House of Yoga - Satsang

This Friday at 8 pm, the House of Yoga in Berkley are having their monthly Satsang. This month's topic? Nada Yoga. Abby and Dave are some of my favorite yoga people in Detroit. Please consider dropping in and sharing with the yoga community. I went last month and had a wonderful time.

To begin the practice of Nada Yoga, the yogi first practices pratyahara by drawing the senses inward and forcefully shuts out as many external sights and sounds as possible. The first stage of pratyahara is to become still and quiet, and allow an inner tranquility to permeate the senses.

This is not easy to do, so a prerequisite might be to refine your ability to really listen. To refine your ability to listen, start by appreciating good music. But be choosey about what you allow to enter your being through your ears. It is helpful to choose music that induces an inner state of well-being.

Once you refine your external listening, you can turn your ability to listen inward. The nada yogi longs to pulse with the inner pulse of life itself. Yoga practices provide techniques for tuning the instrument, for rendering an ordinary body into an instrument for Divine will. Through the practices of Nada Yoga, the yogi's mind becomes absorbed in the inner sound of Om.

~Excerpt from Jivamukti Yoga, by Sharon Gannon and David Life