How Different Musical Instruments Affect the 7 Chakras

How Different Musical Instruments Affect the 7 Chakras

In today’s world, where yoga and meditation are quickly becoming more and more popular across the globe, more and more people are also becoming familiar with the concepts of chakras and kundalini. But what are ‘chakras’ and ‘kundalini’ actually? In this blog I will give an introduction, and will tell you how different musical instruments…

The 7 Holy Cities That are Connected to the 7 Chakras

The 7 Holy Cities That are Connected to the 7 Chakras

In an earlier blog I wrote about how different musical instruments affect different chakras. Now we will see another aspect of the 7 chakras in our body: how they correspond to seven holy pilgrimage cities in India. This shows a very interesting connection between the outer pilgrimage or ‘tirtha yatra’ that devotees undertake, and the…

Gandharva Veda – The Power of Sound and Healing Music

Gandharva Veda – The Power of Sound and Healing Music

Vedas and Upavedas The word ‘Veda’ comes from the Sanskrit root ‘vid’ which means ‘to know’, and could therefore roughly be translated as ‘knowledge’. It is the knowledge that pervades this Creation, and describes the nature of things from stars to atoms. This knowledge, including all its laws of mathematics, physics, etc. was already present…