What is the Art of Mantra and Yoga Chanting?

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The Art of Sound or Nada Yoga, Mantra and Yoga Chanting are oral learning and meditative practices from the rich tradition of Indian spiritual and psychological teachings and practice.

As well as being a key way to learn teachings on Yoga through absorption, they integrate body, voice, mind and emotions in the quest for unity with the source from which sound originates.

Chanting is called adhyayanam and is the art of listening and learning to recite with attention and care and a deep involvement of head, heart and body in the outcome.

The benefits include learning to read the Yoga teachings from the inside rather than the outside and refining the ability to learn to listen, thus enhancing attention, memory, patience plus confidence around the use of our voice.

Arising out of Mantra and Yoga Chanting is the possibility of a deeper reflection on the teaching being chanted, inner silence, both during the practice itself because of the degree of involvement required, and in the stillness afterwards.

In a similar way to other Yoga practices regular Mantra and Yoga chant practice can lead the student to:

• Experience more the intimate relationship between our body, breath, voice, mind and heart.
  

• Gaining confidence in finding your chanting voice and developing your breathing through Sound, Mantra and Yoga Chanting.
  
  
• An appreciation and familiarity with the principles which inspire Sound, Mantra and Yoga Chant practice.
  
  
• Learning how to read and sound Mantra in Romanised Sanskrit.
  
  
• Learning how to link and join Romanised Sanskrit to enhance our use and understanding of Chanting.
  
  
• Discovering therapeutic support and meditation.

"To share Chanting is to share an experience of silence through listening,
a process of healing, and a link with nature, the deeper self and the divine."

- TKV Desikachar