roles, etc we are looking in the wrong place. We have some sense that we are significant and we ARE but not becasue of all the things we do...
Self Regulate in 5: A short and potent 3 part breathing practice to soothe and nourish your nervous system.
Arunachala: Arunachala is a mountain in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a considered to be a highly auspicious holy site, and the home of various ashrams and temples. Arunachala means red mountain, and every year people make pilgrimages to the top of the hill carrying embers from a fire to the top of the mountain. The red of the mountain and the fire and flame can also be understood as the flame of our deepest knowing and highest wisdom. This melody is by Mooji.
Radhe Govinda: Radhe is the embodiment of yearning and young love . She is the deeply beloved of govinda (the name for young krishna). Calling to the male and female principle within us to unite, and to remember our wholeness. Melody - Stephanie Snyder.
Jaya Jagatumbe: A mantra for Durga, as sung by Krishna Das. Durga is the embodiment of the fierce warrior goddess. She fearlessly leads us to right action even when everything within us is resisting. Jaya - Victory to! Jagatumbe -mother of the universe. He Ma - calling out to Ma the devine mother, and the part of ourself that knows how to nurture, look after and love fiercely and unconditionally.
Sita Ram: Sita and Ram, queen and king of the universe, masculine and feminine; the integration of both within us. Deeply in love, and many stories of losing each other and finding each other, just as we forget and then remember ourselves. A call to the deepest remembrance of who we are, to trust and faith and perseverance.
Kali Mantra: for kali ma, the fierce goddess, the aspect of ourselves that knows tough love, that can dig ourselves out of the ditch, that can hold the entirety of the full spectrum of experience with all the beauty and all the muck and be with it all. I learned this fierce melody from Stephanie Snyder.
Harmonium basics: chanting Aum. A beautiful, powerful and simple chant. Aum is the sound of the entire universe, it represents the beginning, creation, all that is sustained, and the dissolving of all back into the vastness it has come from. It is the vibration of existence itself.