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Resonances of Being
Ragas for Svadhisthana - the Sacral Chakra
Tanpura male & female duet in A-low: connects your identity to your center of power and love, helps with processing heartbreak and giving up struggle, and connects your sexuality with your tailbone and root chakra. Nanarangini duet and E: helps with the need for affirmation and security, heals your sexuality from tension and opens you to the beauty and uniqueness of your identity.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male & female duet in A-low (30.33 minutes)
2. Nadatarangini duet en E (26.44 minutes)
Chakra Resonance Ragas
The Chakra Resonance Ragas are a form of nada yoga (meaning "union through sound") that connects you to your essence (yoga) through tones and sounds (nada). The music is fully instrumental, with tanpura, shruti, swaramandala, and/or nadatarangini, and supports your receptivity to a meditative, open state of awareness.
Each raga heals and balances the chakras in a specific way, as well as the energetic, emotional, mental and physical layers of your humanity, with its harmonic vibrations and overtone-rich sounds, some of which you cannot even hear. Listening to the meditative atmosphere of these ragas for a few minutes before your meditation, in particular the tanpura ragas, can be very helpful in letting go of what you were doing before and becoming open to the deep value and depth that meditation can bring.
The Sanskrit word raga literally means "mood," "atmosphere," "feeling" and "tone." So raga is about mood and tone. These ragas always use a tanpura in a particular tone composition, a solo tanpura or a duet of tanpuras, sometimes accompanied by a shruti (Sanskrit word meaning "sound" or "that which is heard"), and occasionally used to support other musical instruments. Several types of tanpuras are used, including male, female and bass tanpuras. This, as well as where they are made in India and how many strings they have (tanpuras usually have four strings, but some have five or six strings), influences the tonal range, timbre or sound color, overtones, and atmospheric ambience of the tanpura.
The Sacral Chakra
The Sacral Chakra, also called Identity or Sex Chakra, has the Sanskrit name Svadhisthana. The Sanskrit word sva means “what belongs to him,” “one’s own” or “self” and the word adhisthana means “home,” “dwelling place” or “abode,” so it literally translates as “abode of the self” or “home of your being.” Svadhisthana is also called Sacral Chakra, because its energies are associated with the plexus pelvici (pelvic plexus, all the nerves that come together in the pelvis) and part of the plexus sacralis (sacral plexus, the specific nerves on the side of the tail and sacrum area).
This chakra contains the energies that relate to both your essential and temporal identity, and therefore your individuality and your place in duality. This chakra is most easily felt in men at the base of the testicles and penis and in women at the base of the ovaries and clitoris. Svadhisthana is relatively close to the root chakra and they are closely connected, just as the life force and the sexual force are closely connected as the energy of procreation. Sexuality is a very individual thing, and it is in this individuality that your unique genetic and personal karma is stored, which in turn determines your identity as an individual. The word individual comes from Latin and literally means “a self-contained wholeness that is indivisible.” Svadhisthana is the home of the essential and the individualistic, of yourself as a wholeness and as unique, authentic being.
The energies of this chakra can be recognized as everything that you are attracted to and as your awareness of pain and pleasure and, therefore, your desire to move beyond this duality. You see it reflected in all of your longings, and in your striving, in whichever way, for completeness. Being open to the energies of this chakra gives you a conscious, open and relaxed attitude toward your sexuality and sensory impressions, so that you are no longer compulsively reacting to instinctual urges, but can approach these feelings more consciously and from a place of longing for wholeness. The energies of the second chakra allow you to awaken to the duality of, on the one hand, the essentiality of being here and, on the other hand, your individual life force, which is the foundation of your awareness and longing for healing. The longing for oneness, like the feeling of hunger that makes you long for satiation, the sexuality that makes you long for a partner, and your longing to be included in wholeness again, characterizes your actions from now on and causes you to start moving. This is why the legs are also part of this chakra.
Track 1: Tanpura male & female duet in A-low
The value and potency of this raga o Connects your identity to your power and love. o Helps in processing heartbreak and giving up struggles. o Connects your sexuality to your tailbone and Base Chakra, creating peace.
Track 2: Nadatarangini duet en E
The value and potency of this raga o Helps with the need for affirmation and feeling safe and secure. o Heals your sexuality from unnatural areas of tension. o Opens you to the beauty and uniqueness of your identity.