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 Sound
therapy for harmonization and deep relaxation
The technique of sound therapy has
its roots in Nada Yoga, the yoga of sound, as well as in Yoga
Nidra, the deep relaxation of yoga. Since time immemorial,
sounds of Indian stringed instruments have been applied for
healing and harmonization.
In former times people have used stringed instruments for
playing sacred music and as an accompaniment and assistance for
the pujas (rituals), meditations and also for the yoga-asanas.
And also today musicians in India are still invited to perform
at rituals, healings and Yoga Nidra. In the course of our
society's media development, the CD has replaced the quality of
live music. But Indian music always emerges newly in every
moment and is a transmission from heart to heart.
The effects of
sound therapy
Sound therapy contributes to the
relaxation of tensions and blockades caused by stress. The
getting down to a deep state of peaceful mind revitalizes and
restores the self healing forces.
The sounds produce a tender massage
reaching more or less deeply into the inner body. Selected tone
scales (Ragas) of the Indian music tradition support the
re-discovery of the basic harmonic condition of the mind. Using
relaxation exercises at the beginning, the listener opens up for
the nourishing and healing tones. The music leads to an extended
self perception. It activates the inner experience and can help
to discover a new access to one's own inner resources. All body
organs and senses come to peace hardly found even asleep.
Crucial for this deep relaxation is the experience of real live
music, as only this way a true dialog between musician and
audience can begin, while the musician is sensitively in
accordance with the immediate experience of the listener.
The Rudra Veena
The Bin or Rudra Veena is a zither
and belongs to the oldest classical instruments of India.
According to traditional sayings Shiva has created it while he
meditated on the beauty of his wife Parvati. The Rudra Veena is
an early form of the popular Sitar and has been called the
mother and queen of Indian strings. Rich in basses and overtones
the Rudra Veena has been the ideal musical instrument to arouse
a meditative condition of mind since centuries. Due to it's
sound frequencies it is possible to resolve blockades very
effectively in a quite easy manner.
The Sitar
The Sitar is a long-necked lute and was created 700 years ago
from the well known musician Amir Khusru.
The instrument is a further development of the Persian Setar and
the Indian Rudra Veena.
The Sitar has through many resonant strings a very fine and
lyrical character.
The sound is suitable for heart openings and meditative
concerts.
Biographical notes
Freelance musician Thomas
Meisenheimer was born in 1966 and works as a music therapist at
a special school in Wiesbaden/Germany.
In 1991 he started his Sitar
studies, and under the guidance of Professor Tribhuvan Nath
Nagar (Varanasi/India) he absolved an apprenticeship in Indian
music therapy.
Since 1999 he has been studying the old classical music of
Dhrupad and has been learning to play the Rudra Veena under the
guidance of Pandit Asit Kumar Banerjee.
Since 2005 he is in touch with Swami Ji who gave him much
support for his work.
| “Music is for me a
language of love. It is my daily food, my prayer, my
connection to the source of being. When I listened to an
Indian Sitar for the first time, tears came up and I was
deeply touched like somebody is calling my true nature.
The Indian music is not strange or
exotic for me; it is a possibility to experience the inner
truth.
Swami Ji has encouraged me to share
this experience with others. That’s why I would like to support
his charity projects with my sound therapy.” |
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Thomas Meisenheimer |
Inquiry for meditative concerts or
individual sound therapy under:
thomas@jaisiyaram.com
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