Chanting and Meditation 
September Series: Gayatri Mantra
with Laura Frank
Saturdays 12:10-1:10pm
Sept 6, 13, 20, 27

Your voice is mighty!  We chant and sing to bring ourselves back to life, to remember our true nature, to grieve, to praise, to connect, to release.  And do it all with honor.  We chant as an offering or a plea or to heart-fully celebrate another day where we find breath in our lungs once again! 
 
Mantra and song are powerful technologies for healing and spiritual practice in nearly every culture around the world. Group chanting can help to widen our perceptions beyond the limits of the egoic mind, open the heart and enter into a group meditation or prayer. In our time together we seek to connect and transform pain and anxiety into medicine and fortification for ourselves and all beings. In each series we will focus on a few different mantras and/or bhajans so there is adequate time to fully learn and explore their richness. 

Our focus in September is the Gayatri Mantra.
The Gayatri Mantra is a powerful and prevalent mantra as well as prayer used to realize a higher state of consciousness—a state symbolized by the sun. In its dual role as mantra and prayer, then, the Gayatri both purifies the mind and invites the finest forces of the mind to awaken.  It is considered a universal prayer that can be understood as a three-part adoration of the sun-god Savitr, meditation on its radiant light, and a request to illuminate and strengthen one's intellect and wisdom. The mantra is chanted to remove darkness, bring peace, and enhance concentration, and is believed to contain universal knowledge and serve as a spiritual foundation.

Participants may drop in as they like or take the opportunity to dive deeper by attending for the duration of a particular series.  Each class will begin with various vocal and breathing exercises to refine our chanting and meditation abilities followed by some chanting and mantra study.

All are welcome, especially those who feel blocked, injured or insecure in any matters relating to the throat chakra, communication or singing.