Yoga Taravali of Adi Sankara-Chanting by Srivatsa Ramaswami
First one you may know already or have at least always wanted to learn.
Sahanaavavatu Peace Chant Tutorial- Srivatsa Ramaswami
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This is one of my favourites
Trayambakam ( Mrityunjaya mantra) chant Tutorial-Srivatsa Ramiswami
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Another favourites but this one is tricky.
I'm sure Ramaswami must have winced once or twice as we were learning this on his TT course at LMU in 2010. It was OK while he was going through it word by word, phrase by phrase but we would go back over all the chants we'd been working on and some of them were more of a a struggle than others, this one in particular. The funny part was that there is a last phrase that gets repeated throughout and whenever the class would get to that bit after stumbling through the first part we would all sing out strong and loud.
I needed more work on this and thankfully Josh has posted a recording of Ramaswami working through the mantra on the 2012 TT.
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And here's the tutorial from Josh Geidel
Also my all time favourite
First, a Ganesa prayer ..A short Ganesa prayer in Tamil which I chant at the beginning of my yoga practice/class. It is the invocatory hymn from Tirumandiram a very old Tamil classic written by Tirumular, said to be a contemporary of Patanjali
http://youtu.be/8AwD2V-OFm8
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Begins with the first part of the Ashtanga opening chant, if you'd ever wondered where it came from....
Some other wonderful chants from Ramaswami taught in the traditional way,
First one you may know already or have at least always wanted to learn.
Sahanaavavatu Peace Chant Tutorial- Srivatsa Ramaswami
This is one of my favourites
Trayambakam ( Mrityunjaya mantra) chant Tutorial-Srivatsa Ramiswami
Another favourites but this one is tricky.
I'm sure Ramaswami must have winced once or twice as we were learning this on his TT course at LMU in 2010. It was OK while he was going through it word by word, phrase by phrase but we would go back over all the chants we'd been working on and some of them were more of a a struggle than others, this one in particular. The funny part was that there is a last phrase that gets repeated throughout and whenever the class would get to that bit after stumbling through the first part we would all sing out strong and loud.
I needed more work on this and thankfully Josh has posted a recording of Ramaswami working through the mantra on the 2012 TT.
And here's the tutorial from Josh Geidel
First, a Ganesa prayer ..A short Ganesa prayer in Tamil which I chant at the beginning of my yoga practice/class. It is the invocatory hymn from Tirumandiram a very old Tamil classic written by Tirumular, said to be a contemporary of Patanjali
http://youtu.be/8AwD2V-OFm8
And Peace chants
****Peace Chants from Yajur Veda
One of the meanings of the word Yoga is peace of mind, apart from 'union' (yoga yuktih samadhanam). Sri Krishnamacharya always used a peace invocation before and after any yoga, chanting and theory class. He taught me several sections of the vedas including chanting of them. Out of it, ten vedic peace chants can be found in this audio. It is about 15 minutes. One or all of them can be chanted with Yoga practice in yoga studios. Hope you like the chant. I chanted it several years back for my book. It is said these vedic peace chants create a peaceful environment and create in all beings a sense of peace-whether one chants them, meditates on them or merely listens to them. Feel free to share it with others or give it to yoga studios for use if you like them. Here is the link
See this post/page from Ramaswami's Chanting the Yoga Sutra tutorials
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