2020 - Soul Light Energetic Healing

Meditation For Mental Health

Imagine what you could achieve if you were operating from a place of deep inner calmness, clarity and vibrant energy.

How can you offer your best if you’re strung out and an emotional wreck?

Now significantly mainstream, managing one’s mental wellbeing through meditation is an increasingly adopted practice. There are some links at the bottom of this post to other interesting mainstream articles. Essentially they cite benefits of adopting meditation in the workplace: reduced sick leave, enhanced creativity, greater emotional intelligence and capacity to communicate with colleagues, stress reduction, improved productivity, increased happiness and work satisfaction, and more…

The unique style of meditation I facilitate is a unique blend of relaxation and stress relief techniques, combined with energy clearing, breath work and cognitive refocussing.

Think of it as an energetic spring clean to lift your energy and vibration. A short guided session can help you chill out, calm down and slow down, so that you can actually power up in the things that matter, connect to your innate clarity and direct your energy where it matters most.

Learn simple skills to better manage your energy, time pressures and challenges. Connect with greater peace, productivity and personal power.

Online Or In Person, Groups or 1-1

The ‘flavour’ of each session is generally informed by you and/or the group energy. It is tailored to your current circumstances and what is going on in your life or workplace. Please get in touch to discuss customising a session for you.

Business Meditation

In-house (Zoom or in-person) guided meditation for your workplace team.

Support the wellbeing of your most valuable assets – your people.
Experience techniques to enhance clarity, productivity and personal connection.
Build resilience. Alleviate stress. Access creative and inspirational states of awareness.
Cultivate positive mental mindset, and responsiveness rather than reaction.
Enhance the quality of your interactions operating from a stronger, clearer internal compass.

Spirited in Business

Power Up. Reboot, Reset, Re-energise.

Build team connection, trust and cohesiveness with an interactive playshop with a difference.
Enhance resilience, creativity and inspired leadership.
Experience simple skills to better manage your personal and team energy, time pressures and challenges.
Connect with greater inner calm, productivity, authenticity and personal empowerment.
These guided interactive sessions can shift blockages to team trust, connection, effective collaboration and flow.

Previous Clients And Corporate Highlights

Superhuman Healing Online Summit
Facilitating a Higher Power Leaders Masterclass for senior business executives, Human Power
Strategy day meditation, Being More Human
Corporate meditation, energy healing and transformation sessions for Kerwin Rae’s team in their Sydney office with Shakti Durga.

Benefits of Workplace Meditation

Here are links to some articles about companies implementing meditation in the workplace:

Harvard Business Review | How Meditation Benefits CEOs

Monash University | The Health Benefits of Meditation & Being Mindful

Arianna Huffington, Linked In | Mindfulness, Meditation, Wellness & Their Connection to Corporate America’s Bottom Line

Henry Stewart, Linked In | Five Big Companies Who Swear By Mindfulness

Chopra Centre | How & Why big Businesses Are Promoting Meditation

Chopra Centre | 5 Ways Meditation Can Benefit Businesses

Huff Post | How Meditation Benefits the Working Brain

The Entrepreneur | Why Meditation Works and How It Benefits the Workplace

Marino Wellness | 9 Incredible Benefits of an Office Meditation Program

August 18, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Soul Light Diane de Zylva Siddhi Shakti Sound Healing

Mantra

10 Benefits Of Mantra Meditation

Our modern life is awash with a confounding amount of choice and complexity, information and decisions on a daily basis. It’s easy to become overloaded and stressed, and for many we can opt unhealthy ways to numb the noise or seek to escape. This is where the profound and ancient practice of mantra can help.

Vibration shapes our reality

Mantra is an ancient practice of the repetition of high vibrational, sacred sound to attune us to cosmic frequencies, transforming the essence of our ‘beingness’. It’s a means of focussing our thoughts, mind and energy to align with higher vibrations, the essence of our soul and the energy of creation.

Increasingly there is a reawakening to the wisdom of the power of our intention, thought and affirmation, how we hold our personal energy, and how this shapes our reality. The regular practice of chanting is a powerful tool for self transformation.

10 benefits of mantra meditation

Feel uplifted, clearer and more optimistic
Decrease stress and anxiety – activate the parasympathetic nervous system
Still the mind with mantra meditation, defrag, reset & lift your vibe
Build engagement, happier people, conscious workspaces and connectivity
Enhance resilience, emotional intelligence, mental and creative faculties
Cultivate relaxed alertness, improve sleep quality, enhance energy
Improve cognition and creative thinking
Oxygenate the brain, reduce heart rate and blood pressure, calm brainwave activity
Develop communication skills, social connection, relaxation and wellbeing. Mantra meditation has been used to positively impact toxic stress, PTSD, and addiction patterns e.g. alcoholism
Connect with the field of inspiration, creativity and have fun!

For the mantra enthusiast

If you’re keen to really get the most out of your practice then combining skill and devotion in your practice will deepen your experience. I offer instruction in understanding and experiencing how to produce each of the unique 50 Sanskrit sacred syllables:

Experience the 5 key mouth placements for more accurate pronunciation
Appreciate the 50 Sanskrit letters and how to make the sounds
Connect more precisely with the energy of the sounds to supercharge your practice

A customised programme for you

It would be my great joy to share with you my love for the transformational power of sacred sound and to develop a customised personal program for you. I offer:

1-1 coaching, and
40 day support program

Your take outs from a session

Guidance in establishing a mantra practice that you can use to support you in a daily meditation/connection practice
Identification of a mantra to work with
Tips for pronunciation to get more energetic alignment from your practice
Energetic grounding and clearing to help you ‘drop into’ the practice and the heart space

Get in touch

Contact me or View online courses.

August 15, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Siddhi Shakti Kirtan, Sacred Music, Sound Healing

Mantra

Transformation Through The Power Of Healing Sound

The use of sound, particularly sacred and energised sound, filled with love, intent and a high vibration, can help us effect deep change, healing and transformation. On a physical level it can support stress reduction. Spiritually, it helps us expand our hearts, lift our spirit, connect with others, and align our resonance and frequency to more positive attributes, bringing greater alignment between mind, body and spirit.

The yoga of sound: Nāda and bhakti yoga

Be guided in the formation of specific vocal toning sounds that have a number of health and wellness benefits. Through these sounds we can access deeper states of meditation, connect to the power of our authentic resonance and the greater field that connects all life.

The benefits

Destress – shift from the sympathetic into the parasympathetic nervous system
Stimulate the release of nitric oxide – promoting blood flow, supporting the lymphatic system, reduced blood pressure and heart rate, and enhancing the immune system
Induce calm, enhance sleep
Still your mind with mantra meditation and meditative voice exercises
Utilise breathing techniques and simple body movements to support relaxation
Connect with your authentic and unique sound resonance and vibration
Lift your resting state of feeling through the use of high vibration sound frequencies
Align more fully with all parts of your being – body, mind and spirit
Cultivate listening awareness
Express your creative essence and feel the empowerment that comes from expressing your unique sound
Experience vocal practices to enhance fluidity, clarity and resonance in your sound
Share connection, community and bonding
Go beyond barriers of race, gender or age
Connect with the greater field that connects all of life

Chant experiences – kīrtan

Another powerful means of transforming and healing with sound and sacred music is through kīrtan, or call-and-response chanting. Group chant experiences are not only joyful and community connecting, but extremely powerful as a deep means of chanting our inner resonance and lifting our energy and vibration. These sessions are working amazingly well online in the current climate of social distancing.

A professional tailored experience for you

I customise sound and energy wellness sessions suit your requirements, time frame and audience. It’s an amazing way to build connection and community, and facilitate deep transformation, and works well for:

Conferences, workshops, seminars, functions
Team building, leadership days, retreats
Wellness, stress reduction, mentoring programs
Yoga studios, community events, festivals
Private or group sessions

Contact me

Find out more.

August 15, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Mantra

Learn To Pronounce Sacred Sanskrit Sounds

Deepening your experience of the transformational essence of mantra and the science of the sacred sound can take your chant practice into a whole other dimension, particularly when you’re able to combine skill and devotion in the production of sound.

I love sharing what I’ve learned in this area. Truly I wish I’d known about this years ago. When you realise that there are nearly double the sounds in Sanskrit compared to our Western alphabet, not knowing how to make the full range of sounds is the equivalent of trying to make a complex meal with only a couple of spices instead of a whole pantry. There’s so much more energetically you could be experiencing by connecting more precisely with the sacred sound frequencies of Sanskrit.

Learning the Sanskrit sounds – a customised programme for you

I’m not a Sanskrit scholar, but I have been taught a framework that I love to share – a breakdown of simple steps to understand and experience the key mouth positions, the distinctions between the sounds, including vowel lengths and why that matters. Once you understand this you will be able to interpret any correctly marked up transliterated Sanskrit text. You don’t need to understand the Devanāgarī traditional script to learn the pronunciations.

Experience the vibration of the sacred sounds – what you’ll learn

Experiential and interactive – feel the unique vibrations as you connect more precisely with the sacred sound frequencies of Sanskrit
Understand the science behind the Sanskrit language – the journey of consciousness into form
Experience the five key mouth placements for accurate Sanskrit pronunciation
Accurately pronounce the 50 Sanskrit letters
Understand how to interpret the romanised markups, the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST), to accurately read transliterated Sanskrit
The body of sound meditation practice – tune your body as an instrument of sacred sound
Learn commonly mispronounced yogāsana terms and accurate pronunciation for common poses
Move into deeper states of meditation and silence

Get in touch

If you’re interested in private or group sessions, continuing education for your yoga practice, retreats, workshops or festivals, I can customise a program to suit your timeframe, audience and requirements. Contact me

August 11, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Mantra

Mantra As Mind Medicine

Mantra, the use of sacred sound, is a tool for the mind, heart and soul, a vehicle for connecting us with our eternal nature, beyond the limitations and noise of the mind.

Throughout the ages across different traditions and varied cultures, people have connected through sound.

Sound, specifically music, can transcend class, language and social barriers, enliven the body and exalt the spirit.

The use of specific sounds, such as Sanskrit, a language of energy and vibration, perceived by ancient ‘seers’, attunes us, vibrational beings, to the qualities of nature and the cosmos.

We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned to the cosmos.
Albert Einstein

Chanting specific sounds such as bīja (seed) syllables can activate subtle parts of our unseen anatomy. They don’t translate into a literal meaning but can create peace and balance in the body and mind.

Emerging studies are showing the positive outcomes from the use of these sounds. Positive impacts include decreasing stress on psychological and physiological systems, improving social connection and reducing anxiety and depression.

A sound such as Oṁ, half vowel and half nasal, has the ‘feel good’ effect of releasing endorphins into the body, as well as activating delta waves that help to calm us. Delta waves are generated in deepest meditation and dreamless sleep and are important for healing and regeneration. So in one sound, there is the potential to manage the physical and mental body.

Reality consists of vibration, which in essence is sound.
Dr David Frawley

My own story has been an amazing journey of personal transformation through the use of sacred mantra and sound – nāda yoga . It is the sharing of a great ‘secret super power’ giving us the capacity to direct our energy and be more conscious in how we can actively engage in managing our vibration. Connect with me if you’d like find out more.

Article references
Sound Medicine: Dr Kulreet Chaudry
SMH: The power of om: How chanting can help your stress and sleep
ABC: Chanting Is An Ancient Practice with Mental Health Effects That Might Apply To Our Busy Lives
Well Being: Find Out the Power of Mantra
Gaia: Benefits of Chanting
Psychology Today: The Healing Power of Sound As Meditation

May 1, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Corporate Chant Experience, Siddhi Shakti

Mantra

Corporate Chant: Rock Your Wellness World!

It’s the next wave in wellness, following on from the physical based forms of yogāsna that have been so widely embraced by the West in recent decades. The benefits of a group facilitated sound immersion and chant experience are myriad, but here are a few of my personal favourites. These sessions are a fabulous means of supporting wellbeing initiatives in workplaces with many benefits:

Shift from fight or flight mode

It’s an amazing practice to alter your brain chemistry and shift you from the sympathetic into the parasympathetic nervous system. Destress, release endorphins into your system and relax.

Experience meditation and healing

We use the sound experience to connect with more our the essence of our true nature. Science tells us that everything is vibration, including us, which we can affect and alter through the use of guided and intentional sound frequency.

Inclusive

Anyone can participate. If there is some reason you’re not comfortable making sound, you can simply sit and absorb the healing vibrations and use it as a means to experience a meditative state.

Community building and engagement

The energy and vibe is palpable as the group comes together to connect in the energy of the experience.

Fun

Yes, it actually is. Most people walk out feeling lighter and happier.

You’re not going to crack a sweat

No need for active wear, unless you’d really like to 😂.

July 2020 update

I recently facilitated some simple sound based practices for the online Being Superhuman Healing Series organised by the Being More Human agency. Why not explore this for your community or workplace?

Get in touch if you’d like to rock your world with a guided yoga of sound and chant experience.

photo credit: Noni Carroll Photography

February 20, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti

Life

What Difference Can I Make?

I’ve wondered this at different moments in life. Most recently feeling helpless watching the devastating toll of the bushfire season in Australia, the massive loss of human, animal and plant life, and the depressingly inadequate responses from our political leaders to address or even acknowledge the root causes of the unfolding disaster.

It’s easy to plug into the collective anger, disbelief and despair, and to feel powerless. But how totally amazing and inspiring to see the leadership, inspiration and activism from the new generation – the likes of Greta Thunberg that have given voice to the mood of millions and mobilised communities globally to take to the streets.

Its reminded me that in every moment, I have a choice. My choice matters, and if all of us collectively exercised this power, we could affect great change. We vote with our dollars, with what we choose to consume. Every time I forget my reusable coffee cup and opt for the disposable cup – I’m choosing convenience and actively ignoring the environmental cost of my choice. Pretend though we might, because we’re busy, or focussed on what we’ve collectively been told is most import – jobs, productivity, the economy – if we’re honest, in our heart of hearts, we know too much now about what’s really at stake.

So, in my own small ways, I’m choosing positively. Less packaging, less single use plastic, less driving where I can. For the first time ever I actually wrote a letter to my MP, to make my views known, and to express how I wish my vote to be represented in parliament. I’ve chipped in with donations to charities that are helping on the ground, as well as supporting tree planting reforesting programs.

I’m also doing my bit energetically and vibrationally. Energy healing is wonderful to shift stuck and heavy fear based energy, thought forms – individual and collective, and for relief of suffering of sentient beings. I’ve been blessed to learn and to be able to offer mantras for healing and balancing the earth and elements. At a recent chant event I was leading in Sydney, it was a powerful and profound experience for the group to offer their love and intention through our collective shared voices. We felt we’d shared something quite special through the combined power of chant and prayer – an amazing service to offer love and energetic support for those in need.

Our choices, thoughts, attitude and actions do matter, and all make a difference, in small ways, every day, even when it’s not immediately apparent.

January 29, 2020/by Siddhi Shakti