Here’s a link to an article I wrote for the May 2023 editor of the Soul Advisor newsletter. Whilst it really only scratches the surface, I hope there is enough in it to encourage your own exploration of this profound science of sound.
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At our essence we are frequencies of light and sound. Rather than feeling powerless when buffeted by life’s inevitable twists, we can choose to consciously hold ourselves in an internal space of strength, cultivating inner calm and transforming our energy through the power of high vibrational sound.
Mantra Meditation
Every thought, word and emotion impacts our vibration and creates our world. Mantra gives us a safe and positive means to focus our mind, to use it as a tool for conscious creation, rather than reaction. It’s a mechanism for focussing our thoughts, mind and energy to align with uplifting energy, the essence of the energy of creation, bringing greater alignment between mind, body and spirit.
The Power of the Sacred Sanskrit Sounds
The sacred sounds of Sanskrit hold transformational power. They attune us to cosmic frequencies and are a means of activating our bodies through all the levels of our being. Our body is in essence a supercomputer. Using the gifts of mantra, breath, focus of energy and intention, and precision in the formulation of mantric sounds including an awareness of the five mouth placements and the specific duration for each of the sounds, we can engage our body of sound and awaken to more the fullness and essence of our true nature.
“The petals of the chakras represent an unfoldment of primal sound through the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. The six lower chakras contain a total of fifty petals, each of which relates to one of the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. This is the “garland of letters” that shows the vibratory frequencies of the chakras. The thousand petal lotus or crown chakra indicates all possible sound combinations of these fifty letters.” ~ Dr David Frawley, Mantra Yoga and Primal Sounds.
Yoga of Sound (Nāda Yoga)
Sacred and energised sound filled with love, intent and a high vibration can bring deep change, healing and transformation. The practice of nāda yoga is a means of cultivating the essence of listening awareness. Through the use of sound, tone and rhythm we elevate our vibration and open to higher states of consciousness. It’s a journey within, through sound into the silence, the space and essence of our vast and true eternal nature.
Group Classes – Yoga of Sound & Mantra Meditation
Check the event calendar for yoga of sound and mantra meditation experiences online. It’s a great opportunity to relax, reset and lift your vibe. Offered by donation, please register online to receive the Zoom link.
Private Sessions
I offer private sessions online. If you’re keen to establish a mantra practice, or looking to take it to the next level through refinement of the sounds (which will supercharge your experience of the energy), I’d love to work with you. You can book with me for an individual session or a series of 4, scheduled over 40 days via Zoom. This will give us the opportunity to:
• Determine an appropriate mantra to support you
• Learn the key mouth placements, correct pronunciation, timing and svara (pitch)
• Understand the meaning and origins of the mantra
• Connection, insights and support over 40 days.
Insight Timer Meditation
Go within, ‘Into the Silence’ on Insight Timer to support your meditation practice. If you join the mailing list for good vibes to your inbox, you’ll receive a link to download the mp3 file.
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
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
