Vulnerability

A meditation during the Beaver Moon Eclipse on a PanSmith G# Celtic Minor Handpan. Just finding a flow as it all flows around me. Remembering to just find my ease. Grace is a work in progress. But, isn't it always? Ease and grace my fellow Earth walkers. 🌎 
#HandpanLife #BeaverMoon #LunarEclipse #Handpan #Pantam #PantamLife #Flow #EaseAndGrace

Raindrops in G# - Beaver Moon Eclipse Handpan Meditation

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A harp meditation, honoring the lineage of Mary Magdalene & Christ, the Sacred Mysteries of the Rose, the passion, delicacy and magic living inside each one of us.

Meditación de arpa, honrando el linaje de María Magdalena y Cristo, el Misterio Sagrado de la Rosa, la pasión, delicadeza y la magia que siempre vive en nuestro interior.

Heart Of The Rose

Eternal Spring (excerpt)

Stas Ostrikov, Ilya Podoynitsyn, Garik Bulgakov - Magic Mountain

Simrit Kaur

Simrit Kaur Guru Ram Das (live in San Francisco)

Yoga Journal Review :
"A passionate performance on guitar offers a Westerner's interpretation of the classical Indian raga.

Classical Indian music is all about mood. Songs can evoke joy, tranquillity, even devotion. To accomplish this, musicians base songs on a form called a raga—a melodic pattern built on a framework of notes, rhythms, and musical progressions designed to summon up a particular emotion. It's best to experience ragas if you want to understand them, and now you can get a taste on Stevin McNamara's new album, Om Guitar: Acoustic Meditation Music.
A gifted guitarist and sitarist who has worked with Tina Turner, among others, McNamara has released two earlier solo discs: Caroline Myss' Chakra Meditation Music and Yogitar. McNamara's purpose on his newest album is not to imitate classical Indian music, but to apply the principles of raga to the totality of his background as a player of Indian and Western guitar.
Om Guitar is made up of four lengthy songs (from 13 to 25 minutes) that unfold at the unhurried pace of a sunny day spent in a leafy canyon. The music contains melodic and harmonic echoes of classical European repertoire, coffeehouse strumming, gentle psychedelia, and easygoing jazz. These combine effortlessly with McNamara's skillful microtonal string bends that are unique to North Indian classical music. This technique creates a plaintive sound that is especially effective in the album's first composition, "Aubade," based on a raga designed to awaken passionate longing.
Other compositions showcase McNamara's guitar and sitar playing in tandem. The two instruments intertwine in coy call-and-response patterns and joyful melodies on the album's closing track, "Heartsong Celebration." Another piece, "May Fortune Smile," features McNamara's nylon-string guitar being struck by fingers, brushes, the heel of his hand, and a violin bow. On other tracks, percussionist Nic Dacelo and tamboura/harmonium player Aram Ram provide hypnotic underpinnings. The album as a whole is meditative and soothing, making it an evocative introduction to classical Indian music."

Om Guitar

Heartsong Celebration

Track 2 of "Vibrance : Chapter Two"

About "Vibrance : Chapter Two" :

Second chapter in the Vibrance series, dedicated to handpan music.

A journey from dawn to twilight, from birth to death, 
A journey from twilight to dawn, from death to re-birth.

Through sadness, sorrow and fear, 
Through joy, hope and faith.

The cycles are linked together and interwoven, 
Love remains and supports all.

It was in this journey through the cycles that this second chapter of Vibrance was born. 
May it be a good companion in your own cycles, in your own journey.
credits

Composed and performed by Julien Aho

With Izae Neava on tracks 1, 3, 6 and 8 (Vocals) 
And Sophie Rampa on track 4 (Native Flute)

Cover by Gaëlle Vejlupek

Thanks to all the instrument makers that made this album possible : Ayasa Instruments, Soma Sound Sculptures, Echo Sound Sculpture, Meraki Instruments, PanArt, Max Brumberg Flutes, High Spirits Flutes, Tim Manning, Moog Music.

Vibrance : Chapter Two

Buy on bandcamp

Un Joyau Dans Une Larme

Inspired by our recent travels in Santa Barbara, CA and The White Lotus Foundation, this meditative instrumental is in honor of the Chumash tribe, the indigenous people of the region. The key is anchored in F with the tanpura drone and F crystal bowl with melodies and harmonies of Spanish guitar played modally capturing moods and emotions leading to resolution and relaxation.

Raindrops in G# - Beaver Moon Eclipse Handpan Meditation

Danny Sorensen

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