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In recent years music therapy is emerging as a scientific discipline, dedicated to prudent use of sounds and rhythms for individual health as well as for overall human welfare. Music as we all know is a series of sound vibrations, consisting of compressions and rarefactions. Through a process called synchronization, these vibrations pervade into the […]

Nada Yoga, a branch of Kriya Yoga (the yoga of Technique), works on the premise that we, and the Universe around us, are made up of nada, or sound vibrations. Nada Yoga divides music into two categories: inner music or anahata and outer music or ahata. While outer music is heard through the ear, the

The legacy of Indian music to mankind lies in its unique system of ragas. Raga (also, rag or ragam) is a musical scale, peculiar to Indian music. It is also an emotional or creative idea which utilizes the sound frequencies (swaras) and rhythms (layas) at their most subtle levels of oscillations in terms of their

Aesthetics refers to the philosophy of the beautiful. “Never take away the love of the beautiful from your heart”; remarked Rousseau, the French Philosopher, “If you do it”, he declared, ” you will lose the very charm in living!” The Indian subcontinent, which has witnessed the flowering of art and music, dance and drama for

For a physicist, sound refers to those pressure disturbances travelling through a medium by particle interaction. It is also recognised as a series of compressions and rarefaction. While the human audible range is measured somewhere between 20 to 20,000Hz, the human voice lies somewhere between 75 to 1400Hz. The soothing deep voice can be pegged

What Makes a Music Sedative? Sedative music, we all know, is that type of music which has a sustained melodic line at a tempo of around 60 beats /minutes (almost at the slow pace of the human heart-rate). Usuallly devoid of ‘analytical’ lyrics, the rhythms here are weak, vague and at times even faltering inducing

 9th April 2005 was a day of notable events in the state of Andhra Pradesh.  It was the Ugadi New Year Day celebration for the millions of Telugus in and outside the country. It also witnessed the birth of a new form of ‘therapy to the 454 agitated and challenged minds of Lebenshilfe, an organization

In recent years, music therapy is emerging as a scientific discipline, dedicated to prudent use of sounds and rhythms for individual health as well as for overall human welfare. Music, we all know, is a series of sound vibrations consisting of  compressions and rarefactions. Through a process called synchronization, these vibrations pervade into the very

Music is an intrinsic part of every one of us — irrespective of the fact whether we are singers or listeners. In the words of Kabir, “Nada is a music which plays in the body without strings.”  Rhythm is the first organizing structure in the infant’s experience. Modern science acknowledges that pulse and rhythmic patterns

Introduction  The most ancient and primitive human societies across the world have recognized the power of sound vibrations as they affect the minds and the body. The great system of Nada Yoga, an ancient practice in India works on the premise that the entire Universe around us, and we ourselves, are made of nada, that

Tremendous scope exists for utilizing ragas to cure illnesses. Indian music is emotional as well as intellectual. It attaches importance to serenity and a thoughtful state of mind. As such, it helps in balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which are assigned the functions of analysis and intuition respectively by neurologists. In

Raga is a musical scale, an emotional or creative idea which utilizes sound frequencies (swaras) and rhythms (layas) at their most subtle levels of oscillations in terms of their emotional appeal. The Indian note or swara is distinguishable from its Western counterpart, as its frequencies are not so rigidly fixed and are allowed to oscillate

Nada Yoga assures not only harmony and relaxation, but Self-realisation too.  Most ancient human societies across the world had recognised the power of sound vibrations as they affect the mind and the moods. The great system-of Nada Yoga, once popular in India, works on the premise that the entire universe around us and we ourselves

From very ancient times, civilizations all over the world in general and in India, in particular, have recognized the significance of sound in human life.  What is popularly referred to as Nada.  Yoga forms a body of intuitive concepts and esoteric practices exploiting sound, the ‘struck’ or material sound referred to as ahata and the ‘unstruct’ or non-material sound anahata. Recent experiments in