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Singing Bowls and Yoga

More and more yoga students are enjoying the benefits of Tibetan singing bowls.  It is common for yoga teachers to use a Tibetan singing bowl either before, during or at the end of a Hatha yoga session.  Many instructors use their singing bowls to conclude class with a short period of "shavasana", or "corpse pose", in which the students will rest lying down. Often, students will experience deep, trance-like meditation while resting in this state, sometimes even dropping into Theta and Delta brainwave patterns.  This state enhances the flow of prana that has been built up through the asanas done in class to circulate throughout the entire body. 
 

Nada Yoga

A branch of Kriya Yoga,  Nada Yoga refers to our  "Union with Sound".  This practice explores how we can take the currents of "struck sound" and follow them inward until we are still enough to be able to perceive the currents of "unstruck" sound within us.  This current of inner sound is related to Kundalini energy.  Singing bowls are ideal for Nada Yoga practice, because they emit pure harmonics, and no melody.  This means that the left brain will not be drawn into the task of interpreting melody lines and lyrics, leaving the mind to focus fully on the experience of perceiving the subtle energy within.

Singing Bowls for Meditation

Quiet the mind by breathing slowly and deeply from the solar plexus. Softly strike the singing bowl with the padded end of the mallet. Listen to the sound; its different qualities and modulations. As the tones fade, turn your mind inward and listen to the inner resonance, or vibration.

Alternatively, you may play the singing bowl around the rim with the wooden end of the mallet. Focusing on the bowl, keep your breath deep but natural. Practice pressing the wooden end of the mallet around the edge of the bowl’s outer rim. With wrist straight, use a full arm motion, keeping pressure against the bowl firm and even. Practice until the tone is consistent, pure and sweet.  If you hear distortion in the voice of the bowl, slow down, take a breath and turn your mind back to the bowl.  Adjust the pressure and speed of your mallet until the tone is sweet and clear.   The bowl is a bio-feedback instrument!  It is mirroring our state. 

Singing Bowls for Healing

Many holistic and alternative healers, music therapists,  Reiki masters, massage therapists,  psychologists, psychotherapists, veterinarians, and even MDs are using singing bowls for alternative healing and complementary medicine.

As Western medicine comes to embrace a more holistic approach, Chakra balancing and energy work are becoming more appreciated healing modalities in our society.  The frequencies of singing bowls move energy through the Chakras,  dissolving  energy blocks that can contribute to muscular tension and pain, headaches, and sleeplessness. 

The binaural beat frequency of singing bowls (frequency following response) has been shown in EEG experiments to balance the left and right hemispheres of the brain, creating chemical changes resulting in the release of endorphins the body's natural pain killers which produce feelings of well-being, and reducing stress and harmful stress hormones (cortisol) associated with it.

The frequencies of singing bowls also massage the body on a cellular level, and have been proven to lower blood pressure and heart rate.

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