GOOD VIBRATIONS- A Nada Yoga Workshop
Schedule
Sat Sep 28 2024 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Hawthorn Way, Cambridge | Cambridge, EN
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🕉🎶 A Nada Yoga Workshop Now happening on Saturday 28th September from 11am - 2pm!
with Krishnadhyanam
Modern physics shows us that everything is vibration. Look closely enough and even the most solid objects can be seen to be a mass of vibrations. And when the air around us vibrates at certain frequencies these are felt by our ear-drums and translated into sounds which we ‘hear’.
The human voice is designed specifically to be able to vibrate the air as it comes out of our body so that others can hear it.
Our voice is one of the most useful and powerful ‘tools’ that we have in our human workshop. Why is it then that so many of us - if not afraid, are extremely wary and maybe uncomfortable with our voices? Partly this is because in our culture so much emphasis is placed on having a ‘good’ singing voice. But ‘that’s entertainment’ ! And valid as that is, true singing has got nothing to do with pleasing other people.
True singing is a very personal journey and whilst it can take us on the most wonderful journeys it also can give us the most profound sense of ‘coming home’.. Whilst helping to keep our body fit and supple the practice of yoga also connects us to our selves in ways which are sometimes difficult to describe. Nada Yoga - the yoga of sound - can deepen this connection even more. It does so in different ways ranging from simple mantra chanting to more complex ‘singing’ - and even just listening! It’s all vibration.
This workshop will provide opportunities to explore our voices and play with good vibrations. We will learn some basic vedic chanting and be introduced to dhrupad, the ancient form of Indian singing which developed from vedic chant, taking in some kirtan chanting on the way.
Join us!!
£45 (concessions available )
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Who is Krishnadhyanam?
Kd (Richard) grew up believing that he couldn’t sing. He has spent the rest of his life exploring this ‘thing’ called a voice. He became more interested listening to the monks chanting whilst living in a Buddhist forest monastery in Thailand in the 1970’s.
In the 1980’s he was very influenced by his work with the Roy Hart Theatre and the belief of Alfred Wolfsson that ‘the voice is the muscle of the soul’.
In the 90’s he opened Voice Space, his studio in Islington, and as voice coach of the London Gay Men’s Chorus, he was happy to sing on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall as backing singer to Elton John and at the London Palladium with the Pet Shop Boys.
In the noughties of this century he trained as a yoga teacher at the Satyananda Yoga Centre, London and began to develop his interest in Indian music. In 2012 he began to learn dhrupad* singing with Pandit Uday Bhawalkar and subsequently spent seven years learning with Gundecha Brothers at their gurukul in Bhopal, India.
In the twenties he continues his journey of exploration. Voice and singing remain central in his life.
*dhrupad is the oldest form of Indian classical singing - it developed from the chanting of the Sama Veda.”
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Where is it happening?
Hawthorn Way, Cambridge, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
