Naad Amerta – YOGA in the Realm of Sound
Naad Amerta (Naad Amrita) a journey through sound, voice and inner movement reconnecting us to our innate nature. It is strongly based on the ancient wisdom of Naad Yoga, the Yoga of Sound and it’s benefits for human’s wellbeing and connectedness in life. It preserves a deep wisdom and understanding of the beauty as well as the power of healing sound.
A main beauty of the voice culture in Naad Yoga is to let each note speak, giving time and space to bodily feel it’s own resonance, each note a different country with it’s own landscape, feeling and color.
As in all Indian music the holy mantra of the eternal OM is represented in the tonal centre „Sa„, continuously struck by the tampura. The singer listens to the Sa as base or home, and thus can develope a deeply sensed connection to the own inner centre. This experience is often described as a feeling of “coming home”.
Thus Naad Amerta is all about tuning into the moment of life. It developes a bodily felt awareness of inner and outer sound. The intuitive feeling sense will be encouraged through the simple acts of sounding, singing and moving – alone, in pairs and in the group – putting you in touch with the resonance, stillness and movement of life.
Movement and sound is the very nature of life and a natural expression of the human body. Starting from yoga asanas Naad Amerta encourages to find one’s own unstructured flow of movement including simple sounding and singing. It allows to reconnect with the constantly shifting sence of self and invites to experience the own nature as part of your natural environment. Thus we develop our innate wisdom for a healthy and creative life and for our communication with both cultural and natural environment.
Practicing Naad Yoga is ultimately affecting body and soul. It improves concentration, inner balance, focus abilities is distressing and gives peace. It allows a deep relaxation, inner and outer harmony, activates life energies and encourages your creative potentials in many aspects of life, enriching and giving joy and beauty in everydaylife.
Working with Ananda-Careen teaches us how to connect with the universal vibration through practice of sound, breath and movement, especially Indian vocal music, which is presented in the form of Ragas. Ragas are specific melodies, known for their positive psychosomatic influence on mind-body system, calming the mind and result in inner healing.
In her teachings the traditional, rather structured practices will naturally take turns with an individual voice work as well as with a free movement practice.
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*** Ananda-Careen Engel ***
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is certified yogateacher (Sivananda style), teacher for autogenous training (trained in Uni Hamburg), „amerta movement“ origined in Jawa with Suprapto Suryodarmo, meditation Sumarah, mental training (Leela Mata), Inner Yoga tought by Guruji Sri Vast and was introduced in a body focused healing practice called Tara-Process. She offers Nada Yoga workshops in various venues, has given talks and lectures demonstrations on Yoga Congresses as well as a basic trainings in Europe’s biggest Yoga Center „Yoga Vidya„.
Her work has grown throughout many years in theatre, dance, movement, yoga,voice and meditation in various fields and her life as professional actor, director, cultural manager and yoga teacher strongly enriches her teachings.
From the late 80-ties on she has studied movement work called „amerta movement“ origined in Jawa with Suprapto Suryodarmo as well as voicework with other artists and teachers. She worked with Tim Jones (UK – „towards a yoga of sound„) and Carnatic vocal music with Indu Lekha (Kerala, India). First in 2013 she met the Gundecha Brothers (Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India), the worldwide known maestros of Dhrupad, the oldest surviving style of Hindustani classical music. The nature of Dhrupad music is spiritual. It induces feelings of peace and contemplation in the listener.
Feel free to contact her here for more information
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*** Upcoming Events ***
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Right now more information ist provided only in German language, feel invited to visit the schedule for upcoming events here
Ananda-Careen hosts home studio workshops as well as concerts offerd by professional Musicians such as singers and instrumentalists from India and others.
Meghana Sardar will offer a Dhrupad workshop & concert
- Saturday / Sunday Sept. 28. – 29. • Dhrupad workshop
- Sunday Sept. 29th • concert Dhrupad vocal
Meghana’s voice has enchanted me. She sings the Dhrupad ragas in the same tradition that I was allowed to learn: her teacher Uday Balwakar and my teachers, the Gundecha Brothers, learned together with the Dagar Brothers. She has since become a master singer and her concert tours have taken her far and wide.
She was a scholarship holder of the Indian Ministry of Culture, passed her master’s degree in Indian classical music with distinction and now teaches in film and television and has participated in various stage and television shows. Before the pandemic, she also toured the USA and Europe: she was a guest artist at Salisbury University, Maryland, USA and gave concerts in Europe, the Netherlands, Hungary, France and Germany, including at the renowned Franz Liszt Conservatory of Music.
To browse: here is Meghana’s youtube channel.
Info & registration: email hidden; JavaScript is required, or 01522 1522 940
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*** Past Events ***
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- Flute Recital • Paramananda Roy (Bansuri) und Subrata Manna (Tabla) • April 4th 2024
- Meghana Sardar • Dhrupad workshop & concert • Octobre 8th 2023
- Sitar Recital • Deepsankar Bhattacharjee (Sitar) & Abhirup Roy (tabla) Nov. 26th 2023
- Meghana Sardar • Dhrupad Konzert 6. November 2022
- Sajan Sankaran & Hannah Wizentzen • Dhrupad workshop & concert 25. August 2022
Sajan Sankaran was a longtime master student of the legendary Gundecha Brothers in Dhrupad Gurukul, Bhopal, and has since performed solo concerts on many stages in India. – and a special highlight was the dual bandhi with Hannah Wizentzen on the Indian slide guitar.
Notable is Sajan’s commitment to collaborations with other arts, for example with performance artists of Still Space Theatre in Bangalore, lecture demonstrations at Sriguruji Art Academy, Mumbai – and in summer 2022 he was invited for the first time for a scholarship in Abbaye de Sylvanès, South of France. He is a dedicated yoga teacher and author of many lyrics of music, yoga, meditation and founded „Svara Yog“ to bring Dhrupad and Yoga on a common ground.
Here you can hear and see him on youtube
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