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Resonances of Grounding
Ragas for Muladhara - the Root Chakra
Tanpura male in A-low: helps you to become more at ease on earth, with your humanity and with the world around you, detaches you from your ego, will and need for power, and helps you to stay true to yourself.
Tanpura male 5-string in F-sharp: helps you with abdominal breathing, helps you to connect with your being, with who you are, love the earth and the support she provides, and helps you to weep in a liberating way.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male in A-low (29.09 minutes)
2. Tanpura male 5-string in F-sharp (37.37 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 Root Chakra
The Root Chakra has the Sanskrit name Muladhara. The Sanskrit word mula means ‘root’ and adhara means ‘support’ or ‘base’, so it literally translates as ‘the root that supports you’ and is the foundation of the physical structure and energy body. The easiest way to experience this chakra is to feel it inward, a few centimeters above the area between the genitals and the anus. It is usually associated with the coccygeus (tailbone) and a part of the plexus sacralis (sacral plexus), the place where all animal urges are also stored.
This energy center contains the energies related to survival, safety and security, grounding and stability, concreteness and the peace of earthly silence, but also includes the power of the unconscious and a materialistic orientation, and it compels you and your body to survive. You can recognize the energy of this chakra by a zest for life and a strong physical presence. The energy of this chakra is connected to the molecular and cellular basis of your human existence and carries within it the pranic energy of your existence and origin, allowing you to experience the depth of your tangible existence. It is the seat of existence that precedes the discovery of your being here, your connection to the earth, the animalistic, the instinctual, the material and the physical. The foot chakras are an extension of Muladhara, located slightly inside in the middle of the soles of the feet. They serve as additional grounding and root points, or drainage channels to release the excess energy that has accumulated in the body. They are, so to speak, root extensions of Muladhara.
Muladhara holds the pranic energy of your incarnation and is the foundation for your further spiritual development. At this stage you are not yet consciously in motion; you are resting in Being. As Muladhara becomes more open, you gratefully tap into feelings of peace, stillness, stability, support, being connected with earth (being grounded), depth of experience, value of existence, and originality.
Track 1: Tanpura male in A-low
De value and potency of this raga o Helps you to become more relaxed in your connectedness with earth, your humanity and the world around you. o Helps you to let go of your ego, your will and your need for power. o Helps you to be with who you are and discover the joy of humility.
Track 2: Tanpura male 5-string in F-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Helps you to breathe in the abdomen and supports the homecoming into your being. o Helps you to love the earth more deeply and the support it gives you. o Clears the tailbone point of tension and helps you to cry in a relieving way.