Make the most of Your Shruti Box potential to Free Your Voice
Experience Tone Magic!
Saturday September 28, 10-30 to 1:00PM
Location in Berkeley, 2748 Adeline Suite D –
Tuition Fees: $50. Register online Pay-Pal
This workshop-Lab is a complementary learning.
Description:
The Shruti box is an Indian musical instrument that facilitate chanting by fine tuning and opening to the voice through a way of continuation of tone and presence, and by dissolving into the delicate balance of breath and deep listening. It’s simplicity, entrancing quality of tone, and stress-free access to all levels of musicianship, is surprising and undeniable. (*)
• Experience the alchemy of One Tone and YOU and the ancient power of Horizontal Music –
(Refer to Free Your Voice, Chapter 8).
• Learn how to make the most of the Shruti Box as an accompanied instrument.
• Find your most comfortable tonal center (tonic/drone) according to each student’s vocal range.
• Learn to use the iTabla Pro App.
• Be aware of particular practices and what is suitable to practice with the instrument.
• Immerse Your Mind in Vocal Meditation & How to Improvise with the shruti box
• Discover simple scales to go Up & Down and Around
• Become familiar with many practices that complement the Yoga of the Voice training
• Enjoy the pregnant silence after the practice
• Learn the fundamentals of Indian Classical Music that are part of the essence-lineage of the instrument.
When an instrument is approached within its lineage and tradition…Magic happens!
“Chanting with a drone is about cultivating ‘continuation of presence’. In the interplay of sound becoming light and light becoming sound we gently move with the conscious focus of our voice listening to the drone. This makes chanting a devotional art, a liberating musical experience that helps us to focus on sound, beyond distractions. Transcending words and the identity of any vocal culture, we enter in the mystery of what constitutes an enlightening musical experience in the space where sound naturally fades into pregnant silence.” Silvia Nakkach
Location: Dondrubling, Dzogchen Community West (*)
2748 Adeline Street – Suite D
Berkeley, Ca 94705 (*) Above Crixa Cakes – Two blocks from Ashby Bart
This Workshop-Lab requires advance registration – Register in Advanced by clicking here via PayPal.
Please Bring YOUR own shruti box – if you have it
(*) We only recommend and can warranty the effect of one particular brand of shruti boxes.
Few Shruti Boxes will be available for purchase ONLY upon advanced request – Send your request: voxmundi@yahoo.com
“As you develop this inner listening as an aspect of formal meditation, you begin to notice how listening to a auditory object helps you to learn to listen objectively to your thoughts, your moods…. We can thus learn to listen to our own thinking as we would listen to a stream of water, a splashing fountain or a chorus of song from a flock of birds, with the same kind of freedom from involvement or identification..”-Inner Listening by Ajahn Amaro
