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Resonances of Living
Ragas for Manipura - the Solar Plexus Chakra
Tanpura male & shruti in B: connects your power to act to your ancestors, evolution and the whole, relieves you from self-rejection and frees you from inhibitions in your decisiveness.
Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in C-sharp: cleanses your spine, attunes you to your centre in daily life, softens your aura, lets your stomach chakra shine and frees your actions from pain blockages.
Ragas
1. Tanpura male & shruti in B (34.57 minutes)
2. Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in C-sharp (38.25 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.
Ragas for Manipura - the Stomach Chakra
The Stomach Chakra, also known as the Solar Plexus Chakra, has the Sanskrit name Manipura. The Sanskrit word mani means “jewel” and pura means “city” or “large place,” so it literally translates as “city of jewels.” Because of its fieriness and radiance, this chakra quickly feels large, like a terrain full of energetic brilliance. Because of this, the pranic energy of this chakra is easily associated with the power of the personal, for its size and radiance. It gives a sense of power to the personality, although the fire and force of this chakra is actually meant for transformation rather than manifestation. The radiance of Manipura is felt between the base of the breastbone and the navel and is associated with the plexus coeliacus(the solar plexus), but its source is situated at the bottom of the stomach and then about 3-5 centimeters inward. The hand chakras, felt in the center of the palms, are additional conduits for this radiant chakra. They help transform the action-inducing energies of Manipura into tangible action.
The energies that become available through this chakra give you the impulse to make your own decisions, a power that is special, because from here that you develop a connection with your inner force or power. This inner force is the energy that supports you to develop towards what serves you well and makes you more complete, while power develops you to bring other forces under your control, within yourself or outside of you. Does this inner force lead you to spiritual vibrancy through transformation, or does the potential for power lead you to even greater domination? Whether you use this energy to gain personal power or whether this energy gives you the courage to enter into a process of transformation determines the direction your human evolution will take and the areas of life you will explore as a result.
The energies of this chakra can be recognized as the ego with its combativeness, as the power of your presence, in your freedom to experience your emotions, and in whether your actions or thoughts lead to beauty or struggle. You can also recognize this pranic energy in your willpower, your health, and your willingness to engage in life. It is precisely through the brilliant energy of this chakra, which is so characteristic of it, that it awakens both your I-awareness, your freedom of choice regarding your development toward wholeness, and the awareness of the ego that wants to use this force to bend things to its will.
Track 1: Tanpura male & shruti in B
The value and potency of this raga o Reconnects you with the vitality of your ancestors, evolution and the whole. o Frees you from the disempowering effect of self-rejection. o Frees your ability to act from inhibition and uncertainty and relaxes your stomach, belly and breath.
Track 2: Tanpura duet male 5-strings & male 4-strings in C-sharp
The value and potency of this raga o Helps you to center yourself in life, and cleanses your spine from tension and energy stagnation. o Softens and expands your aura and restores radiance to your Stomach Chakra. o Frees your actions from subtle pain blockages.