One of my students asked if I could record the Nidra we did this week. Although I am often working with a theme or focus for my classes, I rarely script the Nidra Meditation in the class setting. I recorded this today, based on the Yoga Nidra we did in class -with a focus on releasing limited beliefs about the self. Enjoy~
Recorded July 2013
Presented by: UnifyYoga 
Meditation Guide: Anita Athavale

UnifyYoga "Release" Yoga Nidra

Campane Tibetane Set7 CTSET 433

Himalayan Cure: Music of Tibet with Flute, Singing Bowls and Gong, Deep Healing Sound

Holy Prayers

SOUNDS FOR HOMECOMING - BARDO - WINTER SESSION

a ceremonial mix for those wanting to go on a descent into the bardo and beyond.

the intention behind these works is for solo or group ceremonies with some fungi friends. 

to the underworld and back again

SOUNDS FOR HOMECOMING - BARDO - WINTER SESSION

Cha Dao Soundscape -
Been a while since I’ve felt inspired to create an ambient one . Hope you enjoy these beautiful vocals from the new album byGanavaya and some other world and ambient pieces  for melting to or drinking some bowls of tea to

Beauty in Impermanence - Session 15

Foreign-born monastic disciples of Venerable Ajahn Chah made a first group pilgrimage to Suan Mokkh to pay respects to Tan Ajahn Buddhadāsa, who was held in high esteem by Ajahn Chah. Tan Ajahn spoke with them about the Dhamma understanding he considered essential for deep practice  (dependent co-arising) and the Buddha's most complete meditation system (mindfulness with breathing). Tan Ajahn spoke in Thai and Santikaro Bhikkhu interpreted into English live.

9004 (4) Ānāpānasati and Buddhism (Tetrad IV)

Yoga Nidra is an age-old technique of lucid-sleeping which reduces stress and allows the body to heal.  Yoga Nidra means yogic sleep, however it is not sleep as we generally understand - it is to Awaken. The term Yoga Nidra is often used to describe the relaxation at the end of a yoga practice, Savasana. Yoga Nidra activates the senses and nervous system to affect much of the brain.  During the experience, different levels of the mind are explored: consciousness, subconsciousness, and super-consciousness.  During Yoga Nidra, you are guided towards a fully conscious state free of the habitual reactions to thoughts and emotions. The deep state of relaxation enables an introspective look at the patterns of the mind and the emotional bodies.

Yoga Nidra (long version)

Inner Rhythm Meditations, Vol. II

A Benevolent Spirit

A Steadfast Path

This is a live performance for Oscillating Prana for the Throat Chakra (VishuddhA).

Oscillating Prana

OscillatingPrana - VishuddhA Live

Ground-breaking percussive ambient recordings to induce altered states of consciousness through ecstatic dance. Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were a world unto themselves.

Despite featuring an extraordinary cast of musicians (with credits including Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Miles Davis, Santana, Stevie Wonder, Milton Nascimento and much more) and selling hundreds of thousands of albums, the music of Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors remains largely unheard beyond their sphere. Conceived as live, improvised soundtracks to Roth’s transcendental dance workshops, musical acclaim was never on the agenda.

Instead, for a passionate dancer and spiritual polyglot like Gabrielle Roth, movement was a means through which to channel a wide spectrum of teaching, from experimental psychology to psychedelic counter-culture. It was from this heady mix that she devised a movement meditation known as 5Rhythms, which came to define her life’s work.

As “guide and catalyst”, Roth would dance to inspire the percussion-led instrumentals that would in turn fuel her 5Rhythms workshops, stimulating a secular form of ecstatic dance with roots in Native American shamanic traditions, Afro-Brazilian Candomblé and Yoruba drumming.

Using anything from a Sioux pony drum to East African kihembe and Japanese Kabuki drums, Gabrielle’s lawyer-turned-drummer husband Robert Ansell set the foundational rhythms for The Mirrors’ recordings, each of which would then feature a rotating cast of friends and professional musicians.

“The secret of everything we’ve done is that we never told anybody what to play,” Robert shares. “Instead of our albums being a musical vision of one person like me or Gabrielle, they were the musical vision of a whole bunch of people.”

At times the recordings have a Middle Eastern flair, at others, West African and spiritual jazz modes come to the fore. Hints of kosmische musik, proto-house and electronic ambience are laced like LSD through the organic rhythmic structures. This was kaleidoscopic ambient music to stir the body and free the mind.

In practice, the task of synthesising these different elements fell to Scott Ansell, Robert’s son and a recording engineer whose credits now include Nile Rogers, Duran Duran, Grace Jones. With meticulous attention to detail he captured and translated the dynamic energy of each drum onto record. Their sessions became legendary, and with access to the best studios in the NYC, The Mirrors sparkled.

Despite being initially overlooked by the burgeoning ‘80s New Age market, which preferred pipes and gongs to The Mirrors’ heavy-grooving drums, Robert Ansell set up Raven Recording to self-release the music, creating a vast sonic archive of sixteen albums over almost forty years.

The breadth of Raven’s catalogue is such that curator Pol Valls had to cut an initial selection of sixty-six tracks down to the eleven featured here. What crystallises is a stunning, mind-altering collection which spans, in Pol’s words, “a variety of genres, styles, and vibes within their catalogue, whether it is emotional, esoteric, spiritual, melancholic, hypnotic, dark, or at times a combination of these elements together.”

Music for immersive and intimate environments, Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors were born from the dance. In the hands of the right DJ, at the right time, in the right place, they might just return there.

Selected Works 1985 - 2005

Shavasana

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Dhamma talks by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu for international students spoken in or interpreted into English and given at Suan Mokkh, Chaiya, South Thailand, in the years 1982-1991. As these were given at the end of his life, they often focus on core concerns of Buddha-Dhamma.

[20150824 Dhamma friends who attended Suan Mokkh international retreats before 1993 are invited to share their experiences, memories or photos with the Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives (BIA) 'Oral History' project. suanmokkh_bangkok@bia.or.th]

[20150824 Several of these talks need yet to be transcribed. Interested volunteers please kindly contact BIA: suanmokkh_bangkok@bia.or.th]

9004 (4) Ānāpānasati and Buddhism (Tetrad IV)

Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Dhamma Talks

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