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Chanting
Chanting is an important aspect of Yoga. Sound has an amazing healing affect on the nervous system, the mind and the heart. Sometimes we just hum or Om or use a specific chant. The chants are usually not introduced until Level 2 classes. Some students may be concerned that the Yoga of Sound is a religious practice. In the sense we do it however, it is not. The origin of Yoga is pre-religious. Sanskrit is a language of consciousness--the individual "deities" represent forces within each of us and do not in themselves have an external meaning.

Lyrics to the Chants:

Jai Ma - Victory to the Divine Mother

Jai Jagadambe Ma Durga (3X's)
Jai Ma Jai Ma Jai Ma (4x's)

We are all children of the Great Mother and in this chant I feel like a child playing with Ma, feeling her love surround and support me.

OM Namaha

OM Namaha
OM Namah, Namaha
OM Namah,Namah, Namaha Shivaya Namaha OM

This chant helps to cleanse our whole being, Namaha means bowing to the Divine. Shivaya is the force of the divine that sweeps away the negative and renews the spirit.

Radhe Radhe Radhe Shyam

Radhe Radhe Radhe Shyam
Radhe Shyam Radhe Radhe 2x's
Hare Hare Krishna
Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Hare Krishna
Krishna Hare

This chant develops the heart/love energy. Radhe is Krishna's consort and through calling her name we knock on the door of our heart and Krishna answers calling us into our own Inner light and Love. "Shyam" ("Dark One") is one of the names of Krishna in which Radhe, represented by her yellow sari, clothes the formless aspect of the Divine. Our love (Radhe's love) gives Krishna form, giving God-consciousness form.

Lokaha

This chant is at times done in class as a blessing before we begin our work.

Lokaha Samastaha Sukhinu Bhavanthu
Om shanti, shanti, shanti, OM.

May this world be established with a sense of well-being and happiness.
May there be peace, peace, peace

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

"I bow to the Inner Self".

NAMAH SHIVAYA consists of five elements:

* na (earth, solidity)

* mah (liquidity of water)

* shi (burning fierceness of fire)

* va (the air we inhale which nourishes us)

* ya (space, the dimensionality within which all can take place)

"I bow to Shiva", "I bow to the Inner Self".

The idea is that the repetition of the syllables of the Mantra gradually purifies each of the elements in our body. Shiva denotes divine Consciousness, the Inner Self.

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